Tag: entertainment
Hope and Crosby – The Road to Morocco
Quadriga Consort – Pulling the sea-dulse
Linda Ronstadt – Long long time
St. Olaf Chapel Choir – John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music
A living room electon microscope
Ray Lynch – The True Spirit of Mom and Dad
Danielle “ate the sandwich” Anderson – Things we have in common
An evening pause: Danielle “Ate the Sandwich” Anderson.
Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery
John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
An evening pause: As performed at Woodstock, 1969.
Go, and beat your crazy heads against the sky.
Try, and see beyond the houses in your eyes.
It’s okay to shoot the moon.
Battle over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver
A battle builds over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver.
Sadly, everything is politics today.
A battle builds over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver.
Sadly, everything is politics today.
Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody
John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate
A Bell for Adano
An evening pause: This lovely and poignant scene from the 1945 film, A Bell for Adano, showcases the superb acting of Gene Tierney and John Hodiak. He is an American commander of Italian descent put in charge of an Italian village now under U.S. rule near the end of World War II. She is a local Italian girl longing to find her sweetheart who went off to fight for Italy and is now missing.
The movie was based on a short but profound book by John Hersey. And what I remember most from that book is this speech by the Hodiak character in trying to explain to the Italians the right way for government officials to act:
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Downhill mountain biking in southern Utah
Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
An evening pause:
And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time
Once beneath the stars
The universe was ours
Love was all we knew
And all I knew was you
I wonder if you know
I wonder if you think about it
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams
Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow
Catherine Destivelle – solo climb in Mali
The story of Hayabusa inspires three major movie releases
The story of Hayabusa, the Japanese space probe that was the first to successfully return material from an asteroid despite serious technical failures, has now inspired three major movies.
The story of Hayabusa, the Japanese space probe that was the first to successfully return material from an asteroid despite serious technical failures, has now inspired three major movies.
Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer live in Central Park
Moving Graffiti
An evening pause: from blublu.org.
Those Dancing Days – Home Sweet Home
Connie Dover – Where shall I go?
The Muppets – Movin’ right along
Driving cross country in four minutes
Candid Camera demonstrates the power of conformity
Quadriga Consort — Cliffs of Dooneen
Hiking the Subway in Zion National Park
An evening pause: The rope work makes me cringe and some of the narration is a bit over the top, but the camerawork is superb, giving you a real feel of what it is like to visit this unique place.
Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”
An evening pause: How about another modern retelling of a classic children’s tale? Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”.