Alan Jackson – Mercury Blues
An evening pause: Performed on the television comedy show, Home Improvement.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Naudo – Staying Alive
An evening pause: How about a more modern instrument today?
Hat tip Cotour.
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
An evening pause: All planned and carefully engineered.
Hat tip Cotour.
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
An evening pause: The future, or maybe sadly, already the present.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
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.
Jerome Robbins – Mistake Waltz
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – Wooly Bully
An evening pause: Performed live in 2000.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Training WWII gunners to hit moving planes from a moving plane
An evening pause: While figuring out why this works is really complicated, the simplicity of the technique and engineering is superb, and illustrates again why the U.S. did so well against Germany.
And yes, that is the voice of Mel Blanc.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Sean Rowe – To Leave Something Behind
An evening pause: This guy might not be the greatest guitar player or singer, but stay with it, the song and words I think make up for any lack in playing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Taxi -Jim Spikes Louie’s Coffee
An evening pause: From one of television’s best comedy shows. Note the number of people from this show who became very big movie stars.
Hat tip Cotour.
Hanson – MMM Bop
An evening pause: Performed live in 2003.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Dad vs Daughter
An evening pause: It seems there is a fourth story plot available to writers (see yesterday’s evening pause).
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Kurt Vonnegut – the Shapes of Stories
An evening pause: There is an old saying that all story plots can be summed into one of the following three categories: Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, and Man vs Himself.
Vonnegut gives us a far better summary.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Foreigner – Waiting For A Girl Like You
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It for the Boy
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Make Mine Freedom
An evening pause: A 1948 cartoon, made at the start of the Cold War. It uncannily predicts quite accurately what is happening now, in America, because the Boomer generation and those who followed poo-pooed its lessons. They knew better!
I post it on Memorial Day because I wish to remember what once was.
Hat tip Lazarus Long.