OK, so let me get this straight, because it is getting to be the twelve days of Thanksgiving: Red Wednesday, T-Day, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, (we have had no reported name for Sunday...yet, but if I had my druthers, it needs to be something football and food related. Dang, I wish Super Bowl Sunday wasn't already taken!) and then Cyber Monday. All cutesy, tied up with ribbon for the holidays. Shop, Shop, Shop, it is the mantra, and the push is on everywhere. Commercials abound, sales in every store and online, and all I can say is it's very hard to escape the magnetic pull of the sport of Christmas. Let us not forget that it is not even DECEMBER yet! I think they should just rename the 4th quarter Christmas, and be done with it. So transparent, but that's just me! I am reminded, coming off the feast of this past Thursday, that for me, what this is really about is being with people you love. I am touched by the stories you see this time of year about families donating time and resources to work in food banks to provide Thanksgiving for those that couldn't do it for themselves.
Photo Credit: Patrick Schmidt
Today's video comes from one of my favorite bands out of Canada, The Deep Dark Woods. They have just recorded a new album with engineer Darren Van Niekerk, which we hear will be out next year...hey, that isn't too far from now, ya know! I think the band is taking a bit of a breather, before they continue their frenetic tour schedule in Canada and the US in 2011. DDW member Ryan Boldt has started a new blog to keep in touch called Old Time Hour. Check it out. And for you now is the ever appropriate "All the Money I Had Is Gone," from their most recent album, Winter Hours. We filmed this, with guest Kendel Carson, at Threadgill's WHQ in Austin, Texas during SXSW 2010.
- Jessie Scott
