A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: It is a commercial for KUKA robotics, and it is a bit staged, a competition between a KUKA robot and table tennis professional Timo Bollo playing music on glasses. Nonetheless, the punchline is good. Human creativity can always beat out robotic programming.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: Another piece with Catarina Sisinni the lead singer. Seems perfect for Halloween.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: A nice way to start the weekend. As noted by the orca expert, “They’re really just big dolphins with a fancy paint job.”
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Lewis is the niece of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: This is not a science fiction movie, but it could be.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
An evening pause: I especially like the clarity of her guitar playing.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
An evening pause: Soft, gentle, and joyful.
Hat tip Dan Steele.
An evening pause: The dress and lighting effects raise this to a whole new level.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: Also fast and breathless, like last night’s pause, though of a somewhat different musical genre.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
An evening pause: A tour of Oxford, set to the music used in the first two Morse television series, Inspector Morse and Inspector Lewis, both of which were set in Oxford. As for the music, I wonder if my readers know the trick/pun Pheloung used as a basis for the theme’s main melodic line.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Performed live in 2016.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: An example of undaunted courage.
An evening pause: This seems perfect to open the weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: Irish folk meets classical Bach.
An evening pause: This movie scene was created for the Christopher Guest pseudo-documentary film A Mighty Wind (2003), recreating with marvelous and loving accuracy a look back at the folk song era of the 1960s, but doing it about a bunch of completely mythical folk groups. The song is by the actor Eugene Levy, who plays Mitch. Catherine O’Hara plays Mickey.
The irony is that though this is actually the best song by far in the movie, the scene was deleted. The only time you hear this song is over the end credits. However, as Levy is quoted on the youtube page:
“At the end of this movie, when we do the concert, it was all filmed basically live. We’re not pre-recording the music and lip-synching to it. We’re actually filming it live. It put a little added pressure on what you thought was a relatively good singing voice. It took a little work and I think I can speak for Catherine, too, as two of the relatively non-musician people. It was exciting and scary.”
A touching and surprisingly effective film, expressing the magic that can happen to us all, but sometimes only in a short burst that is soon lost and cannot be truly recaptured.
An evening pause: Paul Simon’s masterpiece of poetry, always worth hearing again.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: The band is Greek, specializing in swing. The singer is Catarina Sisinni. This was performed live in 2016 in Thessaloniki.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: This guy, Master Du, specializes in trimming the hoofs of donkeys that have become deformed and need specialized work. (Make sure the closed captions are on to get some translation of the narration.) This is how it is done in China. I wonder how that compares to the techniques used in the U.S., and other nations.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who found this work so interesting she ended up watching Master Du videos for more than an hour.
