seraph
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 Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:40 am Post subject:
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I do have a few Xmas gift worth mentioning and I hope someone else will add a few posts to this thread to enhance the "holiday spirit" of this wonderful website.
Santa brought me a few CD's.
Right now I am listening to the self-titled debut album by Christopher Cross dated 1979. I had it on tape a long time ago. I still love it: it's pop at its best, those guitar solos by Jay Graydon or Larry Carlton, those arrangements by Michael Omartian plus Victor Feldman and all the other guys are so cool and classy 
More on the "nostalgia lane":
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band one of the best pop album ever, a masterpiece by the greatest pop group ever (many years ago I bought the picture disc that I gave to my brother)
The Beatles-27 No.1 singles on 1 CD : more of the same, listening to some of these songs bring tears to my eyes (I was too young to experience the Beatles-mania of the early 60's but I am a believer now)
Go tell it on the mountain by the Blind Boys of Alabama. A very touching and entertaining gospel CD celebrating the Christmas Spirit
Joao voz e violao by Joao Gilberto: a classy act by this fantastic Brazilian singer/guitarist
Isn't Santa a nice old guy with an excellent musical taste 
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elektro80
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Santa delivered a fair supply of the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O´Brian
http://www.wwnorton.com/pob/pobhome.htm
| Quote: | W. W. Norton & Company mourns the loss of Patrick O'Brian, one of the great authors of the twentieth century, whose novels were often compared by critics to the work of Jane Austen and even Homer. A writer of breathtaking erudition, Mr. O'Brian evoked in complete and dazzling detail an entire world—that of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. In addition to formidable scholarship, Mr. O'Brian brought to his work keen psychological insights, a sharp wit, and fast-paced, heart-stopping action.
In a cover story in The New York Times Book Review published on January 6, 1991, nine years to the day before we learned of Mr. O'Brian's death, Richard Snow wrote that Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin naval adventure novels are "the best historical novels ever written. On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives." And in a Washington Post article published August 2, 1992, Ken Ringle wrote, "The Aubrey/Maturin series far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart."
W. W. Norton & Company began publishing Patrick O'Brian's books in 1990. The previous year, our editor-in-chief, Starling Lawrence, had read The Reverse of the Medal on a trans-Atlantic flight, fallen hard for the series, and had become convinced that Norton ought to publish Mr. O'Brian's works in the U.S. We decided to publish each new book in hardcover as it was completed and to bring out the earlier books in the series in paperback until we had caught up. The first season, we published The Letter of Marque (# 12) in hardcover and Master and Commander (# 1) and Post Captain (# 2) in paperback. Most recently, we published Blue at the Mizzen (# 20) in hardcover in 1999 and in paperback in 2000. At present, we have all of the books in the series available in uniform hardcover and paperback editions.
In addition to the twenty books in the Aubrey/Maturin series, we have published a short story collection (The Rendezvous and Other Stories) and three of Mr. O'Brian's other novels: Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore. O'Brian has also written acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks and has translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture's biography of Charles de Gaulle. In April of 2000, we published Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard, his very first book, begun when he was just twelve, and Hussein: An Entertainment, written when he was about twenty years old. Both of these books had long been out of print.
Starting in the early 1990s, Mr. O'Brian achieved, at long last, the critical and popular recognition that was his due. All of his new books published since 1993 have appeared on national bestseller charts, and his books have sold well over three million copies in the U.S. alone.
Mr. O'Brian once said, "Obviously, I have lived very much out of the world: I know little of present-day Dublin or London or Paris, even less of post-modernity, post-structuralism, hard rock or rap, and I cannot write with much conviction about the contemporary scene." [Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography, edited by Arthur Cunningham]. In fact, Mr. O'Brian often seemed to have walked out of another era, and in his interactions with his publisher, he displayed a level of courtesy and civility rarely seen in our times.
We were grateful to him for setting aside his cherished privacy and agreeing to come to the U.S. on three occasions, in 1993, 1995, and 1999, to grant interviews and appearances on behalf of his new books. When he departed for home on November 20, 1999, after graciously spending a week in New York for the publication of Blue At The Mizzen, we hoped to see him sometime again. We are deeply saddened that we will not. |
Then Santa brought something which superficially resembles the Austin Powers Swedish Made Pump
| Quote: | Quartermaster Clerk: One Swedish made penis enlarger pump.
Austin Powers: That's not mine!
Quartermaster Clerk: One credit card receipt for Swedish made penis
enlarger...signed by Austin Powers.
Austin Powers: I'm tellin you baby, that's not mine!
Quartermaster Clerk: One warranty card for Swedish made penis
enlarger pump...filled out by Austin Powers.
Austin Powers: I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing
ain't my bag, baby!
Quartermaster Clerk: One book...."Swedish Made Penis Enlarger Pumps
and Me: This Sort of Thing is my Bag, Baby!", by Austin Powers. |
Swedish Made Penis Pump
But then ... the device is meant for wine bottles.. so.. well.. right...
Anyway... Santa then left this one..
The PAL
An amazing feature is that the PAL is in fact a stereo receiver... plug in some Beyer Demonics and the sound is in stereo!
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