Tag: entertainment
Tooth of Time
An evening pause: Tonight we take a short aerial tour of a mountaintop that every Boy Scout who has backpacked at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico will immediately recognize.
Hat tip to Steve Golson, whose son is currently doing this very hike.
Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano concerto No.5
An evening pause: Also called “The Egyptian”, performed live by the Concertgebouw Orchestra with Jean-Yves Thibaudet on the piano.
A nice way to end the week. Put it up in the background if you find focusing on classical music too difficult. You will find yourself coming back to it to watch and listen. Quite beautiful and enchanting.
Scott Ott – How NPR really covers the GOP Presidential Primary race
An evening pause: Rather than waste your time watching the childish reporting of the presidential campaign on cable news, watch this short satire of NPR instead. It sums things up nicely, poking great fun at liberal news coverage.
Sadly, most of the conservative coverage has been as childish.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
What cavers do for fun
An evening pause: Hat to Phill Oltmann, whose comment was, “Too tight for me!” Me too, though I definitely would be willing to try.
The Brothers Four – Scarlet Ribbons
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who notes correctly, “Terrible lifestyle, terrible message, but they knew how to play.”
Nathan and Eva Leach – Hero
Anne Murray – I Just Fall in Love Again
Joe Hisaishi & New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – Tubular Bells
The Muppets – Ode to Joy
An evening pause: It could be argued that all classical music would be better played in this manner.
Lorrie Morgan – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
An evening pause: How about a wonderful country rendition of this pop classic?
Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
An evening pause: I posted a 1999 Clapton performance of this song in 2011, but this 2013 version is worth watching as well.
Hat tip Danae.
Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
An evening pause: Performed live on the Johnny Carson Show sometime in the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean
An evening pause: But not very relaxing. Hat tip to Phill Oltmann, who notes “This video is of commercial fishing boats returning from fishing off the coast of Washington and Oregon. They are crossing the Columbia Bar, which is the site the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.”
Anthony Newley and Petula Clark – You and I
Dolly Parton – Jolene
An evening pause: Performed live, 2014. I especially like the dancing security guards.
Hat tip Danae.
Hey, I am still looking for tips for my evening pauses. Why let Danae have all the fun? If you see a video you think might fit, make a comment here mentioning that you have something, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it from you.
Leroy Anderson – Typewriter Song
Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Prelude and Yodel
Judy Garland – Somewhere over the rainbow
An evening pause: I posted this performance back on November 23, 2010, had forgotten, and found it again by accident. It bears another viewing. As noted at the youtube link,
Judy Garland only performed “Over The Rainbow” twice during her many television appearances, which spanned 14 years. She performed it on her first TV Special, “Ford Star Jubilee” in the episode called “The Judy Garland Special” in 1955, and sang it to her children on The Christmas Edition of her weekly TV show “The Judy Garland Show” (1963).
Here Judy is dressed up [in the first special] as the tramp character she played when doing a duet with Fred Astaire in the film ‘Easter Parade’.
Watch. It shows why she was both a great singer and a great actress.
Tim Weisberg – Margarita
Don McLean – American Pie
Bond Girls – Korobushka
Frank Sinatra – My Way
An evening pause: Performed live, 1971. If anyone ever tries to tell you that you can’t say or do something, just think of this song, and these words:
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows –
And did it my way.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Vince Carrola – Pachelbel’s Canon in D
An evening pause: Absolutely one of the most original performances of this classic piece of music I have ever seen. And man, can he play the guitar.
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
An evening pause: Performed live, 1970. One of the best and most profound pop songs ever written. It is subtle and simple, deep and shallow, all at the same time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
James Taylor – Still crazy after all these years
Jonah Morgan – A GoPro view of surfing in Indonesia
An evening pause: Taped on August 25, 2014. Hat tip Danae, who wrote, “It was 111.4 degrees under the side porch roof this afternoon, which explains why this video appeals to me. The visibility of the sea floor is just frosting on the cake.”
To me, this probably gives one who has never surfed (like myself) the best sense of what it is like to do it.