And here inside Casa Mateo, where Christmas, like Duane Reade, is always just around the corner, I'm getting into the holiday spirit. I'm putting the finishing touches on a rewrite of the third (angry and hopefully entertaining political) play I've worked on since I left the day job in June. I'm putting the finishing touches on a poetry collection that makes me think "Gee--if you took every woman I've written a love poem for and laid them all end to end, their boyfriends and husbands would be really pissed." I'm putting the finishing touches on about a dozen reviews I haven't managed to post since Labor Day. And (because even in a big year for changes, some things never change) I've actually just finally put the finishing touches on this year's Christmas compilation.
It's been a very strange six months. It wasn't really until September that I managed to rehab away the day job addiction and settle into the methadone of writing, and coincidentally that's when I stopped blogging. My current opinion is that my online silence was a combination of hunkering down and dedicating my time to what I've always thought of as my second job, getting totally turned off by all-caps oversharing on Facebook, and repeatedly coming up with the answer "Nobody in their right mind" to the question "Who wants to hear me rave about Before Midnight really?"
So, in the hopes that "Some of you" is the answer to "Who wants to hear a couple of hours of holiday music?" here is this year's compilation of toonage. Fun stuff, sweet stuff, silly stuff, and a couple of song-to-song-to-song in-jokes that I'm particularly proud of, one of which only a dozen people in the world will get, but hell, I know ten of them.
Enjoy, and have a great holiday.
01. Underneath The Tree Kelly Clarkson
02. Kiss Me Beneath The Christmas Tree Casper and the Cookies03. I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus The Dollyrots
04. Ragin’ Cajun Redneck Christmas The Robertsons
05. Whiskey Christmas Darby O’Gill and the Little People
06. Santa Stole My Whiskey The Rimshots
07. Christmas From A Bar Mike Ireland
08. Christmas At The Airport Nick Lowe
09. Rockin’ Little Christmas Carlene Carter
10. Folsom Prison Christmas (Mr President vs Johnny Cash) Voicedude
11. Winter Ask Embla
12. Bells of Love (Isabelles of Love) Erasure
13. Clint Frostwood Chillaz
14. Funky Funky Chritmas Electric Jungle
15. Last Christmas (Hip Hop Remix) Rap Allstars
16. Happy Christmas Tears Little Jimmy King with the Memphis Horns
17. Poor Man’s X-mas The Smokin’ Joe Kubek Band
18. Winter Dress Humming House
19. Sha La La Cathy Harrington
20. Cricket Carols The Meek
21. Could Have Been Summer Maggie Chapman
22. On This Winter’s Night Lady Antebellum
23. Something About December Christina Perri
24. Oh, December Hanne Sørvaag
25. Xmas In February Lou Reed
26. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Sleeping At Last
27. White Christmas Vonda Shepard and Robert Downey Jr.
28. Christmas On Interstate 80 5 Chinese Brothers
29. Christmas Bells The Bank Cormorants
30. Will You Sleep Inside This Christmas Chris Scruggs
31. Xmas In Bed Eliza Doolittle
32. Snowed In Mindy Smith
33. Christmas Eve With You Lindi Ortega
34. You Never Come Home For Christmas Caitlin Rose with Keegan DeWit
35. Everything’s Changed At Christmas But You Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
36. Christmas Time Piney Gir
37. Shiny Red Suit TimLee3
38. Santa Claus Forgot Me Old Ugly
39. Rocket Ship Santa The BellRays
40. Christmas Weekend Los Straitjackets
41. Kozatsky ‘til You Dropsky Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
42. Nutcracker Straight No Chaser
43. Merry Christmas Baby Trijntje Oosterhuis (featuring Candy Dulfer)
44. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Leona Lewis
45. Winter Wonderland Glen Burtnik
46. Lonely This Christmas Traitors!
47. BONUS TRACK
Zip File downloads:
2013 Xmas Compilation - Part 1
2013 Xmas Compilation - Part 2
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