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I like this youtube video. Although I'm not a great fan of jazz I think the Brandenburg Gate Revisited by Dave Brubeck is absolutely brilliant. It came out in 1963 which to my mind feels very like today. There is the same fear of nuclear war today that we had then.
This live recording from about 10 years ago is a little bit more classical then Brubeck's 1963 album which itself was based on a 1958 shorter version. The piece consists of about a dozen variations on a theme. He probably got the idea from the Goldberg Variations. The first few variations are very classical and then a bit more jazz comes in after the third variation. I like the way the author of the video focuses on that beautiful statue at the end of that wonderful second variation (01:20 – 02:27). For me watching and listening to that video is like sitting in front of the fire with a nice drink and thinking about the past.
The Brandenburg Gate has a fascinating history. Napoleon took a liking to the statue and had it taken to Paris. When the Prussians got to Paris they took it back. It is a miracle that it survived WWII. There are lots of pictures of it standing almost undamaged among the ruins of Berlin surrounded by celebrating Russians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGYIRB6BG2o
If there is a video you like then add it to the thread and explain why you like it.
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Strip Club, New Tredegar, 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYwlgV6pIw
The Archif ITV Cymru/Wales is well worth subscribing to on youtube. Some fascinating archive footage... :wales:
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A reminder of how petty and insignificant we all are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
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Baloo
A reminder of how petty and insignificant we all are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvD4N70V5mE
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GuVxaGTv8LA
Th guys laugh after it happens gets me every time.
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Blue in the Face
That is culture.
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Great lecture on the "decline of America" here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHa1r4nIaug
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Steve R
:hehe: amazing what a bit of white powder can do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmmhkgk0QE
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Blue in the Face
:shrug: I've got no sound, am I missing something? :hehe:
Here is a good film I watched this week..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqggy05RqNY&t=1s
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Steve R
The power of telekinesis. So it does exist. Three people smashed that ball into the woman's face by simply waving their hands and willing it to happen.
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lardy
The power of telekinesis. So it does exist. Three people smashed that ball into the woman's face by simply waving their hands and willing it to happen.
That's how the X-Men started.
