Susanna Hoffs – Eternal Flame
An evening pause: Performed live in Japan in 1996.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Tag: entertainment
Steve Cutts – This is our world
An evening pause: This animation expresses well what I often feel and think, as someone who does not use a “smart” phone.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who sent it from his own smart phone, which left him “not feeling very high and mighty.”
Bryan Adams – Everything I Do
An evening pause: Performed live 1996.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Dukes of September – Who’s That Lady?
An evening pause: That’s Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, and Boz Scaggs performing live in 2014.
Hat tip Joe Griffin.
Matt Wessel and Katie Wessel – Anyone Else But You
An evening pause: Seems very appropriate for Thanksgiving. This cover was performed by the couple immediately after they had gotten married.
Hat tip Edward Thelen, who said he prefers this to the original, an opinion to which I agree whole-heartedly.
Delivery from Earth
An evening pause: A short film about the moment the first human was born on Mars, as seen from the perspective of a Navajo family on Earth.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Robbie the Robot sells for $5.3 million in auction
The science fiction movie prop Robbie the Robot has sold at auction for $5.3 million, making it the second most expensive movie prop in history.
The complete Robby suit, control panel, his jeep, numerous spares, alternate original “claw” hands, and the original wooden stage shipping crates, were sold yesterday (November 21, 2017 ) by Bonhams in New York for US$5,375,000 including buyers premium.
The only purpose-built movie prop to have ever sold for more is Marilyn Monroe’s “subway dress” from The Seven Year Itch (1955) which was sold by Profiles in History for $5,520,000 (inc. buyers premium) in 2011.
Samantha Whates – Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who tells this story about the song’s origin: ” Future country music star, Jeannie Seely, worked as a secretary at Liberty and Imperial Records in 1963. The producer for the record company, Eddie Ray, was looking for a new song for Rythm & Blues legend, Irma Thomas.
“After each day’s work, Seely would work on her own compositions on the studio piano. One day, Seely was asked to attend an Artists and Repertoire meeting by Ray. She came to the meeting with her stenography pad but was told, no, he wanted her to sing that song she was writing the night before.
“‘Anyone Who Knows What Love Is’ became a 1964 hit for Irma Thomas in both the R&B and Pop charts. It was the first song Seely had published.”
Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher
An evening pause: Performed live in 2015.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
David Bowie – Life on Mars
An evening pause: Hat tip to Edward Thelen for reminding me that I should post another Bowie song. This was recorded live in 1999.
250,000 Dominoes
An evening pause: I haven’t posted one of these in awhile, and this one is a doozy, including three new US domino records: largest domino field, largest domino structure, and largest overall domino project in America. It took 19 builders from 5 countries 7 days (over 1,200 combined hours) to build it.
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Keith Whitley – I Never Go Around Mirrors
A evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who wrote, “This is a case of art imitating life. Keith Whitley battled alcoholism for years. He died at age 33 of acute alcohol poisoning 6 months after this performance.”