Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Mean Mary James – Ding Dong Day
An evening pause: From Mean Mary James, a Christmas song.
Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy / Peace
Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
The twelve best solar events in 2012
An evening pause: Below is a compilation of the twelve most spectacular solar flares of 2012, in chronological order. A detailed explanation of each can be found here.
Though the Sun continues to go through the weakest sunspot maximums in more than a hundred years, we now have some very sophisticated instruments in space that are able to observe whatever happens. And the Sun is still a raging inferno of billions of hydrogen bombs, all going off at once and continuously. Even during a weak minimum it still is more powerful than we can imagine. Consider: The Earth would be nothing mores than a small dot in each of these flares.
Sinéad O’Connor – Danny Boy
An evening pause: One of the most beautiful songs ever written, sung by one of the world’s best singers.
Eddi Reader – Charlie is my darlin
One small dish for man
Sharon Shannon & Natali McMasters – Celtic electric
Will it blend: World’s Largest Gummy Bear
An evening pause: Here at Behind the Black we make it a point to provide you information you really can use!
Mt Nimbus Via Ferrata
An evening pause: Even though I like doing this sort of stuff, and these climbers are clipped in safely at all times, it still makes my palms sweat watching this.
Lianne La Havas – No Room for Doubt
Mountain Man – Play It Right
Of Monsters And Men – Mountain Sound
Kseniya Simonova – To Norway
An evening pause: More story-telling with sand, by Kseniya Simonova. This time she tells a northern fantasy, based on the Norwegian epics.
Vi Hart – What was up with Pythagoras?
Yann Frisch
Katherine Jenkins – Requiem for a Soldier
An evening pause: On this anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I give thanks to the past generation that gave me freedom.
I wish you’d lived to see
All you gave to me
Your shining dream of hope and love
Life and libertyWe are all one great band of brothers
And one day you’ll see – we can live together
When all the world is free.
Celtic Harp Orchestra – Miranda and the Tempest
The toughest bridge in the world
An evening pause: I think the trucks in this video are a perfect metaphor for the American public’s attitude towards the federal debt. So what there are yellow flashing warning signs! Charge on!
Urban shooting techniques
An evening pause: As they say on the youtube webpage, “I can never help but wonder if there’s anyone on the planet who thinks that we were remotely serious in this bit?”
Loreena McKennitt – Snow
Microwaving Ivory Soap
William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming
An evening pause: In memory to the 20,000 or so violent attacks committed by Islamic radical since September 11, 2001, I think this poem by William Butler Yeats is appropriate. Written it 1920, it somehow sensed the the coming conflict.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?