Randy Travis – Pray For The Fish
An evening pause: Makes a nice bookend to the Alison Krauss evening pause one week ago.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tag: entertainment
Max Ehrman – Desiderata
An evening pause: An excellent meditation for beginning the weekend. From the Youtube webpage:
Max Ehrmann was an American attorney and poet who often wrote on spiritual themes. During his life, he contributed great thoughts to our literary lexicons, blending the magic of words and wisdom with his worthy observations.
Desiderata, which means “things that are desired,” was written by Max Ehrmann “because it counsels those virtues I felt most in need of.”
I think the reading was a bit slow. I think it works better at either 1.25 or 1.5 speed.
Hat tip Cotour.
Ursula Ricks – Early One Morning
An evening pause: Hat tip Kevin Ralston.
How to use a laser light to switch off a room’s lights
An evening pause: Short, but you will want to watch it more than once.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Matchbox Twenty – Overjoyed
An evening pause: Performed live 2012.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Alison Krauss – Down to the River to Pray
An evening pause: Performed live 2002, when traditional American Christian gospel tunes were still considered mainstream instead of “white supremacy.”
Counting Crows – Catapult
An evening pause: Performed live 1997.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Ronald Binge – Elizabethan Serenade
An evening pause: To commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth today.
Lawrence of Arabia
An evening pause: I have posted scenes from this film twice (both sadly gone now from youtube), but I think the trailer sells it well. This movie remains one of the greatest made in the history of film. If you haven’t seen it, you must. Though its facts are of course not entirely accurate, its sense of the history, culture, time, and the political machinations going on in Arabia during World War I are spot on. The visuals, acting, and script (by Robert Bolt) are also magnificent.
It also speaks to the Middle East we see today, and helps explain why the Arabs have so far not really done well with the advantages of western technology.
Hat tip Tom Wilson, who says he makes it a point to watch this epic at least once a year.
The Hollies – I Can’t Let Go
An evening pause: From the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Heart – Barracuda
An evening pause: Performed live 1977.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Let Go
An evening pause: Performed live 2013. I’ve posted a number of performances by this group previously. They do magnificent covers of many classic songs. Their Patreon site is here.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Delta Goodrem – In This Life
An evening pause: Performed live 2009.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Motis & Chamorro quintet & Scott Hamilton – Meditaçao
An evening pause: Performed live 2013.
Hat tip Kevin Ralston.
Groucho Marx & Marilyn Monroe – Love Happy
An evening pause: This short clip starts with audio from a Groucho Marx interview where he describes the audition for the part of a girl in a short scene from the 1949 film Love Happy, and concludes by showing the scene as filmed, with Marilyn Monroe playing the part. Entertaining, and a fascinating bit of film trivia.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Stephen Stills – Treetop Flyer
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Never Gonna Dance
An evening pause: We’ve had a lot of 1970s pop songs and dance recently. Here’s an example of one of the greatest movie dance numbers, from the 1936 movie Swing Time. Note how smooth and ballet-like it is, unlike the staccato and gymnastic styles that began to dominate dance after the 1960s.
Note also the remarkable lack of cuts. The dance is performed with only one cut, which means Astaire and Rogers had to get it perfect, the whole way through each of these two shots. It took 47 takes before they succeeded.
Chic – Le Freak
An evening pause: Performed live 2012.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Johnny Rivers – Memphis Tennessee
An evening pause: Performed live, 1964. Also includes a short interview of Rivers afterward, who by the way wrote the song Secret Agent Man.
Hat tip Dan Steele.
Lucky Chops NYC
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.