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...most people, whether or not they are practicing Christians, the soundtrack of that wayback machine is Christmas music: the religious and secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with LPs, then cassettes and now CDs. The formats change; the songs and feelings don't. Some time in the next few days, you'll hear Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas," and shed a tear or grit your teeth...
...What follows are notes on a dozen familiar Christmas albums, most of them traditional, all chosen from the collection of a married couple very like the people who are about to force this music on you. These CDs play while the harder-working, more creative member of the pair decks the halls, the bedroom, the bathroom and the lobby. For Mary, it's a sacred mission that takes weeks. And while she dresses the tree, I listen again to the renditions of these songs - which from time to time have made me cringe - and marvel at their emotive and staying...
...Hankey is a talking turd who, in the early years of South Park, emerged for the annual Christmas show - notably the all-singing episode that sprang from this, the most obscene and fabulous of all holiday CDs. Parker and uber-chartsman Marc Shaiman worked their coprophagic magic on material both traditional and original. Parker uses the pseudonym Juan Schwartz for the fatalist's folk tune "Dead, Dead, Dead" ("And so on Christmas morning / Let good tidings fill your head / What a festive season! / Some day you'll be dead"). Eric Cartman warbles a soulful misdirection of "O Holy Night" ("Jesus...
...Crimson Arts Staff's General Best Of... Five CDS I Only Pretended to Like Bad Movies that Tried Embarrassingly Hard for Our Praise and Got It Top Five Finals Period Might-be-most Played Top Ten Country Music Lyrics Top Five Thomas Friedman-isms Best Musical Feuds of 2006 Five Worst Pieces of Art at Harvard Best 'Project Runway' Moments Five 'Best' Moments in the Rocky Series Top Five Movies of 2006 that I Want to Wear Five Shows That Should Not be Performed at Harvard Ten Fashion Trends to Avoid
...Ready for an upgrade of its own. Walk into the Northbrook, Ill., store, and you will see where Starbucks is headed. Bookcases line one wall, overflowing with espresso makers, French presses, coffee beans, thermoses and mugs. Next to a display case of food is a shelf full of CDs and DVDs. The space devoted to preparing drinks has been reduced by a quarter and re-engineered to conserve movement and space. Vertical shelves set into the wall help keep workers in one place as they reach for syrup bottles and tea bags. By the door are bins of coffee beans...