Ray Bolger & Judy Garland – If I Only Had a Brain
An evening pause: From the 1939 MGM classic, The Wizard of Oz, when Hollywood still made films in which the witches were the bad guys, not the heroes.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: entertainment
How 500 horses get to Mackinac Island each spring
An evening pause: As noted at this website:
The island was America’s second national park (after Yellowstone National Park) for 20 years and has been the state of Michigan’s first state park. The island has had a ban on automobiles since the earliest days and still has the only highway in the nation where cars are banned.
Apparently, during the winter the horses are taken to the mainland for their benefit, and then returned in the spring in preparation for the summer tourism season. As this is the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season, this seems most appropriate for tonight.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Blue Man Group – Drumbone
An evening pause: Performed live 2010. Makes a nice contrast to the Bach dulcimer pause two days ago.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Naomi Priest & Saskia van Gerven – The Boxer
Ekaterina Yukhnova – Sarabanda
Dido – White Flag
Don McMillan – Comedy for scientists
An evening pause: I wonder how many of my readers will get that last joke.
Hat tip Tom Biggar. And a great weekend to all.
Zbigniew Rybczyński – The Orchestra (final scene)
An evening pause: Music is of course Ravel’s Bolero. This provides us an elegant thumbnail history of the Soviet Union using dance, choreography, and clever filming. And it is honest, showing how the whole thing was run by gangstas, as all such top-down communist/socialist societies are, and as America is now adopting. More information about the entire work here.
Hat tip Dave McCooey.
Liza Minnelli – New York, New York
An evening pause: Performed live 1992. Now an ode to a city that no longer exists.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Julie Andrews segment during of Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special
An evening pause: Aired in 2023. The best part is the short film providing sample moments from the three television specials they did together.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Etta James, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Ana Popovic – Some blues improv
Zorro – One In a Million Moments From Nature
Redd Volkaert – Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
Brick Experiment – 20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine
An evening pause: How many of you have heard the names of these various items when talking to your car mechanic, and have no idea what they are?
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Hozier & Annie Lennox – Take Me to Church / I Put a Spell on You
A evening pause: Performed live 2015.
Hat tip Doug Johnson. Note too that this does not come from youtube, but from metatube. Let’s find more alternative video resources like this, just to increase some competition.
Rollerman – Downhill extreme
Exploring Arizona’s Abandoned Highway 60 and the Claypool Tunnel
An evening pause: Better late than never. I forgot to schedule some pauses. This one is fascinating because of the history of technology it reveals.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: A bit of energy to start the week. Performed live 1991. For those unfamiliar with this rock piece (like me), I think it helpful here to turn on captions to find out what the performers and audience are singing.
Hat tip James Street.
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny
Fiona Apple & Elvis Costello – I Want You
Samba – Bamboleo
An evening pause: Stay with it, the second and third dancing couples in this compilation are especially good. This isn’t Astaire & Rogers, but it is superbly done, nonetheless.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The view from the racecar of the Le Mans race course, as seen in 1968
An evening pause: From the youtube page:
This amazing piece of ground breaking onboard footage allows us to ride onboard one of the Gulf sponsored JWA Ford GT40s for a lap of the Le Mans circuit in 1968. This early onboard coverage was such a big deal, Stirling Moss does the narration. Its cool to see the Le Mans circuit as it was, without chicanes and with primitive safety features.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Massive Attack – Teardrop
An evening pause: Proves that good music with modern rock instruments does not have to be loud. I just wish this singer wasn’t using the modern slurring singing style that makes it almost impossible to understand the words.
Amazing Saxophone Solo
An evening pause: It is shame there is not more information about this sax player, who is astonishing in her skill.
Hat tip James Street.
An ordinary person’s view of the Starship/Superheavy countdown
One of my readers, who wishes to go by is nickname Doubting Thomas on Behind the Black, went to Boca Chica earlier this week with the hope of seeing the live first orbital launch of Superheavy with Starship stacked on top. Unfortunately, the launch on April 17, 2023 was scrubbed, and he could not remain in Boca Chica for the now rescheduled launch early tomorrow morning on April 20th.
He sent me some pictures of that experience, however, which I post here with his permission. The best of course is the one to the right, of Starship stacked on Superheavy on the launchpad. This was taken before the roads were closed, and shows how incredibly close the general public can get to that launchpad simply by driving past on a public road.
The next few pictures give us a glimpse at the options people have for viewing future Boca Chica launches.
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One of my readers, who wishes to go by is nickname Doubting Thomas on Behind the Black, went to Boca Chica earlier this week with the hope of seeing the live first orbital launch of Superheavy with Starship stacked on top. Unfortunately, the launch on April 17, 2023 was scrubbed, and he could not remain in Boca Chica for the now rescheduled launch early tomorrow morning on April 20th.
He sent me some pictures of that experience, however, which I post here with his permission. The best of course is the one to the right, of Starship stacked on Superheavy on the launchpad. This was taken before the roads were closed, and shows how incredibly close the general public can get to that launchpad simply by driving past on a public road.
The next few pictures give us a glimpse at the options people have for viewing future Boca Chica launches.
» Read more
Bastille – Pompeii
The Chantay’s – Pipeline
An evening pause: Performed live on the Lawrence Welk show, May 18, 1963. Note that was a successful rock band instrumental, a decade before art rock became a thing.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.