Josh Tanner – Decommissioned
An evening pause: A fun short horror film taking off from actual events on ISS.
Hat tip Roland.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Wild Cherry – Play that funky music
An evening pause: Recorded live in 1976.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who has found a nice alternative video site to Youtube by using the Wayback machine archive to find this video.
Steve ‘n Seagulls – Nothing else matters
A evening pause: Hat tip Sayomara.
FlippinDingDong – Trailer Annie
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who rightly added, “No clue what this means, but I’m certain the student animators had fun making it.”
Fun to watch too. They might have done it on a computer, but it sure has the feel of hand-drawn animation.
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: I know I’ve posted this song more than a few times previously, but this version is truly unique. I had even posted it previously, back in 2012. More than enough time however has passed, so I think it okay to show it again. As I noted then, “A very talented actor once told me that a great deal of all comedy is based on contrast, on juxtaposing extreme opposites in unexpected ways.”
This does that quite well I think.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Bell Labs – The Transistor
An evening pause: This 9-minute documentary, made in 1952 by Bell Labs, provides a short and clear history of the transistor as well as its predecessor, the vacuum tube. It also tries to imagine the future that such a new invention might bring. As the youtube page notes,
While The Transistor’s vision of the future seems somewhat quaint in retrospect, it captures a moment in time before the transistor became ubiquitous; a time when Bell Labs wanted the world to know that something important had occurred, something that was about to bring tremendous change to everyone’s daily lives.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Nathan Evans – The Wellerman
An evening pause: It seems a lot of people took Evans singing in the center and did their own piece, singing along with him. This video puts many of them together. You can see the full list on the youtube page.
Hat tip Tom Donahue.
Eddy Goldfarb – The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
How a recording-studio mishap shaped ’80s music
An evening pause: Some technical rock music history.
Hat tip lazurus long.
The Association – Never My Love
A evening pause: To my wife, Diane.
Foxes & Fossils – Harvest Moon
An evening pause: Cover of the Neil Young song.
Hat tip: eddie willers