yeah, happy fucking holidays to you too! Grrrrr, nothing can kill your mojo like spending four days with your mother-in-law, eh? See, Thanksgiving exists exactly one month before xmas so that you can get one side of the family out of the way before you get to inflict your side on your spouse. We don’t usually take turns but this year it worked out that way. Got her’s over with this weekend, whew! The actual xmas holiday weekend will be spent civilly as it should …. silently in front of the television, not speaking to one another aside for requests for more popcorn, the occasional snicker at the goofy commercials, the telling of raunchy jokes, or slinging of well-meaning insults at various family members. That’s how we show love in my family, it’s very straight forward and easy. No whining, no passive-aggressive bullshit, no formalities. Gawd, I can’t wait!
In light of my holiday crankiness, I’ve selected some songs that take pot shots at Santa for you. They ease my pain a teensy bit, I’m a vindictive mofo!
Tiny Tim is sorely neglected in the music world, especially by the generation who didn’t grow up seeing him on all the music TV shows of my youth. He was much more than a ukulele player who made up silly songs for fun. Go check out his wiki page and enjoy this great little xmas track.
Santa Claus Has Got The AIDS mp3 Tiny Tim… from Songs of an Impotent Troubadour 
And who can’t appreciate a Sonic Youth xmas anti-drug campaign?
Santa Don’t Cop Out on Drugs mp3 Sonic Youth… from Just Say Noel
I’d be remiss if I didn’t leave you with the taste of blues in your mouth, this day after Thanksgiving. Happy Monday, my darlings! It can only get better from here on out! xoxo
Santa Came Home Drunk mp3 Clyde Lasley (often wrongly attributed to Clyde Leslie, watch it!) and the Cadillac Baby Specials… on Bummed Out Christmas!
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I have cured these holiday blues by putting a travel ban on myself. Around Halloween I start acting menacingly, then by the holidays Homeland Security puts up my picture at the airport and I have to wait till Feb. for the whole thing to blow over.
Rinse, Repeat in 2010
Great idea!! If only I could pull that off. Alas, I’m just too cute to be that menacing
This is why I’ve never been one for holidays. They seem to be more for bickering than anything else. And my extended family did that enough the other 364 days a year!:)
Well, same here, that’s why we need more music! xox