Love These Days
An evening pause: A short Indian film.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Note: Link fixed!
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
The King’s Singers – Barbara Allen
An evening pause: Arranged by John Rutter.
Itzhak Perlman & the Klezmer Conservatory Band
An evening pause: Two klezmer songs, performed live December 2013.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday
An evening pause: This 1983 electronic song is played here entirely on 1930s musical instruments.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Assembling a Boeing 737
An evening pause: I might have posted this before, but who cares. Modern engineering and smart production management is always nice to watch.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
An evening pause: There is something about this song that reminds me of the impression of America by the Soviet refugee played by Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson (1984), “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Swedish National Wind Band
An evening pause: Four classic television and movie themes arranged by Paul Jenkins, performed with spirit by what looks like a college or high school band.
Hat tip t-dub.
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?
Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra – Nice Work If You Can Get It
An evening pause: Recorded live, 1962.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Greg Kihn – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
An evening pause: Recorded live, July 6, 1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Wearing Mars and Moon spacesuit prototypes
An evening pause: This video to me was interesting because it illustrated (though the reporter either does not realize it or is being kind by not mentioning it) how poorly designed both these suits are. They require a crew to put on something that would be impractical on either the Moon or Mars, and appears heavy and clumsy. For Mars especially a much lighter and more natural suit is going to be essential. This is not it, though I am sure it is a worthwhile first attempt.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys – Slow Poke
An evening pause: Performed live for Country Style USA, a television show produced by the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960 as a recruiting tool and featuring top country music performers. Stay till the end, to get a feel of a different America.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kang Hye-Jung – Beautiful Dreamer
An evening pause: Stephen Foster’s magnificent lullaby, performed for South Korean television.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Paris HS Percussion Ensemble – Rung again
An evening pause: Performed live, March 11, 2010.
Hat tip Michael Nelson.
Ginger Cat vs The Paper Army
An evening pause: Time for some silliness, which I suppose is also appropriate for a Friday the thirteenth.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
30 day timelapse at sea
An evening pause: Quite hypnotic, and captures the feel for what a modern ship freighter is like, which is nothing like the romantic past. And somehow, this feels fitting to show on the anniversary of the day Columbus first touched shore in the New World in 1492. He pushed the envelope possibly more than any human has ever done, and changed human history in doing so.
Hat tip Steven Golson.
Wings – I’ve Just Seen A Face
An evening pause: From the 1976 American tour.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Glen Campbell/Mel Tillis/Roy Clark – When I Stop Dreaming
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
An evening pause: I posted this in 2011, with the comment, “Once again, a folksinger provides us the answer.” Keith Douglas suggested I post it again, noting that maybe they should play it at football games.
I think they already are, though sadly they don’t know it.
Timelapse photography of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage: “On a remote island hours away from Key West lies the largest masonry structure in the Americas: Fort Jefferson. Built with 16 million bricks, but never finished, the fort served as a prison during Civil War. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon visiting the island, named it a National Monument, and in 1992 it became part of Dry Tortugas National Park.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.