Bevita (tazadebevita) wrote, @ 2003-12-23 16:48:00

Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	"The Prayer" - Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli

Bevy's Idea Of A Christmas List
Things I Love About Christmas


• Being with the family and my sweetie
  
• Free and good dinners, in lieu of my most crappy cooking or jacked-up New York food/meal prices (okay, admittedly, my cooking isn't thatbad but it seems to take a definite dive when I'm in NYC)
  
• The plethora of movie blockbusters that come out around this time
  
• The general spirit of goodwill
  
• Cold weather (to snuggle up to, plus, I hate being hot)
  
• Seeing the look on peoples' faces when they see what I got them
  
• Presents (what, I know it's the season of perpetual hope, that doesn't mean I can't be mercenary!)
  
• The gorgeous, more traditional church/Christmas music ("Ave Maria," "Veni, Veni Emmanuel," "Pat A Pan," "Los Peces En El Rio," "In The Bleak Midwinter" and the like)
  
• Decorations, especially when the motif is red, silver and gold.
Things I Cannot Stand About Christmas



• The amount of bickering that ensues when my family tries to pick out a holiday menu
  
• The techno remix of "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire"
  
• Most Christmas carols, actually (what can I say, I'm a music purist, dare I say an elitist, when it comes to this)
  
• The influx of crappy Christmas albums put out by crappy music artists, especially the compilation albums
  
• Not knowing what to get people
  
• Not having any money even when you know when to get for people
  
• Gaudy decorations, mostly having to do with Santa, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, and egregious, flagrant uses of gaudy vomit green and firetruck red

Besides thinking about such matters, especially about how Christmas carols sung by famous people and then remixed into techno really get on my nerves, I was really thinking that my Jewish bretheren should be down with the holiday season and organize to get their Chanukah songs played on the radio. Songs in Hebrew are pretty, mostly composed in the cool-sounding pentatonic scale, and go sadly unrecognized, for the most part. The Jewish community has been a part of America for centuries and it's about damn thime their music and their holidays get more recognition than having a section in Hallmark and having prettier wrapping paper than we goyim do. Then again, it'd probably smart to avoid the full mainstream status of Chanukah, since you probably don't want crappy artists making crappy techno remixes of your songs, too.

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