Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
JK Wedding Entrance Dance
An evening pause: This video of the JK wedding entrance dance went viral several years ago, but man, it is sure worth watching again and again. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter
Pachelbel’s Canon in D played at 3 am
An evening pause What good musicians do in their spare time, play Pachelbel’s Canon in D at 3 am in the morning, without rehearsal. Or as they themselves describe it, “The Most Juicy Canon On YouTube!!!”
The violin players (l to r): Marie Samuelsen, Andrey Rozendent, and Alexander Gilman.
Flute duet on Earth and in Space
An evening pause: Though this took place last week, on the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight, I can’t let it go by, especially because it is so nicely done. Trust me, for two flute players to play a duet with one several hundred miles up in space and traveling more than 17,500 miles per hour while the other is safely on Earth is not easy.
Stop action video of the painting of photo realistic cat
Eddi Reader – Leezie Lindsay
An evening pause: Chorus by Robert Burns c1795, verses by Eddi Reader and Boo Hewerdine.
Oh the lights in this city are like diamonds
The street lamps, the signs and the cars
Though it’s bright in the city what are diamonds?
When they’re turning out all of our stars.
Grey Eye Glances — Angel
An evening pause: Because this band, Grey Eye Glances, is not that well known, there are very few videos of them on youtube. Yet, I found their 1997 album, Eventide, to be incredible. Though the video below of the song Angel shows only lyrics, it is worth listening to for the music alone.
David Bowie — Space Oddity (1969)
Every Picture of Abraham Lincoln Known to Exist
The Ford Model T
Fifty years ago today
12 Girls Band
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don’t Give Up
Escher´s waterfall
Celtic Woman – Danny Boy
Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze
Caving in Druid Cave, Cheat Canyon, West Virginia
An evening pause: Caving in Druid Cave, Cheat Canyon, West Virginia. The caver is David Riggs. The videographer is caver Aaron Bird. The caver who arrives at the end with the ATV is caver Brian Masney. All are world class cavers, with whom I’ve had the honor of caving.
The video is nicely done, and gives an excellent and accurate feel for modern cave exploration and techniques. Watch especially how the rigging allows David to climb past the waterfall while on rope and hardly get wet.
Bill Staines – River
Beach Boys – Sloop John B
Ultralights!
Playing with mercury
The annual spaghetti crop
Muppets – Java
Mister Sandman – cover by Pomplamoose
Cheap flights
Loreena McKennitt – The Dark Night Of The Soul
An evening pause: A song based on the 15th century poem by St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz).
Upon a darkened night
the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest
Full lyrics here.
For the birds
Move on from Sunday in the Park with George
An evening pause: Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin sing “Move On” from Steven Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George.
Stop worrying where you’re going.
Move on.
If you can know where you’re going,
You’ve gone.
Just keep moving on.
I chose and my world was shaken.
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not.
You have to move on.