‘Tis The Season
That time of year is, once again, upon us. Season’s greetings and all that. Jingle bells, gingerbread cookies, radio stations playing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” on loop. Oh, you know you love it. Or hate it. Whichever. Today at Graphjam, let’s celebrate some of the things that make these last weeks of December so…unique.
What the kids will play with at Christmas
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Use of time while Christmas shopping
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Enjoyability of Christmas music
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Hurrayz for thousand christmas remixes of the same song! Bleeding hell to bad I hate them all.
*too* bad
Christmas music makes my ears bleed, no matter what time of the year it is.
I really felt bad for the guy in “About a Boy” for this reason.
Thank you.
I do all my Christmas shopping online for that very reason. But if I hear another Christmas tune at Fred Meyer’s next time I go grocery shopping, somebody’s gonna pay.
I’m gonna grab a frozen turkey and start swinging, I swear.
Call me, we’ll be two swingin.
Be happy your workplace doesn’t play it.
After 2 months of listening to it on people’s hold music at work while on the phone, they decided “hey let’s play it over the speakers in the office!”
I’d hang myself by my phone cord if I could find something to hang off of.
You have pens, yes?
Put one as far as it will go into each ear.
Repeat.
Die.
See the blazing Yule before us,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Strike the harp and join the chorus.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Kids? Arent those for cats?
I had to listen to Christmas music for six straight hours at work yesterday. I am still recovering.
Oh the horrors! I hope you asked for a raise! I’m not even sure how you can still be alive!!!
Plus my girlfriend got mad at me while I was working. I’m severely depressed right now. Not excited to do it again today.
Find a way to listen to metal, trust me it will drain all those eye twitching, hair pulling, throat cutting christmas songs out of your head.
Because of the music that stores insist on playing from opening until closing (some 24 hours) and the years I spent working, I no longer listen to the radio in my car or in my house. The idea is that music keeps shoppers in the stores longer and causes them to buy more. For me, I can’t get out of there fast enough.
8 hour shifts with the charlie brown xmas album playing on a loop last Christmas. I still twitch.
However, there are rare days in June/July/etc where the occasional xmas song isn’t too bad.
To Anyone in the UK:
Support Rage Against The Machine for Xmas No.1
Not in the UK, sending my regards.
Yay! Rage Against The Machine are Xmas No.1!
so true…
For #1, you give them something cheap with lots of bubblewrap.
For #2, you walk instead of drive.
For #3, you just don’t listen on it.
*to.
I love *real* Christmas music. Problem is, most shops play Noddy Holder.
Only *REAL* Christmas music is trans-Siberian Orchestra .
\m/
*plays with gow*
If you ever worked retail, you will know the pain of hearing Christmas Music for a solid 8-10 hour day.
Or customer service. I’m not even at a store… I call them all day though and hear it. And the bosses decided “oh hey let’s play christmas music in the office too!”
Half the office complained and they still won’t turn it off.
I don’t like Chirstmas Music… or movies. Same thing with movies that have talking Dogs in them. >:s
I actually wish they played Christmas music all year round. It makes me feel more optimistic.
Me too. Well, maybe not ALL year, but I do like Christmas music as long as it’s in season.
I’d hope they’re not playing with each other…
I lol’d
The only way I listen to christmas music is if it mixed with rock music like transiberian orchestra, which makes it quite good.
FVCK YA that stuff is epic
Yay, bubblewrap!
Try living in Australia, and being subjected to songs about snow and winter while suffering through sweltering heat and humidity. The worst thing is, they’re not actually about Christmas at all, just winter. I don’t mind real Christmas songs so much, as long as they’re not being murdered by some so called diva who thinks the tune is optional.
try living where it is -10 Celsius and hearing about how cold it is.
My dad and I went to see “Brothers” last weekend but, since we got their early, we were forced to listen to the “Movie Tunes.” All they’ve got right now is awful covers of Christmas music.
We got through one song and I thought it was over. But then the announcer guy says, “And now, ‘FROSTY THE SNOWMAN,’ by…”
I just shouted, “ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!”
And the older lady in front of me turned around and said, “That’s just what I was thinking!”
(/rant)
Was the movie any good?
If it was avatar it was like an orgy for your eyes.
That’s funny because I’m playing with bubblewrap right now…
TSO is awesome, but after my mom wearing her CDs thin all year round, even I’m starting to grow weary.
“wearing her CDs thin”…
Is that like wearing a trench in your LP? : – D
this is so damn true. i work for a radio station and have had to listen to this crap for a month solid. it really makes me hate the season.
I feel the opposite. If I see anything to do with cristmas before Nov. 10, I honestly feel like I should kill someone.
D:<
So, I know I’m a bit late on this… but yeah, after a seasonal job taking overpriced X-mas pictures at the mall, any enjoyment for a lot of that music is destroyed for me. The worst was a recording that had ” glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria in ek-Sels-ees deo,” which my high school choir teacher made clear was a sign of ignorance. I kept wanting to go up and fix it and couldn’t, peon that I was.