Romantic Song Of The Day: "Better Man" by James Morrison

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Happy Valentines Day Everyone. Here is something romantic for you to snog too.

Also, if you didn't see it, I posted a Slow-Dance in the Livingroom/Make Sexy Time/Romantic Mixtape on my other blog yesterday.

"Better Man" by James Morrison

Song of the Day "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" by The Gundersen Family

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Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you all for sticking with us on our little blog this year. It has been a good year for us, as our readership continues to grow, and it's all thanks to you.

Here is my favorite new Christmas song. It's brought to us by the amazingly talented Gundersen Family. Now, I say new even though this is the most classic of classic xmas tunes. But, it is so breathtakingly refreshed here that it feels brand spankin.

"O Come, O Come Emmanuel" by The Gundersen Family

Song of the Day: "All I Wonderful Christmas Is You" by Summer Camp

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The most awkwardly titled Christmas song ever. But, once you listen and realize it's two xmas songs mashed into one, you'll understand. It is one of the best "new" takes on a tired Christmas classic.

"All I Wonderful Christmas Is You" by Summer Camp

Song of the Day: "Breaking The Ice" by Samantha Crain

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And we keep trucking on. Here is another gem of a Christmas song, an original by one of my favorite little rock darlings, Samantha Crain. She stands as tall as her guitar, so she may be small in stature, but, her voice towers a good 9 feet tall. I cannot stress enough how much power and beauty she fills a room with. And, now, she is taking over Christmas.

"Breaking The Ice" by Samantha Crain

Song of the Day: "Christmastime Is Here" by Kris Orlowski

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As I mentioned the other day, I am going to try and find some of the best newer Christmas songs to share for the rest of this week. And although it's still pretty early in the week, I think this may be the winning song. But, I have to admit, inclusion of a children's choir is kinda cheating.

But this song is fantastic, the video is filmed beautifully, and it is probably the best I have heard Kris sound, all sultry like and stuff. Another NW product that is going to making some great noises in 2012.

"Christmastime Is Here" by Kris Orlowski


This excellent video was produced by Eratosthenes Photo & Video. Check out their site and YouTube Channel when you get a chance, great stuff over there, that I often steal from.

Song of the Day: "A Very Minimum Wage Christmas" by The Oh Wells

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So, now that I have those pesky end of the year lists taken care of, I am going to spend the rest of this lovely year, up until xmas at least, finding the holiday songs. Some of these are going to be originals, some are going to be reinterpretations, but all are going to fan-f'n-tastic, Christmas style.

Tonight, we take a jaunt up to Canada, and join The Oh Wells celebrating A Very Minimum Wage Christmas. This song attacks whimsy like it was their bitch, and makes an all new holiday genre, Bitter Happy Christmas songs! And I think it is a category we are desperately missing these holidays. Thanks for filling the void, The Oh Wells.

Fa la la la la la la. Fa la la la la la la.

"A Very Minimum Wage Christmas" by The Oh Wells

2010 Worst New Years Resolutions

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So last year I wrote a very controversial ode to the worst New Years Resolutions- alright, really it was probably read by like one person (go check it out, it's funny!)- so this year I decided to follow that up by writing an equally poor list of New Years Resolutions for 2010. We're moving in to a new decade and the following resolutions are sure to start you off on the, er, wrong foot. These are all real resolutions from the New Years Resolutions section of 43 Things.com:

10. Spread Racism: Awesome. Way to spread the love in the new decade.

9. Tacos: I'm not even sure what to say here. Tacos is your resolution?

8. Put a Muffin up my Bum: That's ambition!

7. DS more: Unless this was written by my 9 year old cousin, Fail!

6. FIND MEMBERS: This could only have been written by a cult leader.

5. Connect people wanting to fall in love with people wanting to lose their virginity: I'm not even sure what the motivation is here.

4. Avoid running in all marathons: Wow. Now I'm not saying I disagree with this but why not make it like, "try to run a 1/4 mile" or something.

3. time travel back to the year 50 where I started tornado kicking: What? No, really, what?

2. quite tabacoo: How about learn to spell first?

1. Earn a MaryKay career car: I'm signing up right now.

Worst Valentines Day Gifts

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By request... The Worst Valentines Day Gifts to Give your Honey (so do it, because I'll at least be entertained by it)
10. Flannel Pajamas. Nothing says sexy time like flannel!
9. A t-shirt with your face on it that says I Love You Snuggle Butt.
8. An expired fruit basket. That has a note from grandma.
7. A box of chocolates... with all the good ones already eaten.
6. A baby kitten... wrapped in a box... that you forgot about for a week (thank you Kyle)
5. A gym membership
4. The Ultimate Andrew Dice Clay Collection on Laser Disk
3. Food poisoning
2. An STD
1. Divorce Papers

Top 10 Worst New Years Resolutions

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So as it is January 3rd most people have already broken their New Years Resolutions. I was reading an article by Albrecht Powell on About.com of the top 10 most popular new years resolutions and in response this is my ode to the worst new years resolutions. Enjoy! -Stevie

1. According to some poll or another number 1 on most peoples resolutions list is to spend more time with friends and family. I say go it one step better. Start showing up at strangers family gatherings and pretend you are family. Saves time and money if you live far away from your own. Plus usually family gatherings have free food. Avoid having to explain yourself by excusing yourself from conversation whenever someone approaches. Good excuses to have ready: you've got a huge case of explosive diarrhea, you have a very contagious disease, you recently became allergic to other people, you're drunk and about to vomit...
2. Perhaps not surprising - exercise is up there on most peoples resolution list. But really how long does that really last? You might as well resign yourself now to the '09 inevitable weight gain and start a more realistic goal- consider everything exerise! How many reps did you do while picking up that burger and bringing it to your pie-hole? How many laps did you go walking to the fridge for a swig of soda? Did you walk to the bathroom today? You went for a walk! Guaranteed success everyday and when you're end goal is not actually losing weight, you win!
3. So top 3 on popular resolution lists is losing weight. Often thought of as related to the aforementioned resolution number 2, this doesn't actually have to be the case. Plus how many people are actually successful in losing weight? Why start out the new year guilting yourself into a body that will probably only be temporary anyway? Instead make your goal to gain no more than you wanted to lose! In this weight "loss" plan the idea is to try not to gain more than you were hoping to lose, i.e. if you wanted to drop 10 pounds keep your weight gain under 10 pounds. Okay you're not actually losing weight but at least your minimizing you're muffin top.
4. The fourth most popular resolution is to quit smoking. Being a non-smoker I can't really wrap my head around the difficulty that entails. I say instead of quitting smoking per se -I mean didn't your mother tell you not to be a quitter? - I say just hide it instead. Sneak out in the middle of the night and hide behind the dumpster, at work functions go into the non-smoking bathroom and tell lookey lou's that you are extinguishing a small fire that broke out in your stall, at your child's dance recital tell your daughter you were watching from a special tv in the parking lot as you enjoy your addiction of choice. Now you can focus the rest of your time on trying to figure out how to get rid of the yellow teeth, ashy hair, and lung cancer you'll inevitably get. Yea!
5. One that probably seems obvious and I think is incredibly vague that people put on their resolution lists is to Enjoy Life More. You know what I think is way more in right now? Let's bring back the whiney, self-loathing, emo thing. More entertaining for me to watch.
6. Always a popular one- quit drinking- I instead advise more of resolution number 4 - hide it. I mean who doesn't love a closet alcoholic?
7. Awwww, my personal favorite that falls at number 7 for most popular new years resolutions- get out of debt. Here I will pass along some sage advise that was passed on to be many years ago. This was at a time in my life when I obtained my first credit card and was paying college tuition. Don't worry about creditors (you can always change your phone number) or loan officers calling (you don't live at that address anymore) -keep spending! The plan here is to evade bill collectors until you die, and then guess what? You're kids have to deal with it, not you. You win!
8. Number 8 on peoples top new years resolutions is learn something new. This ones easy- learning something new takes effort- I say instead make this the Year of Non-Effort. Now you're off the hook!
9. Staying with our resolution of the Year of Non-Effort, number 9's "Help Others" is an easy one to avoid. If '09 is the year of non-effort then please follow these wise words "do for yourself what others might do for others." Or something like that.
10. Rounding out the top 10 list of resolutions is get organized. Obviously that doesn't fit in to a life-style of closet smoking and drinking, self-loathing and non-effort. So bag it and make this a list of 9 instead. Good Luck and Happy New Year!