Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed
An evening pause: A very typical 80s song, very sad, hopeless, and depressing. Background here.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: A very typical 80s song, very sad, hopeless, and depressing. Background here.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
An evening pause: Performed live in 1986. I suspect there are a lot of guitar solos that people will label the greatest ever.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
A evening pause: Song by Gershon Kingsley, played on a kantele, a traditional Finnish string instrument, with looper added.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
An evening pause: “But the fighter still remains.”
Hat tip Daniel Morris. I posted this in 2013, and it was time to post it again.
An evening pause: She will soon be able to ship these sweaters into space, from Shetland’s own spaceport.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: He goes from classical to country to rock, in less than four minutes.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Performed live in 1957 on Cole’s television show. The music was composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour, who correctly describes this as “a meeting of aliens from two different worlds.”
An evening pause: On this day when all should be celebrating Christopher Columbus and his willingness “sail beyond the sunset,” to use a phrase from Tennyson, this short video give us an accurate picture of the man, his times, and his achievements. It also puts the lie to the bigoted, hateful, leftist slanders that have been used in recent years to poison his legacy.
Note that I got this video from Rumble. I ask all who wish to suggest evening pauses to consider searching on Rumble and Vimeo, so that we are less dependent on YouTube. The Google company needs to feel some competitive pressure.
An evening pause: There is joyful art hidden in all existence. You simply have to have the open-mindedness to look for it.
Hat tip Tom Donohue.
An evening pause: The song is originally by Boston, and the lead singer here is Dino Elefante, originally from the band Kansas. Sekulow is the Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on defending the issues of free speech that the ACLU abandoned years ago.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Performed live 2010. The clip starts with the second song. If you want to hear the first, Twilight World, rewind to the beginning.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
An evening pause: Performed live in 2016 by the Frankfort Radio Symphony Orchestra.
This is long for an evening pause, but William’s gentle, mild British tones I think make a great way to start the weekend. Use it to unwind from your daily workweek craziness.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour, who notes, “Understanding where we came from,” but asks “But where exactly are we going?”
An evening pause: I guarantee you’ve never heard Mozart played exactly like this.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
An evening pause: This is quite wonderful. I am certain Folds did some preliminary planning in advance, but it is clear the orchestra did not have this info and he needed to bring them up to speed fast. Their musical skill, combined with the composer’s own musical knowledge and Folds’ clear musical instructions, makes this come together.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.