After having Patrick Ness‘ books recommended to me by the fine folks at io9, I went to the library and picked up a copy of The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book of the Chaos Walking trilogy.  And, man is it good!  So good, I went and read through the sequel, The Ask [...]

I didn’t see these when they went up back in May, so I thought I’d share them here… hilarious!
A New Hope:
Empire Strikes Back:
Return of the Jedi:
Enjoy!

Many SF TV shows have gotten the big-screen treatment in the last few years, as studios attempt to capitalize on the built-in audience that a previously existing property has. This is nothing new… Star Trek: The Motion picture is over 30 years old now, and the interim has seen many adaptations.
Not so frequent have [...]

No fun Friday this week – unfortunately, I had this thing called “work” that took up too much of my time… bummer.  Bask instead in my choices for movies to see in 2010…
Jan 8th – Leap Year – Yes, I know it’s a standard romantic comedy, and yes I know it will be predictable, but [...]

Now that Christmas is officially over, I thought I’d post all twelve songs from the countdown in one easy-to-get-at place.  So here they are:
12 – Relient K – 12 Days of Christmas
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11 – BarlowGirl – Carol of the Bells/Sing We Now of Christmas
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10 [...]

The final song in the countdown is BarlowGirl’s “Hallelujah (Light Has Come),” another Christmas song from the perspective of the parents.  This triumphant proclamation (“Hallelujah, we’ve been found/A child is born to save us now” ) is fitting for the day of expectation, the Eve of Christmas.
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–> D/L <–

I don’t have much to say about today’s song, an instrumental version of “I Saw Three Ships” by Rivertribe, other than it manages to add a pleasant Celtic feel to the song, even with modern instrumentation.  Have a listen:
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Third Day had an impressive showing on the last list, with four songs making the cut.  In the interest of not repeating any songs from the previous outing, I’ve only put one on this year’s offering, “What Child Is This?”  This is a pretty traditional take on the song, but holds its own against more [...]

MercyMe’s rendition of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” is ambitious, yet somehow still simple.  I think it has something to do with the spare guitar at the beginning, and the fidelity to the traditional melody, at least on the verses.  The choruses are a multi-layered construction that manages not to seem out of place [...]

The warmth of Colbie Caillat’s version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is what drew me to include it in this year’s list.  While the song is normally fairly laid back (and I should know, with 14 different versions perfomed by everyone from Judy Garland to Kermit the Frog), Caillat’s has a beat, even [...]

Sorry for the late posting of this one… I was out finishing my Christmas shopping yesterday and forgot to post.
Today’s song is a re-interpretation of “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Casting Crowns.  It seems like every recording I have of this song (I have 5) uses a different melody line, but this [...]

I’m just going to say for the record that whoever wrote the song “12 Days of Christmas” seems to have been a little obsessed with birds.  By my count, at the end of the twelve days, the beloved would have received 184 birds of different, including 42 of these swans.  I don’t know how well [...]