A digital commonplace for a Regular Guy called Charlie Pharis
And the joyous sounds of Christmas music filling the air in my office! I wondered all night about what I would choose to start the holiday tunes this year, and I decided to let AccuRadio’s AccuHolidays channel work its internet magic. First out of the chute?
Linda Ronstadt’s Silent Night, from her Merry Little Christmas project.
Absolutely perfect for the official kickoff of Christmas Music 2007!
And all you loyal readers (both of you!) know what that means…
It’s beginning to
looksound a lot like Christmas;
Soon the bells will start,
And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.
That’s right, boys and girls…Labor Day officially kicks off the start of Christmas music at the ol’ Just Charlie hacienda! And I’m chomping at the bit this year…
I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now.
For we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute…
Stay tuned…more details to come…
OK…suppose you wanted an mp3 player. And suppose you couldn’t afford an iPod right now. What would you do? Would you…
Tonight, I’m sitting here kind of chillin’ with the “Chris Tomlin” channel on Pandora. I’m knocking out a couple of little print pieces for our church. I’m drinking an iced Sumatra. I’ve just gotten off the phone with “The Boy.”
And I’m pumped about a short-notice breakfast in the morning with one of my long-distance heroes, Roger Blackmore!
Not too shabby for a Tuesday night, huh?
Got this from “The Boy’s” cell phone yesterday…those wacky college kids, spending all their time studying and studying and studying some more…
(BTW, Moby Dick nowhere in sight! Whew!)
OK, listen up…both of you!
You guys did a great job helping me find songs dealing with “loneliness” a couple of weeks ago. So…have it…give me your best shot on songs dealing with “regret.” I’m waiting to see your comments!
Thanks ahead of time!
Just some things in my head and my heart at the end of a long Sunday…
I’m in one of those jazz singer moods tonight, starting with “Lady Ella” herself. I heard this “new” CD in Starbucks last Friday. I’ve been a sucker for Ella for probably thirty years or so – ever since I discovered jazz singers in high school. When the CD finishes, I’ll be switching over to the Ella Fitzgerald channel on Pandora. (Cool deal, that Pandora…thanks, Gary or Ken or whoever it was that first alerted me to it!)
Well, we got “The Boy” moved and enrolled in school in “The ‘Boro” yesterday. A few things about that trip…