Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight’s selection is a light-hearted paean of sorts to the quotidian pleasures of long-distance domestic bus travel. Massachusetts native Jonathan Richman paints a picture, in short strokes, of the on-the-ground American expanse and the motley group of strangers who find themselves barreling down the highway together for a moment in time before disembarking, at various announced stops, to persevere with their unknown lives. We’re talking drunks, wailing infants, welfare moms, grit, rolling pop cans on the floor, unpleasant smells – and he likes it. Here it is: Richman’s live performance of You’re Crazy For Taking The Bus.
SDA Readers and visitors are invited, as always, to provide links to any interesting blog posts, news items, essays, ephemera or interesting tidbits you feel might be of interest to others.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a short little ditty featuring the delightful Dutch musician André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing Hava Nagila ¤ § (Let’s Rejoice and be Happy; Let’s Sing and be Happy) in the Royal Albert Hall (2:22).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a series of three advertisements, from Volkswagen, entitled Unpimp Your Ride ¤, II ¤, and III ¤. Watch them twice: first to experience the intended impact, and then again, preferably at full- screen size, stopping and starting them over & over to produce freeze- frame effects. Notice the backgrounds & the foregrounds, the staging, and the actions you missed the first time. Notice the production values. What a species! And to be so rich as a civilization to be able to spend our massive intelligence on such details: That’s the real luxury.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. While Pink Floyd‘s 1969 album, Ummagumma, with its classic Astronomy Domine, was certainly a seminal work in psychedelic rock history, I think it was their Meddle album (a copy of which I purchased in 1971) that cemented their position in the Pantheon. (It wasn’t until after I bought Meddle that I purchased a copy of Ummagumma.) Echoes and San Tropez are two of my three favourite songs from Meddle; tonight, for your delectation, here is a rendition of my other favourite thereto: Pink Floyd performing One Of These Days ¤ § during a concert from their Division Bell Tour, an instance of which I happened to attend on June 28, 1994 (7:02).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Hamilton’s Crowbar, performing Oh, What a Feeling, from their Bad Manors album, in 1970 (4:19). Update: Courtesy of TJ, in the comments:

But if it’s a nut-free zone, how are we going to hold down the bolts?

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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, as we near the end of a prolonged cold snap, we treat ourselves to the warm, dulcet tones of Spike Jones and Red Ingle, as they tug at our heartstrings with a caring, sharing performance of You Always Hurt The One You Love. (Album version here.)
You are invited, as always, to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s SDA distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. This week, for your delectation, here is Israeli conductor Itay Talgam presenting his TED talk Lead Like the Great Conductors ¤ (23:24). Personally, I think that there are probably lessons for each and every one of us, and for all of us, in Maestro Talgam’s talk.

NB: This is not Reader Tips. The topic here is Maestro Talgam’s talk.

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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s selection artfully juxtaposes a (lyrically) austere, Old Testament-inspired song with selected scenes from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s (also austere) 1964 film The Gospel According To St. Mathew. The combination is not, as one might expect, doubly austere, but rather lyrical and rapturous, and almost transcendent.
Like other neorealist directors Pasolini used non-professional actors almost exclusively, and in The Gospel According to St. Mathew he took this approach a step further: many of the seemingly endless cast aren’t actors at all, amateur or otherwise, and don’t act, or speak, or perform any actions at all; rather, their faces, and the hardship and concerns written on them, as seen in seemingly endless, lingering close-ups, are used to serve the – biblical, in this case – narrative.
Serves tonight’s song too, as it turns out. This one won’t be to everyone’s taste – what is, really? – but I like it, and you never know how long a particular video will be available, so here it is: an interesting visual treatment of Bob Dylan’s When He Returns.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here from Denmark are The Dixieland Gipsyband, featuring Peter Lund Wiese, Jacob Venndt, Lasse Høj Jakobsen, and Jens Christian Kwella performing Grappelli & Reinhardt‘s Minor Swing ¤ § (5:46).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Wes Montgomery [G], Johnny Griffin [TS], Martial Solal [P], Michel Gaudry [CB], and Ronnie Stephenson [D] performing Blue Monk ¤, in Hamburg, in 1965 (6:04).

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