Cockpit view of 747 takeoff
An evening pause: Note how long it takes for the 747 to get off the ground. The plane is big and heavy.
Tag: entertainment
Joe Hisaishi Live – Summer ( from Kikujiro )
Flying over Mars
Deep well inspection
An evening pause: Let’s take a strange journey, down 275 feet deep into a well. No sound, but fascinating nonetheless.
Ray Stevens – Obama budget plan
Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way
Luckiest people alive
Windows XP error music
Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting
An evening pause: A scene from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcasters School”, originally broadcast February 22, 1975. One of behindtheblack’s regular readers was reminded of this episode by my press conference experience on Wednesday.
Balancing act
Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead
Pink Floyd tribute in classical style
An evening pause: Early acid-rock Sid-Barrett-insane Pink Floyd, as performed by the Classic Rock String Quartet
An evening pause: Early acid-rock Sid-Barrett-insane Pink Floyd, as performed by the Classic Rock String Quartet
Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs
An evening pause: Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs, from a 1972 television performance.
Monty Python: Defending yourself against a banana
Cinderella – Julie Andrews singing “Impossible”
An evening pause: , The song “Impossible,” sung by Julie Andrews and Edie Adams, from the live 1957 television production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
For the world is filled with zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say
And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things keep happening every day.
Battleground (1949)
An evening pause: On Memorial Day, one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.
Cats in a row
Axis of Awesome — Every pop song ever written
Hi-Fidelity as a Star Trek Barbershop Quartet
Peter, Paul, and Mary — I have a song to sing o
An evening pause: Peter, Paul, & Mary singing Arthur Sullivan’s “I have a song to sing o” in Australia.
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
An evening pause: “Written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother’s friend, on March 20, 1991.”
On the way to the Cape
As I write this I am sitting in the back seat of Bob & Brenda Rose’s minivan as we drive down to Florida for Monday’s shuttle launch. We plan to arrive at Space View Park in Titusville around 8 pm Sunday to claim a good location for seating, waiting, and watching the launch. We will be about 11 miles away, but this park is considered one of the better locations for the general public, with a clear view of the launchpad.
Stay tuned for more updates!
Lisa Minnelli – “Losing my mind”
The finale from 42nd Street
An evening pause: The finale from the movie 42nd Street (1933). Stay with it, as it gets better and better.
An 8th grade project to build a Rube Goldberg device to turn on a light
An evening pause: An 8th grade project to build a Rube Goldberg device to turn on a light. I like how this video illustrates the difficulty of building such a device.
Placido Domingo & John Denver – Perhaps Love
An evening pause: Part of an Italian show (unfortunately without subtitles), this clip shows a video of the taping session where Denver and Domingo recorded their stunning duet.