My three Must Watch Every Year holiday movies are Home for the Holidays, Nightmare Before Christmas and The Ref.
I've become so disappointed in Bones that I can't even remember what I used to love about it. Maybe a rewatch of season one is in order.
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
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Nicole - Dec 06, 2010 5:23:01 pm PST #10340 of 30000
I'm getting the pig!
Beverly - Dec 06, 2010 5:25:23 pm PST #10341 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Amahl! That one had slipped my mind. I went to school with a guy who had sung Amahl--several years before I met him. I tracked that version down, and it's always been my gold standard.
Anytime is good for A&OL.
I'm sure this has been asked and answered in Music, but what cheesy favorite recordings make up your list of Christmas music, or holiday music?
We had a four-hour reel-to-reel tape with some of the songs from Amahl, some Charlie Bird, Glen Campbell, Julie Andrews. But Tennessee Ernie Ford and We Three Kings and Oh Come, All Ye Faithful announced the holiday season in our house.
DavidS - Dec 06, 2010 5:28:12 pm PST #10342 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but what cheesy favorite recordings make up your list of Christmas music, or holiday music?
On the cheesy end, I grew up with the Harry Simeone Chorale's Little Drummer Boy LP that my folks bought at the gas station.
But that does have Thurl Ravenscroft doing all the low stuff, so that's cool.
Of course, now I've got a berjillion xmas records and make mixes of just things like Beatnik Exploitation Christmas Songs. (Seriously. I made that mix).
Jessica - Dec 06, 2010 5:30:35 pm PST #10343 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I, uh, really don't like Love, Actually. That's as mildly as I can put it.
Ayup. (My feelings towards that film can best be summed up as "STAB STAB STABBY HATE STAB")
Beverly - Dec 06, 2010 5:31:46 pm PST #10344 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I love your themed mixes. I still have a Spy Jazz tape around here somewhere.
Our r2r wasn't all cheesy, but therer was a goodly portion of fromage on there.
I'm reminded that I loved S1 Bones, and the Christmas ep was a favorite. I've never regretted abandoning ship in S2, but S1 was a good romp.
Steph L. - Dec 06, 2010 5:37:19 pm PST #10345 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Beatnik Exploitation Christmas Songs. (Seriously. I made that mix).
I *have* that mix. LOVE it.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 06, 2010 5:40:19 pm PST #10346 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I'm watching Better Off Ted on Netflix On Demand and it is hilarious.
I am now also sad that there are only 13 episodes.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2010 5:48:27 pm PST #10347 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Christmas music: Do They Know It's Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Adeste Fideles, Little Drummer Boy sung by the Supremes.
Nothing else. Okay, you could slide some more hymns past me, but I don't love them.
juliana - Dec 06, 2010 5:50:27 pm PST #10348 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I, uh, really don't like Love, Actually. That's as mildly as I can put it.
Ayup. (My feelings towards that film can best be summed up as "STAB STAB STABBY HATE STAB")
There was a very good reason why I didn't see it when it came out, and now I'm realizing that it's good I haven't bothered to correct that.
WindSparrow - Dec 06, 2010 6:16:04 pm PST #10349 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Laurence Housman's "Cloak of Friendship" is my one true Christmas story. If interested, you can find it here: [link]
There was a very good reason why I didn't see it when it came out, and now I'm realizing that it's good I haven't bothered to correct that.
I, too, have never seen it. Don't have an urge to, either.