wind at my back, all eternity before me
Buy Best of Bowie from Amazon.com
Spanning thirty-odd years of work, this collection of recorded performances and music videos was a real eye-opener for me. I didn’t grow up with MTV in the house, and had never seen these.
Make sure to find and watch all of the bonus Easter eggs on these DVDs!
Buy David Bowie’s Reality from Amazon.com
I’ve recently been listening to a lot of Bowie’s music, and I very much like his newest CD, particularly Never Get Old and Reality.
Buy The Narada Christmas Collection Volume 3: Christmas Blessings from Amazon.com
This is one of my favorite holiday instrumental collections. It’s perfect for cuddling up under a warm blanket or an afghan or two, watching the flames dance in your fireplace if you’re lucky enough to have one, or watching the lights twinkle on your tree, or watching the bubble lights burble away atop your Yule log, or simply for having a few close friends over for holiday tea.
It speaks to me of warmth of hearth and home, in the midst of cold, quiet star-filled winter nights.
Buy Dancing Barefoot from Amazon.com
What are you waiting for?
I could say all sorts of complimentary things about this lovely effort from a first-time author. I could provide a more descriptive summary of the stories within it, because that’s a standard reviewer’s trick, right? I could try to put into words how oddly wonderful it feels to read stories from the perspective of an unashamedly introspective geek. I could try to explain how jarringly comfortable it is to get past the chasm that celebrity status builds between people and read simple honesty from this guy that a lot of people think they know, who really is just a guy, and because of that is remarkable. I could tell you how loud I laughed, unexpectedly, and how much I sympathized. I could mention how much it simply got to me, in the nostalgic and reminiscent ways that likely only thirtysomethings’ writings can to do to other thirtysomethings. I could write about how great it feels to be a Trekkie right about now… or I could just stop typing and grab a Kleenex, and you could stop reading this and just go order a copy of the book.
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