The Paul Hogan Show – Product Placement Sketch
An evening pause: Movies and television would never do things like this. Never!
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Roy Orbison & k.d. lang – Pretty Woman & Crying
An evening pause: Two songs on this appearance on the Tonight Show on December 7, 1987, plus a bit of their interview afterward with some interesting tidbits.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Gatos do Sul – Fire the Pandeiro player
An evening pause: I am not a jazz fan, but these guys (especially the flutist and violinist) seem to be having so much fun!
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Sophie Fatu – Fly Me To The Moon
An evening pause: I like this far better for Labor Day than anything else I’ve thought of. It’s cute, sweet, nice, and hopeful. And it somehow seems fitting as we close out the summer of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Felix Dierich – A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit
An evening pause: The view of Earth in 2016 as seen by the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 from geostationary orbit.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Dick Cavett interviewing Orson Welles about famous people
An evening pause: Wells made one of the greatest films ever, Citizen Kane (1941), and then spent the rest of his life failing at finishing almost anything. Along the way he met some interesting people, and in this short clip during an interview on the Dick Cavett Show from July 27, 1970, he tells some of those stories.
His story about Churchill fits the gracious and humorous personality of that man to a “T”.
Hat tip Cotour.
Etienne de Lavaulx – The Sounds of Silence
An evening pause: As played on a zither.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Itai Kriss & Telavana – Mafroum
An evening pause: Some jazz, that starts like 1950s cocktail music, and transcends into something very different.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Danil Danzheev & Ezendey Balbin – Altai throat singing
An evening pause: I think only someone who was raised speaking Russian (or some variant) could naturally be able to achieve these deep sounds.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Antique tortoise shell singing bird box
An evening pause: Unlike yesterday’s evening pause, tonight we look at some remarkable engineering that works perfectly, from the 1920s.
I would love to learn how this works.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
2018 Hot Rod Wild Rides
An evening pause: A breath-taking collection of crashes and failures during the 2018 National Hot Rod Association race season One could call this a collection of engineering failures, but I don’t see it that way. For one, absolutely no one was seriously hurt, proving the design of their safety features. For another, the engine failures show how they are pushing the engineering to the max to win.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jörg Hegemann & Stefan Ulbricht – Sixth Avenue Express
An evening pause: Hat tip Thomas Biggar.