Above LA 4K
An evening pause: The creator strongly advises that you watch this in full screen HD with sound on. And I agree.
Hat tip Tom.
Tag: entertainment
Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: This Finnish band does a nice job of covering the AC/DC hard rock song Thunderstruck, but doing it in a bluegrass kind of way. The banjo player is especially amazing.
Hat tip to my lovely wife Diane.
Puddles Pity Party – Dancing Queen
An evening pause:
I’ve posted a performance by Puddles the sad clown (Mike Geier) previously. This cover by him of the ABBA hit is truly original and makes you actually hear the real meaning of the words.
The Cat Came Back
An evening pause: Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
David Foster and Kenny G – Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire
Pink “Perfect”
Vocal Spectrum – The Music of the Night
Bambi meets Godzilla
An evening pause: A classic from 1969. I remember seeing this for the first time at one of the very first comic book conventions in New York. It brought the house down.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Reba McEntire – I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
Postmodern Jukebox – Burn
Hayley Westenra – Pie Jesu
An evening pause: Performed when she was fifteen years old. Hat tip Danae for finding me this amazing singer.
Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
An evening pause: Hat tip to Mike.
Mary Hopkin – Those were the days
An evening pause: Recorded live in France, 1969. Though the song, in style and content, looked back at past generations when it was released late in the 1960s, it today tells us more of the strong conceits of the baby boom generation.
Hat tip to Edward Thelen.
Clarence White & Roland White – I Am A Pilgram/Soldiers Joy
An evening pause: Performed live on Bob Baxter’s “Guitar Workshop” in 1973. Hat tip to jwing, who wrote the following when he sent me the link:
Clarence was instrumental in making flat-picking guitar a lead solo instrument in bluegrass, along with Doc Watson. He played as a session musician for many groups in the 60’s such as the Everly Brothers and The Monkees. Later he became the lead guitarist for Roger McGuinn’s Byrds. He developed the B-string bender invention that you can hear on the Eagles’ song “Take It Easy.” Sadly, in 1973 while packing up the band’s van after a late night gig he was hit by a drunk driver and was killed. A huge loss to music. This video was recorded in LA only a few months before that fateful night. Enjoy a true virtuoso.
The More the Merrier
An evening pause: Watch Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea in the classic kiss scene from The More the Merrier (1943).
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime (2014 edition).
Trees
Just click on the link.
Just click on the link.
The Happy Cats – Doesn’t come any better
Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler
An evening pause: From the classic musical, The Sound of Music (1965), a moment with few words where all things change because everyone understands everything anyway.
As I noted in my first Evening Pause on July 1, 2010, “Julie Andrews, in her prime, had one of the most incredible screen presences of any actor in the history of film.”
Out of the Canyon
We exited the Grand Canyon on schedule at about 1:30 on Thursday. The hike out this year took one hour longer than last year, mostly because we took longer breaks.
As always, the Canyon is a sublime place, hard to describe to those who have never been there and unnecessary to describe for those who have. We hiked in, did an 11 mile hike the one day we were at the bottom, then hiked out today.
Posting will resume but will remain light until I return home on Sunday night.
We exited the Grand Canyon on schedule at about 1:30 on Thursday. The hike out this year took one hour longer than last year, mostly because we took longer breaks.
As always, the Canyon is a sublime place, hard to describe to those who have never been there and unnecessary to describe for those who have. We hiked in, did an 11 mile hike the one day we were at the bottom, then hiked out today.
Posting will resume but will remain light until I return home on Sunday night.
Eddi Reader – Galileo
An evening pause:
Galileo fell in love as a Galilean boy
And he wondered what in heaven, who’d invented such a joy.
But the question got the better of his scientific mind
And to his blind and dying day
He’d look up high and love and sighed and sometimes cried,
Who puts the rainbows in the sky?
Who lights the stars in the night?
Who dreamt up someone so divine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Spyro Gyra at Montreux Jazz 89
Puddles Pity Party – “Royals”
Mike Oldfield – The Bell
Monty Python – Mafia
An evening pause: The first half captures perfectly the determination, courage, and willingness to fight for freedom of most of my baby boom generation. The second half for some reason reminds me of the IRS.
Rick Wakeman – keyboard solo
An evening pause: Thanks to Danae again for this.
I am still looking for Evening Pause suggestions. I found late last year that I could no longer keep it up by myself. If you have something you think would be worth posting, make a comment here and I will email you. Don’t post the link, let me check it out first and then schedule it.
Art Garfunkel – All I know
An evening pause: Recorded live on Ellis Island, New York, 1996. Your heart will break at 3:18 when you see the image.
Mark Knopfler – Wild Theme
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae for sending me this.
As I mentioned yesterday, I am open to suggestions for future Evening Pauses. Music, engineering, wild nature, comedy, anything with a spark of magic that will brighten our day will be gladly viewed and posted.
John Prine and Iris DeMent – In Spite of Ourselves
An evening pause: Thanks to Keith for sending me this video. Note that I am open to any recommendations of good videos for posting as an Evening Pause, including music, engineering, comedy, anything quirky or interesting with a spark of originality.
Let me add that if you have something you want to recommend, don’t post the link in the comment. Just say in your comment that you want to recommend something and I will email you direct. I want to view and schedule these posts rather than have them appear in the comments first.
Gigantic underground trampoline about to open
Want to have some fun? An amusement park in Northern Wales is about to open a gigantic underground trampoline ride to the public..
Battle Below is located deep within a 100 ft (30.5 m) deep and 60 ft (18.3 m) wide disused mine. The new site features three large trampolines stretching across the cave-like mine walls and are positioned at varying heights. The trampolines are linked together by 60 ft (18.3 m) slides and a spiraling staircase. Adding to the atmosphere, multi-colored LED lights have been installed throughout the mine, which project onto the walls of the cavern.
It took over a kilometer of nett and 4,500 man hours to complete the underground trampolines, which can accommodate 100 bouncing visitors at a time. Patrons are required to wear protective gear, including overalls and a helmet before gaining access to the site via an old mining train. They’re also encouraged to bounce as high as they dare, potentially reaching a maximum height of 80 ft (24 m).
Bounce Below opens on July 4, with tickets starting from £15 (about US$25) per person.
Want to have some fun? An amusement park in Northern Wales is about to open a gigantic underground trampoline ride to the public..
Battle Below is located deep within a 100 ft (30.5 m) deep and 60 ft (18.3 m) wide disused mine. The new site features three large trampolines stretching across the cave-like mine walls and are positioned at varying heights. The trampolines are linked together by 60 ft (18.3 m) slides and a spiraling staircase. Adding to the atmosphere, multi-colored LED lights have been installed throughout the mine, which project onto the walls of the cavern.
It took over a kilometer of nett and 4,500 man hours to complete the underground trampolines, which can accommodate 100 bouncing visitors at a time. Patrons are required to wear protective gear, including overalls and a helmet before gaining access to the site via an old mining train. They’re also encouraged to bounce as high as they dare, potentially reaching a maximum height of 80 ft (24 m).
Bounce Below opens on July 4, with tickets starting from £15 (about US$25) per person.
37 amazing places you must visit before you die.
37 amazing places you must visit before you die.
Great pictures. I am happy to say that I’ve seen most of the places listed that are in the U.S. And I’ve also seen other places in the U.S. quite comparable to international locations shown here.
37 amazing places you must visit before you die.
Great pictures. I am happy to say that I’ve seen most of the places listed that are in the U.S. And I’ve also seen other places in the U.S. quite comparable to international locations shown here.