Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Glen Campbell – William Tell Overture
An evening pause: “Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!”
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
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The Music Man – Till There Was You
An evening pause: Sung by Shirley Jones, from one of the greatest American musical films ever made, The Music Man (1962).
Diane and I have been watching a lot of those ’40s, 50s, and 60s American musicals. To today’s bitter and cynical youth, these films might seem to portray a too-perfect world filled with too much happiness and wealth. And while there is some truth to that cynical view, it is mostly wrong. The America portrayed in these films was actually quite like this. People were free, they were generally happy, and they lived a life of prosperity that no one before had ever seen. Nor are future generations likely to see such a life again during the coming dark centuries. These musicals provide a window into that time.
These musicals as well as most of the Hollywood movies prior to the 1960s are also quite unique in the history of literature and art in that they told stories not of kings or rulers or nobility, but of ordinary people. Such stories were rarely told before the coming of America. This fact also tells us much about the culture that then existed. It was ruled by those ordinary people, and thus the art and literature catered to them.
Which is why the Marxist power-driven culture that now dominates this country is desperate to ban the viewing of such art and the learning of that history. It tells a tale they cannot stomach.
The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
Making sandals using used motorcycle tires
Illinois Adventure – Cahokia Mounds
An evening pause: Time for some less well known North American archeology, very nicely persented, describing a history likely quite similar to other similar sites in the southwest.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Bangles – You Were On My Mind
Israel: Airborne High Power Laser Weapon test
An evening pause: I’m not sure if this fits as an evening pause, but the engineering is startling, and has ramifications both good and bad, for the future. The first half of the video shows the test, the second half explains it.
Israelis are surrounded by neighbors dominated by a culture that wishes to kill them all. They need this kind of defense, especially because the world will no longer defend them against this threat of genocide. In fact, many of our ruling “intellectual” class celebrate that possibility.
That they are forced to develop this technology sadly means that some bad actors will get it soon as well. The dark age is so fast approaching that it takes the breath away. That this is where we are, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, is tragic beyond words.
Hat tip Jim Malamace.
People Are Awesome, 2017
An evening pause: Many of the things done on this video involved a willingness to accept serious risk, because nothing awesome can be accomplished without doing so.
Hat tip Cotour.
How It’s Made: Rubber Balls
An evening pause: Not surprisingly, much of the process is automated and illustrates some very sophisticated engineering that we all take for granted. However, I was astonished that the stripes are still hand-painted on.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The French Family – Highway 40 Blues
An evening pause: To quote the YouTube website: “Stuie (Electric), Camille (Acoustic), Sonny (13) and Chet (16) from our living room in Nashville.”
Very nice, but I must admit the best part might be watching the expressions on the face of Mom in the background.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Joey Helms – The Curious Story of Fagradalsfjall
An evening pause: A different look at the same volcanic eruption taking place now in Iceland shown in a previous evening pause.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jalan Crossland – Trailer Park Fire
An evening pause: Feature Crossland’s banjo playing previously. Takes your breath away.
Hat tip Tom Wright.
Gregory Abbott – Shake You Down
Euler’s Disk
An evening pause: Something for all those new home schoolers, and their parents, to puzzle over and use to learn something worthwhile and real.
Note also how the concave mirror eventually forces the disk into the center of the mirror.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia
Loudon Wainwright – One-man Guy
An evening pause: I first posted this as a pause back in 2012. Time to post it again, as I empathize with Wainwright even more now than then.
We all travel a path in life. Once Americans celebrated those who chose an independent and unique path. That no longer appears true, not that it would make any difference to Wainwright, or to me. For some, to chose a unique path and be true to yourself is the only option.
The Family Sowell – Carried Me With You
Veritasium – Newton reinvents how to calculate pi
An evening pause: Much of the math goes over my head, but the story is still fascinating in showing how you can discover what later seems obvious, merely by keeping an open mind while endlessly and repetitively asking the next question.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
1776 – Hatching an Egg
A evening pause: On this day, July 2nd, the day the Founding Fathers actually signed the Declaration of Independence, I think it appropriate to once again watch this wonderful song from the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776. As I said in earlier posts of this song on Independence Day, “not only did the musical capture the essence of the men who made independency happen, it is also a rollicking and entertaining work of art.”
And despite the hate being spewed against America and its founding principle that all humans are created free with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that truth still shines. As John Kennedy said of himself, ourselves, and these founding fathers. “We stand for freedom.”
David Frazer – The Deal
An evening pause: Watch as the artist creates a work of art, that can be reproduced endlessly..
Hat tip Cotour.
Alan Jackson – Mercury Blues
Naudo – Staying Alive
Andrey Vinogradov – A dark medieval ballad played on a hurdy-gurdy
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who calls this “Music to accompany the plague.” Seems appropriate considering the events of the last year.
More on the history and design of the hurdy-gurdy here.
The beauty of controlled explosions
Maxi Borgaro – Unchained Melody
An evening pause: Nice cover, sung by someone who’s first language is not English.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Removing a bee swarm
An evening pause: We’ve had two bee swarms at my house in Tucson in the past decade. With the first we made the terrible mistake of taking the advice of an exterminator who destroyed it. The second time we knew better and simply waited 24 hours for them to move on.
The bee remover here removes them, but wisely without harming them. And he does it in a manner that will both surprise you and make you cringe.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
A Millennial Job Interview
U2 – Mysterious Ways
An evening pause: Stay with it for what is made to appear as an impromptu addition of an audience member dancing. She steals the show.
It might be improvised, but if it was, it happened repeatedly, at different places, sometimes with a girl that looks identical to this one. I suspect they pre-planned it each time, but no matter, it works quite well this time, for sure.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Miracles – Love Machine
A evening pause: Fun stuff, but the dance choreography does make me think I’m watching an exercise video.
Hat tip Cotour.