Tag: entertainment
Cake – Short Skirt, Long Jacket
<An eveing pause: I have to admit that I almost didn’t schedule this, since I don’t particularly like the song. However, that’s my taste, and besides, the trumpet player makes up for it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Passenger – Let Her Go
An evening pause: It is especially nice to watch how quickly the audience joins in to sing along.
Hat tip Danae.
Ricky Syers – Marionettes
Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence
An evening pause: One of the best performances I have ever seen of Paul Simon’s beautifully poetic song.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Prince & Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
Emmylou Harris & Mary Black – You’ll Never Be The Sun
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
An evening pause: This kind of music video I really like: A live performance, filmed expressly for the video. No audience, no special effects, no fake cute story expressing the angst of adolescence. Just the musicians, their instruments, the words of the song, and the cameraman.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Yanni, Lisa Lavie, Lauren Jelencovich – Aria
Wintergatan – Starmachine2000
An evening pause: The same people who gave us the Marble Machine show us again how to use technology to make good music.
Hat tip Danae.
The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park and Other Things
Electric Light Orchestra -.Can’t get it out of my head
Jamey Johnson & Lee Ann Womack – “Give It Away”
Johann Strauss – Perpetuum mobile
An evening pause: Hat tip Dane, who added that “Herbert von Karajan’s eccentricity as a conductor” makes this worth watching all by itself.
Blockhead – The Music Scene
An evening pause: Animation by Antonio Francisco Schepperd. As I watched this I could not help think of the very expressive 1960s word psychodelic.
The Dubliners – Dirty Old Town
Lacy J. Dalton – Black Coffee
Pink Floyd – See Emily Play
An evening pause: The link calls this the official video, remastered in 2011. The style and look of the filming however fits the 1960s to a T.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
An evening pause: I normally find myself very bored with “official” music videos. The stories are almost always the same, centered on the imagined profound angst of adolescent teen-age emotions. This video however does a nice job of mixing the music with the story, in a somewhat creative and different way, even if the angst is still the same.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Stevie Nicks – Edge Of Seventeen
Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You
Pearl Jam – Alive
A evening pause: If you look closely, past the hard rock angst and anger and clothing and hairstyles and performance cliches, what you can see here are some very serious and skilled musicians.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Foster The People – Houdini
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Psycho Killer
An evening pause: Let’s try this song again, this time played by people in suits.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Taking Heads – Psycho Killer
Such Great Heights
An evening pause: Unfortunately, I have no idea who the performer is for this gentle and very beautiful cover of a song by The Postal Service. She does not identify herself on her youtube webpage.
They will see us waving from such great heights,
“Come down now,” they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
“Come down now,” but we’ll stay…
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Claudia Drake – I can’t believe that you’re in love with me
John Prine – Hello in there
Billy Joel and Michael Pollack – New York State of Mind
An evening pause: Hat tip Frank Kelly. As Frank emailed me, “Student Michael Pollack asks Billy Joel if he can accompany him on piano, playing New York State of Mind. Billy Joel accepts and asks, “What key do you play it in.” Pollack: “What key do you want it in?” Just from that Joel can tell he can play, then Pollack starts playing, and this is important, when he starts, Joel instantly knows he’s [good]. Perhaps he realizes he might be a reason this kid learned piano. Joel is a bit amazed, watch it, he relaxes and just lets Pollack do his thing; he even makes a flamboyant point of putting his sunglasses on.”
Or as Joel says at the end, “The guy’s got chops.” Stick with it, it only gets better.
Tallest tunnel slide to open in London
A reason to go to London: The world’s tallest tunnel slide, almost 600 feet long and 250 feet high, is being built as part of a sculpture that was part of the 2012 Olympic games location.
Once complete, the slide will be 178-m (584-ft) long and 76-m (249-ft) high, making it, according to the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the “world’s tallest and longest tunnel slide.” Riders will experience 12 twists and turns, including a tight corkscrew section called the “bettfeder,” which is German for “bedspring.” The slide ends with a 50-m (164-ft) straight stretch to the ground.
It is estimated that it will take about 40 seconds for people to descend the slide, with riders expected to hit speeds of up to 15 mph (24 km/h). On the way down, there will be dark sections, as well as points where it will be possible for riders to see out of transparent polycarbonate windows, providing brief views out over the Olympic Park and surrounding areas.
A reason to go to London: The world’s tallest tunnel slide, almost 600 feet long and 250 feet high, is being built as part of a sculpture that was part of the 2012 Olympic games location.
Once complete, the slide will be 178-m (584-ft) long and 76-m (249-ft) high, making it, according to the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the “world’s tallest and longest tunnel slide.” Riders will experience 12 twists and turns, including a tight corkscrew section called the “bettfeder,” which is German for “bedspring.” The slide ends with a 50-m (164-ft) straight stretch to the ground.
It is estimated that it will take about 40 seconds for people to descend the slide, with riders expected to hit speeds of up to 15 mph (24 km/h). On the way down, there will be dark sections, as well as points where it will be possible for riders to see out of transparent polycarbonate windows, providing brief views out over the Olympic Park and surrounding areas.