Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
TruthSurge – Open Arms
An evening pause: He admits to doing some audio manipulation to his voice to get it to sound as it does, but no matter, it sounds really good.
Hat tip Cotour.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man
B. J. Thomas – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
An evening pause: Performed live in 2011. Somehow this seems appropriate at the moment.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Two weeks under water
An evening pause: A clever way to extend research time under water. My only question in thinking about the experiments she was doing: What happens if it gets cooler?
Hat tip Cotour.
Yes, Minister – Get some patients
Magnetic Games – Spinning Magnets
Celtic Woman – Faith’s Song
Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
Santana – Soul Sacrifice
An evening pause: Performed live, August 8, 1970. A nice way to energize for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Our House
An evening pause: A hit in 1970, this song to me was one of the nicest songs from that time, and in many ways signaled the end of the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hans Davis – Shadow Act
Looking Glass – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)
What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
An evening pause: This is a bit long for an evening pause, and I myself did not understand a good portion of the terminology, but it is still fascinating and worth watching nonetheless, if only to give you hope for the future. As the last questioner at the end said, “I think you’ve raised the bar on what all of us should expect from our kids now.”
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Bucky Covington – Different World
A evening pause: Performed live in 2014.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who notes that the song probably “resonates far more to you and me than the performer. The lyrics trigger vibrant memories of my life as a kid in the 1960s going to Redeemer Lutheran grade school.” I agree, as someone who also grew up in the 1960s going to public school in Brooklyn, New York. Yet, I also suspect that Covington’s childhood, born in 1977 in North Carolina and growing up in the 1980s, was not that much different. No computers, and as a kid you played outside.
And most important of all, you grew up with a mother and a father, who were committed to staying together to raise their kids. That time is sadly long gone, and the children since have suffered terribly because of it.
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Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
Spy Hippo discovers a Fish Spa!
An evening pause: You need to watch to understand the title. And though the “spy hippo” is a bit of a gimmick and I suspect did not take all the underwater footage, the show does appear have gotten some fascinating film of the hidden life of hippopotamuses.
Hat tip Cotour.
Spandau Ballet – True
Teddy Swims – I can’t make you love me
a-ha – Take On Me
Building an artificial pond
An evening pause: This engineering not only illustrates the human ability to develop complex technology, it also illustrates how difficult it can be to accomplish what nature does naturally. Think about this the next time you hear someone talking about terraforming Mars.
Hat tip Cotour.
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
An evening pause: Here what counts is the audience. From the youtube webpage:
Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest. His body shape is deformed through hard labor, he lost his right eye and tusk in this brutal logging practice. Mongkol was rescued and brought to Elephants World to spend the rest of his days relaxing peacefully in freedom by the River Kwai. I discovered Mongkol is an extremely gentle, sensitive elephant who enjoys music, especially this slow movement by Beethoven which I play to him occasionally in the day and night.
I think he listens with as much rapt pleasure as anyone who loves Beethoven.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The B52’s – Love Shack
America’s Iron Giants
An evening pause: Technology developed with slide rules and the English system of measurements, more than half a century ago, that still works today.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Yes, Prime Minister – The need to know
An evening pause: Stay with it. It will soon remind you of modern DC politics.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
An evening pause: Performed live in Los Angeles in 1983. Somehow, everything about this song symbolizes to me the entire sixties generation.
Hat tip Cotour.
Brazilian Orchestra medley
An evening pause: This appears to be a youth orchestra, but unfortunately everything on the webpage is in Portuguese, so I’m not sure.
Hat tip David Nudelman.