Zbigniew Rybczyński – The Orchestra (final scene)

An evening pause: Music is of course Ravel’s Bolero. This provides us an elegant thumbnail history of the Soviet Union using dance, choreography, and clever filming. And it is honest, showing how the whole thing was run by gangstas, as all such top-down communist/socialist societies are, and as America is now adopting. More information about the entire work here.

Hat tip Dave McCooey.

Hozier & Annie Lennox – Take Me to Church / I Put a Spell on You

A evening pause: Performed live 2015.

Hat tip Doug Johnson. Note too that this does not come from youtube, but from metatube. Let’s find more alternative video resources like this, just to increase some competition.

AC/DC – Thunderstruck

An evening pause: A bit of energy to start the week. Performed live 1991. For those unfamiliar with this rock piece (like me), I think it helpful here to turn on captions to find out what the performers and audience are singing.

Hat tip James Street.

The view from the racecar of the Le Mans race course, as seen in 1968

An evening pause: From the youtube page:

This amazing piece of ground breaking onboard footage allows us to ride onboard one of the Gulf sponsored JWA Ford GT40s for a lap of the Le Mans circuit in 1968. This early onboard coverage was such a big deal, Stirling Moss does the narration. Its cool to see the Le Mans circuit as it was, without chicanes and with primitive safety features.

Hat tip Tom Biggar.

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