Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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.
Snow
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Talk to me of Mendocino
An evening pause: Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Talk to me of Mendocino
I bid farewell to the state of ol’ New York,
My home away from home.
In the state of New York I came of age
when first I started roaming.
Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie
Roman cities and aqueducts
The Hanson Sisters – Shenandoah
An evening pause: I know this was the song from yesterday’s evening pause, but I found both performances to be so nicely done that I wanted to share them both.
Madrigals – Shenandoah
Jasmine Flower
The first spacewalk
An evening pause: Forty-six years ago today Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space. This Soviet-era film shows practically the entire event, using footage from two cameras. Unfortunately, I don’t speak Russian and it is not subtitled. I’d love it if someone out there could provide a translation.
Several things to note as you watch:
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Clancy Brothers & Robbie O’Connell- Finnegan’s Wake
Hiking the Manitou Incline in Colorado Springs, CO
Julius Caesar (1953) – Mark Antony speech
An evening pause: On the ides of March, why not watch Marlon Brando at his best, as Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1953).
Skeeter Davis — The End Of The World, recorded 1965
Richard Feynman: “Take the world from another point of view”
An evening pause: Part one of a four part documentary about Richard Feynman.
“To know when you know and when you don’t know, and what is it you know, and what is it you don’t know.”