Don't you just love Christmas? Such a great time of year. You get to spend an unusually long amount of time with your family, (always relaxing and pleasurable), or else some quality time alone, become filled with the peace, calm, and spirituality of the season, and can look back with satisfaction at what a fantastic year you've just had.Just kidding!
I thought I'd get a quick one in just in time for Christmas, for all those who love it just as much as me (ie, not very much at all.)
It's called Coming In From The Cold - I'm trying to think of tunes that helped pick me up when I was blue, the songs that saved your life as Morrissey put it, so it's not all gloooom...
By the way, this is my list for Santa:
- Self-adhesive magnetic tape for making Meg Pickard's Moognets.
- Photoshop.
- HDR software
- A chainsaw. (Don't ask. Actually, if anybody has a chainsaw, could I borrow it? I don't really need one permanently. )
*Sigh* This reminds me of the first time Rae read my blog.
'I never realised before - you're a girl geek!'
And you? What's on your list?
podcasts
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Can You Get To That - Funkadelic
"I once had a life, or rather, life had me..."
This is in lieu of Maggot Brain (which is rather long and psychedelic, but clearly about struggling with the blues. And winning.)
I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan
Working in a job I hated, the saving grace of which was listening to CDs on headphones on the computer, this tune was on repeat. Strangely for a man who never had a proper job in his life, I felt that Bob understood, and was singing this to me. Bob knew my pain.
Don't Give Up - Basement Jaxx
Usually closely followed by Basement Jaxx - again, strange for such party animals. 'So tired' summed up the way I was feeling.
Life - Sly and The Family Stone
Because you can never have too much Sly.
'You might be scared of somethin' - look at Mr Stewart
He's the only person he has to fear
He'd only let himself get near
He don't trust nobody
If he stopped bein' so shady
He could have a nice young lady'
Thankful and Thoughtful - Sly and the Family Stone
People think they were happy clappy hippies but Sly has definitely looked into the abyss and had the abyss look back at him. Reading between the lines, this is a song about overdosing, and ultimately being glad that he survived it.
Coming In From the Cold - Bob Marley
Same as with Sly, he has a hippy reputation but he knew about the dark side of human nature, poverty and racism and injustice and all, yet still managed to make some music all about hope.
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye
This was from his utterly amazing sixties album What's Going On but still sounds like it could have been written today. Plus ça change hey?
Pets - Porno for Pyros
And if it all gets too much, Perry Farrell gives us a comforting long shot perspective, imagining we all get taken over by aliens (who make a much better job of things) and turned into pets.
On my list for Santa - a trumpet, a larger overdraft and a new car to replace the one that's about to lose it's big end or something or other but basically give up the ghost...
Word verfn:- noifs
Sounds ominously forward looking.
Hi Annie, just came by to wish a happy holiday. Oh boy, I dunno about peace and quiet, if all my family wuz here it would be NOISE. We all need to be heard AT THE SAME TIME.
I have a chainsaw, don't ask, you can have it if you like not sure how I'd get it to you though.
For Christmas I would like smiling faces around the table a sleep-in and lots of gin.
Annie, just downloading you now...
...and none of us has a list, because you have already given us our presents. The Whales, Annie gave me a car for Christmas, so you can borrow it sometimes, if you like.
But I think I might try and get a jumper for Christmas too. I now officially have one jumper, which I loathe, and which needs to be hand-washed, and makes me look like my aunt, and my beloved is reluctant to allow me access to his, so I might need a whole new jumper.
The Whales - a trumpet, how fantastic, it is my favourite. I know you share my love of Christmas, hope it is at least not too bad and that Santa brings you a limitless overdraft and shiny new car.
GG, thank you petal, sorry I haven't commented in a while, I have been reading though... I'm hoping Santa brings you some earplugs...
Realdoc, don't suppose sticking a stamp on it, posting it and hoping for the best would work really...
You are very low maintenance Realdoc, I hope Santa brings you some Bombay Sapphire. Or sloe gin, that's nice (though it does taste a bit like medicine.)
Hurrah, BiB, I appreciate you very much as my most faithful listener. Blimey, you too are very low maintenance, how can you survive Berlin in December with just one jumper? I hope you get on in EVERY COLOUR to last you the winter.
Glad you're back, even if it's only a flying (sleigh-borne?) visit.
May I suggest the song that always runs through my head on Christmas Eve? Madness: 'Tomorrow's Just Another Day'.
Have a bearable one. I'll be raising a small glass of virtual Manischewitz to you.
And, if you need any more encouragement, read about the town where it's Christmas every day.
Cheers Tim, (I will be raising a glass of non-kosher cava to you) - honestly, could you blame them? The mayor wants them to wear elf costumes all year round. The horror...
Hi! Just dropped by to wish you and your loved ones a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
Oh, btw. about those songs: New Model Army's "Impurity" album works great for me as well as most of dub reggae songs (mostly our local band called Daab).
Have a great time and change blue to some other, warmer colour!
Cheers!
What I'd really like for Christmas is for the Bingo Wing Fairy to come into my room in the early hours while I'm sleeping and magically drain off my dinnerlady's arms, so that they have the lovely toned appearance that disappeared when I got to my mid 30's ... sigh ...
Happy Christmas Annie.
Annie,
Happy Christmas. Have a top holiday. Drink lots. Forget for a moment your tiny little charges and open another bloody bottle... God, it's not rocket science.
Lots of love.
xxxxx
Merry Christmas!
My list to Santa...
Multipack of Vests, some Booze, an Olive Tomato Feta selection box..oh and a Lola Flores CD.
Hope you get the chainsaw, they're a nightmare to gift wrap.
Thanks Dcver, you too! Come back soon!
You too Shyha. I remember NMA. We called them 'crusties'... check it out on Wikipedia.
Betty, the Bingo Wings fairy (like her first cousin the Love Handles fairy) is a lazy bitch who neglects her job... Happy Christmas anyway
Thanks Dan. Have made a start on the Rioja, which complements the Terry's Chocolate Orange nicely I find.
Señor T, Lola Flores' daughter Rosario starred in 'Hable con ella', did you know that? Little bit of trivia for you... Mmmm, olive tomato feta - don't know what it is exactly but it sounds good...
Presents so far include a Barbapapa mug (thanks Em) and chocolate sardines (thanks Rae)...
Merry Christmas Annie, hope you get what you've wished for.
Damn, no jumper yet... but the Russians do Christmas at New Year. Hope your day goes smoothly.
Welcome back and Merry Christmas..
:)
I wrote a long and erudite reply on chainsaws and blogger ate it!
I used to borrow a chainsaw from a colleague. Round here they won't hire out chainsaws to women as we supposedly lack the upper body strength to use them safely. Maybe they're worried we're going to dismember irritating males with them? Felling some fellas as it were!
I had a major felling session of overgrown, unwisely planted, non-native twisted willow trees whose roots had got into the water mains and the drains (and the water board were none to pleased). It was very therapeutic felling and them and chopping them into bits.
Major DIY stores now sell electric chainsaws. Had I not finished the felling, I'd be very tempted to get one!
And all I get when trying to post is:
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Realdoc, BiB, Cream, Inconsequential - thank you, my friends...
Llewtrah, you're my heroine, wielding the chainsaw and all. I would quite happily defer to a man with upper body strength for all my chainsaw needs - next time the tree surgeons are chopping trees the estate, I might invite them in for a cuppa.
Sounds like you have broken Blogger - hope you're proud of yourself...
Happy New Year, Annie. Hope 2007 is good for you
I've missed quite the party here. Did Santa bring things from your list?
That HDR thing looks nice (I thought it sounded familiar: High Dynamic Range is the thing that Half-life 2 has that my computer can't cope with ;-).
I hope the new year is a good one, for everyone.
You too, the Whales - onwards and upwards.
QE, Santa failed to deliver. But they will be mine. Hope you had a good one - Happy New Year to you!
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