Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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?
Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
Gordon Lightfoot – Song for a winter’s night
Ralph Stanley and Patty Loveless – Pretty Polly
The waterfalls of Iceland
Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
Olivia Newton and Andy Gibb – Rest Your Love On Me
Penn & Teller on Fool Us – Young & Strange
2000 pingpong balls and 30 teachers in zero gravity
Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
An evening pause: For Thanksgiving, from Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land.
The promise of living
With hope and thanksgiving,,,
Mundy & Shannon – Galway Girl
Rod Stewart – Maggie May
Korean folk song – Arirang
Fry & Laurie – Chicken
Lorrie Morgan – Something In Red
TorQ Percussion Quartet – Stinkin’ Garbage by E. Argenziano
ENYA – Book of Days
Vanishing water
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Orange Blossom
Celtic Thunder – Caledonia
An evening pause: Ignore the hokey choreography and listen to the music, which is wonderfully performed.
Katherine Jenkins – Hymn to the Fallen
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – God Help the Outcasts
An evening pause: On this day, the 74th anniversary of the start of Krystalnacht in Germany, some appropriate and beautiful music from the animated film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).
James Taylor – Fire and Rain
Betty Boop – Poor Cinderella
Nataly Dawn – Leslie
An evening pause: In case you don’t recognize her, Nataly Dawn is the lead singer of Pomplamoose.
Schoolhouse Rock – No more Kings
An evening pause: In honor of today’s election, a little history lesson from Schoolhouse Rock from 1975.
We’re gonna elect a president! (No more kings)
He’s gonna do what the people want! (No more kings)
We’re gonna run things our way! (No more kings)
Nobody’s gonna tell us what to do!Rockin’ and a-rollin’, splishin’ and a-splashin’,
Over the horizon, what can it be?
Looks like it’s going to be a free country.
We ain’t going away
An evening pause: I posted this video song the evening of election, 2010. I think its point remains the same today, the eve of election day 2012. The people do not go away, no matter how much the elite leadership of society wishes they might. Even in a dictatorship they hover over everything.