Shao Rong – A song of lilies
An evening pause: New Music by Chinese lute player Shao Rong, from her second album, Orchid II.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
More cool slow motion
Cyndi Lauper – Girls just wanna have fun
Flight Of The Conchords – Jenny
Hummingbird Aerodynamics
Bob Dylan – Just like a woman
An evening pause: Bob Dylan, singing “Just Like a Woman,” with George Harrison and Leon Russell providing vocal and guitar support, at the 1971 live concert for Bangladesh.
First video from Curiosity – Life on Mars?
The Wall
An evening pause: Fifty-one years ago today the Soviet Union and East Germany — in the name of ideology and communism — cut Berlin in half, putting a wall between neighbors, friends, and families. The documentary below was made in 1962 and will give you a sense of the evil of that wall, as felt by the people who were oppressed by it.
I think it a reasonable thing to remind ourselves again and again that the use of force in the name of any ideology, no matter how well intentioned, is always wrong.
Genki Sudo [World Order] – Aquarius
Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds live
Adele – Rolling In The Deep
The Sonic Boom
Band of Horses – The Funeral
Alvino Rey – St. Louis Blues
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage:
Alvino Rey is as important to the development of the electric guitar as Les Paul was, but has been criminally uncredited for it–until now. More and more photos, recordings and film clips like these are coming out of the woodwork to show what a genius Alvino was.
This film clip is from 1944 and shows Alvino demonstrating not only his amazing work on the steel guitar, but also his “singing guitar” effect, similar to the Sonovox, manifested in the persona of “Stringy” the talking guitar puppet! Enjoy this and whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE ACID BEFORE VIEWING….we warned you….
Eagles – Hotel California – New Zealand (Live 1995)
Jackson Browne – Fountain of sorrow – Live
Ry Cooder – He’ll Have To Go – Live 1977
Making fire using only Ikea products
An evening pause: What to do when you don’t have matches and all that is left is the nearest Ikea store.
Liz Callaway – It might as well be spring
An evening pause: You might never heard of her, but you will almost certainly recognize Liz Callaway’s voice, as she has been the singer in several of Disney’s animation features, including Anastasia (1997).
The house of the future, as predicted in 1957
John Williams — The Cowboys Overture
An evening pause: John Williams conducting a performance of his overture to the 1972 movie, The Cowboys.
Enya – My! My! Time Flies!
Kitaro – Mercury performed live
Super Mario as surreal art
Tesla Turret Opera (Cara Mia Addio)
Bermuda Cliff Jumping
An evening pause: As they say on the webpage, “All shot in one day, one of the last few days of summer.”
Go out and enjoy life. It can be so good.
Twelve Girls Band
The world’s fastest everything
Mumford & Sons – The Cave
An evening pause:
So come out of your cave walking on your hands
And see the world hanging upside down
You can understand dependence
When you know the maker’s hand.So make your sirens call
And sing all you want.
I will not hear what you have to say.
Cause I need freedom now
And I still know how
To live my life as it’s meant to be.
David Lanz – Water from the Moon
An evening pause: Apropos of the on-going scientific debate, how about David Lanz’s beautiful piano piece, “Water from the Moon.”