Weaponizer – Kunai knife out of old leaf spring steel
An evening pause: If you have the skills, imagination, and proper tools, you can make anything. I run this at 2x normal speed, and miss nothing.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Phil Cunningham – Overture/The Farther Shore
An evening pause: For St. Patrick’s Day.
Ashley McBryde – Four songs
An evening pause: Performed live March 2023. The songs: Light on in the kitchen, and small selections from Strawberry wine, Neon Moon, and Wide Open Spaces.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Mary Travers & The Kingston Trio – Where Have All The Flowers Gone
An evening pause: Performed live 1982, when lefties still believed in freedom and peace and the immutable importance of each individual soul. Somehow seems appropriate on the ides of March.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sade – No Ordinary Love
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Antonio Breschi & Ronnie Drew – Irlanda
An evening pause: Keith Donald is on the sax. Breschi, on the piano, has written other magnificent music. If you can find a copy of his “Language of the Land,” get it. I had posted it as an evening pause, but that video is no longer available on youtube.
The Doors – Love Me Two Times
An evening pause: Performed live 1968.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who notes, “Nice piece of poetry at the beginning.”
Weird Al Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
An evening pause: Seems to me, this expresses perfectly the level of thoughtfulness seen in many hard rock music videos, only it does it more honestly.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Donna Summer – I feel love
An evening pause: Performed live 1977.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Forgotten Weapons – Winchester Thumb Trigger Rifle
An evening pause: A bit of engineering history. Note the simplicity.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Eartha Kitt – Think I’m Being Had
An evening pause: Performed live on the Dick Cavett Show, 1969. The second half of the clip is Cavett interviewing her about her autobiography Thursday’s Child.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Srna Kocevska & Alexandra Gjoreska – the Charleston
An evening pause: The dance says the 1920s. It is also amazing how many different moves they do, yet every move belongs to this same dance.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Stevie Nicks – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
An evening pause: Performed live 1983.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
AJR – Making of Bang!/Bang!
An evening pause: Hat tip Clay Ginn.
Ten Years After – I`m going home
An evening pause: Performed live at Woodstock in 1969.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jonathan Winters Tells Drinking Stories
An evening pause: Seems appropriate to usher in the weekend. From the Johnny Carson Show, 1976.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves
An evening pause: Performed live 1996.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Kathleen Battle – Voices of Spring
An evening pause: By Strauss, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, performed live 1987.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica
An evening pause: Performed live 1982.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.