Day 2 - Lane Hayes
Happy Holidays! I’m so thrilled to take part in RJ’s Advent Calendar celebration this year. I love the holiday season. My house is decorated to the nines with a ginormous wreath on my front door, a snow globe Christmas collection, a twinkling tree, and poinsettias. Of course, I also have a hodgepodge of sentimental knickknacks and ornaments my grown children made when they were kids. LOL Gotta have a bit of everything!
Over the years, I’ve written quite a few Christmas shorts as well as four published holiday-themed novellas, Leaning Into a Wish, Stick to the Script, Out for the Holidays, and my brand new release set in my jock/geek world, The Holiday List. I love the blend of sophistication mixed with family/friend mayhem and I do my best to incorporate that spirit in every story. That small peek into other worlds during a joyful season never fails to make me smile.
Wishing you a happy holiday filled with laughter, love, and joy,
Lane Hayes xo
The Holiday List
Take a peek at my newest holiday book, The Holiday List.
The Holiday List (November 30) – mybook.to/The-Holiday-List
The Mars maestro, the single dad, and a wish list…
Chet-
Boy, did I get lucky! Finding a living situation with a houseful of passionate scientists just before the holidays is ideal in every possible way. As the newest member of the Script Club, I feel it’s important to step up and tackle the to-do list my friends would prefer to avoid. Item one, addressing the tutoring request from the neighborhood hottie slash single dad on the next block. I’ve got this!
Or do I?
Handsome, older sporty gentlemen intimidate me. And this one doesn’t like the holidays. Who says that? This may be a daunting task.
Sam-
The geeks down the street can save the day. I have a sprained shoulder and no idea how to safely do any of the science experiments my son wants to try. If I can talk the Mars dude into helping me, I’ll be set. Of course, he wants to bring some holiday cheer too. Not sure what to think about that, but desperate times call for desperate measures. And I can’t deny the science guy is very charming…in a quirky way.
Don’t quote me, but maybe this holiday elf with his thick glasses and a mile-long list might be exactly I need.
The Holiday List is an MM bisexual, geek/jock romance with a holiday twist featuring a loveable scientist and a single dad who’s probably on the naughty list!
Competition
For a chance to win an ebook of choice from my backlist, including my holiday stories, share your favorite holiday movie or song…or both!
Me? Oh, gosh, tough one! I love so many! Elf, It’s a Wonderful Life, All I Want for Christmas… the list goes on!
Closes 10 December (7am London)
Aussie Jingle Bellshttps://youtu.be/OnJ8jsw4BSo
https://youtu.be/OnJ8jsw4BSo
Oracle on 34th Street, the 1973 version! Probably because that is the one from when I was young.
Fat Fingers! Miracle on 34th street!
Holiday Inn
Wouldn’t be Christmas without it.
So many movies!
The Grinch
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street (1947 & 1994)
White Christmas
Most recent addition is…
The Family Stone!
Favorite song is O Holy Night but Mary Did You Know is a close second.
The grinch
How the grinch stole Christmas
I love Die Hard and Rise of the Guardians
I love Christmas in Connecticut. I also like watching Rent around Christmas too.
For Unto Us a Child is Born, Handel’s Messiah
I love all the Christmas carols, Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth, While You Were Sleeping, Love Actually, even some of the Hallmark movies…..
Love Actually
Love Actually
A Christmas Carol
Black and white version with Alistair Simms
God rest ye merry gentlemen by barenaked ladies
https://youtu.be/HGVNzgUxE-g
I love watching the old A Christmas Carol movie. I saw the remake with Guy Pearce and it was awful. Give me Alaistair Simms anyway. Favorite song is Do You Hear What I Hear?
Christmas Vacation movie
Favorite movie is tough…. Nightmare before Christmas, nestir the long eared donkey, but i think thr life an adventures of santa-claus will win.
And song….
Angles we have heard on high or we 3 kings.
I always make sure to watch Home Alone at least once during the holiday season.
arthur christmas
I love traditional Christmas songs. Like good king Wenceslas & carol of the bells. I also enjoy Celtic Christmas versions too. I don’t think I have a fav Christmas movie tho
I love The Holiday.
Not necessarily a Christmas Story… But when Willow is airing on the TV, it always means Christmas is close 😉
White Christmas, the movie and Silent Night but I prefer it in my native German.
Favourite movie is The Christmas Chronicles
Christmas movie favorites? The Holiday or White Christmas!
Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart and Arthur Christmas
Favorite Christmas song: any taken from Michael Buble’s Christmas album 🥰 As far as movies are concerned, “Fantasy” with Mickey Mouse is the movie that we usually turn to to create the right atmosphere.
Movie – Elf
Somg – Rockin around the Christmas tree
Carol of the bells
That’s Christmas to Me by Pentatonix is my favourite Christmas song, the video is so heart warming
Love Actually is my favourite Christmas Movie because it such fun but I can watch Christmas Movies all year round
This is exactly what I would pick!
What Child Is This?
My favorite “holiday” movie is Nightmare Before Christmas 😀 I’m a total Tim Burton addict <3
Six white boomers
My all time favorite Chritmas movie is Little Lord Fauntleroy, but only the one with Alec Guinness and Ricky Schroeder. I watch that every year for the last 30 years.
Ha, I’m so glad that I’m not the only one to name “Little Lord Fauntleroy” – and, yes, I will watch it every year (and start crying even sooner every time).
My favorite christmas song is “Stille Nacht” (Silent Night in German).
Movie: Die Hard (yes it is!) or if you quibble, Small Soldiers (hee)
Song: That’s Christmas to Me, Pentatonix (or if I”m being sentimental, Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives)
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Ok, it looks like my post went out into cyberspace. My answers were: Die Hard or if you don’t believe that is a Christmas movie, Small Soldiers. And for songs That’s Christmas to Me by Pentatonix or Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives. Sorry for the multiple posts but I seem to be having technical diffiulties.
Last Christmas by Wham or Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea are my favourite Christmas songs.
I love Christmas time! My favourite movie is Home alone and songs it’s single bell rock.
I can listen to Pentatonix sing Mary Did You Know all day long.
https://youtu.be/AcNU6atT0-k The 12 Pains of Christmas. Makes me giggle every time.
Pentatonix version of Mary did you know. White Christmas.
I love Little Drummer Boy by For King and Country, and my favorite movie is A Christmas Story.
I’d have to repeat the same one several other people have said … Miracle on 34th Street. But, definitely the 1947 original.
For song … TSO’s “Christmas Canon”
My favourite Christmas movie is an old one, It’s a Wonderful Life.
Movie: The Ref
Song: Do They Know its Christmas? Band-Aid
Last Christmas by Wham
When I saw this video, The Christmas Can-Can by Straight No Chaser overtook Angela Lansbury’s 1966 performance of We Need a Little Christmas from Mame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-47VmFopE&ab_channel=StraightNoChaser
Last Christmas by Wham is my favorite Christmas song. But I also really like the Pentatonix version of Little Drummer Boy.
Nightmare before Christmas and the Little Drummer Boy
N/E
Movie: White Christmas
Song: Baby It’s Cold Outside
Movie: Die Hard (Yes, it is a Christmas movie)
Song: Do they know it’s Christmas by Band Aid (1984)
Home Alone & Home Alone 2 are my favorite Christmas movies.
A Christmas Carol – any version is good.
Greg Lake – I believe in Father Christmas
My favorite holiday movie is Elf! My family watches it multiple times around the holidays.
My favourite Christmas movie is The Bishops Wife.
Movie: Arthur Christmas or Elf, Song: Bing Crosby’s White Christmas
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. I still laugh every time.
Once in Royal David’s City. Beautiful carol.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. I still laugh every time.
Once in Royal David’s City. Beautiful carol.
My favorite song is Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord, though if I’m in a silly mood it’s I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Elf
Right now, it’s the Christmas episode of the Japanese live drama (based on a manga) called CHERRY MAGIC! THIRTY YEARS OF VIRGINITY CAN TURN YOU INTO A WIZARD?! (Horrible name, but very sweet m/m story with a great female aro side character.) The Valentine’s episode is great too…
It Must Have Been Ol’ Santa Claus by Harry Connick Jr and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street, Song: Redneck Christmas by Jeff Foxworthy
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Most people know “Mary Did You Know.” It’s been done by several artists now and is quite popular. But most people haven’t heard Michael Card’s “Joseph’s Song.” It’s the step-dad POV. Movies: I enjoy that EVERYONE is in “Love Actually.”
All I want for Christmas is you.
My favorite Christmas Movie is called Snowglobe. It’s hilarious.
Elf is definitely a recent favorite. White Christmas is also a classic.
My favourite Christmas movie is Arthur Christmas. Followed closely by Prep & Landing and White Christmas.
The Original version of Miracle on 34th street
Die Hard. I like 1 and 2 and the rest are trash. But the first 2 are amazing.
Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth by Bing Crosby & David Bowie
Where are you, Christmas
Home Alone and Christmas Vacation are must watch movies for me during the holidays!
Kling, Glöckchen, klingelingeling – ein deutsches Weihnachtslied.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_0dQ0jToSQ
and as an international song: Carol of the bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKkzbbLYPuI
The Night They Saved Christmas is my favorite Xmas movie. Favorite song is Rockin around the Christmas tree by Brenda Lee
The Holiday List sounds like a great holiday read, thanks for sharing it with me! Holiday movies… I agree with you, there are so many but I will go with Home Alone, Grinch, The Santa Claus Trilogy, and more! As for songs, Winter Wonderland and Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (cause its just so fun)! Have a wonderful holiay season!
Home Alone
Movie: Christmas Vacation Song: Oh Holy Night
It’s a movie! While you were Sleeping
The Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen
Love Actually or Die Hard
Die Hard! It’s a holiday movie, fight me. 🤣
And Scrooged!
My favorite holiday movie has been the same since I was 11, Meet Me In St. Louis, and the favorite song is from it…. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”. Sung by the incomparable Judy Garland herself, always makes me tear up… but it all ends well in the end!! I also love A Christmas Story, “Fra-Gee-lay… must be Italian!! ” lol
Favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story. We watch it every year and yell out lines in the movie.
The Nightmare before Christmas, that’s mine
Feliz Navidad José Feliciano
#competition 2
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (the original version)
Song: This is my Wish by Kevin Ross / This is My Wish by Jordin Sparks (same song)
Muppets Christmas carol
Miracle on 34th Street – the original black and white version – is my favorite movie, and Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24 by Trans Siberian Orchestra is my favorite song. This is my most favorite month of the year!
I don’t watch films much and but I do have a favourite Christmas song is “I Believe In Father Christmas” by Greg Lake. Always reminds me of baking on Christmas eve.
Always Remember I Love You: 1990 movie starring Patty Duke and Stephen Dorff about finding a lost child around Christmas time.
White Christmas: Irving Berlin song with seldom-heard verse about being in Los Angeles in the sunshine and palms while longing to be up North on December 24th…!
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa clause 🎶
I really loved Christmas with the Kranks 🎥
Die Hard and Gremlins and silent night foe my song
I always watch Die Hard with my father, that is our little christmas tradition.
Favourite film would definitely be It’s A Wonderful Life. As for song? It’s a toss up between Holst’s In The Bleak Midwinter and the Wessex Carol.😊💕
It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Die Hard & Rise of the Guardians (even though it’s technically an Easter movie, is still a holiday movie).
Rise of a Guardians has Christmas in the last half of the movie.
Movies…I have so many favorites…Christmas Story with George C. Scott, Elf, Love Actually.
Songs…same…I have them playing all month long..The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting in an Open Fire) by Mel Torme.
The original Grinch will always be my favorite.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Yes!!! Someone else that knows Die Hard is a Christmas movie!!! <3
Favorite song jingle bell rock.
Favorite movies the grinch, I love watching home alone 1 and 2 around this time of year.
Home Alone & Polar Express
Love Actually and Silent Night
I listen to “Zombie Apocalypse at Christmas” by The Dregs every year.
Love Actually is my favourite movie. Oh Holy Night by any tenor is my favourite carol
Christmas music: I have a quirky taste in music, and my holiday favorites are usually melancholy, medieval, sacred or instrumental. I can’t choose a favorite:
1) Snowbound!, Seattle Men’s Chorus
Carol from an Irish Cabin
Hard Candy Christmas
2) A Little Christmas Music, The King’s Singers
I Wonder as I Wander
Gaudete
Three Spanish carols: Riu, Riu, Chiu; El Nino Querido; Villancico Catalan
The Gift (Simple Gifts)
Patapan and Farandole
3) Christmas in the Northwest 6
Waiting for Saint Nick – Larry Murante
Christmas in the Northwest – Brenda Kutz White
4) Christmas Goes Baroque – CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Breiner (1989) One of my favorite albums
Some of my favorite Christmas movies: Last Holiday with Queen Latifah; Bernard & the Genie with Alan Cumming; The Shop Around the Corner with James Stewart; Going My Way and Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby; Scrooged with Bill Murray; It’s a Wonderful Life with James Stewart; Miracle on 34th Street (BW 1947 original)
My favourite movie is The Polar Express.
My favorite song changes frequently, right now it is Kelly Clarkson’s Merry Christmas to the One I Used to Know
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (animated version from way back when) & Frosty the Snowman
Die Hard is a favorite Christmas movie….Yes, its a Christmas movie! lol
Now an awesome movie AND song is Christmas shoes.
Then just a song I love is Santa I’m right here by Toby Keith (warning may cause sudden onset of blurry vision, tight throat, burning nose)
I love A Christmas Story and Elf.
Christmas Canon, the children’s choir version makes me cry a little every time I hear it!
I love Charlie Brown Christmas!
Miracle on 34th Street.
The nightmare before christmas, a miracle on 34th street, it’s a wonderful life, and a Christmas story to name a few!
The Christmas song I most enjoy is by Pentatonix – Hallelujah. This is so well done that I can list to it all day on repeat, the vocals are beautiful, especially since they don’t use instruments!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ
The Muppet Christmas Carol – my favorite film version (I can’t say “my favorite version” as my spouse has a one-person show version)
White Christmas movie
Hands down it’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th St! 🥰
My favorite Christmas movie is The Shop Around the Corner. I love Jimmy Stewart
My favorite holiday song is “Home for the Holidays,” sung by Perry Como.
My favorite song is White Christmas. My favorite movie is Miracle on 34th St.
Favourite movie would be either Die Hard or The Long Kiss Goodnight – a classic Christmas action movie 🙂
Favorite movie is White Christmas and new favorite song is a Kpop one – Christmas EveL by Stray Kids (although my perennial favorite is O Holy Night)
My favorite song is Hey Santa! By Carnie and Wendy Wilson. My favorite movie would be a tough one but I would have to say all the ones put out by Rankin and Bass. Yes, they are old and cheesy but they all remind me of my childhood and for me that is what the season is all about.
I really like Home Free & Jewel’s Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
Movie: Either Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer or Gremlins.
Song: Carol of the Bells – Pentatonix
Thank you for the opportunity!
Love Actually
The Grinch and Home Alone 1 and 2 are my favourite!
Frosty The Snow Man
Home Alone
my fav christmas movie is babes in toyland from 1986
Little Lord Fauntleroy (an English film with Alec Guinnes as Lord Fauntleroy, it must be from the 80s because I remember watching it since I was a kid).
Love, Actually is my favorite holiday movie. It has become a tradition for my husband and me to watch it at least once, usually on Christmas day.
My favorite holiday movie is the Muppet Christmas Carol. It’s a yearly tradition.
It’s A Wonderful Life has been a favorite since I was a child, but given a second choice, I’d have trouble making a decision bet Holiday Inn, Love Actually, & Die Hard.
As for my fav song, I’d probably SAY Carol of the Bells but I find the upcoming song (& clip) too adorable for words…
https://youtu.be/_ghkHlthIqM
I don’t tend to watch movies, so I’ll pick a favorite song ~ “The Cherry Tree Carol” performed by JUDY COLLINS.
I LOVE Miracle on 34th street and Elf. Those are must in my family!
1st Die Hard Movie, and Pentatonix – Mary did you Know?
so many favorites that I watch every year: Muppet Christmas Carol, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Flintstone Christmas Carol, Peanuts Christmas, Garfield Christmas, Ernest Saves Christmas, Very Brady Christmas, (old) How the Grinch Stole Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and many more. I like many songs in moderation: Mary Did You Know?, John Denver with the Muppets The Peace Carol, The Bob Rivers parody Christmas albums…
Home Alone 1 and 2
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Little Drummer Boy
The Family Stone
The Santa Clause
Holiday Movie: Home Alone
Holiday Song: Diamond by Girls Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EPx_okfEPk
A Christmas Without Snow with Michael Learned
It’s a tie between Elf and Christmas Vacation!
White Christmas all the way.
Christmas Vacation is my family’s go-to movie for Christmas; it’s a must for us to watch each year!
Die Hard. Baby it’s cold outside for the song!
elf
A Christmas Story
Home alone and Die Hard
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses
All I want for Christmas
Shake Up Christmas by Train (song).
Elf and Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Serendipity
Walking around in women’s underwear
12 Pains of Christmas
Muppet Family Christmas
A Christmas Story, & Stan Boreson’s “Oh! Lutefisk.”
White Christmas
White Christmas
One of my all time favorite Christmas movies is Christmas Vacation, my family and I watch it every year. My favorite Christmas song is Underneath the tree by Kelly Clarkson. Thanks for the chance!
Movie: White Christmas or Miracle on 34th Street (original)
Song: The First Noel
Movie: White Christmas
Song: The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle by Bobby Vinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=legSTv8s_Cg
Miracle on 34th Street – the original
Movie: “Scrooged” with Bill Murray
Song: Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas”
“Oh, Holy Night!” is my favorite Christmas hymn/song
My favorite movie is A Christmas Story with Love Actually running a close second. As for music, it’s Silver Bells my all-time favorite ever since I was a child. As for my adult tastes, I just pop my Dean Martin Christmas CD in and call it a day along with sipping some spiked egg nog. ❤🎄❄🎹🎬
Die Hard and the Star Wars movies are always part of our Christmas.
There are two movies I watch every Christmas.
– Love, Actually < I have so many memories of the times I’ve watched this movie. It is a Christmas tradition that I wrap presents on Christmas Eve, with a generous glass of wine and Love, Actually.
– Elf. With the kids. It is so funny, with a big heart underneath all the goofiness.
I love “Angels We Have Heard on High and Miracle on 34th Street. Happy Holidays and thank you for the giveaway!
the year without a santa claus is my favorite holiday movie of all time
Home Alone. My kids love watching it with us every year also.
I don’t particularly like Christmas music though
I love Christmas with the Kranks. It was such fun to watch with my niece and nephew. Brings good memories.
My favorite movie is Christmas Vacation and my favorite contemporary song is Cold December Night by Michael Bublé. My favorite traditional song is Angels We Have Heard On High
A Christmas Story
Classic show: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Modern Classic: Arthur Christmas
Yes, it’s a Christmas movie: Die Hard 🙂
While you were sleeping!
My favorite Christmas movies are the Home Alone movies. So much fun when I was younger, but I also love seeing my kids enjoy them now. As for Christmas music, nothing beats Mr. ABA key’s Christmas album. 🤣
That should be Mr. Hankey. Didn’t realize it autocorrected.
My favorite christmas movie is Santa Claus: The Movie (not The Santa Clause, different movie entirely). But Single All The Way is quickly becoming a new favorite.
How can anyone pick just one? I love getting to listen to Bruce Springsteen’s Santa Clause Is Coming To Town and always have Arthur Christmas playing when I put up my Xmas decorations 🙂
I still love the movie Home alone😄. And the classic ” all I want for Christmas is you :Mariah Carey. Its just so fun and cheerfull. But Mariah’ s ” God rest ye merry gentlemen ” is also beautiful. 🌟
The Year Without a Santa Claus. Pentatonix Christmas album
White Christmas and O Holy Night
Oh Holy Night and A Christmas Story
So many! The original Grinch, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 🦌 (1964), they used to be broadcast together. At 6 years it was must-see TV.
The original Miracle on 34th Street, and It’s a Wonderful Life
The original Miracle on 34th Street is my favorite, but there are others, lol. I’m going to see a production of White Christmas tonight – I can’t wait!
I love the two animated Grinch movies, the Original and the newer one from Illumination.
I watch them all year long. 😁
I live both Peanuts Christmas Movies.
My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story! I can’t pick a favorite Christmas song because I have too many!
“A Nightmare Before Christmas” is just perfect!
“Last Christmas” by Wham! (George Michael) is a lovely song 🙂
Ooh! “Santa Claus: The Movie” will always be my favourite Christmas film 🍿
How Many Kings by Downhere
Die hard!
Mary Did you Know? And Angel’s We Have Heard on High
I love “Little Drummer Boy,” and I recently heard a version by Cincinnati Pops in the style of Ravel’s Bolero. Worked perfectly.