Puffer fish chases laser
An evening pause: Cats aren’t the only ones.
Tag: entertainment
Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks
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Rod McKuen – Jean
An evening pause: This Rod McKuen song, “Jean,” performed here live by him on the Johnny Cash Show on February 4, 1970, was originally the title song for the wonderful movie The Prime of the Miss Jean Brodie (1969), starring Maggie Smith.
Piff the Magic Dragon
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Russian flash mob – Putting on the Ritz
An evening pause: From frigid Russia, some Russians put on the Ritz.
The Little Mermaid – Part of That World
An evening pause: Sometimes, it is our dreams and hopes that matter the most.
The world’s eight most unique paths.
The world’s eight most unique paths. With pictures.
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
An evening pause: The live 1984 Grammy performance.
Mathilda’s solo
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Issy Emeney – Appalachian Flatfooting
An evening pause: Issy Emeney doing some Appalachian flatfooting.
Henry Dagg – Somewhere over the rainbow
An evening pause: And now for something truly silly.
Japanese Dragon Painter
An evening pause: A hand-painted work of art in less than nine minutes.
Candide: Make Our Garden Grow: Bernstein at 70
An evening pause: The finale of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Just before the song begins, Candide says this:
We will not think noble, because we are not noble. We will not live in perfect harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We can only promise to do our best, and to live out our lives. Dear God, that is all we can promise in truth. Marry me, Cunegonde.
Edwin McCain – I’ll Be
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The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: A very talented actor once told me that a great deal of all comedy is based on contrast, on juxtaposing extreme opposites in unexpected ways.
The Black Stallion
An evening pause: The central sequence from the 1979 movie, The Black Stallion, when the shipwrecked boy Alec succeeds in taming the shipwrecked Arabian horse. The combination of Carmine Coppola’s music and Caleb Deschanel’s photography in this sequence is unmatched.
Richard Feynman – The beauty of a flower from a scientist’s perspective
An evening pause: The beauty of a flower from a scientist’s perspective.
The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall
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Wrecking Crew Orchestra
An evening pause: An entertaining combination of engineering, lighting, and dance.
Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe and theme from Cinema Paradiso
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