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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 18, 2018 9:32:46 GMT -5
I'll just use my Iron Man exoskeleton suit to move them.  |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 18, 2018 10:03:50 GMT -5
I'll just use my Iron Man exoskeleton suit to move them. And you won't have to hang a pine scented air-freshener in your armor during the Christmas season!!! |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 6, 2018 13:19:49 GMT -5
Sunday morning 11/4/18 at 4:00am one of the local FM Pop radio stations started their 24 hour all day/all night Christmas music only,which will play until January 1st. 2 whole months of contiguously played holiday music is just a wee bit much if you ask me. Start the day AFTER Thanksgiving and you have 4 weeks to burn your brains out on it but 8-10 weeks? No thanks. Bless my CD player for saving my soul!!!!
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 6, 2018 14:54:06 GMT -5
Sunday morning 11/4/18 at 4:00am one of the local FM Pop radio stations started their 24 hour all day/all night Christmas music only,which will play until January 1st. 2 whole months of contiguously played holiday music is just a wee bit much if you ask me. Start the day AFTER Thanksgiving and you have 4 weeks to burn your brains out on it but 8-10 weeks? No thanks. Bless my CD player for saving my soul!!!! Imagine if they did that with Easter music, two months of "here comes Peter cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity-hoppity, Easter's on it's way!" 
There are a few select Christmas themed albums/CD I do like ... by The Ventures and SWV (Sisters With Voices), but generally I'm not a great fan of holiday themed tunage .
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Post by The Captain on Nov 6, 2018 17:17:21 GMT -5
Sunday morning 11/4/18 at 4:00am one of the local FM Pop radio stations started their 24 hour all day/all night Christmas music only,which will play until January 1st. 2 whole months of contiguously played holiday music is just a wee bit much if you ask me. Start the day AFTER Thanksgiving and you have 4 weeks to burn your brains out on it but 8-10 weeks? No thanks. Bless my CD player for saving my soul!!!! For years now, my wife and I have had an agreement regarding Christmas music, that being none of it before Thanksgiving. This deal was put in place due to my whistling "Sleigh Ride" at various points throughout the year and my wife's propensity to start the holiday season a little too early. Last night, the peace was broken. My wife, who is an excellent pianist, was playing a few songs after dinner when the familiar sounds of "Joy to the World" started emanating throughout the house. Despite my protestations, she would not stop, so I took my revenge on her by having our daughters, both of whom sing in the school chorus, serenade their mother with her least-favorite Christmas song of all time, that being "Last Christmas" by Wham!. Needless to say, after two renditions of that odious garbage, I earned a moratorium on the holiday music for another 2+ weeks. Victory is mine! |
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 6, 2018 17:23:27 GMT -5
...due to my whistling "Sleigh Ride" at various points throughout the year... Anytime of year is the right time for Sleigh Ride, as long as it's by The Ventures (originally of Tacoma, Washington)... in (((Stereo))) too. Really, you will all love this, it might even change your life! Edit: I put a link to it on youtube but it's come out embedded which was not my intention, sorry for any inconvenience, seems a lot of times these things say 'not available' when embedded but will be playable at the youtube site. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 7, 2018 20:41:19 GMT -5
Don't know when it happened, but I noticed a couple of days ago (maybe November 1?) that Hallmark Channel is doing its annual wall-to-wall schedule of treacly Christmas movies, each one featuring models pretending to be actors pretending to be impossibly upscale retro-yuppies, all set in what look like Steve King's idea of America.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2018 22:05:04 GMT -5
I like this time of year... I LOVE Thanksgiving and Christmas. I like watching Hallmark Christmas movies with my wife. I like Christmas music. I love having my family around. I love all the traditions that revolve around this time of year.
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Post by rberman on Nov 7, 2018 22:48:25 GMT -5
I've noticed that holiday albums by British artists seem much more likely to contain mostly songs about Christmas (the celebration of the birth of Christ) whereas American ones (excecpt Amy Grant) are mostly romantic winter songs with perhaps Silent Night thrown on at the end. British albums are also much more likely in particular to contain "The Holly and the Ivy," of which I have several British versions but almost no American ones.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 8, 2018 7:08:33 GMT -5
I like this time of year... I LOVE Thanksgiving and Christmas. I like watching Hallmark Christmas movies with my wife. I like Christmas music. I love having my family around. I love all the traditions that revolve around this time of year. I'm with you, but the key words are "this time of year," Michael. I like to savor Christmas, not glut myself with it.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 8, 2018 7:18:53 GMT -5
The only reason I regret dumping cable is the I can't watch those two channels during the season.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 8, 2018 7:31:36 GMT -5
I've noticed that holiday albums by British artists seem much more likely to contain mostly songs about Christmas (the celebration of the birth of Christ) whereas American ones (excecpt Amy Grant) are mostly romantic winter songs with perhaps Silent Night thrown on at the end. British albums are also much more likely in particular to contain "The Holly and the Ivy," of which I have several British versions but almost no American ones. I love "The Holly and the Ivy," which always brings to mind another traditional song, "Barbara Allen," used so effectively in the superb 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol." Bing Crosby's Christmas albums, which often included primarily religious carols, are one exception if your observation is indeed the rule . |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 9:15:08 GMT -5
I like this time of year... I LOVE Thanksgiving and Christmas. I like watching Hallmark Christmas movies with my wife. I like Christmas music. I love having my family around. I love all the traditions that revolve around this time of year. I'm with you, but the key words are "this time of year," Michael. I like to savor Christmas, not glut myself with it. As I have gotten older I don't mind the season being extended. That way I get to enjoy the traditions spread out over a longer period of time instead of them being "jammed" into a couple of weeks. I actually enjoy Christmas more now than when I was younger because I don't feel rushed.
One year instead of presents we took our families to ALL the local Christmas events. That was a great year as we experienced a TSO Christmas. A Christmas Carol at a local theatre. Several Christmas concerts. Christmas on Main St in our small town. We couldn't have done all the events in a 2-3 week period.
And now with both my daughters married our Christmas this year will last 4 days as we celebrate with them, my wife's family and my family plus the Christmas Eve service at our church. Beats the old days when we ran around on Christmas Day to 3 different Christmas celebrations.
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Post by rberman on Nov 8, 2018 9:35:56 GMT -5
I've noticed that holiday albums by British artists seem much more likely to contain mostly songs about Christmas (the celebration of the birth of Christ) whereas American ones (excecpt Amy Grant) are mostly romantic winter songs with perhaps Silent Night thrown on at the end. British albums are also much more likely in particular to contain "The Holly and the Ivy," of which I have several British versions but almost no American ones. I love "The Holly and the Ivy," which always brings to mind another traditional song, "Barbara Allen," used so effectively in the superb 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol." Bing Crosby's Christmas albums, which often included primarily religious carols, are one exception if your observation is indeed the rule . Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" album is the progenitor of the genre, mixing sacred and secular songs. In the decades since then, the balance has tilted decidedly toward the secular, mainly because artists can't get publishing compensation for songs they didn't write. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 10:36:10 GMT -5
I love Richard Attenborough's Miracle on 34th Street ...  When, this movie comes on it's Christmas! |
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