Tag: entertainment
“Was this trip necessary?”
An evening pause: On Memorial Day, let’s revisit an evening pause from 2011 of one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.
The saddest thing about this clip is how ugly it makes too many modern Americans look, for they have adopted the certain, ignorant, and bigoted aspects of the totalitarians from the 1930s and 1940s that the generation then fought so hard to defeat. Today’s American totalitarians — almost all of whom are on the left — are certain that because Donald Trump is doing things they disagree with, he along with all of his supporters should be killed. No debate is permitted. They are right and anyone who challenges them is evil.
Memorial Day is not simply about remembering the dead so that they will not have died in vain. It is also about remembering why they died.
Johannes – The Most Beautiful Wingsuit Flight I’ve Done
An evening pause: From the peak of the Wetterhorn, 12,106 feet. As always, these videos don’t show the work required to get to that peak, but he does describe it on the youtube page:
We climbed over the Willsgrätli, taking around 4 hours to reach the summit of the Wetterhorn. Holy moly… this climb was serious. We didn’t use ropes, and the heavy backpack caused me some problems in certain climbing sections.
What are you planning to do this Memorial Day weekend?
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Firefall – Just Remember I love You
An evening pause: Performed life 2015.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Rush – La Villa Strangiato
An evening pause: Performed live 1979.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Audioslave – Gasoline
An evening pause: Performed live 2003.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Barcelona Guitar Trio – Entre dos Aguas
An evening pause: Very Spanish.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Kabardinka Ensemble – Dance of the Black Sea Circassians
An evening pause: From the webpage:
A collection of various Circassian dance figures and influenced by the Western Adyghe tribes Ubykh, Natukhay and Shapsug who once used to populate the Black Sea coasts of the Northwest Caucasus for thousands of years with their Abkhazian cousins before they were completely exiled from the region by Russian Empire in 1864.
The solo dances are especially hypnotic. There are also many elements that resemble Irish dance.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Jubalaires – Noah
An evening pause: Performed live sometime in the 1950s.
Hat tip Cotour.
Milk’n Blues – Miss You & Another Brick in the Wall
An evening pause: A nice cover of the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd songs.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
North By Northwest (1959) Filming Locations, then and now
An evening pause: Put together by NYC in Film. For the background of how they relocated each location see here.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Tokyo Groove Jyoshi – Funk No. 1
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Huey Lewis And The News – The Power Of Love
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Fernsehballett – Boléro
An evening pause: Performed live 2001.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Andrei Shushkov- Invention of Love
An evening pause: A nicely done short animated film.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Eli Crystal Glass – Vase with Rectangular Murrine
An evening pause: The art of glass blowing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Scorpions – Still Loving You
An evening pause: Performed live 1985.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
The Speakeasies’ Swing Band – I’ve Found a New Baby
An evening pause: Performed live 2014.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Rentals – Forgotten Astronaut
An evening pause: Or as the songwriters add, this is a song for Michael Collins.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Beach Boys – Fun Fun Fun
An evening pause: Performed live sometime in the 1960s.
Hat tip Judd Clark.