Fourplay – Bali Run
An evening pause: Performed live at the 2008 Tokyo Jazz Fesitival. Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Tag: entertainment
Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron home
An evening pause: Performed live 2009.
Hat tip Danae.
John Jorgenson – Red On Red
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Joe Cocker – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress
An evening pause: In honor of Joe Cocker’s passing last month. No visuals, but the performance from his 1974 album “I can stand a little rain” is sterling.
Fred Astaire & Barrie Chase – Miss Otis Regrets
An evening pause: From a 1966 television special.
Hat tip Danae.
Six cool science experiments you can do at home
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Sting – Every breath you take
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Ra Paulette – cave artist
An evening pause: He doesn’t draw art in caves, he carves the cave itself.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Paul Kelly – Careless
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Six Turnin and Four Burnin
An evening pause: From the 1955 Jimmy Stewart film Strategic Air Command. The B-36, with both propeller and jet engines, was soon superseded, but the takeoff, as captured so well in the movie, is impressive. It was a big plane.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Kevin Delaney Makes a Cloud
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen. As he wrote in an email to me, “Don’t let anyone tell you that science isn’t fun.”
Mary Black and Joan Baez – Ring Them Bells
An evening pause: A hopeful song for the new year.
Hat tip Danae.
Abbott and Costello – Loafing
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Chieftains & friends – Give the fiddler a dram
An evening pause: Some post-New Year celebration.
Hat tip Danae.
Rod Stewart – Auld Lang Syne
An evening pause: For a good new year.
The Fendertones – Sloop John B
An evening pause: I like how they had recorded it over a period of months, and had an element of silliness in how they taped different sections. And the music is grand as well!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
What happens when you wring a wet washcloth in space?
An evening pause: Some science from an engineering perspective.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Charles Mokotoff – Bach: Sheep may safely graze
An evening pause: Performed live November 13, 2010 in Springfield, Virginia. The aria might be one of Bach’s most beautiful, but the playing here is astonishing. Watch his fingers.
I also like the deeper meaning of the title: It is what we all should strive for: allowing people to live their lives in peace and joy.
Home Free – Angels We Have Heard On High
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Newsong – The Christmas Shoes
An evening pause: An American vision of Christmas.