It is a good idea. What my idea is is that each of us who is a regularish participant on Prinsiana/How Perfectly Swell picks out their three or so favorite Christmas songs that add up to about 10 minutes of music, and then they send me MP3s of those songs (or let me borrow their CDs so I can make MP3s of those songs, or I don't know some other method) and then I put all the songs onto the limited edition How Perfectly Swell Swell Christmas Album which I will mail or hand-deliver to y'all. It is a good idea. Consider it.
My rules:
1) Versions of "The First Noel" with lyrics are not Christmas songs.
2) Mannheim Steamroller songs are not Christmas songs.
3) Jesus being born songs are Christmas songs.
4) Winter songs are Christmas songs.
5) Santa Claus songs are Christmas songs.
6) Songs about Christmas are Christmas songs.
7) Hanukkah songs not by Adam Sandler are Christmas songs.
8) Christmas songs that are on non-Christmas albums (Rich Mullins' eh "You've Gotta Get Up") are Christmas songs.
9) Songs that have nothing to do with Christmas but are on Christmas albums (The Beatles' lovely "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da") are not Christmas songs.
10) If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do. If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
