Sandy and Richard Riccardi – Holiday Dinner Party
An evening pause: I think this is appropriate with the coming of the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
Hat tip to Diane Zimmerman.
Tag: entertainment
The Revolutionary Non Sequitar Turbo Encabulator Transmission
An evening pause: This video below was done during the narrator’s warm-up prior to actually recording a Rockwell International industrial touting that company’s first effort in building heavy duty automatic transmissions. As the website notes, “Now remember this is strictly off the cuff, nothing is written down. Nothing he says is true, it’s all meaningless drivel made up as he goes along.” It is also hilarious to watch.
Sadly, this is drivel we now hear every day from government officials. Unfortunately, not enough people seem capable of recognizing drivel when they hear it. If they could, we might be able to laugh about it more.
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet – Lotus Eaters
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
What Mechanical Engineers Do When They Retire
An evening pause: As I watched, I couldn’t help wondering what his wife thought of all this.
Hayley Westenra – For The Fallen
An evening pause: On this November 11, Armistice Day.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Nicole Atkins – Bird on a Wire
An evening pause: Hat tip Dane.
Buddy Greene – Classical Harmonica Medley
An evening pause: Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Victor Borge and Marilyn Mulvey – Hands Off!
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Sha-Na – I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door
An evening pause: Sometimes all one really wants is a silly pop song.
Tina Dico & Helgi Jonsson – River
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae.
Martin Brest – Hot Tomorrows
An evening pause: Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime. As Phil wrote to me, this scene is “the sensational finale from Martin Brest’s NYU student film, Hot Tomorrows. Brest, who went on to direct Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run and Scent of a Woman, broke all the rules in scrounging every resource he could find to make this 73-minute tragi-comic riff on the subject of death.”
Makes for a perfect Halloween evening pause.
An aside: Long ago, when I was in the movie business, I worked with many of the people who helped Brest make this film, and can say without doubt that he scored the best crew one could imagine finding for a student production.
Kitaro with 12 Girls Band – Matsuri
An evening pause: