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