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That's funny because I did just hear Christmas music playing somewhere the other day. I thought, "what!?" It used to be that they at least waited until after Thanksgiving. It is so about marketing and consumerism--and that's not new--only that retailers apparently just can't wait and seem to start in earlier every year. I feel for anyone like Danny who has to work in a department store and be forced to listen to a loop of inane Chrismas muzak over and over . . .

That Charlie Brown Christmas Album may be the last "classic" of the genre written. Even then the theme of that cartoon was commericialism vs. the Christian message of Christmas. Can you imagine trying to get that one by the networks and sponsors today? I like the part where Linus reads from the Bible about the true meaning of Christmas. I just watched a biography of Charles Shultz, and even in the late 60's he had to fight to get that in there.

These days, I try to get more into that thinking and doing some charitable things as an "antidote" to remind me what the holiday should be all about.

Don't get me wrong, as a kid it was all about Santa and the toys toys toys. Nor do I begrudge a store trying to make a profit. I'm just glad that I'm free to make some personal choices and get to a place where I can make Christmas more personally meaningful.

Oh yeah, today I go into work late to do holiday set up.

"Turn the knob to 10 and break it off!" -Baja Marty

Yeah, we have christmas music playing already at wal-mart (thankfully, I work outside), and it is a bit annoying, because all the songs are terrible remakes of the originals.

I am super sweet
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Ironically I really have a huge x-mas music collection for being an
atheist .
about 70 or so now.

my favs are the instro ones of course.
I have about 10 surf ones.

but I also like the Lounge/Swing/Exotica ones
and also the all acoustic bluegrass ones.

oh and the Hawaiian Slack Key X-mas cd on dancing cat records is really good. a must have.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Jeff(bigtikidude)

bigtikidude
oh and the Hawaiian Slack Key X-mas cd on dancing cat records is really good. a must have.

I'll have to look into that one. I really like Slack Key (even into playing it a little) and have a few nice things from Dancing Cat. I can imagine that Slack Key and Christmas melodies are a beautiful fit.

I saw a comp of holiday songs done in the style of the Hot Club of France called "Django Bells". I don't know much else about it, except that I love that title!!

Mr. Green, you go right on being excited about all things Christmas--often and early. It's easy for us "old guys" (well, older than 15 anyway!) to get jaded about this stuff. Especially in America. Your enthusiasm about alot of things is infectious.

I like Christmas for a lot of reasons. Its a time when folks think about doing something for each other, even if its just holding a door open for a women with an arm full of packages and kids in tow. We offer a friendly greating and smile to strangers. We find ourselves sitting in church with friends or family. We write a note and mail a card to people we don't see much anymore. Life slows just a bit as we sing songs that are decades old (some over a hundred years old). I don't mind hearing thes songs....let them play! Our hearts are warm for at least a few weeks as the year comes to an end and we prepare for a new one. I look forward to seeing It's a Wonderful Life and Miricle on 34th Street and our family tradition of attending a play...A Christmas Carol. I've been reading the Polar Express to our family on Christmas eve for about 10 yers now. Yes, I still believe and I can hear the bell. I fear that one day, when all of us are long gone, it will be removed from the calendar. I hope not, at leaset not in my lifetime. So for now let me be amoung the first to wish everyone on this forum a very Merry Christmas and a successful and Happy New Year.

Happy Sunsets!

Last edited: Nov 11, 2007 17:13:22

Well it's official, Christmas has started. Santa Claus was at my store today giving cookies out to children, and asking me if he could sleep on this table I had... I told him no, and he threw an empty whiskey bottle at me...

I am super sweet
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I watched the film Joyeux Noel today. It is by far the best Christmas film I've ever seen. Everybody should check it out.

tahitijack
I like Christmas for a lot of reasons. Its a time when folks think about doing something for each other, even if its just holding a door open for a women with an arm full of packages and kids in tow. We offer a friendly greating and smile to strangers. We find ourselves sitting in church with friends or family. We write a note and mail a card to people we don't see much anymore. Life slows just a bit as we sing songs that are decades old (some over a hundred years old). I don't mind hearing thes songs....let them play! Our hearts are warm for at least a few weeks as the year comes to an end and we prepare for a new one. I look forward to seeing It's a Wonderful Life and Miricle on 34th Street and our family tradition of attending a play...A Christmas Carol. I've been reading the Polar Express to our family on Christmas eve for about 10 yers now. Yes, I still believe and I can hear the bell. I fear that one day, when all of us are long gone, it will be removed from the calendar. I hope not, at leaset not in my lifetime. So for now let me be amoung the first to wish everyone on this forum a very Merry Christmas and a successful and Happy New Year.

A lovely sentiment, very well said. However, the topic is clearly stated, though it inevitably morphed into a Christmas music thread. I'd hate for this to become a thread about liking or disliking the whole concept of Christmas, which becomes a religious discussion and falls out of the boundaries of the websites rule #1.

Danny Snyder

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