Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Hiking to the Window in Ventana Canyon
An evening pause: My posting on Sunday will be light until the evening, as Diane and I will be doing a 13.2 mile hike up Ventana Canyon to a giant natural bridge called the Window. This canyon is in the Santa Catalina mountains that overlook Tucson. These mountains are quite rugged, with some intense elevation gain in a very short time, comparable to the Grand Canyon. For this hike we will gain 4,000 feet in 6.6 miles.
Below is a video of this hike but only going about halfway up the canyon.
Meatloaf and Patti Russo – Couldn’t have said better
Implosion of the Marble Falls Bridge in Texas
An evening pause: The Marble Falls Bridge in Texas had been replaced and needed to be removed. This almost instantaneous demolition was accomplished on March 17, 2013.
Für Elise – Beethoven for Piano & Orchestra
The Tuttles and AJ Lee – Endless Ocean
Sinead O’Connor – Thank You For Hearing Me
Judy Garland – It’s a Great Day for the Irish
Cinque Terre
An evening pause: I am actually not in Italy, but off in southern Arizona this weekend on a cave survey project. But I must admit, this video makes this part of Italy very tempting.
Paul Speer – Gobi
Sierra Hull – Tell Me Tomorrow
America – A horse with no name
Teller fools us
Alon Goldstein – Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Satellite of Love
Frank Vignola – Tico Tico
Sand that is always dry
An evening pause: As Arthur Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas – The Boxer
Mr. Smith goes to Washington filibuster
An evening pause: In honor of Rand Paul’s filibuster today, let’s watch Jimmy Stewart perform a movie filibuster from the (1939) movie, Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
As Mr. Smith says, “Somebody will listen to me.”
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
An evening pause: Man, can these people play and sing. Vocals: Michelle Wright, Iris DeMent, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh. Fiddles: Jay Ungar, Aly Bain. Mandolin: Russ Barenberg. Bouzouki: Donal Lunny. Accordion: Phil Cunningham. Guitar: Molly Mason.
Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
Manfred Mann – Blinded by the Light
An evening pause: Though I posted this as an evening pause back in September 2011, when I heard it again on the radio last week I thought, man, that song is good. Absolutely worthwhile seeing it again, performed live.
The Band with Eric Clapton – The Weight
Bryan Berg – builder of the largest house of cards on record
An evening pause: Considering the house of cards we presently live in, how about a profile on the creator of the world’s largest house of cards.
Yo-Yo Ma – The Swan by Saint-Saens
Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) in Vietnam
An evening pause: As I have been out today doing survey work for a cave project of which I am the cartographer, I thought this video of Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) would be appropriate.
Note that this cave is definitely not the largest in the world, as is often claimed. It appears to have the largest single room of any known cave, but the cave itself is relatively small at about four miles, compared for example to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, which is the world’s longest cave at 400 miles.
Richard Feynman explains the scientific method.
An evening pause: “It doesn’t make a difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make a difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong.”