My iTunes Shuffle Baker's Dozen 3-1-11

Welcome to March! In exactly one month the Phillies open the 2011 regular season. And about three weeks after that I begin the Final Countdown to Five-Oh. But let's not think about that depressing concept, shall we? Instead, while you wait for me to get to work writing about the movies I've seen in the last week, let's see what iTunes shuffled into my ears today...

Who Makes You Feel - Dido
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Why Don't We Live Together - Pet Shop Boys
I Want You - Cee Lo Green
Left Outside Alone - Anastacia
Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
King Without A Crown - ABC
Where Life Begins - Madonna
Lovin' You - Tony Toni Tone
Confusion - New Order
He's A Dream - Shandi
Slave Song - Sade

Christmas Is Coming!

Last Christmas I gave you my heart I listed the Christmas TV specials from my DVD or VHS collection that I try to watch every year. Well, this year I haven't watched a single one yet, and time is running out. (Although I have listened to every Christmas song in my iTunes. I want to try to do a holiday music-related post this week as well.) But it's not as if I haven't watched any Christmas programs. I've got both the "Glee" Christmas episode and this year's Christmas-themed "Simpsons" episode guest-starring Martha Stewart and (in live-action with Muppetized Simpsons) Katy Perry on my DVR and have watched both two or three times.

I also just recorded the TV-movie "A Diva's Christmas Carol" starring Vanessa Williams -- surely this helped lead to her becoming Wilhelmina Slater on "Ugly Betty" -- and right now I'm recording "Bad Santa" from Spike TV, although I'm sure it's a censored version that may disappoint.

Tomorrow I plan to try and add to my DVD collection, if I can find an inexpensive DVD of "Scrooged" starring Bill Murray. Like the Vanessa Williams film, it's another update of the Dickens classic, but with a more satirical streak. The soundtrack included the duet by Annie Lennox and Al Green of "Put A Little Love in Your Heart," a non-Christmas song that is now, for me, a holiday classic.



Yes, Christmas is coming...although the case can be made that it arrived early this year...