Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

This isn’t a very good song, but I’m using it because it is heard as source music in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Here’s “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?”, by Nina (song written by John Barry).

Blackmore’s Night is one of my favorite bands, with their oddly endearing blend of Renaissance faire, folk, Celtic, and rock music. They came out with a Christmas album a few years back, and this is the first track. This combines … Continue reading →

So yesterday, I received an e-mail from my mother, in which she simply told me what her favorite Christmas song is. I puzzled for some moments as to why she felt the need to tell me this. Yes, folks, sometimes … Continue reading →

I think that my college choir performed this one year at our annual Big Christmas Music Hoopla, otherwise known as Christmas With Wartburg. Those programs were quite the undertaking, and they consumed four nights of our lives at the time: … Continue reading →

One cool thing about Christmas is that it gives you carte blanche to enjoy all manner of schmaltz. Such as this Christmas-related Castle fan video.

I don’t care if the eyes are creepily unreal; I like the movie The Polar Express. Part of it is the music, by stalwart composer Alan Silvestri. Silvestri is not a great composer, by any means, but he is a … Continue reading →

Ayup…I missed a day, but through the magic of backdating posts, I can act as though this was here all the time! Huzzah! I had to work very early yesterday morning, and then after I got home from work, there … Continue reading →

I used to watch re-runs of Little House on the Prairie quite often, and I still have a soft spot for the earlier seasons of the show, before it started going way over the top in later years. It was … Continue reading →

Because who doesn’t like a good mash-up video? Here’s the Trans Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Canon”, set to images from Harry Potter! Hey, why not?