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Christmas: Humble and Fred Style
I have been hanging onto this since I started this blog, waiting for the chance to convert this cassette full of Christmas cheer to MP3. It is the 1998 Humble and Fred Christmas Spectacular featuring the Barenaked Ladies. Humble and Fred can correct me if I am wrong but 1998 was the last year that the band played. Stephen made appearances after Humble and Fred switched to MOJO but for the most part that was it.
So, enjoy and Merry Christmas! I hear the guys are working on Humble and Fred Podcast #5 so this should provide some fun listening until that is up and running. There are 6 parts so have a listen!
Humble and Fred Teaser
If you didn't notice with my last post I had to switch to a new audio player. No its not as nice and detailed as the Imeem one but Houndbite will suffice. Mike Boon super technical guy referred me to Houndbite to get the audioclips running again as Myspace ate up Imeem. Above is a teaser, a week from Friday I will post a little treat for Humble and Fred fans for the Holidays.....You may use the comments section to guess and if you are a true fan you will guess without a problem...if you know, stay tuned, Im in the process of recording it and sometime next Friday I'll throw up some classic H&F.Category: Christmas | Humble and Fred | Miscellaneous | Music
Retro Christmas
Here are my top five favorite Christmas songs from back then....in no particular order. Chime in with more if you like:Category: Christmas | Sunday Retro
The First Christmas Song
I haven't separated the Christmas songs on my Ipod from the regular play list, I basically have a massive collection of 7600 songs at this point and if a Christmas song pops up from time to time I just skip right over it.
Well, after November 1st as long as its a good Christmas tune I let it fly. Today was the first of the good ones to come up while in the car so I let it go. It was Little Saint Nick by the Beach Boys. This is on my terms, not on some crazy radio stations terms who think they have to play Christmas music 24/7 starting November 1st.
Last year I let the first one play on November 12th, this year its 8 days earlier but I figured what the hell, after the crappy ass, rain filled summer we had we might as well push the cheerful part of winter into high gear because once the holidays are over its about 2+ months of hopelessness and nasty snow, sleet, ice and freezing rain.
So after today I will let the good Christmas songs that come on the Ipod playWay Too Early
Yesterday I walked into Rite Aid to pick up a few things and I was standing at the register and it hit me, its November. Why did it strike me right then and there?
Because we start celebrating Christmas now. Christmas music was playing overhead as I was waiting at the register. Way too early people! By the time we get to the actual holiday, the whole point of the day is completely lost with all the commercialism and stress from having to shop and buy gifts that most of us given these economic times don't have the money to buy and end up going waist deep into debt to buy a bunch of crap.
Whats wrong with waiting until December 1st? Hell I'd even say, wait until after Veteran's Day and then have at it. After that day there isn't much to talk about, the days are like 5 hours long and it helps to brighten the long nights. As a matter of fact, Im going to start a push right now for a law, okay more a rule than a law, that there is to be no Christmas music before December.
I ran into this a few times over the last couple weeks, I did not uncheck the Christmas songs in my Ipod and Snoopy's Christmas by the Royal Guardsman came on. Its one of my favorite songs period but its a Christmas song so I blew right by it.
How early is too early to start mentioning the holidays and specifically, how early is too early to start with the damn Christmas music? Call me Scrooge, call me what ever you want, but Christmas is just way too early. Really, Im more of a fan of extending the celebration, we spend two months before hyping it and then the day after we race to take everything down. Start celebrating it in December and then keep things up a few weeks into January to keep things lit up during the first half of the coldest and darkest month of the year.
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2007 Christmas Presents
With the last few days being a bit depressing around here I wanted to focus on the positive side of Christmas...The presents were cool! Here are my favorite presents of 2007:
1. 250 GB external hard drive - I needed more space to back up my music files and this is perfect.
2. A new 5 disc CD changer- old one broke had it for 10 years and the motor in it failed that ejects the loading tray.
3. The complete Rush Tour books- wanted them when we saw them over the summer and my lovely wife got them for me.
4. Hockey '08 for PS2
5. The Simpsons Movie on DVD
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Bummer on Christmas
First a little history, in the picture from last New Year Eve at our wedding from the left is Don, me, my wife Sandie and Don.
Both Don's have been really close to our family over the years and have been basically like uncles to me. They have been around for every major holiday or event and we do just about everything with them over the years so they truly are our extended family. He may not have been a blood relative but he was just as close as any family could be. He was there for my grandmothers 90th birthday and there to speak when she passed. He went to New York City with my parents last summer to Yankee stadium.
He took my and my dad out to eat the Friday before our wedding last year as a last night out for me. He was someone you could kid around with and just be yourself around. Always looking to laugh and have fun.
On Christmas eve right after arriving at my wifes aunts for our Christmas Eve get together, my wife got a call on her cell from my parents, my phone was off and I knew that my parents wouldnt be calling my wife if it was something minor.
It wasn't minor. Don on the left passed away for all we know it was between Sunday and Monday that he left us. He was in his chair in his apartment. Just days after officially retiring. To say the least we were devastated.
He was so much fun to be around and I know I am going to miss him more than I know. Ive been a wreck since the news got to me and I know for everyone in our family its not an easy few days coming up. I considered him like an uncle or a third grandfather. Always looking to enjoy life and be with the people he loved.
He was a huge Yankee fan, loved to have a beer and a cigar at the casino and loved his hot foods, he told great jokes and rarely took life seriously. It was always a good time when we were together. I will miss how he would give the bash brothers fist to me with a big "hey Moose (my nickame amongst family)" when he saw me.
Stay tuned later in the week as I will post some more pictures as I get them loaded. In the mean time, bloggage may be light as things as you can imagine are a little on the down low around here. Have to find a way to get some energy and make it through a day of work tomorrow as much as its hurting to do anything other than to be around family and think about Don.
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Christmas Vacation
I will leave you all with what is probably the best Christmas movie of all time. This is the lights scene from Christmas Vacation....Enjoy and Merry Christmas. Probably limited bloggage the next few days Wednesday and Thursday I work 12 hour days fun fun fun! Enjoy the day tomorrow and enjoy a little clip from Christmas Vacation:
