3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
An evening pause: Stay till the end. It’s worth it.
Tag: entertainment
The table saw that cannot cut fingers
An evening pause: The table saw that cannot cut fingers.
David Lanz & Paul Speer – Ode to a Dark Star
An evening pause: The music is beautiful, but the images tell us how far astronomy has changed our perception of the universe in the last few decades.
Maiden flight of the space shuttle Discovery
An evening pause:I had played this video as an evening pause back in November, when I thought the last mission of the space shuttle Discovery would be launched. Now that it has finally landed, completing its final mission, I think worthwhile to once again go back in time and watch a film of the shuttle’s maiden flight, launched August 30, 1984, narrated by the astronauts themselves. Note that the female astronaut on this flight is Judith Resnik, who died a little over a year and a half later in the Challenger accident.
How to make Hot Ice
An evening pause:
Anna Russell – The Ring Cycle explained
Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar boogie
An evening pause:
Allan Sherman – Hail to thee, Fat Persons!
An evening pause: From 1963.
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (live @ kcrw)
An evening pause: “Home.” The energy is infectious.
Matterhorn Glacier Express
An evening pause: A ride on Europe’s highest cable car.
John Denver – Back Home Again
An evening pause:
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
An evening pause: A song about the longing for the end of winter.
Some enchanted evening
An evening pause: The simple, poetic words of Oscar Hammerstein to the music of Richard Rogers, sung by Brian Stokes Mitchell at Carnegie Hall, 2005.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons.
Wise men never try.
Northern Lights
An evening pause: When the Sun gets active, such as the solar flare of February 15, 2011, the sky in the high latitudes gives us the world’s best light show.
Bugs Bunny – Haredevil Hare (1948)
An evening pause: Bugs Bunny – Haredevil Hare (1948).
Makem and Clancy – Get Drunk
An evening pause: Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers at the National Stadium in Dublin February 1977.
Watch Discovery’s launch today from your virtual yacht on your Playstation 3 game machine
Virtual meets reality: Watch Discovery’s launch today from your virtual yacht on your Playstation 3 game machine.
SNL A very British movie
An evening pause: For anyone who likes to watch modern British movies, whether on public television or in the theater.
‘The Heretic’: A Play About Global Warming Skepticism
Is there a crack in the monolith? A play about the persecution of a scientist who expresses skepticism about global warming is running in London, with favorable reviews!
Miracle on ice, February 22, 1980
An evening pause: Thirty-one years ago, February 22, 1980, Lake Placid, New York, the winter Olympics: The USA hockey team beats the Soviet Union 4 to 3 to set up their gold medal victory.