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.

meimad 2003-12-24 01:28 (link)

Jon Stewart's monologue about Christmas says it all really. As for wrapping paper-who would pay for something like that? I can use last week's Hebrew paper. I can think of two things I like about Christmas...DMC's 'Christmas in Hollis' (Queens represent!) and Christmas lights. It lets me know which of my neighbors to stay from in case there ever is a pogrom. Seriously though, I don't mind Christmas, well, except when it's the first night of Chanukah and people don't notice. Like, one time I sent a threatening letter to a Radio DJ for not playing the Chanukah song then-it was December 15th...couldn't the Christmas stuff wait a week on a New York radio station? At least give my people one token song. Oh well, speaking of music, I found some great R. Kelly lyrics in his remix of Fiesta with Jay-Z. This is additional evidence for your first court case 'The People vs. R.Kelly' in the case of trying to make lame lyrics seem better by adding a 'Z' to them. I'ma be drinkin 'til the early liz-ight (that's right) Nigga high like a muh'fuckin ki-zite Take three honies just to make me feel ri-zight ... Ready to BOO knock 'em fresh outta jizzail I need some WOO from all the honey's on the DL I said - my, my, my, my (yeah) It's what them thugs yellin when the strippers on the pi-zoles They say - my, my, my, my (yeah) Got Kisha yellin from that up and down shi-zow (Reply to this) (Thread)