My number one Christmas tune for this year:
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) from Sarah McLachlan's new Christmas album "Wintersong"
I (heart) Sarah's voice. The whole album is good, but I really like her cover of the classic Lennon Christmas tune.
And this year's "I never want to hear that again?" Anything by Aaron Neville. I want to reach through the radio and strangle him when he starts that pseudo-yodeling vibrato crap. Just sing the song!
Now you know.
(and other mondegreens)
The kids are taking piano lessons now, and so my mom sent them a book of Christmas songs to play. This weekend Cameron's lesson included that old chestnut "Jingle Bells."
As he was reading through the lyrics he exclaimed "Oh! I always thought it was a 'sopen' sleigh!"
I laughed to myself as I considered just what (who?) was pulling that "sopen" sleigh.
Speaking of mondegreens, I love this commercial:
I have high cholesterol. For years I've fought being put on medication for it, but this year my doctor insisted.
"Ok, fine, set me up some statins," I begrudgingly told him. When I'd been taking them for a couple months I went in for a checkup. They wanted to see how it was working, and to make sure it wasn't killing my liver (I think the bourbon is to blame there, doc).
Pre-drugs, my total number was 260. After two months of Lipitor? 140.
One-forty!
Talk about better living through pharmaceuticals... Bring on the deep-fried sticks of butter - oh, and could you wrap that in bacon? And maybe melt some cheese on it?