Res ipsa loquitur

Can anybody set me up with Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places" and Toby Keith's "As Good As I Once Was"?

I hasten to add that it's not for me; Ptom wants me to put together another CD for him.

Thanks -- got 'em!

savvy_elf is doing an everybody-share-Christmas-music meme here. Some great stuff on offer; go share!

Also -- who does that doo-wop version of "White Christmas" where the bass sings the first verse and the falsetto sings the second? I heard it on the radio this morning and I wants it! It sounds old, like from the first wave of doo-wop rather than the revival. Any ideas?

I used to think it was creepy when people would wish a happy Mother's Day to people who weren't their mothers. Then the Tech Goddess explained it to me. "I think everybody owes me a Mother's Day greeting," she said. "It's like Veterans' Day."

So happy mother's day to all of you who are mothers, have mothers, have lost mothers, or otherwise.

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We've got DSL now, and I've been celebrating by, you know, looking at YouTube videos and downloading music and doing all the stuff that normal people have been doing for the last seven years. (Anybody got any Caetano Veloso they think I'd like? Or any Dan Bern for someone who adores "Jane" but has never heard any of the other songs?)

Also, I have a new e-mail address, which is in my LJ profile, in case you wanted to e-mail me anything.

The spouse bought a new Windows laptop, which is making him swear a lot. The spouse is the classic absent-minded professor sort, and he really just wants the computer to read his mind and provide him with content so he won't have to remember that, for instance:

- "that little colorful round thing" at the bottom left of his screen is the Start icon, or that
- tech support can't help you if you use the words "thing," "icon," "button," "checkbox," "document," and "program" interchangeably, or that
- laptops have batteries that need to be charged occasionally.

Which makes me the in-house tech help. Huh.

When I get an alert on my Mac, I pretty much always know what it means. But Windows computers are always popping up alert boxes that say incomprehensible things ("Warning! You have begun to arglefrast the whoopthruster without first unhembling the manifrost! Continue or Cancel?"), and from what I've seen, Windows people just seem to be in the habit of clicking the little X and going blithely on.

These mixed marriages are always complicated.

Because I do occasionally enjoy music composed after Queen Elizabeth was dead.

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Since not all of you grabbed last year's Christmas music, I've re-uploaded some of it. If you want more details on any of the pieces, check last year's posts.

( If you downloaded the music last year, don't bother with these; they're the same thing. I'll have new stuff soon. )

It's very easy to find Christmas music recordings, but you might be surprised how difficult it is to find Advent hymns.

Does anyone have a reasonably traditional choral recording of any of the following?

Prepare the way, O Zion
Hark! A thrilling voice is sounding
Savior of the nations, come
Rejoice, rejoice, believers
Watchman, tell us of the night

Come, thou long-expected Jesus (preferred tune is Stuttgart, but I'll take anything I can get)
Hark the glad sound! A savior comes
Comfort, comfort ye my people (not the aria from the Messiah but the hymn, which is sometimes called Genevan 42)
Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates (again, not the choral piece from the Messiah but the hymn, to the tune Truro)
Of the Father's love begotten (plainsong in four rather than three)



In return, I'll share the ones I do have a little later on.

(edited to add a couple more, because in several cases, after listening to the clip, I decided that what was available on iTunes wasn't even better than nothing)

Following shrift's example, I offer pirate music (with some general sailing music) for Talk Like A Pirate Day. Using Sendspace this time, since yousendit is being obnoxious with its registration requirements and all.

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I knew I was forgetting something; early Jackson Browne is full of multiple melody lines.

By the way, my policy about music downloading and commenting? It's always nice to hear someone's opinion of the music, but since I'm using YouSendIt rather than my own server space, it's OK with me if you download without commenting.

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I was putting up chestnuts from the Episcopal hymnal for skuf, so the rest of y'all might as well share them.

I always say that at Vatican II, the Catholic Church put all its good music out in a garage sale and the Episcopalians came around and bought it at bargain prices. Of course these hymns aren't exclusive to the Episcopal hymnal, but there's a certain style that I associate with it, a certain broad, formal, stately exultation.

I wish I had "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken," which is one of my favorites and also interesting for being set to the tune we associate with "Deutschland Uber Alles."

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