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Holiday

Planting Seeds Records

Christmas from the Labels

vusleeper December 13, 2010

Despite all the Christmas joys, I honestly don't like this time of year. It's freezingly cold here in Minneapolis and my car died this morning, forcing me to spend an extra long thirty minutes with frozen fingers. I'm going to buy a pair of gloves and leave it in the car now. Anyway, below are a few Christmas greetings from some record labels with the holiday spirit

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Black Friday 2010

vusleeper November 24, 2010

It's that time of the year: Black Friday, this Friday! It's tradition, I'm heading out in the bleak morning of Black Friday to these stores: Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart. It seems the big thing this year are big LCD or Plasma television. I am not in the market for a new TV, but some of these prices ($400 for a 40 inch 1080p sounds really cheap) makes it hard to not buy it.

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Dragon Age - Inon Zur

W♥M Holiday Gift Guide 2009

vusleeper November 24, 2009

I have also been playing Dragon Age, quite slow-moving, but I love it. The best version to get is the PC version, surprisingly. First of all it's about $10 cheaper than the Xbox or PS3 version, and it looks fantastic compared to those console version. Plus you can zoom out for that top-view like those Baldur's Gate games. Love it.

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Putumayo Presents: A Family Christmas

Christmas Music Guide 2009

vusleeper November 3, 2009

You must think it's so great to review music, even as a hobby. That is until you realize that I've been listening to nonstop Christmas music ... in October!! Most of the smarter record labels are releasing their Seasonal music of or prior to that American tradition known as "Black Friday". Putumayo's Christmas album came out at the end of October, and features eleven tracks of very well-known Seasonal songs, including "Winter Wonderland" and "Frosty the Snowman". The emphasis seems to be on "family", as these are all very cheery and traditional-sounding. Which should also translate to boring/age-old songs, but this being from the folks at Putumayo, is nothing but predictable.

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