Kels.: new music

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A toast to NEW Christmas music.

Carol of the Bells--Imogen Heap
All That I Want--The Weepies
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas--Coldplay
Any Christmas music by Sufjan Stevens (especially "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "Sister Winter" and "Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!")
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time--Paul McCartney
Christmas--Rogue Wave
O Come, O Come Emmanuel--Belle & Sebastian
White is in the Winter Night--Enya
A Change at Christmas (Say It Ain’t So)--The Flaming Lips
Anorak Christmas (Piano Mix)--Sally Shapiro
O Come O Come Emmanuel--Rosie Thomas
Evergreen--The Fiery Furnaces
Holiday Song--The Finches
Jeanette, Isabella--Tori Amos
Carol of the Bells--The Bird and the Bee
What Child is This?--Don Peris
So This is Christmas--John Lennon
O Christmas Tree--Miles Davis
Last Christmas--Savage Gardens (yes, Savage Gardens, and I'm not ashamed.)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer--Jack Johnson
That's What Christmas Means to Me--Stevie Wonder
Santa Comes Tonight--Louis Armstrong
Anything by Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
Please Come Home--Death Cab For Cutie
Silent Night--Alexi Murdoch
The Wisemen--Michael McLean
Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming--Feist
Please Daddy--The Decemberists
All of the music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Totally seeing the real thing at the Russian ballet.
Christmas Song--Mogwai
The Blizzard--Camera Obscura
When I Get Home for Christmas--Snow Patrol
Icicles--Let’s Go Sailing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas--Ella Fitzgerald
Go Tell It On the Mountain--The Papercuts
River--Rosie Thomas
Silent Night--Priscilla Ahn
Auld Lang Syne--Various Artists
Just Like Christmas--Low
River--Travis
The Christmas Song--The Raveonettes
White Christmas--Otis Redding
Christmas--Leona Naess
Baby It’s Cold Outside--Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Xmas Time Is Here Again--My Morning Jacket
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day--Pedro The Lion
Christmastime in the Mountains--Palace Songs
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas--Aimee Man
Christmastime--Smashing Pumpkins
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)--John Lennon

Note to self:

"Gravity isn't only what makes us fall, it's what makes our muscles strong."

--Oskar, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

--Goethe

"Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that I learn of him."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am not a human being. I am dynamite."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
--Socrates

"i thank you god for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
--e. e. cummings

"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
--Edwin Denby

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you—almost apart from their meaning—a thrill like music?”
--C. S. Lewis

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent."
--Victor Hugo

“Language most shows a man. Speak, that I may see thee.”
--Ben Jonson

"Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world."
--Walter Pater

"Our minds must bend as well as our knees."

--Maxwell

"You can miss a lot by sticking to the point."

--Hmong belief

"Literature shows us the world again so that we recognize it."

--Wordsworth