Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Toto – I’ll be Over You
Christopher Cross – Sailing
Blood, Trucks, and Beer – Christopher Columbus
Neville Dickie – Boogie Woogie by Pinetop Smith
Mayumana – four man hand dance
Heavenly Appeals
Crushing a 55 gallon steel drum with icecubes
The world’s second largest infrared telescope on Mauna Kea is for sale.
Want to buy a telescope? The world’s second largest infrared telescope on Mauna Kea is for sale.
The price is relatively cheap, $1.24 million. All that is needed is a private corporation eager to get some good publicity while contributing to the science of astronomy.
25 Amazing Images With An Electron Microscope
Bernadette Peters – No one is alone
Painting in the Skies
An evening pause: Fran McKendree, vocal, guitar; Lindsey Blount, vocal; River Guerguerian, percussion; Charles Milling, bass, vocal; Duncan Wickel, violin.
Words and music by Fran McKendree.
There is a painting in the skies,
Reflects the longing in your eyes.
Horizon widens, river bends,
Awakening that never ends.
Graham Chapman’s funeral
An evening pause: On the anniversary of his death in 1989, this is how the crew of Monty Python eulogized Graham Chapman at his funeral.
First Kids – Ghosts
An evening pause: An evocative song from a musical that is presently in development.
What I like about this video is how it reminds us that every image, every movie we see, especially the older ones, can only show us a image of a human being that no longer exists, and is essentially nothing more than a ghost to us.
John Williams & Richard Harvey – Jig
Loreena McKennitt – The Bonny Swans
The Fixx – Red Skies
Lawson – You didn’t tell me
Schiller – Sleepy Storm
Annie Haslam – Wildest Dreams
Kate Wolf – Two Way Waltz
An evening pause: A happy birthday song to Diane, performed live by Kate Wolf in 1980.
Two ways sometimes make one
Stronger than either alone.
So dancers join hands for a two waltz
Take all the steps on your own.
A toy train in space
The fastest snooker break ever
An evening pause: The rules of snooker are not clear to me, but it appears that this man, Ronnie O’Sullivan, is one of the world’s best players. Do a youtube search and you’ll come up with dozens of videos of him doing amazing things at the pool table. Below, he clears the table in less than five minutes, getting the maximum possible score for this game by dropping alternatively differently colored balls. To quote the youtube webpage, “The aim is to pot a red followed by a colour, any colour. Reds = 1Yellow = 2Green = 3Brown = 4Blue = 5Pink = 6Black = 7. So the 147 is only possible if you go red, black, red, black etc.” O’Sullivan gets 147 and does it in record time.
Insane Clown Posse – Miracles
An evening pause: The miracle of the universe as seen by two rappers. Worth watching and listening to, even if you are not a fan of rap. They get it.
Rod Stewart & Amy Belle – I Dont Want To Talk About It
Luciano Pavarotti and Queen – Too much love will kill you
David Garrett – November Rain
Rowan Atkinson – A Warm Welcome
Yasuto Tanaka – The Swan
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
An evening pause: A wonderful song, but the images, most of which were taken during the recording session, will give you a taste of the wild, crazy, irreverent, and often foolish 1960s. Today, a half century later, we still are reaping the whirlwind of that decade, for good and ill.