Today is the last day from the Baroque period, but nevertheless, I've chosen a piece that is widely known and still performed. Handel's Messiah. While we tend to look at this music as a strong tradition of Christmas, charity and divine pieces as something that came from God himself, the truth is that it wasn't always seen like that. If anything, before Handel could premiere it for the first time in London, it was controversial even before anyone heard a single note of it. This was not only due

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Today is going to be a very short trip into the Classical era. In which I'm presenting to you a piece of music that has been forgotten. I'm talking about the Sleigh Ride piece by Mozart. No, not Wolfgang, but his father Leopold.

So I have officially met the calendar bug when it comes to publishing or creating stories. That Is the bug that says your stories were published on 31 December 1969. It's not my internal calendar, I checked. It wasn't just a thing yesterday, I made a test story to check today. The only change is I'm working from a new device, maybe it's related to that. But it only happens on this site.

Or maybe I'm secretly a changling Time Lord!

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Today's choice continues on into the Renaissance, in which I'm sharing a Spanish carol that still remains to be popular to this day.

Well it's about time I got around to Tchaikovsky. Yes, today's choice is probably the only classical thing to still go on the radio. And for good reason, the famous Nutcracker Suite (based on the ballet) is still what most people think completes Christmas. While the original source material didn't do quite so well when it was first performed, the music and its story has became a staple of this time of year. But just to focus on the suite, I know there's a million different recordings of it, but

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Today I'm presenting a tune by an unknown French author in the original way that it was meant to be sang. To the French, this is called "Les Anges dans nos Campagnes." The tune however, is known in its English translation: "Angles we have Heard on High."

Today is another beautiful carol in which I bring to you the original French.

Going from the beginning of the first world war to a year after the second, it is safe to say that this song is probably the most famous and even the most played carol to come out of the 20th century. Especially with the singer, Nat King Cole, that if there's anything of his legacy that he's being remembered, it would be this very tune. He sang this on TV in 1961, but the way he sang it is considered by many the most perfect version of this song out there. So without further adue ladies and

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Hiya, lovely peeps!

Today is Christmas, folks! It’s time to celebrate with your loved ones, warm by the fireplace while sipping a mug of hot cocoa. And I know that the holidays are different this year, what with the virus and all. So I’ve compiled a list of my favorite holiday for you to enjoy!

Uz Naimat’s holiday-themed works:

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Today's choice also comes out of the forties in which this is brought to you by the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Now that we've moved into the nineteenth century, I'm sharing a piece of music that, if it weren't for Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven or Strauss jr, this would be considered as the most famous melody to ever come out from Austria. One so popular that in the twentieth and twenty-first century, whenever any artist comes out with a Christmas album, this song is almost guaranteed to be on there. Today, of course, I'm talking about Stille Nacht - Silent Night.

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To end off the fifties, I'm sharing with you a song that is like a unique time capsule of the period. One that is both a product of the times with its signature guitar to the singer - and yet, somehow is timeless that we still play it every December.

The last time I did a monthly update/plan, things were not looking particularly rosy on my end. I won't bother you with the specifics, but there was a lot of drama going on at my end and life seemed particularly bleak. I'd posted that I would start doing writing work to stave off the feelings of despair that were going to overwhelm me, but as the general lack of content on this page should make clear, very little came

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Ok, so, idk if I can actually manage a 'per story' upload schedule, but I've set myself the goal of a chapter a week of something minimum. This includes my one story over on fanfiction https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6707624/ which is a NCIS/Kantai Collection crossover.

I actually have a pair of winter fics I've been sitting on, so those will likely be this week and next, a one-shot and the first chapter of another. After that it's whatever I can get the most inspiration to do.

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Hey everypone, got my monthly calendar coming in hot! Let's go through this as quick as we can, yeah?

So, first thing to talk about is a review of the two new stories we got last month, Child of Mine and Hour of Twilight. Two covers in one month, how awesome is that? So those stories have both made the transition to Fimfiction, where their updates will continue from here on.

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So guess what? I'm fucking screwed again because my employer doesn't pay holiday pay and I fucked up my back a couple of weeks ago. Add to that the fact that my employer has also elected to go with an insurance system which required me to pay my insurance premiums out of pocket and yeah... End result: not enough money to pay bills.

Yes, we're doing this again. Yes, I hate myself even more because of it.

[UPDATE]

So um... this happened.

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"A 7pm Thames/LWT handover from 28th December 1979" opens with a promo for LWT's line-up, which includes mentions of the films "The Man In The Iron Mask" and "Murder By Natural Causes", from Columbo writers Richard Levinson and William Link. This also has excerpts from an episode of The Muppet Show that features Liza Minnelli.

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Let's make this post an AMA. Because why not. Come at me.

anyway this is definitely supposed to be a fun season, and that means I'll need to start getting some fun stuff done now that my life has settled a little. Last month, on this day, I told you guys a bunch of the stuff I've been planning. Well, now I have a better idea of how all those plans are doing. Let's take a look at that dumb little list I made last month of my things to do, and see what the progress is....

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TIME FOR THE GAITA ZULIANA

This is Venezuelan music that you only hear on this month (exclusive music, unless you live on Zulia, then you hear it all the time).

You read that right, so I'll elaborate. September, October, November and December are the last 4 months of the year, everyone know this. What most of your probably don't know is that their names are effectively meaningless now, once again I promise to explain. September literally means the 7th month, October literally means the 8th month, November literally means the 9th month and December literally means the the 10th month. Every other month of the was either added in by the Romans, see the

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