This is kind of where I am with Christmas music. There really isn't a lot of any kind of music that I'd want to listen to for a month straight once a year and while I certainly like to listen to old albums that I've owned for a long time, I don't feel compelled to do so in some kind of ritualistic fashion around a particular holiday. Maybe I'll listen to R.E.M.'s Green or Coltrane's A Love Supreme a few times this year, or maybe I won't. Maybe in a few years I will go on an R.E.M. kick for a few weeks and reminisce through their catalog like I haven't in years and years. Maybe I'll sprinkle some Coltrane into the rotation when I am in the mood for throwing a bunch of jazz CDs in the carousel on the stereo or on my phone. Most of the time when choosing music I just want to focus on new stuff or stuff that's new to me, stuff that I haven't heard for some time, stuff that is interesting to me at the time, etc.Luke wrote: He makes a good point. Same music, every Christmas.
Christmas music kind of fucks that vibe up and, for many years, was this kind of intrusion into the way that I typically listen to music. A few years ago I stopped playing Christmas music in the car, in the house, etc. all through December and, unless it was like Christmas Eve/Christmas Day or if I was putting up the tree, just played other kinds of music. It has been awesome, because I'd hate to die thinking that I spent essentially 1/12 of my music listening life hearing the same old songs (or an annual list of new ones) all about a holiday. There's just far too much else out there to hear, learn about, and come to appreciate to be wasting time with Christmas music for that long.
That said, I can give you some killer lists of Christmas music to play. I do like a lot of Christmas music and I feel like I have a good handle on both the popular and obscure tunes in the "genre"...but I just can't abide it for weeks on end anymore...
-had to clock in late at work and would've gotten a whole heck a lot closer to done by 5 if it hadn't been for the stupid hour cuts
- instead got told to stay late as well coming in a hour earlier than I was told to so that should be about 4.75 hours of overtime pay so kinda make my next paycheck a little more acceptable... Also a package from a certain member arrived so I now own devil survivor and mario super sluggers(so one wantlist item down and one nintendo game to start to complete my nintendo IP collection ^_^ )
plus my ps1 has some messups where it works fine when walking around with one controller but I can't use the menus and the other controller it comes with works but even touching analog makes me have to unplug it and replug it in. Guess it might be time to open it up and see what's wrong with them...(already blew them out with compressed air....)
