Snow Day Tunes Part 2

I find myself thinking of Christmas music as a static thing. For the most part, I listen to the same songs year after year. This year, Papa Winfrey reminded me that it doesn't have to be that way. Why not buy, like, 10 new Christmas albums in some sort of Christmas music binge? He is particularly fond of Susan Boyle, in case you wondered.
This year I "discovered" some new Christmas music that isn't actually new at all. Lexie accidentally stumbled across a Beach Boys Christmas album that we'd never heard, and I immediately fell in love with this song, Child of Winter. Apparently it was a single that never really caught on. I can't imagine why. The goofy spoken word interlude is my favorite.


Another favorite that I just found out about: Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton. Sad Christmas Music is my favorite Christmas music subgenre.

I Will Always Love Dolly

We were playing a trivia game this weekend (I'm exciting) and the question was, "Who sang I Will Always Love You?" My love of Dolly Parton caused me to give the "wrong" answer, but that trivia game can just suck it. As far as I'm concerned, the Whitney version doesn't even exist! This clip from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (which I haven't seen, for some reason?) makes me get a bit emotional. I think it's the Burt Reynolds.

I've long said that if I could look like anyone in the world, it would be a young Dolly Parton. Those nails! That hair! For her part, Dolly doesn't much care that Whitney Houston is the name usually attached to her song, because she's made a lot of money off of it. And I guess I don't care, either, because I ended up winning the trivia game in a sudden death tie-breaker against H.

The Best Picture

When I came across this picture, I actually gasped.

Dolly's look is without reproach, as always, but Cher is just delightfully insane. She looks like she tried to put together a David Bowie costume, but she only had the store DEB at her disposal.

Thursday Night Jams

So I love Julie Klasner. Who doesn't? And it turns out her taste in music is nearly identical to mine, aside from all the musicals. Her playlist is absolutely perfect: Carole King, Fleetwood Mac, even The Carrie Nations. The best choices, though, are Carly Simon's "Coming Around Again" (which is one of my favorite Carly songs, and which JK describes perfectly: "You can't not love Simon's amber-honey voice sprawling over those choruses and belting those jaded, bittersweet truisms about what it's like to grow up.") and this Dolly Parton song, which I'd actually never heard before. It's now permanently lodged in my brain.

Things We Actually Don't Like

Based on this trailer, how could Rhinestone NOT be our favorite movie?

Just based on that trailer, and the fact that we love Sylvester Stallone projects (see: my favorite movie, Staying Alive), this should have been a great film. There were some good parts, don't get me wrong, but overall there were just not enough laughably bad parts and too many boring parts.
But at least we'll always have this: