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So, panoramicgreen wrote on her other blog that "Feliz Navidad" was her least favorite song. This had been news to me this past holiday season when she finally 'fessed up that she had been wanting me to create a Jose Feliciano-free zone every Christmas since we've been spending the holidays together. She ended her post with, "Dear pkhentz, maybe try the disco version ( Read more... )

This is my last Christmas mix of the season, reflecting the massive growth in my Christmas music collection in the past couple of years. This one leans heavy on the 80s and old stand-bys ( Read more... )

This is my tentative layout of my country playlist, with the cover, which I am pretty happy with ( Read more... )

So, I have been working on some Christmas playlists. They have been provisionally titled "Christmas Mix (Christian)," "Christmas Mix (Country)," and Christmas Mix (Secular)" as I have been putting songs in and out and fiddling with the order. Well, I think I have a lineup I like for the Christian one, now tentatively titled, Tune My Heart to Sing ( Read more... )

So, the local Cleveland paper is doing a "Yule Madness" tournament, modeled on the March Madness brackets. They have lined up 16 popular Christmas carols and holiday songs, and every week between now and Christmas, they will put the songs head to head to see which ones are the most popular. I have "Joy to the World" beating out "The Christmas Song ( Read more... )

"...wish you a Happy Christmas."

That's the culmination of "Sister Winter," an original song by Sufjan Stevens on his fabulous Songs for Christmas box set. I bought a copy when S was here, and we enjoyed listening to it together. It wasn't until after she left, though, that I discovered "Sister Winter." It begins: "Oh, my friends, I've begun to ( Read more... )