*Werner Herzog voice*
The drama lies not in the fact that the child sees her mother kissing Santa Claus, but in the choice that the mother now confronts: admitting either that Santa is a lie or that love is a lie.
When magazines (or people) make lists of the best songs of the 60s, they always leave out "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love.
Christmas or no Christmas, that's one of the best singles of the decade and y'all slippin.
Every picture of a dog dressed up says "please kill me", every picture of a cat dressed up says "I don't need to say anything, because you're already dead." https://t.co/QQNbRshUfo
if i had the time or means i'd print this out + send it everyone in lieu of a holiday card this year. equal parts paralyzing + yet somehow reassuring.
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It's that time of the year for me to take a break from the daily blogging routine. Every morning I try to post 1-3 new items of interest and add to the sidebar throughout the day. I don't pay much attention to my stats for the most part, doing this more for my own daily exercise than anything, but it's always good to know someone might be out there enjoying it. I genuinely hope you do.
I've got some posts queued up for next week that will review my yk records releases and this weeks Friday video compilation includes plenty of the longer variety to help you with the long stretches of holiday downtime.
Thanks for reading and have a great remainder of 2017.
Cut for Time: New Years Kiss - SNL has plenty of ups and downs but these Cut For Time skits from the latest season have been top notch. This is no exception.
Stranger Things: A Bad Lip Reading - I generally find Bad Lip Readings to be more delightful in the sub-5-minutes range but this is an ambitious undertaking with enjoyable results.
Snowy Bing Bongs Across The North Star Combat Zone - directed by DANIELS, this 40-minute short is a bizarre mixture of sketch, dance and high-art weirdness. Even odder is that it's actually a delight to watch, too.
An Evening with Noel Fielding Live - if you're a fan of the Mighty Boosh, you may enjoy this 2 hour live show from one half of the creators. It's clear from watching that Noel was clearly the more absurd of the Boosh duo.
Building the ultimate Diorama - not a narrative piece but an instructional video on creating miniatures that is extremely calming.
Red Dwarf US Pilot (1992) - have you ever watched the BBC series Red Dwarf? It's a space comedy that was primarily on the air from 1988 to 1999, with a few more recent series reviving the cast. Turns out, they tried to make a US version. It's doesn't fully capture the original vibes but there's something about a 1992 sitcom that just feels comfortable, even if it never aired.
I've had the above two images sitting on my desktop for a few months, simply there to serve as a pleasantry to view from time to time. The work is by Japanese illustrator Eizin Suzuki, a man with a talent for finding that perfect balance of simplicity and detailed. The official portfolio of work isn't the most pleasant to browse but if you have the patience, you will find the mostdelightfulcreations. The inclusion of random color spots and confetti flying around gives most of his work a feeling of some upbeat occasion having just happened.
Poke around and find pieces from his Light Falls series, that perfectly depicts realistic shadowcasting while still feeling like a foreign otherworld.
Fun fact, the first world of the first Sonic the Hedgehog game ("Green World") was directly inspired by Suzuki's color palettes.
There's limitless amounts of Christmas music out there but I've been told by countless, unrelated, parties that there is no better than The Carpenters Christmas Portrait. It's hard not to enjoy that "Overture" or the "Winter Wonderland / Silver Bells / White Christmas" medley.
Personally, I've always been a fan of The Three Suns A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas but I'm wiling to expand my horizons.
