AARON LEWIS – Country Boy
An evening pause: Clearly a terrorist by the modern standards of Homeland Security.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Just for Laughs Jesus pranks
Whitney Houston – National Anthem – Super Bowl XXV
An evening pause: A performer giving her all. What a tragedy that she destroyed herself at such a young age.
A brief history of rock n’ roll in 100 riffs
Rufus Wainwright – Albatross
An evening pause: I once awoke from a powerful and indescribable dream, its searing images (soon lost) invoked by this haunting song as performed by Judy Collins from her 1967 recording. Here it is performed beautifully here by Rufus Wainwright and set to some very appropriate visuals from the various Pirates of the Caribbean films.
And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea.
And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain,
“Come away, alone.
Come away, alone.
With me.”
Feist – 1234 & Mushaboom
Kate Wolf – Looking Back At You
Henri part 3 – The Vet
Extreme Sports Doggy
Marilyn Monroe – Heat Wave
Enya – Only Time
Drive recklessly.
What the hell is Matt 2012?
An evening pause: More information about this video here. They note that “The dancers in Syria are blurred for their safety.”
THE BANGLES- MANIC MONDAY
Passacaglia – Chedeville
An evening pause: The group is called Passacaglia. The music is by Nicolas Chedeville (previously attributed to Vivaldi). The players are Annabel Knight (recorder), Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord).
A walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
An evening pause: This is something every visitor to New York should try to do. The first time I did it was back in the mid-1970s during my college days. It was around 2 am in the morning when we started from Brooklyn. We crossed to Manhattan, had a meal at a 24 hour Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, then walked back, watching the sunrise over Brooklyn.
Joe Hisaishi – The Path of the Wind from My Neighbor Totoro
An evening pause: One of Joe Hisaishi’s most beautiful film melodies, “The Path of the Wind,” from Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro.
The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
An evening pause: From a 1967 live television performance, one of the first ever broadcast by satellite around the world. Though this version has been colorized, the synch is off in the original. Also, in doing the colorization they cleaned up the recording, making it much clearer.
It is especially fascinating to watch Lennon and McCartney work together, chewing gum as they sing. And keep your eye out for Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and other rock performers in the audience.
Dancing Birds
SONNY & CHER – I Got You Babe
Vertical Video Syndrome – a PSA
Billy Joel – Piano Man
Vaughan Williams – Sea Songs
Penn & Teller – Blast Off
Blondie – Dreaming & Heart Of Glass
An evening pause: Two songs, performed live October 5, 1979. Deborah Harry is of course amazing (despite her inserting a silly politically-correct anti-nuke message during the second song), but watch the other musicians, especially the drummer.
20,000 bottle rockets
Loudon Wainwright – One-man Guy
Don McLean – American pie
First day caving in Nevada
It is late and I have to up at 5 am to head to another cave tomorrow, so there is no time to give a detailed update of what happened today
However, here is a quick summary. Our goal was to find and map a rarely visited and difficult to find cave. After four miles of hiking and a lot of wandering across some pretty spectacular mountainsides, we failed to find the cave. However, we did locate two other small caves, which we surveyed, and then, on the way back to the vehicles, discovered a previously unknown cave of some size with significant formations. This was quite exciting, as the cave was clearly virgin, never seen by humans before.
We hope to return to explore and map it later in the week. Once again, I will get to go where no one has ever gone before!
Tomorrow will probably be as long a day as today, so I probably will not be able to post a more detailed report until Saturday. Stay tuned.