Christmas

Seriously this stupid holiday is outdated. Has been for eons.Fortunately I work for myself and avoid having to go to office Christmas parties and socialize with people you hate. As for this Christmas music it's perhaps the most depressing music. And artists like Ozzy, Judas Priest and Marylin Manson have had to put up with stupid lawsuits from stupid parents of stupid kids who have committed suicide because of their music. What about this Christmas music? And all the decorations that make it even more superficial and dreary. Where I live in Montreal, Canada before all this global warming there used to be at least a couple of feet of snow on the ground by this time that at least gave some spirit. This morning it's raining . Soaked Christmas decorations hanging everywhere. Sometimes it looks like Whoville here after the Grinch was finished with it.  And all the sales. It used to be boxing day and that was it! I remember lining up at Sam The Record Man on the 26th because EVERYTHING was half price. Now it's boxing month which starts about a week BEFORE the big day and there aren't really any good deals. It's all about money which nobody has like they used to. Welcome to the new era.

Edited by Vibrationbaby - December 05 2008 at 22:45

Vibrationbaby wrote: Where's this guy when you need him www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBS7dVrE1U

Well it`s just getting worse. They`re allowing people to park for free in downtown Montréal during the Christmas rush because of the economic situation. Not only is it going to create instant mayhem, this is pissing off the guys working in the parking lots who won`t get as much hours around Christmas.

June wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: More Christmas crimes. I'm doing daily checks on HMV. Apart from that revolting Celine Christmas trash CD they have to bring poor Elvis into all this Christmas blashphemy. Now I love the King's music, but this CD they have has the dead King doing duets with various female artists. A dead guy doing Christmas duets with songstresses who are still alive. Is there something wrong here? What sort of demographic are they shooting for? At least Celine the queen of excrement is not on this one it already botched Elvis' If I Can Dream last year. I tried to get the manager to pull this one. She actually agrees with me with my point that it's too freakin' early and there's just too much Christmas camp but all this is from up the ladder at the executive level. What happened to classics like the Vince Guaraldi Trio's Charlie Brown Christmas. I wish I could go into stasis until Robbie Burns Day.  And this atrocity : www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_Glj_JVuM Time to call in the air strike here. Can you believe this guy. I wonder what Greg Lake would think of this abomination. I'm just waiting for the moron down the street to put up his tacky reindeer display. I mean every nieghbourhood seems to have this sort of visual pollution every year.   Hehe, I gotta a friend who's taking a week off right now to put a light display of that nature. That reminds me I gotta give his songs a look before he picks something I wouldn't aprove of        Someone in my province who hates Celine as much as I do! I'm tearing up again. I didn't think that existed   But about Xmas...   My family decided this year that the age of gift exchange was finally over, that means only only gifts for the kids (a 3 and a 5 years old, as well as 2 Emo tween girls who'll get gift certificates) so it's really great!   More time to focus on the important stuff. Like gloegg.

As for Celine at least someone's on my side. We have to look at that  CHEAP,HORRID NAUSEATING WASTE OF A CARBON UNIT EVERYWHERE IN THIS CITY.  FROM THAT OBNOXIOUS 150 FT POSTER ON THE BELL CENTER TO THE MEDIA. I'M SICK TO DEATH OF THIS TALENTLESS PIECE OF EXCREMENT.

I'll take the Christmas decorations any day. I think the guy on my street is getting ready to put up that Reindeer display this weekend . I can feel it.

Slartibartfast wrote: Epignosis wrote: Neil wrote: And on Dec 26th Woolworths will have Cadbury's Cream Eggs on sale. There used to be a store in my hometown that sold Easter and Christmas candy year round. We bought to give out on Halloween.  Saved a few bucks. I'm pretty sure it was/is called the Christmas Store, I have or have had seen at least one billboard for it traveling on the interstate through parts of Florida.

No, I spent most of my life in North Carolina.  The place was called Erby's, and it was a discount store.

sleeper wrote: Christmas? Dont get me started on christmas, I work in a shop and as of November 1st we've been playing a lot of christmas songs. I wonder if that's an acceptable excuse for homicide?

Probably not, but certainly a justifiable excuse for losing your mind.  And I do hope that after the shopping season you can locate it again.

Oh, no, I'm starting to hear Chrismas music in my head, aaaggghh. 
Oh that's better I just willed it to go into the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.  Probably the coolest Christmas music ever devised.
Anyone want to comment on Christmas music?
I don't have a lot in my collection, though.  I added the Charlie Brown soundtrack two years ago along with Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong.  They kind of serve as an antidote to the stuff they pipe out in the stores.
I also have Kitaro's Peace On Earth and my favorite antidote: Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics.
"Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo..."
Tull and XTC have done at least a couple of good songs each.  ELP, too.


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 06 2008 at 08:08

It's not just the shops that are starting way too early. I couldn't believe it when last week,  whilst we were still in October, I saw a house not far from where I live with all it's decorations up, both outdoors and the Xmas tree indoors.....unbelievable!!!

LET"S ALL GO TO FINLAND !

Working in a grocery store it's really, really, hard to keep any christmas spirit.. especially when you run out of yams.