Nothing changes on New Year's Day

It is New Year's Eve. Who cares.
 I have never been a fan and usually I am so exhausted from Christmas that I don't want to do anything anyway.

So far I have received positive feedback from the podcast. Many thanks to the folks who contributed. I am inspired to make another one...I cannot decide if it should be summer or sport themed. Hmmmm. I have been toying with the idea of recording a version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
Some of the interesting things I have noticed about the submissions that I got were that most were originals.
I was not sure if folks were going to do covers or write their own Christmas song. I am glad that they chose the latter. Their offerings to the nostalgia that are Christmas tunes, I think were fresh and interesting.
Most of the arrangements were light on the Christmassy orchestrations, but the lyrics were solid in that they were obviously about Yuletide times. I appreciate the different avenues people explored. Christmas imagery was challenged with the southern hemisphere, sexy Santa, and Santa's evil counterpart, Krampus. Ego Sensation created a psychedelic-electro vibe with "Merry X-Mas Liar," and Doug and the DBLF crew reminisced about grandma being drunk. The covers were "non-traditional" as well. I like my take on  "Rudolph"  and there is a video that goes with it. The live performances were meant to be rockin' and or rolling and I thought that Dominick needed props and who doesn't love a kazoo? But JT's "O Holy Night," is amazing! It is so emotional and paints a sublime picture. The songs makes me think of  the Masons of the 17th century looking out of their windows and longing for the pastoral memories of their youth.

2014 is the year of this gal FINISHING projects.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas...

Holy crap! I finally finished my Christmas podcast.
Track list
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere
Santa Won't You Come Down My Chimney
Dominick the Donkey
Krampus
Merry X-Mas Liar
O'Holy Night
Drunken Grandma Christmas
White Christmas

More to follow. Just listen!

https://archive.org/details/XmasPodcastMp3