Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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.
Melissa Venema – Il Silenzio
An evening pause: From a 2008 concert in Amsterdam. The soloist, Melissa Venema, was 13 at the time.
The Producers
An evening pause: From Mel Brooks’ classic film, The Producers (1968), a good description of how our modern government functions.
Lou Reed – Perfect Day
John Cleese on The Muppets Show
Reaching the summit of K2
An evening pause: Climbing those last few hundred feet and reaching the summit of K2, the world’s second highest mountain.
Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves A Woman
Rapping flight attendant
Piano Guys – Without you
An evening pause: A beautiful piece performed by the Piano Guys.
George Harrison – Here comes the Sun
Fauré – Pie Jesu
Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
Panda escape
I Know Him So Well – Judy Kuhn & Sissel
How it’s made – Bubble gum
Cesar Espinoza – Unchained Melody
Philip Sparke – Hymn of the Highlands, Dundonnell – Brass Band München
An evening pause: The third movement, Dundonell, of Philip Sparke’s Hymn of the Highlands, played by Brass Band München. This is so spirited that it doesn’t matter that the camera angle never changes. And watch the conductor give his all as well.
Riding a zip line in Alaska
An evening pause: This zip line is clearly not as long a ride as this one, but who cares? And the finish is faster.