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Showing posts with label ^ Bing Crosby. Show all posts

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

"Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth"
Bing Crosby & David Bowie -- 1977

Grateful Dead dancing bear -- Merry Christmas!

That 70's Show
"An Eric Forman Christmas" -- December 18, 2001

Monday, December 24, 2007

Yep, the Griswolds are back...

Oi! Oh, man... seriously, why is the world still rotating today? When I got home from the bar at whatever o'clock in the morning it was, only a few freakin' hours ago, I'm pretty sure all I wanted was for some type of worldly catastrophic event to take place that would mean I wouldn't ever have to wake up for work!

Here's the deal -- drinking a lot when you don't drink a lot anymore... whoa. Might as well, might as well, might as well just skip the drinking and take a jackhammer straight to my skull. Come on, Advil, work, baby! It's not even like I was drinking to get plastered. Somehow the glass kept getting filled with beer and so that meant each time I had to eventually empty it into my stomach! Dems da rulez, yo -- No Beer Wasted. Duh.

Now it's like coming up on 8 a.m. as I type this and I have to work a 24 hour shift starting at 9 ... haaaa! luckily not until 9 o'clock tonight, Christmas Eve -» through Christmas morning -» through Christmas day -» 9 p.m. Christmas night. I have no idea what bar in town will be open but when my shift's over, it'll probably be pitcher time again, that or just pour me Guinness by the pint and I'll be forgetting Christmas with each and every hoist. Ahhhh... or I'll just come back to my bed and collapse. We shall see, we shall see.

Probably no way that I'll run today. Even though the gym's open until 6 p.m. this evening, I'm fairly sure I've written that off already. After my run last night, man, I was so stoked for a run today. Just the mere thought of stepping foot on the track is making me shudder in horror.
Stoopid alcohol.

So for now I've got 12+ hours to get some more sleep and recover from this. If I had to start a shift in an hour, that would be so wicked irresponsible. I think, at least I hope, I've left that kind of irresponsibility way in the past. Mayhaps if I worked at Mickey D's I'd tell them to kiss my shiny metal ass, I quit... but my job is slightly more important than that so I'll be there with bells on, or I would if I wore bells, which I don't, so no bells, nevermind. But if it's anything like Thanksgiving then it'll be an interesting shift with interesting calls. Still, perhaps I shoulda flown to Dutch Harbor for a few days. All I woulda done there is drank myself silly with strangers and Christmas would have been actively happening just as much as it is here. Maybe the best place to go to avoid the holiday would be, oh, Saudi Arabia? Yemen? Something like that.

Anyway, I didn't plan to listen to Christmas tunes this late into the season but this happens and that happens and I didn't want to wait on this until next year so here it is now...


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Tunes...



National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation soundtrack (front cover)National
Lampoon's
Christmas
Vacation

soundtrack

1989

(1999 Limited 10th Anniversary Edition)



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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Soundtrack

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Christmas Vacation (cartoon version) -- Mavis Staples
· Take It Russ. . .
Hey, Santa Claus -- The Moonglows
· Clark's Asskiss Remark
That Spirit Of Christmas -- Ray Charles
· Sh****r Was Full
Christmas Vacation Suite -- John Williams/Angelo Badalamenti
· Aunt Bethany's Arrival
Hallelujah Chorus -- The Oratorio Society of New York
· Feeding the dog at the table
Mele Kalikimaka -- Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
· Clark Explodes
Here Comes Santa Claus -- Gene Autry
· Eddie's Gift
Joy To The World -- Angelo Badalamenti
· Hell's Threshold
Christmas Vacation (end credits version) -- Mavis Staples
· Rocket's Red Glare/Star-Spangled Banner

-- Bonus Tracks-- (Christmas Jingle -- Angelo Badalamenti)
Holiday Road -- Lindsey Buckingham
Dancin' 'Cross The U.S.A. -- Lindsey Buckingham
Holiday Road -- Limp
Christmas Vacation (radio version) -- Mavis Staples
Radio Commercial (movie trailer)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation soundtrack (rear cover)
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Merry Christmas snowman snow globe dealie

Thursday, October 4, 2007

81 Shopping Days Left. Go To The Mall Now!


Yes sir, another day when the temperature never got higher than about the upper 30's (around 3-4°C.) I love weather, particularly Fall days like this! Unfortunately I did not hike, did not run... but at least I'm not injured! Just a day off from the trail due to work and rest. Lookin' forward to gettin' back on the trail tomorrow. NEED MORE EXERCISE! I was dreading running again but now I'm dyin', dyin' I tell ya, to push my times back up. Will take some time to get up there, and a lot of time before I'm seriously contemplating the '09 London Marathon. A long time to train for that.

But in the meantime... it's always a good time for Christmas tunes! Some of these really brought me back. Growing up I'm sure I heard many of them many many times over. I could type all kinds of good memories but I'm so tired and need sleep so... on with the music!






Christmas With The Stars


[made in Holland. 1998/1999]







White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Jingle Bells - Rosemary Clooney
Silent Night - Mahalia Jackson
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Frank Sinatra
Please Come Home For Christmas - The Platters
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Drifters
Mrs. Santa Claus - Nat King Cole
Have Yourself A Merry Christmas - Rosemary Clooney
The First Noel - Pat Boone
Oh Come All Ye Faithful - Bing Crosby
The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
Silver Bells - Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby
Winter Wonderland - The Drifters
Suzy Snowflake - Rosemary Clooney
Blue Christmas - The Platters
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing - Mahalia Jackson

This is a mostly nice collection of songs. The CD's a cheapy release by no major U.S. label. I'm not sure why companies do this. Is this supposed to be better than the thousands of albums already available? The songs mostly work together... mostly. A few are really fun such as Bing & Ella on Rudolph, a song I don't usually care for but this one I like a lot! And this Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Rosemary Clooney is really nice, as well. A few are clearly from the 1980's, complete with electric drums and synthesizers while the rest is clearly from an era long gone by. Strip away three of the songs by The Drifters and The Platters and the collection as a whole sounds a whole lot better. It's not bad but I'll probably never listen to it again because ideally one day I'd get a better similar collection. Who knows, maybe I'll hang onto this and play it again and again. Hey, I can't tell the future but one thing's for certain -- Santa will know what I did!






one says one number and the other another
but they were set at the same time. Hmmm...

i love you amy uzarski.  always!
 
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