Originally Posted by mordwyr

We had a family Christmas-present-wrapping evening. An exciting event the kids look forward to every year wherein we focus on how fun it is to give. And we listened to Sufjan Stevens' five Christmas EPs. Put up the (fake) Christmas tree, too. I don't think one can buy real trees in Japan (for Christmas). Such a great time!

I also added two albums to RYM's database today. They lacked Rachel Ries' 2007 release, Without a Bird, as well as Kishi Bashi's Japan-only release of his Philosophize! Chemicalize! EP, which, in my opinion, is a five-star album everyone should hear.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.