Long December

Hi. Long Decemer is of course a great song by Counting Crows. It is also exactly how I am feeling right now. Probably the worst December in recent memory. Can't seem to shake a chronic headache and am especially lonely 'Round Here (pun intended). Could use a nice good surprise in my life, or at least a new friend. My computer crashed too. Nothing seems to be going the way I was hoping it would go. Even was grumpy with one of the most wonderful people on the planet. Gotta get my mind and body working again. Anyone out there feeling the same? I could really use some cheering up. Guess I'll make a list here of things I am happy about:

• Big Love returns for its fourth season in January.
• My computer is once again back home and functioning normally.
• I received 5 great DVDs for Christmas.
• A new year is coming.
• Survivor: Villains vs Heroes coming in February
• American Idol's ninth season in less than three weeks.

That helped a little. Be back in a few days. Happy New Year! (I hope).

Music Stuff

I am once again listening to Pandora Radio. It is extremely useful for people like me with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. I can't operate a radio or stereo normally. They're playing "Run Through the Jungle" on My quickmix right now. One of the coolest classic rock tunes ever . . . and now playing "Get Back" by the Beatles. That reminds me, I gotta "get back" to Pandora and tell them I like these two songs.

I just missed a chance to evaluate "Run Through the Jungle". I added some holiday channels to Pandora yesterday. Apparently Sinatra, Josh Groban, and Vince Gill, are similar to each other, when they sing holiday songs. They don't seem to know what "Hoya, Hayo" is. Its an amazing Channukkah song by Peter, Paul & Mary. RIP Mary. We will miss you!

TV stuff

Big Love is probably the best drama on television. Some people may be thrown by the subject matter of polygamy, but so was I at first. Sometimes the best shows come in strange and even unpleasant packages. HBO's Six Feet Under couldn't of had a worse premise, but was also a brilliant depiction of family life. Whether in a funeral home or in a three home neighborhood of sister wives, family is just plain nuts. Yours, mine, everyone's. Maybe showing families as sane, happy, and completely functional is less realistic than showing them as having three wives or three mothers in near chaos. Its the dysfunction that makes it believable, not the setting or the number of wives.

You'll love Big Love, just watch it!

Sincerely,
Sean from Vermont