Tag: entertainment
Will Rogers – The Ropin’ Fool
An evening pause: Most people, when asked to describe Will Rogers, usually focus on his witty political commentary. What we have forgotten however is that he initially made his fame as a cowboy with an amazing ability to do rope tricks. The film excerpt below, narrated by Rogers’ son Will Rogers Jr., was made in 1922 to highlight these tricks.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
JJ Cale & Eric Clapton – After Midnight & Call me the Breeze
Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
An evening pause: I love songs that tell great stories. This is a classic.
Note: As always, I am always looking for evening pauses and am very open to suggestions. If you want to suggest something, comment here, though please don’t post the actual suggestion. I will email you direct so you can forward it to me.
Sierra Hull – Someone Like You
Movies before the code
An evening pause: I had doubts about posting this initially, not because I’m a prude but because, as I wrote to Phil when he sent me this suggestion, “What is the point? Watching three minutes of 1930s girls taking off their robes to reveal their underwear? I’m not sure that is my goal with my evening pauses.”
But then I thought, why not? The compilation definitely illustrates the differences and similarities between then and now. What was risque then is almost innocent today. And at the same time, what is interesting in terms of sex then is not much different than what is interesting today. Sex still sells. Humans remain human. And Valentine’s Day is tomorrow.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
The endless and all-compassing terrors of global warming
Want to know what scientists have predicted climate change will do to the Earth? Go to ClimateChangePredictions.org, where they keep a full list of every prediction they can find.
I especially like the category “Having it both ways,” where they list different predictions that insisted on opposite consequences. For example did you know that global warning is going to bring both “less rain” and “more rain”, Other predictions are equally amusing.
Want to know what scientists have predicted climate change will do to the Earth? Go to ClimateChangePredictions.org, where they keep a full list of every prediction they can find.
I especially like the category “Having it both ways,” where they list different predictions that insisted on opposite consequences. For example did you know that global warning is going to bring both “less rain” and “more rain”, Other predictions are equally amusing.
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
Eleanor Powell – Hula
An evening pause: From Honolulu (1939). What I like about this is that everyone involved has no worries about offending anyone. They are free to take the native cultural music of Hawaii and embellish it as the whim takes them. They were free (to repeat that forgotten word) to be as creative as they like. The result is a pretty hot dance number.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold – I Remember It Well
An evening pause: Somehow this seems right for my 62nd birthday. From the 1958 classic movie Gigi.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Browns – Little Jimmy Brown
An evening pause: Anyone who has ever spent any time in the backwoods of the eastern United States will recognize the culture and social framework from which this song springs.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hayley Westenra – Scarborough Fair
Itzhak Perlman & Janet Guggenheim – Two pieces
Madre Luna – Aelfheim
9 unbelievable things discovered by hikers
Link here.
Some of these are not that unbelievable, but numbers 4 and 9 are really cool. And number 1 was already reported here on BtB.
Link here.
Some of these are not that unbelievable, but numbers 4 and 9 are really cool. And number 1 was already reported here on BtB.
Michael Davis – Juggler
An evening pause: I saw Davis perform live in the Bahamas back in 1992. He was the warm-up act, and was far far better than the star attraction, which I don’t remember any longer. His style is so nice and silly and funny you just want to keep watching and watching forever. Part 2 of this performance can be found here.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You
Isn’t it Romantic?
An evening pause: From the 1932 film Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier. Stay with it, because it gets quite entertaining. And don’t you want to know what happens next?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Nanci Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime
An evening pause; Hat tip Tom Biggar, who made me realize that I had never previously posted any Nanci Griffith on BtB. Shameful!
A Honda Rube Goldberg
An evening pause: It might only be a Honda commercial, but trust me, it’s worth watching.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Fourplay – Bali Run
Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron home
John Jorgenson – Red On Red
Joe Cocker – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress
An evening pause: In honor of Joe Cocker’s passing last month. No visuals, but the performance from his 1974 album “I can stand a little rain” is sterling.
Fred Astaire & Barrie Chase – Miss Otis Regrets
Six cool science experiments you can do at home
Sting – Every breath you take
Ra Paulette – cave artist
Paul Kelly – Careless
Six Turnin and Four Burnin
An evening pause: From the 1955 Jimmy Stewart film Strategic Air Command. The B-36, with both propeller and jet engines, was soon superseded, but the takeoff, as captured so well in the movie, is impressive. It was a big plane.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
An evening pause: From the 1955 Jimmy Stewart film Strategic Air Command. The B-36, with both propeller and jet engines, was soon superseded, but the takeoff, as captured so well in the movie, is impressive. It was a big plane.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.