I fucking hate those pop country Christmas songs, too..grrrr....
trashman said:
Dear Music Performer, particularly you the country performer,
All of the xmas classics have been written and performed. You will not create the next "must have" xmas song. No matter how hard you try Ms. Faith Hill, Mr. Kenny Chesney, Mr Alan "Honky Tonk Christmas" Jackson your xmas music will dissapear into obscurity. So please save the environment and stop printing your CDs with plastic covers, wasting gasoline to ship them to Wal Marts, and paper for the receipts customers receive when buying your useless xmas album. Same goes for you Maria Carey and Vibeke Sausage (or whatever your name is); I don't need to have a jinglejangle christmas, I already have Bing Crosby.
Dear Music Performer, particularly you the country performer,
All of the xmas classics have been written and performed. You will not create the next "must have" xmas song. No matter how hard you try Ms. Faith Hill, Mr. Kenny Chesney, Mr Alan "Honky Tonk Christmas" Jackson your xmas music will dissapear into obscurity. So please save the environment and stop printing your CDs with plastic covers, wasting gasoline to ship them to Wal Marts, and paper for the receipts customers receive when buying your useless xmas album. Same goes for you Maria Carey and Vibeke Sausage (or whatever your name is); I don't need to have a jinglejangle christmas, I already have Bing Crosby.
Well, I'm not sure I would call it a bash. My girlfriend says he might make some kinda public appearance. The Emperor's birthday is a national holiday by default. The current Emperor's birthday happens to fall on Dec.23, but I wouldn't say there's anything Christmas about it.
I'm really disappointed with cable TV programming here. The only Xmasy kinds of movies have been the remake of Miracle on 34th Street, Cool Runnings (yes the Jamaican bobsled team movie with John Candy, haha) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original, not the Tim Burton remake thank god!) oh and maybe Batman Returns! Everything else has been the Terminator series, Chinatown with Jack Nicholson, American Psycho and Pretty Baby (yeah the one with a very young Brooke Shields hanging out in a New Orleans brothel!) not very conducive to the holiday spirit! I'm lucky I have a VHS copy of Scrooged!
Chris Henniker said:
Lest we go on a tangent, The Emperor holds a birthday bash where the public can come and say "hello". That's what a Japanese friend tells me, but is this true?
Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:
You're welcome anytime, Joey! Getting to do the parties in Japan is a real treat. I don't feel like I completely miss out on the holidays and I try to make it educational for the kids that come out. Last year I organized a "secret Santa" where anybody who came with a wrapped gift got a ticket for a random gift from someone else. I couldn't swing going back home this year so I'm doing my best to keep busy and have a wild holiday!
Thanks for the link Polyvinyl, can't wait for your holiday edition!
Lest we go on a tangent, The Emperor holds a birthday bash where the public can come and say "hello". That's what a Japanese friend tells me, but is this true?
Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:
You're welcome anytime, Joey! Getting to do the parties in Japan is a real treat. I don't feel like I completely miss out on the holidays and I try to make it educational for the kids that come out. Last year I organized a "secret Santa" where anybody who came with a wrapped gift got a ticket for a random gift from someone else. I couldn't swing going back home this year so I'm doing my best to keep busy and have a wild holiday!
Thanks for the link Polyvinyl, can't wait for your holiday edition!
You're welcome anytime, Joey! Getting to do the parties in Japan is a real treat. I don't feel like I completely miss out on the holidays and I try to make it educational for the kids that come out. Last year I organized a "secret Santa" where anybody who came with a wrapped gift got a ticket for a random gift from someone else. I couldn't swing going back home this year so I'm doing my best to keep busy and have a wild holiday!
Thanks for the link Polyvinyl, can't wait for your holiday edition!
Damn Marty! I want to party with you this Christmas! Thanks for all these posts! Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:
Star Wars Holiday special boss!
So many great comments here. I feel like I got a make a Santa like trip around the world! First stop, LA, I saw Lee Ving in Flashdance the other day, he's like an evil Bill Murry! LA to Mexico, or vice verse... You gotta dig El Vez's "Feliz Navidad" right?!
Let's take a pit stop in North Carolina... Mojo Nixon's Christmas tunes are perfect for the grinches on this thread...
While we're still in North Carolina, why not stop by K-mart for some Xmas shopping with Root Boy Slim...
Let's hitch a ride to NYC for a very kosher Christmas with The Ramones, probably nothing new to anybody, but this vid is too good not to post...
Let's hop across the pond to the UK and take a listen to one of my all-time favorites by The Kinks, and probably one of the best post-60's songs by the band in my opinion, Father Christmas!
While we're in London, we gotta pick up a copy of The Yobs Christmas Album!
Thru the Chunnel and onto France for a recod hop with Les Chaussettes Noires and "Le Twist du Pere Noel!"
Next stop Italy, were at lest one mouse is stirring... Topo Gigio! Now, don't worry this isn't a Rankin/Bass production, which I have to say I quite like, but I can understand those that shun TV specials. I first saw the puppet mouse Topo Gigio on a Japanese made movie "Topo Gigio and the Missile War" which has nothing to do with Christmas and I highly. Here he is in Xmas short not sure from where since he's speaking English... (can't get the video to post, so you're just gonna have to click the link)
Well, I'm gonna have to cut this trip short and head back to Japan. Like most adopted holidays in here, it's a commercialized shopping frenzy with not much real meaning, actually Xmas is a big date day for couples so it's more like Valentine's, but that's not to say there hasn't been anything hip to come out here, I recommend this GS/instro EP I recently got by The Blue Comets!
I think I'm on the same level as most that posted on the thread, it's all about what you make it. Anyway, these are only some of the Xmas treasures I like to break out this time of the year. I'm very stoked cause I'll be DJ-ing at three Xmas parties later this month and I'm excited to show off my collection cause it's the only time I can spin these records!D
Oh wow, I have a bootleg VHS copy of this...Can't believe they didn't do action figures of Chewie's family, along with Art Carney, Harvey Corman's characters, and Bea Arthur, haha...
I hope so much, that we all ( our generation ) ( the Star-Trek and Star Wars Generation )
will be alive when mankind reaches mars. But it might be like we've seen in a lot of films and read in several books: mankind has to unite and focus on one enterprise ... to reach the stars.
BUT before that, there are so much other problems to handle .... religion, racism, hunger, klimate, wars etc.
I guess one single nation cannot bring all the needed money to one point, to reach MARS in the next 20 years.
....Like a lot of you, I also thought that , by 2000 , we'd have our robot slaves , moving sidewalks thru most cities , rocket packs and such.... But , I did know one possibility was getting to Mars. Whether or not it could happen in our lifetime , meaning that of my g- g - generation , and some of the younger people up here , too , I questioned , even then (Then being the 70s)... Obviously , we had to figure out how to sustain life on the moon before we could opt to travel there , and actually stay for a few days. Part of it IS the enormous costs of such a project , and part of it is , would we be able to keep our Astronauts , or could Russia keep their Cosmonauts alive on Mars , were either of us to go there in the near future ? I don't know , I have my doubts , and , I have'nt been following the progress of what is still only a proposed mission. Does such a proposition hold an interest to me , like it did when I was a kid ? Yes , it just is'nt as big of a deal , in my mind. I believe we'll get there , someday. If we don't get there in my time , it's OK. I told my friend's son , who was then about 10 , he asked me about this same thing , and I told him , I'm pretty sure we'll get to Mars in your lifetime , but , I'm not sure about mine , but , it's something to look forward to , either way.
I dont fancy goin to mars but I like the idea of gorgeous space women invading earth !I would like the transporter system from star trek to be real though,driving cars and carrying all my guitars and amps is a pain in the ass.
