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chicafrom3) wrote2007-12-25 08:40 pm
chicafrom3) wrote2007-12-25 08:40 pm
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and the bells are ringin' out for christmas day
Happy holidays, kids! Hope everyone who celebrates Christmas had a lovely Christmas.
The kid brother got me a new CD by The Frames, an Irish rock band, because he knows how I love my Irish rock/punk music. They're really, really good, and I think I love them.
The older sister got me a box of molten chocolate cookies (yuuuuum) and The Producers on DVD. The original one, Gene Wilder not Nathan Lane. Yay!
From the parents I got new jeans, a sweatshirt, pajamas, a slinky (:D :D), a deck of playing cards, gift cards to Blockbuster and to Borders, annnnnd a picture of an external hard drive! Yes, a picture. It was printed out and stuck in a cookie tin. Supposedly the actual EHD is in the process of being shipped to me, although I wouldn't put it past my dad to have just printed off a picture and claimed that as the gift. (I'm kidding. Mostly. Anyway I really need a new EHD as mine has about 5GB of space left...out of 250. Not kidding.)
The older sister appreciated the dish towels, dishcloths, and oven mitt I got her for her kitchen. Serious, she was very happy about the rubber lining on the oven mitt. "So I won't burn myself!" I think were her exact words. The freakishly tall boy was amused by the fact that the older sister and I got him the Exact Same Thing with absolutely no foreknowledge ($15 iTunes gift cards). Parental units also made out well, with my dad getting two Bob Dylan albums (one from me, one from the kid brother) and my mom being especially excited over having received a Garmin GPS system for her car. She and the older sister almost immediately went out for a drive (without cell phones, drivers licenses, or anything else) to test it out. As a family we debated why Tom Petty is the lead singer of the Traveling Wilburys (the answer we decided on: because he's Tom Petty, and if you had Tom Petty in your studio wouldn't you make him sing lead?), watched The Bourne Ultimatum and Ratatouille, and gawked over pictures of shelter animals from a book the older sister (who works for an animal shelter) had. And, even aside from the big dinner, ate fudge (my fudge, 'cause I make the Best Fudge In The World, so long as you're not diabetic) and cookies and crackers & cheese and other yummy things.
All in all a v. nice Christmas. :D
In addition to being Christmas, you may or may not know that it is also My Boy's 50th birthday. And they thought he'd die before ever seeing thirty-five. Tch. Stop predicting my boy's death, he's immortal, haven't you figured that out yet? So in any case, to celebrate, here's some Pogues videos -- starting with the Best Christmas Song Ever, the one that the BBC is for some unknown reason censoring this year WTF you're about twenty years too late:
twenty minutes of the earliest surviving footage of the Pogues at a real concert, really amazing quality -- includes "Battle of Brisbane", "Waxie's Dargle", "Dark Streets Of London", "Muirshin Durkin", "Whiskey You're The Devil", and "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
And, of course, Spider playing the beer tray to great effect, and the audience nearly killing each other in sheer punk joy. :D
"Summer in Siam" music video.
"Body of an American", performed on Saturday Night Live in...1990, I think?
"Rainy Night In Soho", best love song ever, Boston 1989.
Happy birthday, Shane; happy holidays, folks at home; I hope you all know how much I love you and how much I owe you. ♥
The kid brother got me a new CD by The Frames, an Irish rock band, because he knows how I love my Irish rock/punk music. They're really, really good, and I think I love them.
The older sister got me a box of molten chocolate cookies (yuuuuum) and The Producers on DVD. The original one, Gene Wilder not Nathan Lane. Yay!
From the parents I got new jeans, a sweatshirt, pajamas, a slinky (:D :D), a deck of playing cards, gift cards to Blockbuster and to Borders, annnnnd a picture of an external hard drive! Yes, a picture. It was printed out and stuck in a cookie tin. Supposedly the actual EHD is in the process of being shipped to me, although I wouldn't put it past my dad to have just printed off a picture and claimed that as the gift. (I'm kidding. Mostly. Anyway I really need a new EHD as mine has about 5GB of space left...out of 250. Not kidding.)
The older sister appreciated the dish towels, dishcloths, and oven mitt I got her for her kitchen. Serious, she was very happy about the rubber lining on the oven mitt. "So I won't burn myself!" I think were her exact words. The freakishly tall boy was amused by the fact that the older sister and I got him the Exact Same Thing with absolutely no foreknowledge ($15 iTunes gift cards). Parental units also made out well, with my dad getting two Bob Dylan albums (one from me, one from the kid brother) and my mom being especially excited over having received a Garmin GPS system for her car. She and the older sister almost immediately went out for a drive (without cell phones, drivers licenses, or anything else) to test it out. As a family we debated why Tom Petty is the lead singer of the Traveling Wilburys (the answer we decided on: because he's Tom Petty, and if you had Tom Petty in your studio wouldn't you make him sing lead?), watched The Bourne Ultimatum and Ratatouille, and gawked over pictures of shelter animals from a book the older sister (who works for an animal shelter) had. And, even aside from the big dinner, ate fudge (my fudge, 'cause I make the Best Fudge In The World, so long as you're not diabetic) and cookies and crackers & cheese and other yummy things.
All in all a v. nice Christmas. :D
In addition to being Christmas, you may or may not know that it is also My Boy's 50th birthday. And they thought he'd die before ever seeing thirty-five. Tch. Stop predicting my boy's death, he's immortal, haven't you figured that out yet? So in any case, to celebrate, here's some Pogues videos -- starting with the Best Christmas Song Ever, the one that the BBC is for some unknown reason censoring this year WTF you're about twenty years too late:
twenty minutes of the earliest surviving footage of the Pogues at a real concert, really amazing quality -- includes "Battle of Brisbane", "Waxie's Dargle", "Dark Streets Of London", "Muirshin Durkin", "Whiskey You're The Devil", and "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
And, of course, Spider playing the beer tray to great effect, and the audience nearly killing each other in sheer punk joy. :D
"Summer in Siam" music video.
"Body of an American", performed on Saturday Night Live in...1990, I think?
"Rainy Night In Soho", best love song ever, Boston 1989.
Happy birthday, Shane; happy holidays, folks at home; I hope you all know how much I love you and how much I owe you. ♥