The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays
An evening pause: Performed live in 1985.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Tag: entertainment
Vikki Carr – It Must Be Him
An evening pause: From 1967 television.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Alizee – J`en Ai marre
An evening pause: Performed live 2004, when such joyous concerts were possible.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Hilary Hahn – Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
An evening pause: A bit long for a pause, but so what.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Today’s blacklisted American: Anyone in Hollywood who is white
A banned race in Hollywood.
Blacklists are back and Hollywood’s got ’em: Warner Brothers has decided its next Superman will be super-woke and must star a black Superman.
More important, the studio has decided that in order to make the film the “super-woke” concept they envision it must only hire blacks to make it. Not only has the studio hired a black writer to write the script, it is insisting that the director and crew must be black also.
The Hollywood Reporter proudly makes note of the fact that they are looking for only black people to do it all, and are looking for a black director. The piece unabashedly excludes the film’s producer J.J. Abrams as a candidate purely because it would be “tone-deaf.”
Nor is that all. Hollywood also wants the focus for all its future superhero films to be “diversity” and racial oppression rather those evil and quaint old concepts of “truth, justice, and the American way.”
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Devo – Uncontrollable Urge
An evening pause: Performed live c1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Alejandro Aguanta – Zorba’s Dance
An evening pause: The main them form Mikis Theodorakis’ score from the movie Zorba the Greek (1964).
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Elvis Costello – She
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1999.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
4-Mation: 3D Zoetropes
An evening pause: I honestly don’t understand how this works, and the video doesn’t really explain it. It is quite amazing nonetheless. More information here if you want to dig about to figure it out.
Hat tip Cotour.
Olga Jegunova – Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major K331
An evening pause: How about we end the week with some beautiful music played beautifully by a beautiful woman.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mattias Lindström (Swebounce) – Robot chair
An evening pause: What every home must have!
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Peggy March – I Will Follow Him
An evening pause: This live television performance from sometime in the 1960s, and was almost certainly performed by lip-sync to the recorded album. That audio for this video has been remastered.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa – Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet)
An evening pause: From Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Utopia
An evening pause: A short film that describes the world our children and culture are working hard to give us.
June Foray & Bill Scott – Rocky & Bullwinkle
An evening pause: For those who grew up in the 1960s. Everyone else is sadly deprived.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Ian Berry – Painting with denim
An evening pause: While there is a bit of barnum in this guy’s work, the final “paintings” are quite astonishing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath
An evening pause: Performed live in 1982.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Willie Nelson – Hit Medley
An evening pause: Performed live in 1965. This Willie Nelson performance shows him in his early days, before the beard and long hair and cowboy persona. His voice has also not mellowed into what would later become a truly unique sound.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Dave Mason – All Along The Watchtower
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Lisa Ferraro & Houston Person – Teach Me Tonight
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.