Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon.
I’m so glad someone put my favorite holiday song on YouTube. I just keep clicking “Watch again.”
Other recommendations, y’all?
P.S. to those who’ve been asking: the kitten’s name is Snag. (And no, not in reference to his being a Sensitive New Age Guy.)
You've found Sara Ryan's website. I write books and comics for teens and others, I work as a librarian, and I blog about any number of things, though estate sales, thrift stores, and my cat are recurring themes. Some things you can do here: listen to me read my first novel, Empress of the World, read some of the comics I've written, and find out what I got certificates of achievement for in 1983.
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librarian Says:
Friday, December 8, 2006 at 5:23 pm. |
I suggest jingle rock bell.
thisisnotanlj Says:
Friday, December 8, 2006 at 5:37 pm. |
my god. i did not think it was possible for anyone to do anything to that song that did not make me want to claw out my own eyes, but that — that is excellent.
saintsegar Says:
Friday, December 8, 2006 at 7:30 pm. |
Tsk tsk! Cynics! Here’s the holiday playlist that’s going into heavy rotation at our place starting tonight. It’s pretty non-ironic, actually. It’s also, however, kinda melancholy and sad-bastardish.
Song for a Winter’s Night - Gordon Lightfoot (one of a number of Canadians on the list, as befits a wintery holiday)
The Christians & the Pagans - Dar Williams
River - Joni Mitchell
In the Bleak Mid-Winter - Shawn Colvin
Little Drummer Boy - The Temptations (by far the best version of the best religious Xmas song ever)
Hockey - Jane Sibbery (She said of this song, when I saw her play it live, “this song is not a poem, it’s a painting.” A beautiful portrait of a Canadian childhood)
Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental) - Vince Guaraldi Trio (duh!)
There Is No Rose of Swych Vertu - Mediaeval Baebes
O Holy Night - Rickie Lee Jones with the Chieftains
2000 Miles (live version from “Isle of View”) - The Pretenders
25th December - Everything But The Girl
Sixteen, Maybe Less - Calexico with Iron & Wine
Carolina Christmas - Squirrel Nut Zippers (personal fave, it ain’t Xmas without this one for me. Rollicking!)
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
thisisnotanlj Says:
Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 8:23 am. |
aw. the ones i recognize from that list are lovely. i am not exclusively a cynic re: holiday music. i love some old old carols, “audete gaudete,” f’rinstance.
indy1725 Says:
Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 3:42 pm. |
I’ll agree with Sean on the Waitresses and Squirrel Nut Zippers (disappointed that I couldn’t find that album during my holiday shopping today, in fact), and I’ll add ‘It’s Christmastime (oh yeah)’ by Barenaked Ladies, and well, the entire John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together album.
nevikmoore Says:
Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 4:32 pm. |
Father Christmas by the Kinks. It rocks.
kathmuse Says:
Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 5:47 pm. |
She does a nice “O Holy Night”.
kath