Music of 2023

Albums I Listened to the Most in 2023:

• Anastasia
• Aurora by Daisy Jones and the Six
• Barbie
• The Color Purple
• Elf: The Musical
• Footloose
• Freaky Friday: The Musical
• Grease
• Home Alone
• The Little Mermaid
• Mamma Mia!
• Phantom of the Opera
• A Very She & Him Christmas
• White Christmas
• Wonka

Artists I Listened to the most in 2023:

• Abba
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Bee Gees
• Britney Spears
• Donna Summer
• Earth, Wind, and Fire
• Elton John
• Frank Sinatra
• George Michael
• John Williams
• Kelly Clarkson
• Lionel Richie
• Michael Buble
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Stevie Wonder

Songs I listened to most in 2023:

• After the Love Has Gone
• All I Want for Christmas is You
• Dancing Queen
• Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
• Flowers
• Holding Out for A Hero
• I Will Survive
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Let's Stay Together
• Livin' on a Prayer
• No Scrubs
• Over the Rainbow
• Part of Your World
• White Christmas

AmaWaterways Cruise Playlist

Disco Dance Party

• Boogie Wonderland
• Dancing Queen
• Every Breath You Take
• Footloose
• Sweet Caroline
• Take Me Home, Country Road
• YMCA

Erwin Nyhoff

•  All of Me
• All Along the Watchtower
• Brown Eyed Girl
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain
• Homeward Bound
• Imagine
• Johnny B. Goode
• Mr. Tambourine Man
• Proud Mary
• Satisfaction
• She's Always a Woman
• That's All Right

Piano and DJ Man

• All My Ex's Live in Texas
• Bad Moon Rising
• Bikers Shuffle
• Blueberry Hill
• Can't Help Falling in Love
• Chattahoochee
• Cotton Eyed Joe
• Crazy
• Cupid Shuffle
• Dancing Queen
• Disco Inferno
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• Eye in The Sky
• Friends in Low Places
• I'm Still Standing
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• La Bamba
• Let's Groove
• Super Freak
• Sweet Caroline
• Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

String Quartet

• The Godfather
• Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
• The Pink Panther
• Sway

Movies of 2023

Best Movies I watched in 2023:

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
• Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
• The Color Purple
• Barbie
• A Man Called Otto
• Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
• Wonka
• The Flash
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

TV of 2023

Best TV shows I watched in 2023:

• Ahsoka
• The Challenge
• The Chosen
• Daisy Jones & The Six
• House of Villains
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• The Terminal List
• The Traitors
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
• The Walking Dead: Dead City

Christmas Orchestra Concert

 We went to the Orchestra Christmas Concert at Syracuse High.  Here are the songs they performed:

• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Christmastime is Here
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• First Noel
• Good King Wenceslas
• Happy Holidays/ Holiday Season
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
• Jingle Bells
• Joy to the World
• The Nutcracker Suite
• Silent Night
• Sleigh Ride
• Sleighin' It
• What Child is This?
• We Three Kings

Station Park

 

Books of 2023

 Best Books I Read in 2023:

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Salt to the Sea by Ruth Sepetys
• The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
• The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Ogden Park Lights

 

Elf

 My mom and I went and saw a live production of the musical, Elf, based on the movie.