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To "The List" Owner
Peta, your friends are wrong. They have been affected by the sampling and hype of the radio age. They do not believe in good music because the radio doesn't play it (much!). They think that nothing can be which is not commercialized by idiotic program directors. All program directors, Peta, whether they be top 40 or alternative, are idiotic. In this great country of ours, radio playlists are a mere skeleton when compared with the bounty of music produced on CDs and records, purchased and enjoyed by Joe Q. Public. Yes, Peta, there is a James Lee Stanley.
He exists as certainly as clever lyrics, melodies and strumming exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life the highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the music world if there were no James Lee Stanley?! It would be as dreary as if there were no James Lee List. There would be no bathroom humor, then, no parodies, no innuendoes to make enjoyable this list. We should have no giggles and grins except in song and laughter. The mirthful tales and tunes which fill the listers' world would be non-existent.
Not believe in James Lee Stanley! You might as well not believe in Bejorans. You might get your List Owner to hire men to book shows year round for James Lee Stanley, but even if you did not see James Lee Stanley in your town, what would that prove? Few east coasters get to see James Lee Stanley live, but that is no sign that there is no James Lee Stanley. The most talented musicians in the world may never tour. Did you ever see the Beatles live at Shea Stadium? Probably not, but that's no proof that they were not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders yet unwritten and unplayed by James Lee.
You tear open the shower curtain to see what's growing inside, but there is a film covering the unseen world, which not the strongest bathroom cleaner, nor even the united strength of all the smartass listers that ever posted could get through. Only listening ears, open hearts and musical taste can push aside that curtain and hear the beauty of his lyrics. Is it all real? Ah, Peta, in all this world there is no music as genuine or as good.
No James Lee Stanley? Thank god, James plays and records at Beachwood. A thousand years from now, Peta, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make people smile and inquire, "James Lee Who?"
"The List" Owner
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CREDITS: Except where indicated, these holiday parodies and graphics were written/created by James Lee Lister, Leigh-Anne "Peta" Dennison, because of her great respect and admiration for Mr. James Lee Stanley and his work. If you would like to read other writing by Peta inspired by James Lee Stanley, please proceed to: Works Inspired by James Lee (the name just "came" to me one night). Thank you to Zanta for permitting this lovingly created humor to be linked to the Official Homepage, thanks to James for inspiration and sharing his own humor with us, and thanks to everyone else for laughing at me--um--when causing laughter was my intention!
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