Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws
An evening pause: I haven’t posted anything by this group since 2012. Time for another, this time about a war between the bees and the bees.
Tag: entertainment
Love Unlimited – It may be winter outside (but in my heart it’s spring)
An evening pause: Performed live 1974. The center singer, Glodean James, was married to Barry White at the time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Antonio Calsolaro – Tarantella Napoletana
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who writes, “The tarantella is an uplifting folk dance music popular in many regions of Italy. Each region with its own version. This performance is of a tarantella from the Naples area. … Maestro Antonio Casolaro is on the mandolin. Francesco Polito on guitar.”
This is why we fly…
An evening pause: Music is Evergreen by Coldplay. Stick with this, it is worth it.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
An evening pause: Recorded live in 1978.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan
A evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
An evening pause: Performed live October 9, 1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Sly & the Family Stone and Prince – Everyday People
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Desmond Dekker – Israelites
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things
An evening pause: You need to watch all of The Sound of Music (1965) to understand the context that makes the song even better, and explains the way the clip ends.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Russ Roberts – It’s a Wonderful Loaf
An evening pause:
We know there’s order built into the fabric of the world
Of nature. Flocks of geese! Schools of fish! And every boy and girl
Delights in how the stars shine down in all their constellations
And the planets stay on track and keep the most sublime relations
With each other. Order’s everywhere. Yet we humans too create it
It emerges. No one intends it. No one has to orchestrate it.
It’s the product of our actions but no single mind’s designed it
There’s magic without wizards if you just know how to find it
I suspect that readers of Behind the Black will know the answer to this mystery.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Present
An evening pause: A most excellent short animated film.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Cole Porter – Night and Day
An evening pause: I think this makes a nice contrast with yesterday’s evening pause. Both show talent, skill, musical ability, but which is actually more civilized?
From the 1934 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical, The Gay Divorcee.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
An evening pause: The future, or as I like to say, the coming dark age.
Jane says
I’ve never been in love
I don’t know what it is
Only knows if someone wants her
I want them if they want me
I only know they want me
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Brooks and Dunn – Only in America
An evening pause: In honor of what happened today, 48 years ago, when three American astronauts safely landed home on Earth, after walking on the Moon. From the chorus:
Only in America
Dreamin’ in red white and blue
Only in America
Where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance
Everybody gets to dance
It will be the American ideas of freedom, individual achievement, and capitalism that will make the settlement of the solar system possible. Other nations will participate, but it will still be these ideas that fuel the journey.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Buckethead – Walk on the Moon
An evening pause: In honor of what happened today, 48 years ago.
Hat tip Insomnious.
Yuja Wang – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble-Bee
An evening pause: We started the week with some fast piano playing. Let’s do it again.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You
An evening pause: A very simple song. But then, sometimes simplicity is the most beautiful.
Hat tip Kyle Kooy.
Valentina Lisitsa – Chopin’s Minute Waltz
An evening pause: In this case the word “minute” does not refer to time. It is pronounced “my-nute,” and refers to the piece’s small-size, delicacy, and fast-paced shortness.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
I Are Cute Duckling AWW
An evening pause: Two minutes of simple unblemished cuteness, to cheer us all up.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.