holiday cheer

[vaznetti]

OK. I am going to go out on a limb here, but it seems to me that a meme that has questions like "How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? and "Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?" and lacks questions like "Do you exchange gifts every night of Hanukkah?" or "Do you puree the potatoes for your latkes or just grate them?" might as well just go ahead and have the balls to call itself a Christmas meme rather than a holiday meme.

In other news, I am looking very hot today in a new sweater and new jeans. Note to self: buy more clingy sweaters.

My task for today is to try to be less bitchy. As you can see, it's not going so well.

Comments

[vaznetti]

"Do you bellow Here comes the sun to yourself on December 21?"

I have not done this yet, but I will from now on.

Oh, holiday music. Ugh. Especially, modern holiday music. I want a meme where you can select popstars who record Christmas songs and subject them to horrible torments.

[rhi]

Oh, *yes*. ::shudders:: I heard part of an Enya album in the store the other day. Eep. And Barry Manilow doing 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' just feels so wrong on so many levels...

[alysswolf.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up we had pop stars who could actually sing -- people like Perry Como, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and so forth. Their Christmas songs are now the classics the modern popstars are trying to imitate and doing a pretty poor job of it, I must say.

[rhi]

Hell, when I was growing up the rockers were doing their takes and some of them were damn good.

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

I love Christmas music personally... though not the contemporary pop kind. (And for the record, 'Rocking Around the Christmas Tree' is one of my unfavorite pieces of all time.) The kind of stuff I like was written in the 5th, 6th, 9th centuries. There's some very cool, incredibly lively early Spanish Christmas music that just makes you want to get up and dance.

[vaznetti]

I like traditional Christmas carols. But I don't need to hear them every time I enter a public space with piped music, every day from late November to early January.

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Anything that becomes too frequent (or, needless to say, is imposed upon you without your input) loses its specialness and impact. Or worse, becomes something you dread.

Though stores and malls don't tend to play the stuff I'd like to hear. Time to pull out the Chanticleer Christmas CD. Now that's my idea of cool: ancient music done a cappella by amazingly good voices.