Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: I know I’ve posted this song more than a few times previously, but this version is truly unique. I had even posted it previously, back in 2012. More than enough time however has passed, so I think it okay to show it again. As I noted then, “A very talented actor once told me that a great deal of all comedy is based on contrast, on juxtaposing extreme opposites in unexpected ways.”
This does that quite well I think.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Bell Labs – The Transistor
An evening pause: This 9-minute documentary, made in 1952 by Bell Labs, provides a short and clear history of the transistor as well as its predecessor, the vacuum tube. It also tries to imagine the future that such a new invention might bring. As the youtube page notes,
While The Transistor’s vision of the future seems somewhat quaint in retrospect, it captures a moment in time before the transistor became ubiquitous; a time when Bell Labs wanted the world to know that something important had occurred, something that was about to bring tremendous change to everyone’s daily lives.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Nathan Evans – The Wellerman
An evening pause: It seems a lot of people took Evans singing in the center and did their own piece, singing along with him. This video puts many of them together. You can see the full list on the youtube page.
Hat tip Tom Donahue.
Eddy Goldfarb – The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
How a recording-studio mishap shaped ’80s music
An evening pause: Some technical rock music history.
Hat tip lazurus long.
The Association – Never My Love
A evening pause: To my wife, Diane.
Foxes & Fossils – Harvest Moon
An evening pause: Cover of the Neil Young song.
Hat tip: eddie willers
The Carol Burnett Show – Star Trip
An evening pause: Featuring, Harvy Korman, Sid Caesar, and Carol Burnett.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Sergei Vasiliev – Russian Cyberpunk Farm
An evening pause: Russian-made, and filled with Russian fantasies and reality. Can you tell which is which?
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Ladyva – Für Elise
An evening pause: The original is by Beethoven. The interpretation is American Boogie Woogie.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, and Money
An evening pause: Recorded live April 1980. This seems appropriate for today.
Hat tip Cotour.
Herman’s Hermits – There’s A Kind Of Hush
An evening pause: This live performance is from 1999. The song was a hit in 1966.
Hat tip Roland.
I am in need of evening pause suggestions. Those that have suggested before know the routine. Those that haven’t should note their interest in participating in the comments here, and I will contact you with the guidelines. Do not post your suggestion here however.
Beals Science – Resurrecting a carbide lamp
An evening pause: Long time cavers are very familiar with the carbide lamp, as it was used routinely until around 1998, when LED lights arrived and finally superseded it.
Until then, the advantage of a carbide light was the quality of the light it produced, a soft bright glow rather than the harsh reflective rings produced by older electric lights.
The disadvantage however was the endless fiddling required to keep them working. For example, near the end of this video when he finally gets the light to work, he turns up the water flow to brighten the light. I guarantee that very soon the light would go out, as he was flooding the carbide. The water drip had to be precisely right. Too slow and not enough gas. Too fast and too much water.
I personally hated carbide lights because of that fiddling, especially because lamps made after 1970 were junk and didn’t work well. Most cavers who used carbide would scour yard sales to find old lights like this one, as older carbide lamps were made well and would work reliably.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Styx – Fooling Yourself
<An evening pause: Performed live 2000.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Grass Roots – Temptation Eyes
An evening pause: Forgive the television artifacts in the video. Recorded live in 1982.
Hat tip Roland.
Pearl Jam – Off he goes
An evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
NOTE: Youtube will not allow me to embed this video. Click on the picture, and then click on the link to go to youtube where you can watch it.
Squirrel vs Physicist
An evening pause: This battle between an inventive physicist and an even more determined squirrel does raise the question, who really is smarter?
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Stevie Nicks – Landslide
A evening pause: Performed live in 2008.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Tan Ce Ding – The Masseuse
An evening pause: The future?
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who added, “What is our responsibility to our devices when they become self-aware? And what will be our responsibility to each other?