I got totally lost on this site when I was looking for the Sonny Boy to send you. I can't figure out how to navigate if you don't have a name. It all seems mixed together. Some of the home videos are really funny too but it is endless. I'll check out your finds later. I know I will not stop there, it is addictive!
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm finding all *kinds* of neat stuff on YouTube. > I had thought it was mostly teenagers' home videos > of Stupid Human Tricks and MTV-type music videos, > but after I stumbled across an old Dave Brubeck > video on somebody's blog, and Curtis sent me to a > terrific Sonny Williamson II video, I started > poking around to see what else might be there. > > It's addictive. I can hardly tear myself away. > Here's a few of my finds: > > > A real treasure--M.S. Subbulakshmi singing > "Maitreem Bhajata": > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbBBNRT4VKg > > > And a very different treasure, Bessie Smith > singing "St. Louis Blues": > http://tinyurl.com/jf8z2 > > > Physicist Richard Feynman in a charming, > informal short talk analogizing scientific > exploration to figuring out the rules of > chess by observing a game, with a neat twist > at the end: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub042xIT7a0 > > > Enrico Caruso singing "Vesti la giubba" from > "I Pagliacci." After this, they should have > retired the number; nobody ever needed to sing > it again: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0hX-8KSVOo > > > Something for everybody. What an amazing site. > The best way to explore it, I've found, is via > playlist categories, not the general categories. > Every video on a playlist has a "Related playlists" > link. If you find a playlist with a number of > videos you like, chances are the related playlists > will also have neat stuff in that category, but > they may also branch out and include surprises > from entirely different categories. I found the > Subbulakshmi and Feynman videos via playlists > related to a playlist in the Classical Music > category. > > There's a bunch of other good Carnatic music > videos, BTW. If anyone's interested, I'll post > links to some of those as well. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
