I was old enough to be a NKOTB fan, but somehow they bypassed me--especially their Christmas album. My parents only listened to oldies radio, so perhaps it was a blessing. How does this go on for five minutes?

Ah well...happy holidays!

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Do you love long blog posts about discovering high-curiosity, low-stakes nominal trivia? Do you thrill in meandering stories about small details that eventually end with new tidbits for your useless font of information? If so, read on, my beautiful nerds ( Read more... )

We out for lunch at Earl's yesterday with my family for Thanksgiving. It was nice and nothing to clean up. Since we're still not 100% after having not-COVID, Mom wanted to make it easy on me. I still plan on making dinner for hubs and myself though ( Read more... )

LOL I don't have any teenagers in my household to tell me what's new and cool, but today I discovered Ava Max. Wow! I was at Dollarama and let Google find this song because I hilariously misheard a word. I love the legacy pop vibes in her songs--one afternoon of listening to her music and I'm a fan!

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Red Elvis is a biographical look at the life and death of Dean Reed who went from teen idol to Soviet superstar. Narrated by Dean's daughter, his interesting life met a suspicious end.

Dean Reed's Hollywood career was brief, but he became an international superstar during the height of the Cold War, living in Latin America and communist Europe. ( Read more... )

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One of the fun things about living in Canada is that a lot of British culture makes its way over the pond, such as an 11 VHS tape set of Brideshead Revisited based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. Mom and I watched it about 20 years ago. The whole soundtrack is on YouTube and it was delightful to hear it again.

Thanks for the memory sallymn!

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One of my favourite Gordon Lightfoot songs--I was reminded of it thinking of a family member the other day. Some people live so long or so hard that it's hard to imagine who they used to be!

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I was reminded of this song by by Ingrid Michaelson recently. Most people probably remember it from a pivotal moment of S4 of Grey's Anatomy. I like the repetition of a simple line and the overall prettiness of the song. Every now and then I stop and thinking "All I can do is keep breathing" :-)

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I heard this song a while back and went to find a version on YouTube that jived with me more than the solo performer. I forgot to paste the video here and naturally I can't find it again.

Anyhow, It Is Well With My Soul sounds best performed by a choir, IMHO, and there isn't a shortage on YouTube. The hymn was was composed by Philip Paul Bliss with ( Read more... )