Best Christmas music from movie soundtracks, Christmas carols, holiday classics

Christmas is a sensual experience. It smells like pine and cinnamon and tastes of smoked ham and marzipan. Christmas sounds like carols. Here is the best in Christmas music from movie soundtracks. It would be impossible to list all the best holiday classics and Christmas carols. Suffice to listen to these holiday movie soundtracks to get that Christmas glow.   Best Christmas music from movie soundtracks, Christmas carols, holiday classics | Examiner.com

Christmas presents: Inexpensive, personalized holiday gift baskets under $15

 Holiday gift baskets make idea Christmas presents for everyone on your holiday shopping list. Gift baskets can be personalized and made inexpensively. Giving gift baskets cuts costs but also subtracts from your workload. Here's how: list every person who will get gift baskets and decide upon a theme for each, based upon favorite hobbies or interests. Streamline personalized Christmas gift baskets by including like items in each recipient's gift basket. Here are six items to include in everyone's gift basket, with variations personalized for each.  Christmas presents: Inexpensive, personalized holiday gift baskets under $15 | Examiner.com

What is the sex appeal of 'Uma Thurman' by Fall Out Boy?

 If you haven't heard "Uma Thurman" by Fall Out Boy by now, well, let's just say you live a sheltered life. Or maybe you have heard it and didn't know what it was. This author's husband only knew it as "the one with the Munsters theme in it." When he requested it be searched on Google, it was revealed to be a Fall Out Boy song. The requester had never heard of Fall Out Boy and the Googler only knew of it as a band their 25-year-old son listened to in 9th grade. Now you hear "Uma Thurman" everywhere. The catchy ditty is by far the biggest thing that vintage (cough, has-been) emo band has ever done! The song also, funnily enough, comes up in searches before Uma Thurman the real actress. So what is the sex appeal behind Uma Thurman? What is it about the song that put a washed up (it's true, admit it) emo band at the top of the charts?  What is the sex appeal of 'Uma Thurman' by Fall Out Boy?

Free printable Christmas carols, holiday sheet music and song lyrics

Christmas caroling has long been a holiday tradition. Vox said Dec. 10, that 36 percent of people remember caroling as kids. That number is waning. But caroling is still a favorite Christmas tradition. In fact, some say it wouldn't be Christmas without carols.  If you're planning on Christmas caroling, here are links for free printable Christmas carol sheet music and lyrics. There are religious Christmas hymns and classic holiday carols. Print a songbook for each carolers. Host a neighborhood, school or church carol sing. Or just go door to door impromptu! Try to visit a nursing home to cheer the elderly.  Free printable Christmas carols, holiday sheet music and song lyrics

Honey Boo Boo releases rap video: "Moving Up" shows Alana Thompson should move! | Examiner.com

And from the "former reality stars being really weird" desk, Honey Boo Boo releases a rap video to her self-created song "Moving Up" reported Yahoo New Zealand on Oct. 1. The ex-pageant/reality TV star, whose real name is Alana Thompson, failed to move the Internet users, except to discomfort, with her little ditty. It did nothing to improve the family's image. It only serves to show that HBB should move around more because kid is getting scary overweight!Honey Boo Boo releases rap video: "Moving Up" shows Alana Thompson should move! | Examiner.com

Memorial Day pageant, vintage Remembrance Day party & American history lessons - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

The U.S. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May is also called Remembrance Day and Decoration Day. Americans honor fallen military and deceased loved ones. Here's a planner for an educational Memorial Day pageant, vintage Remembrance Day party with American history lessons.   Memorial Day pageant, vintage Remembrance Day party & American history lessons - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band jams bodacious funkabilly dubstep

Ya'll remember Donny and Marie Osmond? You're trying to forget? So, who isn't--play along. The brother-sister duo "I'm a little bit country and I'm a little bit rock and roll" posed a musical dilemma that singers have been dancing around for decades. What the heck kind of music do fans play anyway? How do you classify it?



Nowadays, it's cool to genre-bend. But back in the good ole days, you didn't dare. If fans came for country, that's what you served. None of this shilly-shallying "cross-over" stuff. Some people also walked to school barefoot in 6 foot snow drifts and said "thank you ma'am" for the chance. Yada, yada. Times change and now alternative (the catch-all for genre-benders) is in. Poking around WYCE always lends some fresh from the oven music with lost of alt-crossover flavahs. Today's band focus is The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and does this husband and wife trio (don't ask, don't judge) jam some bodacious funkabilly!