Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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.
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.