Sandy and Richard Riccardi – Holiday Dinner Party
An evening pause: I think this is appropriate with the coming of the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
Hat tip to Diane Zimmerman.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
The Revolutionary Non Sequitar Turbo Encabulator Transmission
An evening pause: This video below was done during the narrator’s warm-up prior to actually recording a Rockwell International industrial touting that company’s first effort in building heavy duty automatic transmissions. As the website notes, “Now remember this is strictly off the cuff, nothing is written down. Nothing he says is true, it’s all meaningless drivel made up as he goes along.” It is also hilarious to watch.
Sadly, this is drivel we now hear every day from government officials. Unfortunately, not enough people seem capable of recognizing drivel when they hear it. If they could, we might be able to laugh about it more.
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet – Lotus Eaters
What Mechanical Engineers Do When They Retire
Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust
Tim Conway – Dentist sketch
An evening pause: I’ve posted pieces from the Carol Burnett Show before, but it has been a long while. Time for more.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hayley Westenra – For The Fallen
An evening pause: On this November 11, Armistice Day.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Nicole Atkins – Bird on a Wire
Andreas Scholl performs Handel’s Ombra mai fu
Buddy Greene – Classical Harmonica Medley
Victor Borge and Marilyn Mulvey – Hands Off!
Sha-Na – I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door
Tina Dico & Helgi Jonsson – River
Martin Brest – Hot Tomorrows
An evening pause: Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime. As Phil wrote to me, this scene is “the sensational finale from Martin Brest’s NYU student film, Hot Tomorrows. Brest, who went on to direct Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run and Scent of a Woman, broke all the rules in scrounging every resource he could find to make this 73-minute tragi-comic riff on the subject of death.”
Makes for a perfect Halloween evening pause.
An aside: Long ago, when I was in the movie business, I worked with many of the people who helped Brest make this film, and can say without doubt that he scored the best crew one could imagine finding for a student production.
Kitaro with 12 Girls Band – Matsuri
Bond – Viva
Yael Ahn – Chopsticks
An evening pause: When I was 9 to 11 going to day camp each summer, I had to listen to kids playing this song every day, continually, on the camp piano. I grew to hate it.
This version, however, is absolutely worth listening to and watching, as Ahn adds some percussion, using of all things, chopsticks!
Hat tip to Edward Thelen.
Clean Bandit – Rather Be
Ginger Rogers – We’re in the money
An evening pause: From the 1933 film Gold Diggers of 1933, choreographed by Busby Berkeley. I especially like the section when Ginger sings the song in pig latin!
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Jon Lord – Gigue
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae. As she notes, “The drumming is amazing, and the musicians are having such a good time.”
Composing Mozart’s “Requiem,” from Amadeus
An evening pause: From Amadeus (1984).
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, who described this as “a portrayal of divinely inspired genius.” Be sure to check out Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
A Mandelbrot set zoom animation out-take
An evening pause: The creator of this computer animation calls this an out-take and explains why:
What is a Mandelbrot zoom blooper? It’s what happens when you commit 6 months of computing time on three computers to create something that doesn’t turn out the way you expect! The color rotations that begin at 1:36 were unintentional. However, the side effect is that the animation is much more psychedelic than expected due to the color cycling and also brings out details that are not apparent with still images.
I just find it fascinating how this illustrates the endlessly deep and infinite complexity of existence.
Hat tip tdub.
Animals standing up for the first time
An evening pause: I think this is a good way to start the week, watching new life experience a real beginning.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
George Harrison and Eric Clapton – While my guitar gently weeps
An evening pause: From a 1987 concert (from which I have posted a previous evening pause), with a little help from Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, and Elton John.
Hat tip to Keith Douglas.
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters – You Don’t Have to Know the Language
An evening pause: From The Road to Rio (1947), with a little help from Bob Hope.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime, which I have found to be a great reference for finding the best films from movie history.
Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, and Don Rickles
An evening pause: Rickles is funny, in his annoying sort of way, but stick around to the end for the finish when Sinatra puts the final nail in the coffin.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Kraftwerk – The Robots
Exploding Pianos
Shania Twain & Alison Krauss – Forever And For Always
Kristin Chenoweth – Glitter and Be Gay
An evening pause: From Leonard Bernstein’s comic opera Candide. Watch Cunégonde struggle with the possibility that she might no longer be poor.
Hat tip Danae.