There is nothing more beautifully Christmasy than A Charlie Brown Christmas, but not even just the movie. The movie is fantastic and funny and clever and heartwarming, and all of that stuff you want a good Christmas movie to be, but that isn’t even why it’s so great.

It’s the soundtrack! Vince Guaraldi is some sort of crazy genius because just a few notes any of that incredible jazz piano in any of these songs and I am suddenly overcome with these amazingly complex feelings of joy and sadness and I don’t know what, but it feels like Christmas and I love it! Here’s a great NPR story you can listen to about Guaraldi and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

p.s. I know, I’ve been a terrible blogger this week, but isn’t the new header great? ok, we’ll talk about it next week, maybe…