author_by_night | NaNoBloPo: Sucky lives and sleigh rides

We're on a roll with the holiday stuff. So... what's your favorite holiday movie or TV episode?

I don't really have a favorite. Maybe A Christmas Story? I'll also always have a soft spot for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I will say the movie I've never been able to get into was It's A Wonderful Life. I agree the ending's nice, but it's five minutes of nice after two and a half hours or something of doom and gloom. In the (possibly not verbatim) words of Phoebe Buffay: "It should be called It's a Sucky Life!"

Post your favorite holiday song.

I'm not a one choice only kind of girl, so here's seven that I'll stop everything I'm doing/saying to listen to.

1. The music only version of "Sleigh Ride."

2. Whitney Houston's "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

3. Sugarland's "Little Wood Guitar."

4. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You."

5. "So This is Christmas" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

6. "O Holy Night."

7. Sarah McLachlan and The Barenaked Ladies' "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."