What are you listening to right now? video edition

Just because I'm on a huge Star Trek TNG series marathon kick right now - and who doesn't love Patrick Stewart.

After eight years in retail, not a fan of Christmas music, so I'm listening to this nifty little tune. (It was written for an instrument the composer found abandoned in the street. )

I enjoyed that Esme, thank you

This is my favourite Swedish Christmas song of all time. "Jul, jul, strålande jul" = "Christmas, Christmas, radiant Christmas". (And yes, we still call Christmas Yule. We never bothered to change it when we became Christian. )

Swedish lyrics and English translation(Click to View)

Jul, jul, strålande jul! / Christmas, Christmas, radiant Christmas!
Glans över vita skogar / Sheen over white woods
Himmelens kronor med gnistrande ljus / The crowns of heaven with sparkling lights
Glimmande bågar i alla Guds hus / Gleaming arches* in all houses of God
Psalm, som är sjungen från tid till tid / Hymn that is sung from era to era
Eviga längtan till ljus och frid! / Eternal yearning to light and peace!
Jul, jul, strålande jul / Christmas, Christmas, radiant Christmas!
Glans över vita skogar! / Sheen over white woods

Kom, kom, signade jul! / Come, come, bless'ed Christmas!
Sänk dina vita vingar / Lower your white wings
Över stridernas blod och larm / Over the battles' blood and din
Över all suckan ur människobarm / Over all sighing out of man's breast
Över de släkten som gått till ro / Over the generations that have found peace
Över de ungas dagande bo! / Over the beginning nest of the young!
Kom, kom, signade jul! / Come, come, bless'ed Christmas!
Sänk dina vita vingar! / Lower your white wings!

*The "gleaming arches" are our much-beloved advent candlesticks - that are electric these days - that we always put in our windows.

Gorgeous Nix, thank you for the translation too!

Never fails to lift my mood

Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life

I was watching movie trailers on Rotten Tomatoes, and instead of an annoying ad playing before the trailer, this played. T'was a lovely surprise.

Sean Mott - Auld Lang Syne

lovely voice! And I love the pared-back arrangement the words really come through with great sincerity and emotion.

I love the Chieftains!!! ...and at this time of year, this is my favorite song to listen to. (Along with their rendition of Jackson Browne's "Rebel Jesus")