49: Do They Know It's Xmas Time at ALL?
An almost-annual (at least "regularly recurring") holiday rant
A Few Christmas Songs I Don’t Hate
Max Headroom’s Xmas Song
This one is stunning and outrageous without ever making me smile or laugh. It’s openly phoney - Santa Claus, you’re a lovely guy. The actor might be openly undermining the whole thing. Musically, it’s out of a boring box. He emotes very strangely at the end. I don’t pretend to get it. Check it.
Have a good holiday season, fellow babies.
XO
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The Max Headroom video feels like one of those projects where the crew sighs and checks their watches a lot. But so weird! Right along the lines of the Grace Jones Little Drummer Boy on Pee Wee Herman’s Christmas special. Another slow motion train wreck you can’t look away from.
A Christmas song I like, and it surprises me that there is one, is Chris Rhea’s Driving Home for Christmas from 1986. Maybe because it feels genuine. Maybe because it’s not really about Christmas!