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If anyone were to go to my Amazon wish list right now, they would find about half a dozen versions of "A Ceremony of Carols" by Benjamin Britten - it's been on my mind lately. It's ten versions of The Bomb and I wanted to have a copy around for the holidays. but it is hard to find a version where the boys sing on key, sometimes it's better sung by a women's choir. I've spent the day trolling Kazaa for a copy of "Balulalow", my favorite piece ("o my dere hearte, yonge jesu swete, prepare thy creidil in my spreit, and i sall rock thee to my hearte, and nevermair from thee departe... and sing balulalow") - when I was about seventeen I sang the solo part in a christmas concert. I also like "This Little Child", but it's really hard, and our choir could never quite put it together. Though we did often cause our conductor to hurl his baton into the air in mock frustration. I miss singing in a choir.

I also discovered the name of that damn Bach piece I learned like two months before I quit singing. "Quia respexit" from the Magnificat. It's filling in that little hole in my memory... I can now remember how the first line goes.

not religious-xian at all, but i do like older sacred music. loathe the contemporary stuff.

arwen isobel is adapting nicely. we took a nap together earlier and she was nicely calm. i kept her on her 4-foot lead, but she didn't want to stray anyway, she wanted to cuddle. she has a squeaky lamb toy that she really likes, so it was me and her and the lamb.