For the most part I can block it out but it does tend to leave me with a rather bah humbug take on the holiday season. Scrooge's line jumps readily to mind:
"every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart".
Occasionally a cool yule tune by the Beach Boys or Elvis slips past whatever guardian of mediocrity programs the muzak.
Now if this version of the King's Santa Claus Is Back In Town (dig the line about Santa arriving in a big black Cadillac) by The Creepshow ever gets played I will gladly get up on the counter and do the watusi.
go here: http://youtu.be/KvFVQT-8N6I
Santa if you are listening I would just love a 56 Continental Mark II, you don't even have to wrap it...what do mean of course I've been good...
"Good?" You forget that Santa can read your text messages, Missie. I would be expecting to find a hybrid with a Grateful Dead bumper sticker under your tree (with a biodegradable ribbon, of course) and a stocking full of tofu-flavored candy canes - all the better to show you the error of your ways.
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Cass
My dear sis I expect your stocking if not filled with coal will contain a lifetime subscription to the National Review and the Schmenge Bros punk album
ReplyDeleteFor further demonstrating your naughtiness, I predict you will now also receive the complete 24 volume audiobook version of Johnny LaRue's autobiography, "It's Polynesiantown" (narrated by Bobby Bittman; foreword by Sammy Maudlin).
ReplyDeleteWhat you didn't spring for Classic Books of World Pornography bound in genuine imitation leather as sold by Harry, the guy with a snake on his face
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PS. I would have settled for Lewis Sings Dylan
http://youtu.be/JlZsOfCOxek
Did the next best thing - the Blu-Ray version of this classic:
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Also added the remastered version of his collaboration with Santana: Oye Como Va-Va-Va-Voom!
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May you be forced to listen to Ed Grimley's karaoke version of Chilliwack's Greatest Hits:
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:D
== Cass
P.S. Actually, they do a great version of "Arms of Mary," which the Everly Brothers covered (beautifully) on their Born Yesterday album in 1986. (Can't find it on YouTube, alas…)
Every Bros Price of Love, 1965 garage punk masterpiece!!!!! So much for the British invasion
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tip of the hat to 1964s Gone, Gone, Gone too
http://youtu.be/vTUP3Yncx68
Both classics! They opened their 1983 reunion - tellingly - with "The Price of Love," and then followed it up with "Walk Right Back." They clearly put some thought into that opening one-two combination!
ReplyDeleteTheir harmonies here never fail to take my breath away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1ig-dYuLk
They hadn't played together for ten years before this performance. Watching their eyes as they sing to each other is still deeply moving. Rock & roll *will* never die with songs like this.
You lucky thing, my very first job was driving the Santa sleigh ride in a department store and Santa was so mean that he only gave us one 45rpm single which over six weeks was worn flat!
ReplyDeleteI was so traumatise that I have blocked out what the disc was but run screaming from all christmas music now…
Once the ride closed on christmas eve Santa changed the disc and started to party with his two teenage Bunny Girl helpers!!! Did I mention that I am traumatised by any mention of C********?
I think Scrooge had some good points about the way we celebrate Christmas, it is a special time for humbugery to which I say Bah!
ReplyDeleteHaving worked in an electrical store I can sympathise with the traumatic effects of Frosty the Snowman for the twenty seventh time in one day! ~ when will he melt?
Caroline, have you ever seen Bad Santa, with Billy Bob Thornton? It is *riotously* funny - although I suspect for you it may play more as a documentary! lol
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Santa's not a car nut, being a reindeer man. So he won't realise the Yugo he gives you is really a small FIAT in disguise, and in the short interval before it rusts away you can cane it in a hail of Yugoslavian-Italian revvy style!
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