It was used on House. Last season, I think. Irritated me, because, yeah, living the cliche.

I was going to say, I'm certain House had a version of Hallelujah.

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I wanted to remind everybody that I have two complete xmas sets up at BR: Power Pop Christmas (self explanatory) and Wintergrace (acoustic folk and traditional. Very pretty but on the melancholy staring at the fire while drinking Scotch side).

So I think I need to put up one of my uptempo boppy xmas mixes. And I think some variation of Wassail Up (aka, Merry Fucking Christmas). After that...I take requests. I could do a set of standards, or 40s swing, or Beatnik Exploitation Xmas or Cartoon songs, or Country Christmas or post the mix I did for Jilli, Snowfall:

Christmas In Space Tori Amos
December Will Be Magic Again Kate Bush
Winter Wonderland Cocteau Twins
Ice Shelleyan Orphan
Snow Loreena McKennitt
Mary Had a Baby Bruce Cockburn
Christmastime Aimee Mann with Michael Penn
Christmastime Is Here Combustible Edison
Light Of The Stable Tara MacLean
Little Drummer Boy Tori Amos (1992)
Song For A Winter's Night Sarah McLachlan
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy Bing Crosby & David Bowie
The Cat Carol Meryn Cadell
Skating On The River Lily Frost
Christ Child Lullaby Kathy Mattea
The Coventry Carol Mediaeval Baebes
O Magnum Mysterium Kelly Hogan and Bill Taft
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Loreena McKennitt
Bethlehem, Bethlehem Márta Sebestyén

Or, uh "A Family Guy Christmas" or something from the "Christmas In..." family:

Christmas In Jail - The Youngsters
Christmas In July - Brave Combo
Christmas In L.A. - Bobs
Christmas In Manhattan - 5 Chinese Brothers
Christmas In New Orleans - Louis Armstrong
Christmas In New Zealand -The Long Ryders
Christmas In Prison - John Prine
Christmas In Space - Tori Amos
Christmas In The LBC - Snoop And Friends
Christmas In The Summertime - The Incredible Moses Leroy
Christmas In The Trenches -John McCutcheon
Christmas In Tunisia - R.E.M.

Opinions? Requests?

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Huh.

The dwarf on the cover of Swordfishtrombones is Angelo Rossitto. That's the Master of Master Blaster in Thunderdome. He was also in Freaks. And The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The big guy isn't Tor Johnson, though. It's somebody named Lee Kolima.

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Both of the track lists sound great to me, Hec.

Robert bought about 50 new Christmas CDs, so I'm in the middle of ripping them (mostly to avoid some really horrible music, like Avril Lavigne's "O Holy Night," a song about a homeless guy freezing to death on Christmas, and one Robert won't even let me listen to that starts with "No one would let the cat in."

Once ripped, I'll come up with a Christkwanzaakah Solstice mix for BR.

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I like the "Christmas In..." ones. I think that idea is nice.

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Mariska Veres, lead singer of Shocking Blue, died on Saturday. From the WFMU blog:

Anyway, being a child of the 80s I first heard the cheesy Bananarama version of Venus (which came just a few years after it was also included in the massive Stars on 45). Thanks to that hit version, the original started resurfacing. Then other songs crept into my periphery: a friend put Ink Pot on a mix tape, a college radio DJ spun Love Buzz for me after I gushed about the Nirvana single, Send Me a Postcard popped up on a compilation by Ladytron. All of these songs blew me away, and before I knew it I was a full-blown Shocking Blue fan.

[link]

Link has links to a bunch of Shocking Blue videos....

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and one Robert won't even let me listen to that starts with "No one would let the cat in."

OMG. If that's the one I'm thinking of, then that's probably a good thing. At least, I do know a Christmas song that starts with a line approximately like that (off of a Canadian folky compilation Christmas album from several years ago). It then goes on to be extremely mawkish and sentimental and manipulative and yet never, ever, ever fails to reduce me to a helpless puddle of tears. I don't dare listen to it while driving because it makes me sob so hard.

I really, profoundly have no idea at all why Hec ever married me.

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Perhaps because, not so deep inside his silly and jovial exterior, he's just as much of an empath as you are?

Just a guess. (Not that I would know anything about such things.)

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Okay, I know I'm probably the last person in the entire multiverse to get on the OK Go bandwagon, which is probably the single event which will cause all previous OK Go fans to say "oh, they're so mainstream now, what sellouts, not interested anymore," but this is the awesomest thing made out of awesome in the entire history of things that are awesome (no, I don't watch MTV, why do you ask?):

Here It Goes Again video on YouTube

I could watch it a bajillionty times and never get tired of it.

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I could watch it a bajillionty times and never get tired of it.

Thanks to you, I just watched it my bajillionty and oneth time and... nope, not tired of it. And that was even after my browser got cranky with YouTube and went through the entire song once without video -- it certainly isn't Deathless Epic Rock For The Ages, but it's a damn good bouncy pop song even without the video.

Also, approximating the treadmill business as best I could in the tiny space of our nerd hole while singing to Matilda first made her goggle, then made her smile, then put her right to sleep. Big sloppy kisses to OK Go for that!

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