5 Sunday questions

[mvd]

Of course you can answer them on any day, since Sunday is just the day I started the topic.

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)?

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most?

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists.

My answers:

1. Christmas has always been my favorite

2. CDs and a watch. A new iPad if it is affordable. I may have to get the iPad after Christmas.

3. The Harry Potter series

4. The one in 2006 was bad because my grandfather had died that year

5. The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, The Cars, R.E.M., A Fine Frenzy, New Pornographers, The Corrs

[LiberalEsto]

1. mine:

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)?

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most?

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists.


1.Halloween

2.several books

3.Lord of the Rings trilogy, countless times

4. The ones when our parents fought.

5. Laura Nyro, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman and his orchestra, John Fogerty, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers,Dave Brubeck, Pentangle, Louis Armstrong,It's A Beautiful Day

[tblue]

19. Oh gosh! I forgot Laura Nyro!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. 5 Sunday Afternoon answers:

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

New Year's Eve

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)?
calendar, gloves



3. What book(s) have you re-read the most?
Austen

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened.
yes, several. no details -- to protect the innocent and deprive the guilty of anymore of my thoughts or time.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists.

Van Morrison
Todd Snyder
David Grey
Moody Blues
Beethoven
Bach
Brahms
Allman Brothers
Goose Creek Symphony
Janis Joplin

[RFKHumphreyObama]

3. Hi MVD

Great to see you and glad you've started these questions again:hi: Hope you're well

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day. -Probably Christmas with Easter a close second

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)? Haven't decided -probably a few books

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most? "My Turn" by Nancy Reagan (don't ask -this was when I was much younger and much more conservative). There have been others but they don't come to mind of late

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened. Yes, 2007. The Christmas after my mother died (and she loved Christmas). My sister and her husband were overseas, I developed food poisoning on Christmas Eve and therefore was unable to go to the Christmas party we were invited to so I was left home alone, depressed, sick, miserable and listening to the Christmas party next door and wishing I could join in the fun. And missing my mother of course

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists. The Carpenters, the Dubliners, Don McLean, Greg Doolan, Michael Jackson, Queen, Buddy Holly, Savage Garden, The Seekers, Steps

:hi:

[mvd]

5. Hi, RFK!

I'm hanging in there - not in very good financial shape this Christmas, but the holiday is about more than gifts. Hope you are doing well and thanks for answering. Have a great Holiday season! :hi:

[From The Ashes]

4. Answers:

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day.
Halloween is my favorite.

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)?
I'd like a Kindle or a Nook.

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most?
Probably some of my Star Trek novels. There are a few of them that I have read 6 or 7 times.

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened.
Christmas 2007. Alone in a new city, all my family 1400 miles away. Not pretty.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists.
U2, Beatles, Fleetwood mac, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, The Cars...that's all I can think of off the top of my head, but there's lots more.

[ceile]

6. Ok.

1. Love Thanksgiving
2. Nothing; and no one has asked me either.
3. Several Agatha Christie
4. Can't really think of one.
5. Pixies, Catherine Wheel, New Order, Waterboys, Matthew Sweet, Raul Malo, The Mavericks, Foster the People, Franz Ferdinand, Dixie Chicks

[WinkyDink]

12. I LOVE re-reading my Christies!

[Skittles]

7. ok

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day. don't care about holidays but really enjoy Christmas lights

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)? None

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most? James Herriot's books

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened. no

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists. Neil Young, Dusty Springfield, Buddy Holly, Rolling Stones, Alvin Lee, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Neil Diamond, Beatles, Pink Floyd

[fizzgig]

22. i realized tonight how much i enjoy the lights

there had been some uncertainty about whether there'd be funding to have the lights in our old town district. i really didn't care at the time, but i drove through old town tonight and remembered just how pretty they are.

i asked my husband if he'd drive me around to look at the lights. he said yes :)

[Skittles]

23. I like to see them very late, when the herd is asleep

there's something very calming about Christmas lights

[Chan790]

8. Sunday Answers.

1.) New Year's Eve. Or Halloween. Maybe St. Patrick's Day. I like my social-drinking and debauchery holidays. I'm not so keen on the traditional ones though, I don't really enjoy my family.

2.) I want a bike. I'm getting cash. I hate money-gifts. I really always have, I'd rather get nothing. I look on gift-cards as slightly better as long as they're not generic like Target or those use-anywhere Visa cards. If you're giving me a gift, put some thought into it, goddamnnit...or I'd rather you just didn't give me a gift. It's the thought demonstrated by the gift that is important to me, not the gift.

3.) I don't re-read books ever.

4.) All of them until age twelve. My parents had this insane need to do Christmas on Christmas with both sets of grandparents, one of whom lived in Litchfield, CT and the other in Jacksonville, FL. The absolute last thing any 8 year old wants is to get in the car immediately after opening their gifts and drive 22 hours straight with parents who actively loathe each other. In addition to this, I don't recall a time when I didn't detest all of my FL relatives...except one uncle who was my aunt's second husband who she cheated on and left. His daughters were nice, the biological relatives were fundy assholes.

5.) The Decemberists, Metric, The Blue Van, Lykke Li, Mumford & Sons, Jets to Brazil, Kate McGill, Man Man, Bloc Party, Silversun Pickups,The Black Keys. Listening to Analog Rebellion, I love it but I'd have to see if it's still on my playlist in four months before I can say it's a favorite.

[Denninmi]

9. Okey Dokey, here are my answers:

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

Easter -- I love spring. I love the concept of rebirth and renewal. I'm not particularly religious, but hey, I enjoyed 'Jesus Christ Superstar' (the British revival version that was updated).

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)?

None at all. We have all of the material things we need in my household. I guess I could use some new socks, but that's about as big as it gets.

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most?

Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov -- It's been in my car for several years in the glove box. If I have to wait somewhere, such as for an appointment or at the repair shop, I pull it out and reread sections of it.

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened.

Yes, I have. Family strife left me not wanting to stay at home. I was talked into and very reluctantly accepted an invitation to go to N. Michigan to a friend's relative's house. It was uncomfortable, unhappy, and on top of it, the roads were really treacherous on the way home.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists.

U2, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Genesis, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin, Duran Duran, Counting Crows, The Beatles, Bon Jovi.

[mvd]

15. Some good music choices

Sarah, Sheryl, Aretha, Duran Duran, Counting Crows, Beatles, and Bon Jovi are all excellent. As are the Dixie Chicks and others mentioned..

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. FWIW

1. Toss-up... New Years Eve (so long as I don't have to work on New Years Day and I have) - Super Bowl Sunday (I find that even non-football fans can have fun at Super Bowl Parties).

2. Traxxas Slash 4X4 Ultimate

3. The Stand

4. Another toss-up... Two yeas ago, my Best Friend's Mom died. I grew up having eggs n chorizo with homemade tortillas on Sundays in her kitchen. When I was young, my cousin didn't get the doll she wanted and threw a fit which included her trying to stomp the toys and things the rest of us cousins got. TOTALLY ruined the mood for the whole day.

5. Zeppelin - The Black Keys - Floyd - B.B. King - Stevie Ray - Kansas - Janis - Allman Bros. - The Cult - Queensryche - Skynyrd - The Muggs - Ratatat (I think that's the longest band name you can type with one hand LOL.)

[WinkyDink]

11. . 1. Christmas, for NYC; 2. Jewelry; 3. “Helter-Skelter.” 4. No. 5. Adam Lambert,

Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chad Mitchell Trio, The Searchers, J. Geils, Duffy, Amy, Stones.

[freshwest]

13. ...

[Tikki]

14. These:

1 . Summer Solstice...I love Summer
2.surround-sound system...hate the tinny TV speaker
3 .A Tale of Two Cities...C. Dickens and The Butterfly Kid..Chester Anderson
4 .LSS....water crept under apartment door onto floor..packages floated
5 . X, Los Lobos, the Gun Club, the RAMONES, the Sonics, the Damned, LOVE,
Bo Diddley, Country Joe and the Fish, Doctor John

Tikki

[noamnety]

16. okay

1. Favorite holiday or event day - I don't like the holidays anymore because we have to spend them all with my inlaws. They aren't bad people, it's just not ... eh, relaxing or enjoyable for me. Sometimes I'm sad thinking I'll never really enjoy a holiday again. SO ... my favorite event day is Saturdays because I can sleep in and I don't have obligations. :)

2. For Christmas? - A swiss ball for doing fancy situps.

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most? Herman Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund.

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? I must have when I was leading up to a divorce, not sure why I can't remember that sucking now.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists. My dad, Simon and Garfunkel, Claude Bolling.

[hobbit709]

17. Mine

1. nowadays none of them.

2. nothing special

3. Stranger In A Strange Land

4. 2009. The first Christmas after Donna died and the day after I had to put one of my old dogs down.

5. Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, Maddy Prior, Marianne Faithfull, John Lee Hooker, Henry Thomas,
The Kinks, Janis Joplin, 13th Floor Elevators, Bob Marley

[tblue]

18. Not my birthday, that's for sure.

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? By event day, I mean days that aren't holidays but are still special days - like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

Somebody else's birthday. I love making it fun for the people I love.

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)?

Nothing. I have everything I want and need. I could use a watch, but I'll get it myself.

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most?

RE-read? Not many. Black Cross by Greg Iles, I read twice.

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened.

No, knock on wood.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists.

India.Arie, Loreena McKennitt, The Temptations, Thomas Newman, Paula Cole, Alicia Keys, Jackson Browne, Clannad, Indigo Girls, Simon & Garfunkel, and many more!

[pacalo]

20. ...

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? Christmas

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas? Yoga pants & long-sleeved t-shirts

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most? "The Firm" by John Grisham

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? 1982 when my dad died two weeks earlier

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists. Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Credence Clearwater Revival, Bob Marley, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark

[femmocrat]

21. Mine:

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? Easter.

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)? I would really like to have an indoor receiver for satellite radio. Nothing else, really.

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most? Wuthering Heights

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened. Not that I can remember. We had -14 degree weather one year and no one could travel... but we got together a few days later. We've also had a few Christmases with sick kids.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists. Too many to name! I like the "old stuff", nothing current.

[rbnyc]

24. Fun!

1. What is your favorite holiday or event day? -- My son's birthday.

2. What material things are you asking for for Christmas (we all want peace, Democratic strength, etc.)? --A rock polisher

3. What book(s) have you re-read the most? - My public answer is usually Crime and Punishment, but I think the real answer is Pride and Prejudice

4. Have you ever had a nightmarish Christmas? If you have, briefly say what happened. - I woke up to a house fire after a christmas eve fire in our fireplace that the landlord said was safe but was not.

5. Randomly name up to 10 of your favorite music artists. - Kristin Hersh, Thurston Moore, Miles Davis, Cliff Ferdon, Robert Smith, Aimee Mann, Kim Deal, Nick Drake, Chan Marshall, Steve Albini

[bluesbassman]

25. Great questions. Here's my answers...

1. Thanksgiving. Never really had any of the high drame episodes you hear about. Just good food and visiting.

2. Nothing.

3. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. I'm currently on my 6th.

4. Well my brother was born on the day after Christmas, so Christmas day was kinda of a non-event. About the closest I've come to a bad one.

5. Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert Collins, Jimmy Thackery, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tommy Castro, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, ZZ Top Joplin, Led Zeppelin, and Jim Hendrix.