Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher
David Bowie – Life on Mars
An evening pause: Hat tip to Edward Thelen for reminding me that I should post another Bowie song. This was recorded live in 1999.
250,000 Dominoes
An evening pause: I haven’t posted one of these in awhile, and this one is a doozy, including three new US domino records: largest domino field, largest domino structure, and largest overall domino project in America. It took 19 builders from 5 countries 7 days (over 1,200 combined hours) to build it.
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Keith Whitley – I Never Go Around Mirrors
A evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who wrote, “This is a case of art imitating life. Keith Whitley battled alcoholism for years. He died at age 33 of acute alcohol poisoning 6 months after this performance.”
World’s fastest turbine model jet
An evening pause: On this August 2017 flight the model averaged 451 mph, with a top speed of 461 mph.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Chuck Jones on Getting Started
An evening pause: “It costs money to die poor.”
For those who don’t know, Chuck Jones directed some of the best Bugs Bunny cartoons that Warner Brothers ever produced.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
PJ Liguori – Tree Hugger
Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
The Velvet Underground – I’m Sticking With You
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Star Trek Medley
An evening pause: It is never a bad thing to listen to the music from Star Trek (though I would have preferred a larger percentage of this piece devoted to Alexander Courage’s original score).
Hat tip Willi Kusche.
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Love These Days
The King’s Singers – Barbara Allen
Itzhak Perlman & the Klezmer Conservatory Band
Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday
An evening pause: This 1983 electronic song is played here entirely on 1930s musical instruments.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Assembling a Boeing 737
An evening pause: I might have posted this before, but who cares. Modern engineering and smart production management is always nice to watch.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
An evening pause: There is something about this song that reminds me of the impression of America by the Soviet refugee played by Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson (1984), “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Swedish National Wind Band
An evening pause: Four classic television and movie themes arranged by Paul Jenkins, performed with spirit by what looks like a college or high school band.
Hat tip t-dub.
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?
Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra – Nice Work If You Can Get It
Greg Kihn – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
Wearing Mars and Moon spacesuit prototypes
An evening pause: This video to me was interesting because it illustrated (though the reporter either does not realize it or is being kind by not mentioning it) how poorly designed both these suits are. They require a crew to put on something that would be impractical on either the Moon or Mars, and appears heavy and clumsy. For Mars especially a much lighter and more natural suit is going to be essential. This is not it, though I am sure it is a worthwhile first attempt.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys – Slow Poke
An evening pause: Performed live for Country Style USA, a television show produced by the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960 as a recruiting tool and featuring top country music performers. Stay till the end, to get a feel of a different America.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kang Hye-Jung – Beautiful Dreamer
An evening pause: Stephen Foster’s magnificent lullaby, performed for South Korean television.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Paris HS Percussion Ensemble – Rung again
Ginger Cat vs The Paper Army
An evening pause: Time for some silliness, which I suppose is also appropriate for a Friday the thirteenth.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
30 day timelapse at sea
An evening pause: Quite hypnotic, and captures the feel for what a modern ship freighter is like, which is nothing like the romantic past. And somehow, this feels fitting to show on the anniversary of the day Columbus first touched shore in the New World in 1492. He pushed the envelope possibly more than any human has ever done, and changed human history in doing so.
Hat tip Steven Golson.
Wings – I’ve Just Seen A Face
Glen Campbell/Mel Tillis/Roy Clark – When I Stop Dreaming
Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
An evening pause: I posted this in 2011, with the comment, “Once again, a folksinger provides us the answer.” Keith Douglas suggested I post it again, noting that maybe they should play it at football games.
I think they already are, though sadly they don’t know it.