Kyle Kessler : weblog

My parents we be here in the morning, and by this time tomorrow we’ll be nestled in our hotel beds in Munich. And by the same time the following night we’ll have visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads which will be lying on Austrian pillows in the little old town of Salzburg. You’ll remember Salzburg as the setting for the musical The Sound of Music.

It wasn’t until I got to the U.K. last year that I discovered the 1965 film version is such a Christmas-time favorite. (A ‘favorite thing’ enough to have an “international smash hit” Sing-a-long-a version, believe it or not!) I guess we Americans are too busy watching It’s a Wonderful Life and college football bowl games to be bothered with much other seasonal programming - especially karaoke-esque, participatory programming.

And in case I don’t sit down to type another weblog entry till sometime in January, Merry Christmas everybody, and Happy New Year!