Jim Brinkman Peace Christmas Music CD Review

December 20th, 2009 | Posted by admin

The exceptionally talented Christmas artist Jim Brinkman has released him CD entitled Peace. I am very confident and happy to announce that I believe Jim Brinkman fans, and Christmas fans alike will be pleased with this one. With the release of Peace Jim Brinkman’s artistic excellence is on full display as Brinkman has once again delivered a brilliant collection of tracks that could very well be him best work to date.

Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

One of the refreshingly nice things about this CD is the way all of the participating artists seem to be really enjoying themselves. Combine that with the overall presentation and you’ve got one of Jim Brinkman’s most impressive releases ever.

If you’re even mildly into Christmas music you’ll enjoy this CD. Overall Peace is an outstanding release. I give it my double thumbs up. You will not be disappointed with one single track.

While this entire CD is outstanding the truly standout tunes are track 2 – Hark The Herald Angels Sing, track 10 – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and track 13 – Peace.

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [. . . as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 – We Three Kings. Great track!  Read more...

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Some Ideas For All That New Stuff

December 13th, 2009 | Posted by admin

With Christmas still a warm memory, there’s all this new stuff in your life; your friends and family have showered you with the latest gadgets and gizmos.  Now what are you going to do with all these new toys?  Before you get too far into the manuals, and before you throw out the old stuff, take an inventory of what you have and what replaces what.  Before you pile up the old TV with this week’s trash, consider what can be done with that still usable item.  First, may I suggest you consider donating some of your replaced items to charity; the world has so many people in it that have a lot less than you do, so consider sharing some of it.  If it still works, it’s donatable.  If you just can’t part with it, then consider adding it to your cellar work area or the sun porch.  You don’t need to get another cable box for it if you’re on cable, just split the signal out from another feeder line as it comes out of the wall and you should have limited control over the channels.  I put the old, smaller TV in the kitchen for those cooking channels and comedy shows for while you prepare and clean up, all I did was split the signal before it enters the TV; that way I see the same thing in the living room and kitchen, and still have full access to all the channels, as long as both rooms want to watch the same thing.  If you got a new home entertainment system, you can move the older one downstairs into the cellar and hook up some outside speakers for those Summer parties, or perhaps up into the kid’s room for their own enjoyment.

Did you pick up a new MP3 player or iPod?  There’s a little device that I’ve found useful for these personal audio players, and it’s a little transmitter that plugs into the headphone jack, runs on AAA batteries and transmits your signal to an FM frequency on the radio.  Very cool, and it works great in the car too.  If the device stores files on a smart card or secure digital device or other media, keep an eye on the post-holiday sales, you may be able to double or triple your storage space for a low cost; if your device has removable media, it should be able to handle the biggest size available in that storage media type.  Also a little patch cord from your player headphone jack to the stereo input on your home entertainment system will have you rocking to your portable MP3s in the comfort of your own living room.  Read more...

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