Entries from December 2010 ↓

The past couple of weeks I’ve been listening to the Christmas episodes of one of my favorite podcasts The Quiet Village.  There was one last year and two the year before, and they’re wonderful.  They feature Christmas songs in a Hawaiian/Exotica vein and the selections are pretty much perfect.  One of the things that I love about it is that I hear songs I never hear anywhere else unless I bust out my Ultralounge Christmas albums.

This of course gets me going on the local Christmas stations - why won’t they play any of this stuff?  It’s not like the songs are unfamiliar to people.  They’re traditional songs and no one’s going to shut off the station is they hear Les Baxter’s version of Sleigh Ride instead of Debbie Gibson’s.

One other thing, when did Dean Martin’s “Marshmallow World” get taken off the Christmas playlist at these stations?  Did someone decide that Bob Segar’s horrible version of “The Little Drummer Boy” needed to get more play?

So this year the plan of posting every day of November for NaBloPoMo worked out and went a lot smoother than it did last year.  That shouldn’t have been the case since things are a lot crazier around my house this year but I think the realization of how things were made me more focused on writing posts every day.

Anyway, I feel less burned out than I did last year so hopefully I’ll keep posting at a regular clip but based on the last ten days it doesn’t look promising.

I’ve given some thought to what my favorite albums of 2010 and what a pain in the ass it is.  As usual, my favorite albums that I bought in the past year weren’t actually released in 2010.  I need to check dates but so far I like the new Girl Talk a lot, along with the Black Keys and Slash’s solo album.