Just in the nick of time!

alright! its christmas eve! i hope everyone has a wonderful evening with friends and/or family! we are having some of our best friends over and it has been so great to spend the holidays with them. so much food! in fact, gian is preparing a special cheese sampling for our christmas eve enjoyment! im off!

make up:

oops, i missed a day. how did this happen? sorry everybody. it wont happen again. well, that being said this blog will be on hiatus starting the day after christmas until after thanksgiving next year. so lets make the most of what little time i have left. so to make up for yesterdays absence, i will offer you something that will truly blow your mind. nathaniel showed this gem to me last week. here is a hint:

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give up? well, here you go. you are welcome.

spooky christmas songs

so i was thinking i would add a spooky category to christmas music. there are scary christmas movies, why not scary christmas songs? speaking of scary christmas movies, who has seen rare exports?

this one was so funny to me as a child. i think its a mix of the tune with louis armstrongs unique voice...



if i had found this one as a kid, i would have loved it too. i still do. in fact, this is the second time i have featured songs from this album:



and finally, one that would also fit under christmas soundtracks:

non christmasy christmas songs vol. 2

one of the best unintended consequences of this blog is that it is helping me find all kinds of music that i really like. this one, for example, is by a band i am a fan of...i dont know why i had never heard it before! its three years old already!



i didnt realize this one was a christmasy song at first...i thought i was just having trouble understanding the singer..



here is another good one. keep in mind, just because these arent particularly christmassy does not mean i exclude them from my christmas mixes...in fact this is the second year this one has made the cut!

you cant handel this

i mentioned before how much i like choral music. it is great. but i think what the christmas music genre is lacking is diversity in one particular piece of choral music: handel's messiah. the nutcracker has so many recognizable tunes in it, but the messiah really only has one song that people would recognize...and even though it is SUPER recognizable, i could only find a few different versions. the first one i will show you is accompanied by quite possibly the dumbest music video i have put thus far on my blog; and that is saying a lot.



and there is a reliant k version too, if you can believe it.



but seriously, someone needs to get on some handel covers.

80s christmas music vol. 2

ok ok. back to the 80s. special thanks to laura buendia for bringing this one to my attention. i didnt realize this: you know how ethiopia is completely stable and hasnt had any problems with hunger since, like, 1984? its not just because everyone came together over a mutual love of the release of ghostbusters. it turns out, this song saved the country!



it IS a good song, laura. you were right.
this one is pretty good too:

a petersburg christmas

this song is in honor of our former city of resiedence.