A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: But not very relaxing. Hat tip to Phill Oltmann, who notes “This video is of commercial fishing boats returning from fishing off the coast of Washington and Oregon. They are crossing the Columbia Bar, which is the site the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.”
An evening pause: Performed live, 2014. I especially like the dancing security guards.
Hat tip Danae.
Hey, I am still looking for tips for my evening pauses. Why let Danae have all the fun? If you see a video you think might fit, make a comment here mentioning that you have something, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it from you.
An evening pause: I posted this performance back on November 23, 2010, had forgotten, and found it again by accident. It bears another viewing. As noted at the youtube link,
Judy Garland only performed “Over The Rainbow” twice during her many television appearances, which spanned 14 years. She performed it on her first TV Special, “Ford Star Jubilee” in the episode called “The Judy Garland Special” in 1955, and sang it to her children on The Christmas Edition of her weekly TV show “The Judy Garland Show” (1963).
Here Judy is dressed up [in the first special] as the tramp character she played when doing a duet with Fred Astaire in the film ‘Easter Parade’.
Watch. It shows why she was both a great singer and a great actress.
An evening pause: This demo of a proposed use for drones highlights again the magnificent potential that engineering always has to improve our lives — if we use it right.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
An evening pause: Performed live, 1971. If anyone ever tries to tell you that you can’t say or do something, just think of this song, and these words:
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows –
And did it my way.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Absolutely one of the most original performances of this classic piece of music I have ever seen. And man, can he play the guitar.
An evening pause: Performed live, 1970. One of the best and most profound pop songs ever written. It is subtle and simple, deep and shallow, all at the same time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: You might say this a variation on a Rube Goldberg device, except that instead of gravity running the show it is a mouse.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Readers: I am always looking for tips for my evening pauses. If you see a video you think might fit, make a comment here mentioning that you have something, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it from you.
An evening pause: Taped on August 25, 2014. Hat tip Danae, who wrote, “It was 111.4 degrees under the side porch roof this afternoon, which explains why this video appeals to me. The visibility of the sea floor is just frosting on the cake.”
To me, this probably gives one who has never surfed (like myself) the best sense of what it is like to do it.
An evening pause: The conductor, Joe Hisaishi, is also the composer for the music in Hayao Miyazaki‘s best animated films.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: From a performance during the 1970s the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.
Hat tip Danae. As she notes, this was when Cher “still seemed semi-normal.” Without doubt, she could sing, and act. Too bad in later years she stopped focusing on where her best talents lay.
An evening pause: For the geeks out there, this video is a very nice and detailed explanation of the engineering that makes this jet engine so powerful.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
An evening pause: From the September 19, 1981 Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park.
Hat tip Danae for suggesting the song in this troubling time.
An evening pause: I especially like the simplicity of the music, combined with the interplay between the guitarist and the singer.
An evening pause: Here is an fine example of a man following his dream and making it happen.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: Stay with it. The last bits of dialogue are worth it.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
