Saturday, December 24, 2005

Christmas MixMania Playlist, and crawdads.

Here is my Christmas MixMania playlist. Sorta. My Windows Media playlists crashed a few days after I burned and sent the cd’s, so I’m playing this by ear.

Playing it by ear. Music. Honestly, I'm so witty. I do not remember where one disk stops and another begins, either, so sweet person who got my cd's: I'm sorry.

Twelve Days of Christmas – Straight No Chaser
Song for a Winter’s Night - Sarah McLachlan
Auld Lange Syne – Lou Rawls
Please Come Home For Christmas – Jon Bon Jovi
Christmas – Blues Traveler
What Child Is This – (hammered dulcimer)
Ave Maria – Chris Cornell and Eleven
Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) – Enya
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve – The O’Jays
Christmas Is Now Drawing Near At Hand – Steve Winwood
Es Ist Ein Ros’ Entsprungen – The King’s Singers
12 Days of Christmas – Space Ghost and the Villains
Christmastime – Smashing Pumpkins
Green Christmas – Weezer
O Holy Night – Michael Ball
Kerst - ? It's a version of the Quintet in A Major ‘Trout’ D667 – Allegro vivace, but I don't know the artist or the lyricist. It's wonderful, though.
The Coventry Carol – Anthony Newley
A Journey To Bethlehem – Michael Crawford
Riu Riu Chiu – Amor Artis Chamber Choir
River – Michael Ball
The Prayer – Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli
Cantique de Noel – Richie Sambora
Huge on the Luge – Moxy Fruvous
Christmas Is A Time To Say I Love You – Billy Squier
Glow Worm/It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – Rockapella
Medley a la Mozart – The King’s Singers
I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Michael Buble
The Night Before Christmas – Carly Simon
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas – The Drifters
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Rockapella
Little Drummer Boy – Bing Crosby & David Bowie
You’re All I Want For Christmas – Jump Little Children
I Saw Three Ships – celtic mix
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen – Vive Voce
Blue Christmas – Leon Redbone
What Child Is This – Charlotte Church
Faith Noel – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Lost Christmas Eve - Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Dreams - Trans Siberian Orchestra
Wizards in Winter - Trans Siberian Orchestra
Remember – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Anno Domine – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Concerto – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Queen of the Winter Night – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Nights in Blue – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Jazz – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Jam – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Siberian Sleigh Ride – Trans Siberian Orchestra
\What Is Christmas? – Trans Siberian Orchestra
For The Sake Of Our Brother – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Wisdom of Snow – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Wish Liszt – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Back to a Reason, Pt. 2 – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Bells, Carousels, and Time – Trans Siberian Orchestra
What Child Is This? – Trans Siberian Orchestra
O Come All Ye Faithful – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Canon Rock – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Different Wings – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Midnight Clear – Trans Siberian Orchestra
An Angel Came Down – Trans Siberian Orchestra
A Star to Follow – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Silent Nutcracker – Trans Siberian Orchestra
A Mad Russian’s Christmas – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Prince of Peace- Trans Siberian Orchestra
Good King Joy – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Ornament – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Old City Bar – Trans Siberian Orchestra
O Holy Night – Trans Siberian Orchestra
First Snow – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The First Noel – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Eve Sarajevo – Trans Siberian Orchestra
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Heavy Metal Christmas Guitars – Trans Siberian Orchestra
O come All Ye Faithful & Oh HoHoHo – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Ghosts of Christmas Eve – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Dream Child – Trans Siberian Orchestra
March of the Kings – Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Lord’s Prayer – Il Divo
O Holy Night – Il Divo
White Christmas – Il Divo
Ave Maria – Il Divo
When A Child Is Born – Il Divo
O Come All Ye Faithful – Il Divo
Over the Rainbow – Il Divo
Panis Angelicus – Il Divo
Rejoice – Il Divo
Silent Night – Il Divo
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring – Josh Groban
Christmas Morning – Louden Wainwright III

This list is mostly correct, but I know there are mistakes. I’m so sorry. I've left songs out and I've included songs that are perhaps not on the cd's.

I'll do better next go-round. Just say the word, Jim; I'm your obedient shadow.

My son has taken over the kitchen tonight; he's making an appetizer for tomorrow's family reunion. He told me the name of it, but I've forgotten. But it consists of rice, minced garlic and onions, ground beef, yogurt, a dash of most of the spices in my pantry, and some fresh crawdads. That's right, you heard me. Crawdads. All wrapped in grape leaves and steamed. And it will probably be absolutely delicious. This is what happens when you send your son to a college that has a school of culinary arts attached to it.

Oh, HE didn't have any culinary arts classes. He just dated several women who did, and he partook of their education as well as his own. And tomorrow at Mom's house, we will all enjoy his artistic efforts.

I can't wait to see Mom's face when she hears the word 'crawdad.' Zappa hasn't decided whether to tell her up front, or to wait till after she takes a bite.

I voted for 'after' but I think it's only because I still hold a little grudge about that slice of braunschweiger she made me eat before I could leave the table and go out and play when I was eight.

Not that I would remember such a small thing as that.

Oh joy, it's Christmas Eve! Well actually no. Actually, it's Christmas Day! We're still cooking and baking and planning, though; so there's still preparation fun to be had.

And now I'll go help Zappa roll the crawdads in the grape leaves.