Woods – Rain On
An evening pause: I especially like the simplicity of the music, combined with the interplay between the guitarist and the singer.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Retired test pilot buys his own Harrier
An evening pause: Here is an fine example of a man following his dream and making it happen.
Hat tip Danae.
The Swiss Top Secret Drum Corp
An evening pause: My only comment: This is insane!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Cat Choir
An evening pause: Time for some more silliness, but in a classical form.
All that Jazz – audition scene
An evening pause: Stay with it. The last bits of dialogue are worth it.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
SpaceX – The Blue Danube
An evening pause: This SpaceX video taken by a camera attached to the fairing of the Falcon 9 rocket is cool not because of the video itself. Cameras on rockets have become routine, even for NASA. What is cool is that they have unveiled it using the same Johann Strauss waltz used in the move 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). It shows that SpaceX is aware of the cultural impact of what they do.
Hat tip Tom Wilson, Tom Biggar, and others.
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
An evening pause: I love it when the performers are clearly have fun!
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
The truth about bottled water
An evening pause: Tonight’s pause is a bit different, in that it has a newsy aspect to it, illustrating the uncertainty of knowledge that makes science so difficult. It is also incredibly entertaining and funny, almost like the 1960s TV show Candid Camera. Would you be fooled like these people were?
Hat tip Phillip Oltmann.
Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
An evening pause: Mary Elizabeth Bowden on trumpet and Naomi Woo on piano.
Hat tip Danae for suggesting the music.
Parks and Recreation – “Thoughts For Your Thoughts”
An evening pause: For anyone who has ever listened to NPR, it will be hard to distinguish the satire here from reality, since the skit so well captures public radio’s often empty-headed blather disguised as profound intellectualism, framed by a strong desire to promote anything the government wants done.
Hat tip to John Harman.
The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
An evening pause: From the 1983 reunion concert.
Pushing Darwin
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who wrote, “As one of the comments said: ‘You know that fine line between bravery and stupidity? Well, you passed it up about 5 miles back.’ My question is how did he get it on the planks from that narrow pier?”
Though I always approve of having the courage to push the envelope and take risks, this is not an example of that. They get away with it, but not because they used their brains. They were merely lucky.