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My bug is humming
Dec. 24th, 2004 10:36 amI am suffering from a distinct lack of the Christmas Spirit this year. There's a boatload of reasons why, some within my control, some not, but the upshot is that I'm sitting here unable to wrap my brain around the fact that it's flippin' Christmas Eve, and it's making me cranky.
I never realized just how much I despise the vast majority of Christmas music until this year, I think. The problem is that if a major artist decides to slum and record a mawkish, half-patootied holiday song, it ispretty much guaranteed airplay for the rest of their lives. (Take a gander at "Simple Having a Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, if you don't believe me.) What's worse is that WENU, the local old-old-oldies station (we're talking Bing Crosby and Johnny Horton, with the occasional low-octane 70's track) turns into the all-Christmas network come December. During the rest of the year, the station is occasionally listenable—you can sometimes catch a good Jim Croce track or the like—but when you combine Ultra-Lite programming with the Santa aesthetic, you're left with, well, "Feliz Navidad." The entire Burl Ives holiday ouevre. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," covered by Celine Dion, for sporking out loud. And they play them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
If I find out who in the office decided to start piping the station in for the last two weeks, I am going to hogtie them in garland and beat them mercilessly.
And now, if you'll excuse me, due to circumstances that really are beyond my control, I am forced to go out and hunt for children's gifts on this fine Christmas Eve. Let me make sure I am fully equipped: steel toed boots? Check. Pepper spray? Check. Taser? Check...
I never realized just how much I despise the vast majority of Christmas music until this year, I think. The problem is that if a major artist decides to slum and record a mawkish, half-patootied holiday song, it ispretty much guaranteed airplay for the rest of their lives. (Take a gander at "Simple Having a Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, if you don't believe me.) What's worse is that WENU, the local old-old-oldies station (we're talking Bing Crosby and Johnny Horton, with the occasional low-octane 70's track) turns into the all-Christmas network come December. During the rest of the year, the station is occasionally listenable—you can sometimes catch a good Jim Croce track or the like—but when you combine Ultra-Lite programming with the Santa aesthetic, you're left with, well, "Feliz Navidad." The entire Burl Ives holiday ouevre. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," covered by Celine Dion, for sporking out loud. And they play them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
If I find out who in the office decided to start piping the station in for the last two weeks, I am going to hogtie them in garland and beat them mercilessly.
And now, if you'll excuse me, due to circumstances that really are beyond my control, I am forced to go out and hunt for children's gifts on this fine Christmas Eve. Let me make sure I am fully equipped: steel toed boots? Check. Pepper spray? Check. Taser? Check...
