What sis sent

Virgin of Guadalupe calendar

holiday music

Have been able to snag Living Voices "Little Drummer Boy" and White Eisenstein's "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." But what of the special versions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and "Mary's Boy Child" that I haven't heard in years? Wonder if those could be more Living Voices versions on LP somewhere.
Piano in home off and on over the years, which I never learned to play except a little bit of: "In my own little corner, in my own little chair..." and
"You are sixteen going on seventeen..." Was never a great tempting object to practice on, as now I think it should have been. Sigh, oh sigh. Piano in storage until owner on opposite coast gets a bigger place to live in?
Little Christmas Tree Waltz...(once there was a green glass or ceramic replica with little colored pieces to poke into holes and then plug it in to light it up)
Pine Cones and Holly Berries...What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
New this year: Winterscapes Radio

Plays with voice

Heyyy...gente rico!
Riiiicicisisisisimomomomo.
Mo mo mo mo mo mo mo m...
Wassup??
Whaddup.
What is up.
Paparazzi.

Like this

I just do.
Silent Monks Singing Halleluia

Good to listen to at one a.m.

Alas, am disappointed my favorite calendar (SageWoman) has been discontinued.
But this is a beautiful station to listen to, during the holiday season, in a somewhat strange (being neither East Coast, nor Midwest, nor Pacific Northwest) place, while revising some writing.
WinterScapes Radio.
(Well, at least it is when there's not an auto insurance commerical!)

Picture of a woman

Somewhere around about 1999-2001, I think, I found a magazine article with a photograph of a woman and saved it. At the time, the picture did seem to exhude a kind of saintly feminist quality, which was odd and compelling. I felt I had to know more about her, someday. After moving around so much, I don't think I have the magazine photo anymore, but I remembered her name. Now she has a biography:
Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles.
The picture was from 1944. A smaller version of it is in the book.

Hooray, Hooray

Sometimes I do the google images thing.
Shirley MacLaine and Tori Amos.
Personally, I like it. Screw this women are supposed to look barely legal all the time thing. (Ahem....Killing us softly...video I want to watch in more depth soon.)
Ms. Amos is a fantastic, brilliant (yes...) musician, good for her, too.
Ms. MacLaine wrote books I devoured as a youngster and is awesomely talented (acting and dancing) and thinks she was Charlemange's mistress, good for her.
Thank heavens people like them exist.
Hooray, Hooray...I like that Rilo Kiley song/video too.
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Oh and hee hee...from here.
MacLaine: "It's very easy to be cynical like you are just now."
Wallace: "Skeptical. I reject the word."
MacLaine: "Well it had a panache of sarcasm in it."
Wallace: "OK, OK."
MacLaine: "A large dash of it."
Wallace: "Yeah. You really believe that you've lived lives before."
MacLaine: "There is no doubt in my mind about it."
Wallace: "Uh-huh. And you really believe in extraterrestrial ­ have they ­ do they come and visit you on the porch? Now you're being unpleasant, Wallace, is what you're saying.
MacLaine: "Yes. This is what I was a little afraid of."
Wallace: "Hold it!"
MacLaine: "Now, you don't have to be that unpleasant. It doesn't become you, you know? I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions. What's wrong with that?"
Wallace: "Shirley, what the heck has all this got to do with singing and dancing? I mean this seriously."
MacLaine: "Because it's expression."
Wallace: "As we sit here and we talk, and it's ­ it's fascinating, good talk, and then I think about those long legs."
MacLaine: "Nothing wrong with lower chakra stuff at all. It's all part of the (same) body."

Stuck-in-head song

Today: Brett Dennen-Make You Crazy

Because my finger accidentally hit "b"

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." --Alexander Hamilton

(From boogle.)

Film revelation

A show about All Good Things.
The director said he broke an unwritten role. (Rule! I meant to type.)
The unwritten rule in Hollywood is that you never cast the actress first, because the man is always assumed to be the more bankable star.

Songs

Sometimes the songs that creep into my head (and stick there) surprise me. From the other day: Beautiful.
And didn't stick, but noted as newly discovered: Oh Mother.