Hello all my friends and familia!! Chris is finally letting me listen to Christmas music (now that it is one week after Thanksgiving) so I started a Christmas Playlist (to the right, red box..). If anyone would like to share their favorite x-mas songs, leave a comment and let me know.
I'd love to expand our Christmas song repertoire ~
Merry Christmas SEASON!!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Christmas Music Time!!
Posted by Amy Jane at 3:59 PM
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Greetings Family and Friends,
What a great idea! Christmas music is one of the things I look forward to most during the holiday season.
Some of my personal favorites can be found on the often overlooked Christmas gem: The Walton Family Christmas Album. Who can resist these festive holiday hymns:
1. Gloria! in Excessive Day o’ Shopping
2. All I Want for Christmas is my Healthcare Plan
3. Grandma Got Run Over by a Government Subsidy
4. It Came Upon a Blue-Light Special
5. Oh Little Town of Bentonville
6. Deck the Halls with Predatory Pricing
7. Rip-off the Red-Nosed Retailer
8. Oh Come All Ye Faithful Bargain Hunters
9. Good King Wencesloss Leader
10. Away in a Mangy Sweatshop
11. Angels We Have Heard on High Cost of Low Prices
12. It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Honduras
13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Union-Free Rally
14. We Three Kings of the Board of Directors Are (Featuring Hillary Clinton!)
15. Jolly Old Saint Nickel-an-dime-us
16. What Child is This (who sews my socks)?
17. Frosty the Shoplifter
And, as a special non-holiday treat, the Waltons have also included my personal perennial pick: It’s A 3rd World After All. Sweet!
Keep in mind this is a collector’s item and supplies are limited. So rush over (i.e. walk really fast) to your local, independently-owned music shop and get your eco-friendly copy today!
Cheers,
jph3
I love this idea and I hope you don't mind that I used it and put some of the same songs on our blog. :) We LOVE Christmas music! I grew up listening to the Carpenter's Christmas music and it is still my favorite for some reason!
Hey no prob, I've stolen many an idea from your blog :) I know how you feel about the whole carpenters thing...I think its nostalgia or something, because I totally love Amy Grant x-mas songs, all thanks to my mother and listening to them all growing up :()
John, again you have a very funny comment there. I am still flushed from some of your recent emails.
Are those your own original song titles? That is very good stuff. Do you have your own blog or anything that you are putting that kind of stuff in? Seriously it is as funny as anything professionaly written, comedy-wise, in my opinion, so you should do something with that. And since you can write music you could even do those songs up proper.
At least in a way I will be more likely to be able to remember them when I want to, which is the important thing.
The Christmas song I am currently obsessing about is my own lyric entitled 'The first New World Christmas.'
It isn't because of how good it is or anything, it is mediocre at best, but it is my attempt to balance things from the current 100 percent representation of the Luke or New Testament version of events, which are very special but only equally so. If someone else does a better job I will be just fine with that.
Perhaps I will post my current lyrics to this song, as they evolve, along with a MIDI of the tune, at our new blog:
TheVonMorganstones
Perhaps finally I can stop contaminating other people's blogs. So Donna, if you can add me to your list of family blogs that would be great, because I probably won't get too much traffic due to my totally random content.
Having trouble leaving comments, Donna and I are definitely related. Sorry if there are multiples.
I LOVE BLOGGING!!!
Thanks, all of you, for making this such a fun cyberspatail experience!
Jape, you are awesome as always, and Carol is right: a comedic genius. And so politically correct.
Americana at its best!
Slade and I have actually a formal bet now on whether you thought of all those yourself, now, JP.
My guess is yes, and I hate to put you on the spot if you got them somewhere else, but Slade says no BC they seem too good, like something on Colbert or something, if the politics were slightly different, at least.
If they are yours and with your permission I would like to start posting them around because my guess is this could be the kind of thing that gets around the world several billion times in a few weeks.
Well, it's not everyday that I get to put Slade in his place, so, I am happy to declare Morganspice the winner on this one.
PS: I hear that Al Gore has a Christmas Album coming out soon. I’ll let you know when I get a hold of a copy.
PPS: Amy – sorry to monopolize your post with all of this silliness!
I am not sure it is a bad thing for a post to get hijacked by a side discussion, bc it keeps people coming back to it at least.
I hope that isn't just my assumption (so correct me if I am wrong).
And Slade doesn't mind being put in his place, he feels quite at home there and hopes never to leave.
Note for Amy...
Since this was your post I think...
You left a comment on one of the problems I was having figuring out something on my blog, and I appreciate it, you and Kate are both obviously tech savy enough to have spurred the rest of us along with you.
So my new questions are these and I made reference to them on my posts, one, I am having problems figuring out how to control the exact placement of pictures within the text of the blogs themselves.
Also, because the main text of my blogs is pretty long and copious I was thinking that I could make it so the home page has mainli LINKS or CATEGORIES of stuff, rather than the actual content of the blog. Like HISTORY, LANGUAGE, RANDOM THOUGHTS, POLITICS, or FAMILY. Is there a way to do this? Sorry again like John said if it isn't good to use your post for side issues.
Oh and John he asked that I clarify, his doubt was not your ability just your likelihood of wasting it on this audience of about 6 or so. I hope that makes sense.
Hey - First of all, I say - the more comments the better! No worries about monopolization here! I love the Walton fam x-mas ideas..how funny - and can't wait to hear Al Gore's x-mas album..lol.
CA - As for the linking to other pages/website within your posting you go to 'create new post' just like you are making any usual new post item. Then within your text you can highlight a word, and hit the icon above the text box that is green and has little metal looking rings around it - when you scroll over it it says 'link.' Its next to the font type/color/etc - up there on the tool bar. For example, your sentence could say, "For more info on this subject go to wikipedia" - highlight wikipedia and hit the little link icon above. That will bring up a url box where you can either type in a website or copy and paste one in. Then just continue your post, and when it is finished people can click on that highlighted word - wikipedia - and it'll take them there.
As for the picture/text within a post, I haven't yet mastered the best way to do that. I think that is one of the glitches of blogspot.com. As far as I can tell, you should leave a whole line between pictures and text to not mess up the layout, but I'll let you know if I can figure anything else out.
Cheers!
All's well from my perspective. My only point about the 'comment monopoly' was that I felt bad about not actually posting real Christmas music, which really is a great idea.
I haven't heard the whole Al Gore album yet. . . just a few tracks:
1. Here We Come A Fossilfueling
2. Oh Holy Ozone
And the top 40 hit:
3. Grandma Got Run Over By A Prius
Sweet!
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