http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/12/20/christmas-music-part-iii/ John Hamilton Farr's Living Planet Mystery Tales from Taos, New Mexico Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/12/20/christmas-music-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Mike Gravel Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:50:52 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2007/12/20/christmas-music-part-iii/#comment-226 OK John... I just finished watching "It's A Wonderful Life" tonight. Same issue? Same "phobia"? It seems to be a mind set, man. I've seen it numerous times; I've hated it on several occasions...Tonight, I loved it again and even cried again..."Silver Bells"..."Rudolph"...Danny Kaye...Burl Ives... It's all the same, right? It's our own luggage and where we've carried it from. Wait 'til next year and see where you're coming from... Merry Christmas OK John…
I just finished watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” tonight. Same issue? Same “phobia”?
It seems to be a mind set, man. I’ve seen it numerous times; I’ve hated it on several occasions…Tonight, I loved it again and even cried again…”Silver Bells”…”Rudolph”…Danny Kaye…Burl Ives…
It’s all the same, right? It’s our own luggage and where we’ve carried it from. Wait ’til next year and see where you’re coming from…
Merry Christmas

]]> http://www.farrfeed.com/2007/12/20/christmas-music-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-227 K.J. Webb Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:39:55 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2007/12/20/christmas-music-part-iii/#comment-227 I have kind of a weakness for Gene Autry's rendition of "Frosty the Snowman" on account of a memory from about 7 years of age on a (for Abilene) very cold Christmas Eve. The old cowboy's stylings expressed pretty well the essence of a kid's dream of all being right in a world where only the adults took the responsibilities and existed for no other reason than to love us and give us presents.... It would have been nice if that world had lasted for longer than it did. The serpent was bound to enter the garden, and did. Still, Pavarotti's pitch-perfect bellowing of "O Holy Night" on his mighty instrument doesn't do it for me the way Gene's nasalities do. I have kind of a weakness for Gene Autry’s rendition of “Frosty the Snowman” on account of a memory from about 7 years of age on a (for Abilene) very cold Christmas Eve. The old cowboy’s stylings expressed pretty well the essence of a kid’s dream of all being right in a world where only the adults took the responsibilities and existed for no other reason than to love us and give us presents…. It would have been nice if that world had lasted for longer than it did. The serpent was bound to enter the garden, and did. Still, Pavarotti’s pitch-perfect bellowing of “O Holy Night” on his mighty instrument doesn’t do it for me the way Gene’s nasalities do.

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