Hark, someone hit the shuffle button by accident

A funny thing happened to me today at the gym. Actually, two funny things happened and both of them were firsts. For the first time this holiday season, I heard “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” And for the first time in my life, I heard it followed by “California Knows How to Party” by Dr. Dre.

I like both songs and together they work better than you might think, but it definitely caught me off-guard and emphasized the fact that I need to have a talk with the manager there. “Uh, Jack, you might want to switch-up the play list a bit. Maybe throw Santana’s Black Magic Woman in before the Dre song, maybe give the listener a little warning that we’re veering out of Christmas land before we get to Compton.”