Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄 So excited for my No Buy 2025 - you're a great inspiration, Alexa! My favorite books this year were "The Anxious Generation" and "How to Know a Person." My favorite free thing to do is hike in the mountains near our home - more of that in 2025! 😊
Merry Christmas! I hope you and your family had a lovely day. I know that I did. Oh Hozier . . . How I love his music! I totally understand the musical crush thing. That happened for me earlier in the year when I fell in love with the song “Too Sweet.” If I take a shine to an artist, I tend to go to their back catalog. I don’t remember loving “Take Me to Church” when it came out years ago, but I was blown away by the rest of the album. My favorite though is Wasteland Baby. I literally listen to a few song on my way to work every day! Happy Listening!😊
oh heck yes I'm so glad you're enjoying Hozier! He's been my favorite musical artist since he released Wasteland Baby!, and I'm sure you're going to especially love Unreal Unearth, it's just such a richly layered album If you liked his rock-y vibe I think you'll especially like Jackboot Jump - it's got that crunchy, hard-driving guitar line in the same way that the self titled album does, and it's an absolute banger
Oh lovely! Choosing favorites! Food first! Cheese blintzes! - with sour cream and cherry preserves! To die for! Second books! "Brat Farrar" by Josephine Tey ( Elizabeth MacKintosh) close second " The Franchise Affair" ( same author!). Third music. "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. Close second. "Sultan of Swing" by Dire Straits ( love that Mark Knopfler!). For classical. "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber or "Lincolnshire Posy" by Percy Granger. Activity reading, reading, reading! Anyway thanks for a very entertaining video (as always!)
Ok, responding in real time as I watch this video . . . I saw Fight Club when it came out in the theater! And YES it is my favorite movie as well!! I wanted everyone I knew to see it. Lol! I have owned it in all its forms . . . VHS, dvd, blu ray and digital. 😅 And yes I am Gen X so that movie hit HARD.
Merry Christmas! Love the favorites. I do find it hard to choose favorites for many categories. 😅 Music: Sleep Token's album "Take me back to Eden" they are an ultra artistic British metal group that I find the music so full of emotion. Definitely not something everyone would love but they have a large fan base. Book in 2024: Piranesi- an incredibly written, short fantasy novel that I read in February and am still thinking about. Food: I'm also a cookie lover and currently can't stop making and eating snickerdoodles! Movie i watched in 2024: Eternal sunshine of the Spotless mind. Wow such a beautiful film that i cant believe i had not seen(I also love fight club, and I need to read the book!) Favorite activity: hands down, travel. Thankfully I got to visit 7 countries this year
Hozier’s Wasteland, Baby! (song, not album) was my December song two years ago - my partner got appendicitis right before the holidays and I listened to it in the hospital. His music mood is so fitting for winter!
oooh okay five things! number one music, ive been vibing to the "What's Your Favorite Scary Movie" album by Alden Derck since october, it's clever and very catchy books! my friends and i read The Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation together, and we all loved it! you know a book's done fundamentally unjust power systems and the resultant morally compromised characters well when Every Single Character has diehard fans and equally diehard haters lol. it's a very very fun series even if i do have to give literally 25 different content warnings every time i recommend it for food i've finally gotten my one pot chicken-and-rice (heavily modified, atrocious amalgamation of seasonings) where i want it to be - the secret was lots of dill for movies, i watched Nimona at long last, and (as expected) sobbed like a little baby. good god when the emotionally devastating trans allegory is emotionally devastating to my trans self for things to do, ive been writing regularly this year and its been really creatively satisfying! my extremely self indulgent novel has been in the works for over two years, but this year I've added in some of the elements I'm most proud of. it's becoming a lot more about grief than i expected, and im also having fun figuring out how to get my POV character to obliquely reference soul-crushing guilt via textiles metaphors, bc heaven knows she wont talk about it any other way i hope you and yours have a lovely holiday season!
Merry Christmas, Alexa! Thank you for the nice, chatty video. It's Christmas Eve and I'm here with my husband, but our families are 600 miles away and we are missing them. I listened to you while I sorted through a pile of clothes - some too big, some summer, a few too small - that I'd been putting off dealing with. I enjoyed hearing about your favorites. I love Spoon (I saw them a couple of years ago with Cage the Elephant.) Lately I've been in a Killers phase though I still love Florence Welch (& the Machine...) I haven't read anything this year I that would come close to being a favorite (same with movies) so I'll still have to stick by Middlemarch 😂 (and Mars Attacks! 🤣) My goal for the new year is to read more and try to get my focus and attention span realigned. I've got a stack of books almost as tall as yours looking at me too. As for cookies. Yes. But cake was always my favorite. Or maybe it's ice cream? 🤔
So agree with you on the suggestive lyrics these days! I just can't take it, Sabrina Carpenter oh dear, the whole act is unbearable 😅 Maybe I am just getting old ha!
Interesting that you say your classical music buddies have a disregard for pop music, but you find interest in the expressiveness of the vocals. Could it be that, by and large, they aren’t into vocals? I used to have a running music exchange with a coworker who plays violin ( or was it viola) and conducts his local group on the side. I found that for the most part, he was quite uninterested in any particular singer’s voice (though his wife, who also played violin had more interest in this). He was much more interested in complex melodies, interesting chords and harmonies, loved a key change. To me, the singer could be blowing it out of the water, and he’d be pretty unenthusiastic, lol
Amateur violist here-- if you want to hear expressiveness in classical music, get into German lieder and French art song. I love it! In particular, the RUclips video of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Schubert's "Erlkonig" is absolutely riveting and utterly unforgettable. The songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Gabriel Faure, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, and Othmar Schoeck are second to none. Best wishes!
Merry Christmas Alexa and family! :)
You are DEDICATED. Even if you prerecorded this: you are DEDICATED! Thank you for the content! 💗🎄🎅
Yes! 60% for family, 50% for orchestra job, 40% for channel, 20% for self and another 20% for chores! Just wow!
Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄 So excited for my No Buy 2025 - you're a great inspiration, Alexa! My favorite books this year were "The Anxious Generation" and "How to Know a Person." My favorite free thing to do is hike in the mountains near our home - more of that in 2025! 😊
Merry Christmas! Hozier is my FAVORITE contemporary musician and so it gives me joy to hear your discovery of his music! 😊
Merry Christmas to you too!
Merry Christmas to you too 😊
Merry Christmas! I hope you and your family had a lovely day. I know that I did. Oh Hozier . . . How I love his music! I totally understand the musical crush thing. That happened for me earlier in the year when I fell in love with the song “Too Sweet.” If I take a shine to an artist, I tend to go to their back catalog. I don’t remember loving “Take Me to Church” when it came out years ago, but I was blown away by the rest of the album. My favorite though is Wasteland Baby. I literally listen to a few song on my way to work every day! Happy Listening!😊
oh heck yes I'm so glad you're enjoying Hozier! He's been my favorite musical artist since he released Wasteland Baby!, and I'm sure you're going to especially love Unreal Unearth, it's just such a richly layered album
If you liked his rock-y vibe I think you'll especially like Jackboot Jump - it's got that crunchy, hard-driving guitar line in the same way that the self titled album does, and it's an absolute banger
Oh lovely! Choosing favorites! Food first! Cheese blintzes! - with sour cream and cherry preserves! To die for! Second books! "Brat Farrar" by Josephine Tey
( Elizabeth MacKintosh) close second " The Franchise Affair" ( same author!). Third music. "Baker Street" by
Gerry Rafferty. Close second. "Sultan of Swing" by Dire Straits ( love that Mark Knopfler!). For classical. "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber or "Lincolnshire Posy" by Percy Granger. Activity reading, reading, reading! Anyway thanks for a very entertaining video
(as always!)
Forgot movies! "The Lady Vanishes" dir. by Alfred Hitchcock.
Ok, responding in real time as I watch this video . . . I saw Fight Club when it came out in the theater! And YES it is my favorite movie as well!! I wanted everyone I knew to see it. Lol! I have owned it in all its forms . . . VHS, dvd, blu ray and digital. 😅 And yes I am Gen X so that movie hit HARD.
Merry Christmas! Love the favorites. I do find it hard to choose favorites for many categories. 😅
Music: Sleep Token's album "Take me back to Eden" they are an ultra artistic British metal group that I find the music so full of emotion. Definitely not something everyone would love but they have a large fan base.
Book in 2024: Piranesi- an incredibly written, short fantasy novel that I read in February and am still thinking about.
Food: I'm also a cookie lover and currently can't stop making and eating snickerdoodles!
Movie i watched in 2024: Eternal sunshine of the Spotless mind. Wow such a beautiful film that i cant believe i had not seen(I also love fight club, and I need to read the book!)
Favorite activity: hands down, travel. Thankfully I got to visit 7 countries this year
Wow! Making up for Covid!
Hozier’s Wasteland, Baby! (song, not album) was my December song two years ago - my partner got appendicitis right before the holidays and I listened to it in the hospital. His music mood is so fitting for winter!
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Yultide blessings!❤
oooh okay five things! number one music, ive been vibing to the "What's Your Favorite Scary Movie" album by Alden Derck since october, it's clever and very catchy
books! my friends and i read The Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation together, and we all loved it! you know a book's done fundamentally unjust power systems and the resultant morally compromised characters well when Every Single Character has diehard fans and equally diehard haters lol. it's a very very fun series even if i do have to give literally 25 different content warnings every time i recommend it
for food i've finally gotten my one pot chicken-and-rice (heavily modified, atrocious amalgamation of seasonings) where i want it to be - the secret was lots of dill
for movies, i watched Nimona at long last, and (as expected) sobbed like a little baby. good god when the emotionally devastating trans allegory is emotionally devastating to my trans self
for things to do, ive been writing regularly this year and its been really creatively satisfying! my extremely self indulgent novel has been in the works for over two years, but this year I've added in some of the elements I'm most proud of. it's becoming a lot more about grief than i expected, and im also having fun figuring out how to get my POV character to obliquely reference soul-crushing guilt via textiles metaphors, bc heaven knows she wont talk about it any other way
i hope you and yours have a lovely holiday season!
Merry Christmas, Alexa! Thank you for the nice, chatty video. It's Christmas Eve and I'm here with my husband, but our families are 600 miles away and we are missing them. I listened to you while I sorted through a pile of clothes - some too big, some summer, a few too small - that I'd been putting off dealing with.
I enjoyed hearing about your favorites. I love Spoon (I saw them a couple of years ago with Cage the Elephant.) Lately I've been in a Killers phase though I still love Florence Welch (& the Machine...) I haven't read anything this year I that would come close to being a favorite (same with movies) so I'll still have to stick by Middlemarch 😂 (and Mars Attacks! 🤣) My goal for the new year is to read more and try to get my focus and attention span realigned. I've got a stack of books almost as tall as yours looking at me too.
As for cookies. Yes. But cake was always my favorite. Or maybe it's ice cream? 🤔
So agree with you on the suggestive lyrics these days! I just can't take it, Sabrina Carpenter oh dear, the whole act is unbearable 😅 Maybe I am just getting old ha!
Interesting that you say your classical music buddies have a disregard for pop music, but you find interest in the expressiveness of the vocals. Could it be that, by and large, they aren’t into vocals? I used to have a running music exchange with a coworker who plays violin ( or was it viola) and conducts his local group on the side. I found that for the most part, he was quite uninterested in any particular singer’s voice (though his wife, who also played violin had more interest in this). He was much more interested in complex melodies, interesting chords and harmonies, loved a key change. To me, the singer could be blowing it out of the water, and he’d be pretty unenthusiastic, lol
Amateur violist here-- if you want to hear expressiveness in classical music, get into German lieder and French art song. I love it! In particular, the RUclips video of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Schubert's "Erlkonig" is absolutely riveting and utterly unforgettable. The songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Gabriel Faure, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, and Othmar Schoeck are second to none. Best wishes!
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