Elbow – One Day Like This
An evening pause: Elbow recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Chantage choir. Broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 31st Jan 2009.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Golf Brooks – Senior Moments
David McCullough – on George Washington
An evening pause: On George Washington’s birthday, an excerpt of a speech by David McCullough from September 27, 2005. As McCullough notes, even King George III himself knew the measure of the man. “He will be the greatest man in the world.”
Parahawking
John Glenn – the first American in orbit
An evening pause: On the fiftieth anniversary of John Glenn’s orbital flight.
After putting a chimpanzee into orbit in November, NASA finally felt ready to send a man into orbit to answer the Soviets and their two manned orbital missions of Gagarin and Titov the previous year.
After Glenn’s mission and for the next few months, it looked like the U.S. was catching up with the Soviets in space. That would change before the year was summer was over.
The video below gives a nice summary of key moments in Glenn’s flight, though the special effects of the “fireflies” is poorly done. And we now know that the “fireflies” were nothing more than frozen particles of condensation coming off the capsule.
Preston Reed – Ladies Night
An evening pause: How about some really wild guitar playing by Preston Reed?
Facebook and the CIA
Cathy Rigby – Never Never Land
An evening pause:
I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It’s not on any chart.
You must find it with your heart.
Never never land.
3D printing in concrete
An evening pause: How things will be built and manufactured in the future, on Earth and in space, though in space they probably won’t use concrete.
Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man
Oklahoma – All ‘er nothing
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
Abraham Lincoln – A tribute to the song Ashokan Farewell
Boney M – Belfast
Monty Python – Lumberjack Song
John Fogerty – Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Bryson Andres busking – Soul Sister
An evening pause: Street performer Bryson Andres performs a cover of Train’s “Soul Sister” in Spokane.
Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions
Dilbert – The Knack
Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music
Dog vs leaves
An evening pause: As poet Robert Service once wrote,
It isn’t the gold that I’m wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music For A Found Harmonium
Bastard Keith – Pincus the Peddler
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
Mean Mary James – I’ve Been Down
An evening pause: An original song from Mean Mary James. And damn good, too!
How crayons are made
Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews – My cup runneth over
Pigeon: Impossible
Going in circles
An evening pause: This video best expresses the direction of NASA and the American space program since the end of the Apollo program.