Samara Ginsberg – Inspector Gadget for 8 cellos
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
John McDermott – The Green Fields of France
An evening pause: For Armistice Day. The song should remind us that the shadows cast by the first World War have been long and enduring, and even a hundred years after continue to influence us, for good and ill.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann
Herbie Hancock – On musical creativity
An evening pause: “Don’t play the butter notes.”
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
The Moon Loungers – Mr Bluesky
An evening pause: A nice cover of the Electric Light Orchestra song.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Die Twinnies – Bayernmädels
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who writes,
Good friends, Astrid Paster and Franziska Pauli, are Die Twinnies. This was the girls’ debut TV performance for the popular Austrian entertainment show, “Musikantenstadl.”
This was recorded in 2009. It is said the career length of a child entertainer is about the same as the lifespan of a pet. That was pretty much true for Die Twinnies. We enjoy such performances while we can.
It might be lip-synched, but so what? Fun stuff.
Lyrebird sings Australia
An evenig pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Peter Gabriel – The Boy in the Bubble
A evening pause: Somehow, this seems very appropriate for today, this particualar but most important election day.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Yes, Prime Minister – If the right people don’t have power…
An evening pause: In honor of tomorrow’s election day.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Jessica Farnsworth – The most famous man you never heard of
An evening pause: This man deserves more fame than he has gotten.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Jay Proctor – Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Bazooka Charlie – WW2s Strangest Tank Buster
An evening pause: Today this man would likely be forbidden from doing this, regardless of its practicality. Modern military rules would be horrified at his independent action.
Hat tip lazarus long.
The Dock
An evening pause: Some surfing action in Bali off of an artificial floating platform that sometimes “kicks like a snake.”
Hat tip Roland.
Luca Sestak – Swanee River Boogie Woogie
An evening pause: He was 14 when he did this.
Hat tip Tom Biggars.
Why Do Stupid People Not Realize They Are Stupid?
A bonus second evening pause: Considering some of the foolishness being imposed on free Americans by clearly stupid politicians, their minions in various government bureaucracies, and much of the mainstream media (as illustrated by tonight’s first satirical evening pause), I thought it worthwhile to post this short video, explaining the Dunning Kruger effect. I also thought it especially worthwhile to post, prior to the election.
The solution for everyone, no matter your intelligence, is to be humble, to always consider the possibility you could be wrong. Do that, and you will take the first step in recognizing when you do stupid things.
MadTV – Windstorm 97
An evening pause: We find this funny because it so accurately documents the inanity and stupidity of almost all television news. And yet, so many people who would laugh at this take with complete faith the reporting on COVID-19, all of which has been as absurd and as untrustworthy.
Hat tip lazarus long.
Jean Sibelius – Finlandia
An evening pause: Takes us also on a magnificent tour of Finland’s natural world, with some breath-taking film footage.
Hat tip Björn Larsson.
JeffHK – Taking a big ship through the Panama Canal
An evening pause: A nice documentary showing what it is like taking a big ship through the Panama Canal.
Hat tip David Eastman.
Penguin highway
An evening pause: Worth watching more than once, if only to escape the insanity of our time.
I can’t help wondering however why they all are walking on this route, and what is it they stop to look at to the right at one point? And why is one crawling on its belly?
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Mnozil Brass – lonley boy
An evening pause: Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Joshua Wong – The New Politics
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who accurately describes this as “a mildly amusing short sci-fi film.”
My thought in watching this short film is that I have been watching and reading sci-fi movies and books about a oppressive future imposed by technology for almost sixty years. All were written as warnings of a future to avoid. Instead, it appears we have taken them all as instruction manuals.