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rebecca_in_blueMom has been asking Sara and me, almost non-stop, to come over and help her decorate the Christmas tree. I must have been misinformed, but I somehow got it into my head that tonight she was expecting us (or me, at least, since Sara's sleeping) and was buying pizza. I went over there tonight in the rain, but Mom never emerged from her room, and I would've just stayed and decorated the tree with Adam, but I was starving (hadn't eaten dinner, because I thought she was buying pizza) and couldn't find one thing to eat there, so I came back home. How pointless.
And this is completely pointless too, since I'm almost certain that everyone who's getting me something for Christmas is already done shopping, but I'm posting it anyway.
Rebecca's Christmas List, 2010
A Beatles mousepad.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965).
A card reader for a standard SD card. (At my store, they start at $10, I think.)
A subscribtion to The Week for next year. Because without this magazine, I would be trash ignorant.
A good pair of slippers. I don't have any, so I've been wearing my sparkly knee-high rainbow socks with individuals toes instead (What's that? You're jealous? Yeah, I know) and while those are very cool and devlish, I would like some slippers.
A new set of silverware. Sara and I have had our current silverware set since I-don't-know-when, and our amount of forks and spoons has dwindled. Especially spoons. Words cannot describe how tired I am of fishing a dirty spoon out of the sink to eat my cereal. That sounded really gross, didn't it? Yes, we live like animals!
A grocery list wall mount. I really don't know how to describe these things. They hold a roll of paper, and you write your grocery list (or whatever) on it and tear it off when you're done. (I am obsessed with grocery lists and can't go shopping without one.) Hank and Peggy on King of the Hill have one in their kitchen, and I think the Tanners also have one in their kitchen on Full House.
Child actress movies: Matilda (1996), The Secret Garden (1949). Matilda (and Mara Wilson) is so winning that I would've gotten it a long time ago, but ABC Family plays it so often that I didn't really need to. But there aren't many child actress movies that I want that I don't already have. I've never even seen the 1949 version of The Secret Garden, but I like Margaret O'Brien and the 1993 version both so much that I can't imagine I won't like it. Matilda is available on a double DVD with either The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) or Madeline (1998). Not that I really love those movies -- they're okay -- but two child actress movies are always better than one.
I burned my new Christmas CD this weekend, and even though I wasn't able to find one of the songs I wanted, it came out well. I'm posting the playlist for it and the Christmas CD I burned back in 2005. I remember the day I made it was a very cold and depressing Sunday, and I'd had to go to campus to put up fliers for the French film night that we were doing for JXB's class. I think I came home and ate an MRE that we had leftover from hurricane evacuations.
Christmas with Rebecca, 2005
1. A-Souling, Peter, Paul, & Mary.
2. All I Want for Christmas Is You, Olivia Olson (aka the little girl who belted out this song at the end of Love Actually).
3. Cajun Twelve Days of Christmas, Tee Jules. "A crawfish, in a fig tree." But the "two voodoo dolls" didn't make my bad-ass Cajun grandma too happy. "Cajun people don't practice voodoo! They're all Catholic!"
4. Carol of the Bells, Mr. Mackey. From the South Park Christmas album.
5. Christmas in Killarney, Bing Crosby. When I was little, I used to fall asleep to an old cassette tape of Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols (I did this throughout the year). Every sing by him, on either CD, was on that tape, and they all remind me of the glow of my night-light and how my old bedroom looked.
6. Christmastime Is Here, The Vince Guaraldi Trio. From A Charlie Brown Christmas. What I especially love about it is that it's joyful in a quiet, somber way, not an over-the-top, forced way, like so many other Christmas songs.
7. Snow Miser and Heat Miser, Dick Shawn & George S. Irving. From one of those hilariously bad old claymation Christmas specials.
8. Deck the Halls, Nat King Cole. Because it's very short, I had just enough room on the CD for it, and I still have the pop-up book of these lyrics that I got in kindergarten (sadly, though, it no longer pops up).
9. Do You Hear What I Hear, Martina McBride.
10. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), George Harrison. Not a Christmas song, per se, but it's message is very fitting for the holiday season, and since I have John and Paul both on the CD, I wanted to include George too. Sorry, no Ringo.
11. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Judy Garland. The best ever. Plus, it's from Meet Me in St. Louis, one of my favorite child actress movies.
12. It Wasn't His Child, Trisha Yearwood. The nativity story as told by Joseph.
13. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Andy Williams.
14. Little Drummer Boy (Peace on Earth), David Bowie & Bing Crosby. But since making the CD, I've gotten rather sick of this song. The radio station that we used to listen to at work played it to death last year, to the point where I wanted to puke whenever I heard it. Which is unfortunate, because it's a good song.
15. Louisiana Christmas Day, Aaron Neville. This one I could never get sick of! Who in Louisiana doesn't love this song?
16. Mary Did You Know, Kenny Rogers & Wynonna Judd. This cover is incredibly cheesy, but I like it. The video for it is even cheesier, if that's possible.
17. O Holy Night, Eric Cartman. See #4. Cartman totally butchers one of my favorite religious Christmas songs, but I love it.
18. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee.
19. Same Old Lang Syne, Dan Fogelberg. One of the very few sad Christmas songs out there, which of course makes it even better.
20. Silver Bells, Bing Crosby.
21. Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney.
22. Happy XMas (War Is Over), John Lennon.
23. Somewhere in My Memory, John Williams. From Home Alone, one of my favorite Christmas movies.
24. That's What I Want for Christmas, Shirley Temple. One of Shirley's very best numbers and (to my knowledge) her only Christmas song. I love it.
25. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays, Perry Como.
26. Vive le Vent. My all-time favorite French Christmas song. It's to the melody of Jingle Bells, but the lyrics are completely different.
Noël avec Rebecca, 2009
1. Auld Lang Syne (Millenium Mix), Kenny G. Released at Christmas 1999, it's famous sound clips from throughout the century, with Auld Lang Syne playing in the background.
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside, Anne Murray & Michael Buble. I used to hate this song (my first reaction was that it was about date-rape), but it's grown on me.
3. Better Days, The Goo Goo Dolls.
4. Celebrate Me Home, Kenny Loggins.
5. Good Christian Men, Rejoice. One of the very few religious Christmas songs I've heard with an upbeat melody. So many have joyful lyrics but extremely somber, serious melodies (Silent Night, for example). But this one is so cheerful, you can practically dance to it! I heard it for the first time at the LSU Christmas Tree Lighting in 2006, which was a really beautiful ceremony
6. Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Bob Dylan. I can't listen to this without laughing. He sounds just the way you would expect Bob Dylan singing a Christmas song to sound: drunk, confused, incoherent.
7. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Johnny Day.
8. I Saw Three Ships, Nat King Cole.
9. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Bing Crosby. I spent four years trying to rewrite this to describe the LSU campus at Christmas -- "There's a tree at the clock tower, one in the union, too" -- but it never worked out well.
10. Joy to the World, Three Dog Night. Not "The Lord has come," but "Jeremiah was a bullfrog!"
11. Little Dealer Boy, Willie Nelson & Stephen Colbert. From last year's A Colbert Christmas, it's a parody of Little Drummer Boy with Willie Nelson as a wise man who brings Jesus pot ("behold a plant that smokes more sweetly / than either frankincense or myrrh"). I love it so much, it's one the reasons I made this CD in the first place.
12. Little Saint Nick, The Beach Boys.
13. Mele Kalikimaka, Bing Crosby. About warm, sunny Christmas in Hawaii. The title means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian.
14. Merry Frickin' Christmas, Relient K. Introduced to me last year by Eva. "The treats, the gifts, the mistletoe kiss! Shoot me now, I'm sick of all my relatives!"
15. O Holy Night, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
16. Once Upon a December, Deanna Carter.
17. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, The Jackson 5. The very best cover of this song.
18. Silver and God, Burl Ives. Of course Burl Ives's best-known Christmas song is "Holly Jolly Christmas," but I think this one is way better.
19. Sleigh Ride, Andy Williams. I much prefer Ella Fitzgerald's cover but wasn't able to download it.
20. The Sound of Christmas, Julie Andrews. The lyrics aren't great -- the title is an obvious attempt to capitalize on Julie's Sound of Music success -- but Dame Andrews's voice is so amazing, she could sing shit and make it sound spectacular.
21. Walking in the Air, Connie Talbot. A recent cover of a song from The Snowman, an old British Christmas movie. There's nothing even remotely Christmas-y in the lyrics, but it's such a beautiful, haunting song I had to include it.
22. We Need a Little Christmas, Angela Lansbury.
23. What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Fiest, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, & Stephen Colbert. The final song from A Colbert Christmas, an ensemble by everyone who appeared on the show.
24. Who Would Imagine a King, Whitney Houston. From The Preacher's Wife, Mary's lullaby to Jesus, one of my favorite religious Christmas songs.
25. Amazing Grace, Boyz II Men. An amazing accapella cover of the song; not a Christmas song, of course, but Sara just introduced me to it, and I liked it so much, I figured I'd include it.
And this is completely pointless too, since I'm almost certain that everyone who's getting me something for Christmas is already done shopping, but I'm posting it anyway.
Rebecca's Christmas List, 2010
A Beatles mousepad.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965).
A card reader for a standard SD card. (At my store, they start at $10, I think.)
A subscribtion to The Week for next year. Because without this magazine, I would be trash ignorant.
A good pair of slippers. I don't have any, so I've been wearing my sparkly knee-high rainbow socks with individuals toes instead (What's that? You're jealous? Yeah, I know) and while those are very cool and devlish, I would like some slippers.
A new set of silverware. Sara and I have had our current silverware set since I-don't-know-when, and our amount of forks and spoons has dwindled. Especially spoons. Words cannot describe how tired I am of fishing a dirty spoon out of the sink to eat my cereal. That sounded really gross, didn't it? Yes, we live like animals!
A grocery list wall mount. I really don't know how to describe these things. They hold a roll of paper, and you write your grocery list (or whatever) on it and tear it off when you're done. (I am obsessed with grocery lists and can't go shopping without one.) Hank and Peggy on King of the Hill have one in their kitchen, and I think the Tanners also have one in their kitchen on Full House.
Child actress movies: Matilda (1996), The Secret Garden (1949). Matilda (and Mara Wilson) is so winning that I would've gotten it a long time ago, but ABC Family plays it so often that I didn't really need to. But there aren't many child actress movies that I want that I don't already have. I've never even seen the 1949 version of The Secret Garden, but I like Margaret O'Brien and the 1993 version both so much that I can't imagine I won't like it. Matilda is available on a double DVD with either The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) or Madeline (1998). Not that I really love those movies -- they're okay -- but two child actress movies are always better than one.
I burned my new Christmas CD this weekend, and even though I wasn't able to find one of the songs I wanted, it came out well. I'm posting the playlist for it and the Christmas CD I burned back in 2005. I remember the day I made it was a very cold and depressing Sunday, and I'd had to go to campus to put up fliers for the French film night that we were doing for JXB's class. I think I came home and ate an MRE that we had leftover from hurricane evacuations.
Christmas with Rebecca, 2005
1. A-Souling, Peter, Paul, & Mary.
2. All I Want for Christmas Is You, Olivia Olson (aka the little girl who belted out this song at the end of Love Actually).
3. Cajun Twelve Days of Christmas, Tee Jules. "A crawfish, in a fig tree." But the "two voodoo dolls" didn't make my bad-ass Cajun grandma too happy. "Cajun people don't practice voodoo! They're all Catholic!"
4. Carol of the Bells, Mr. Mackey. From the South Park Christmas album.
5. Christmas in Killarney, Bing Crosby. When I was little, I used to fall asleep to an old cassette tape of Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols (I did this throughout the year). Every sing by him, on either CD, was on that tape, and they all remind me of the glow of my night-light and how my old bedroom looked.
6. Christmastime Is Here, The Vince Guaraldi Trio. From A Charlie Brown Christmas. What I especially love about it is that it's joyful in a quiet, somber way, not an over-the-top, forced way, like so many other Christmas songs.
7. Snow Miser and Heat Miser, Dick Shawn & George S. Irving. From one of those hilariously bad old claymation Christmas specials.
8. Deck the Halls, Nat King Cole. Because it's very short, I had just enough room on the CD for it, and I still have the pop-up book of these lyrics that I got in kindergarten (sadly, though, it no longer pops up).
9. Do You Hear What I Hear, Martina McBride.
10. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), George Harrison. Not a Christmas song, per se, but it's message is very fitting for the holiday season, and since I have John and Paul both on the CD, I wanted to include George too. Sorry, no Ringo.
11. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Judy Garland. The best ever. Plus, it's from Meet Me in St. Louis, one of my favorite child actress movies.
12. It Wasn't His Child, Trisha Yearwood. The nativity story as told by Joseph.
13. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Andy Williams.
14. Little Drummer Boy (Peace on Earth), David Bowie & Bing Crosby. But since making the CD, I've gotten rather sick of this song. The radio station that we used to listen to at work played it to death last year, to the point where I wanted to puke whenever I heard it. Which is unfortunate, because it's a good song.
15. Louisiana Christmas Day, Aaron Neville. This one I could never get sick of! Who in Louisiana doesn't love this song?
16. Mary Did You Know, Kenny Rogers & Wynonna Judd. This cover is incredibly cheesy, but I like it. The video for it is even cheesier, if that's possible.
17. O Holy Night, Eric Cartman. See #4. Cartman totally butchers one of my favorite religious Christmas songs, but I love it.
18. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee.
19. Same Old Lang Syne, Dan Fogelberg. One of the very few sad Christmas songs out there, which of course makes it even better.
20. Silver Bells, Bing Crosby.
21. Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney.
22. Happy XMas (War Is Over), John Lennon.
23. Somewhere in My Memory, John Williams. From Home Alone, one of my favorite Christmas movies.
24. That's What I Want for Christmas, Shirley Temple. One of Shirley's very best numbers and (to my knowledge) her only Christmas song. I love it.
25. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays, Perry Como.
26. Vive le Vent. My all-time favorite French Christmas song. It's to the melody of Jingle Bells, but the lyrics are completely different.
Noël avec Rebecca, 2009
1. Auld Lang Syne (Millenium Mix), Kenny G. Released at Christmas 1999, it's famous sound clips from throughout the century, with Auld Lang Syne playing in the background.
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside, Anne Murray & Michael Buble. I used to hate this song (my first reaction was that it was about date-rape), but it's grown on me.
3. Better Days, The Goo Goo Dolls.
4. Celebrate Me Home, Kenny Loggins.
5. Good Christian Men, Rejoice. One of the very few religious Christmas songs I've heard with an upbeat melody. So many have joyful lyrics but extremely somber, serious melodies (Silent Night, for example). But this one is so cheerful, you can practically dance to it! I heard it for the first time at the LSU Christmas Tree Lighting in 2006, which was a really beautiful ceremony
6. Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Bob Dylan. I can't listen to this without laughing. He sounds just the way you would expect Bob Dylan singing a Christmas song to sound: drunk, confused, incoherent.
7. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Johnny Day.
8. I Saw Three Ships, Nat King Cole.
9. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Bing Crosby. I spent four years trying to rewrite this to describe the LSU campus at Christmas -- "There's a tree at the clock tower, one in the union, too" -- but it never worked out well.
10. Joy to the World, Three Dog Night. Not "The Lord has come," but "Jeremiah was a bullfrog!"
11. Little Dealer Boy, Willie Nelson & Stephen Colbert. From last year's A Colbert Christmas, it's a parody of Little Drummer Boy with Willie Nelson as a wise man who brings Jesus pot ("behold a plant that smokes more sweetly / than either frankincense or myrrh"). I love it so much, it's one the reasons I made this CD in the first place.
12. Little Saint Nick, The Beach Boys.
13. Mele Kalikimaka, Bing Crosby. About warm, sunny Christmas in Hawaii. The title means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian.
14. Merry Frickin' Christmas, Relient K. Introduced to me last year by Eva. "The treats, the gifts, the mistletoe kiss! Shoot me now, I'm sick of all my relatives!"
15. O Holy Night, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
16. Once Upon a December, Deanna Carter.
17. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, The Jackson 5. The very best cover of this song.
18. Silver and God, Burl Ives. Of course Burl Ives's best-known Christmas song is "Holly Jolly Christmas," but I think this one is way better.
19. Sleigh Ride, Andy Williams. I much prefer Ella Fitzgerald's cover but wasn't able to download it.
20. The Sound of Christmas, Julie Andrews. The lyrics aren't great -- the title is an obvious attempt to capitalize on Julie's Sound of Music success -- but Dame Andrews's voice is so amazing, she could sing shit and make it sound spectacular.
21. Walking in the Air, Connie Talbot. A recent cover of a song from The Snowman, an old British Christmas movie. There's nothing even remotely Christmas-y in the lyrics, but it's such a beautiful, haunting song I had to include it.
22. We Need a Little Christmas, Angela Lansbury.
23. What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Fiest, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, & Stephen Colbert. The final song from A Colbert Christmas, an ensemble by everyone who appeared on the show.
24. Who Would Imagine a King, Whitney Houston. From The Preacher's Wife, Mary's lullaby to Jesus, one of my favorite religious Christmas songs.
25. Amazing Grace, Boyz II Men. An amazing accapella cover of the song; not a Christmas song, of course, but Sara just introduced me to it, and I liked it so much, I figured I'd include it.
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Date: 2009-12-09 06:03 pm (UTC)Do you also want a clock shaped like the state of Texas?
Louisiana Christmas Day and Are You High? are like the only Christmas songs I'm not sick of. Oh, and I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas! That version of Amazing Grace is indeed awesome but I don't think it's by Boyz II Men. I was looking around somewhere (YouTube?) and they said it was by an acapella group called Acapella. Very creative namers they were.
I know you are getting at least one thing on this list for Chrissy.
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Date: 2009-12-13 01:41 pm (UTC)Love you guys Aunt connie