Saturday, December 15, 2007
Peace on Earth
And finally, a song that warms the cockles of my heart, from one of the most unlikely duos of all time. One of Bing Crosby's last performances, actually.
I looked for this song on CD for a long, long, time. When I finally found a copy of it, on a punk Christmas compilation (which is also where I first heard Fairytales of New York for the first time), I rushed back out to the car to play it for Kristin.
As the song ended, I said "That's a pretty little song"...just seconds before Bing said the exact same thing.
Bing and I are in complete agreement over this one. I dare you to say different.
Labels: Holiday Daze, Sheer Awesome, We Who Are About to Rock
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The Fairytale of New York
Of course, I have soft spot for this song - definitely one of my favorite nontraditional Christmas songs. It's Irish, it's punk, it's irreverant, and so much fun to sing along to.
Labels: Holiday Daze, Sheer Awesome, We Who Are About to Rock
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Ding Dong It's the Christmas Song
No holiday video retrospective would be complete without the awesome power of Gunther, Sweden's self-styled sex machine. Gunther tries to live up to the Village People maxim that macho men have mustaches, and the sincerity he gives to the image he tries to portray to the world is unparalleled.
Labels: Holiday Daze, Sheer Awesome, We Who Are About to Rock
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The Curse of the Holiday Album
Remember Billy Mack from Love Actually? The aging rocker who scored an unlikely Christmas hit with his ghastly Christmas reworking of a golden oldie?
Billy Idol has done him one better.
Labels: Holiday Daze, Sheer Awesome, We Who Are About to Rock
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Tremble before the Terrifying Tryptophantom!
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was potluck at our, and Michael, Ligia, and Michal joined us for the holiday. We celbrated the ability to come together as an extended family, and learned many life lessons:
- Heavy Cream will catch fire under a hot stove element. (This will now be reenacted every year as the Eternal Thanksgiving Flame, symbolizing the Puritan's discovery of fire).
- Burning heavy cream will attract approximately 30-40 flies from nowhere. This is either clear cut proof that abiogenesis does occur or that Beezlebub made a silent appearance at the potluck.
- I’ll always forget to serve the dish cooked in the microwave.
- Playdough will form class crystals shards if left long enough alone.
- Sherlock Holmes learned how to identify hundreds of tobaccos by taste, probably during an opium rant. But he probably didn’t sample the tobacco Sir Walter Raleigh was buried with. Unless he had had a lot of opium.
- There a lot of things that second baseman Bill Wambsganss can do all by himself during a World Series Game. And some of them are legal.
- The Trypnophantom would be an awesome name for a Silver Age villain. Especially if he utilized the Drumzzzzzzticks of Doom!
Thanks to everyone who made out Thanksgiving at home memorable and for proving to us that we can throw a low-key party that people will enjoy – even with kids underfoot.
Labels: Holiday Daze, My Heroes Have Always Worn Spandex, Sheer Awesome, The Secret of Fire, Who the Hell is Bill Wambsganss
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