O Holy Night

Even though I promised myself I wouldn't share any more Christmas songs with you now that Christmas is technically over, I found a bonus one.  I asked people to submit their favorite Christmas songs, and an old friend actually suggested this cover of "O Holy Night," which is comically in a horrible way.  I still can't decide if this is a joke or not. 

Christmas Wrapping

First, can we talk about the title, which has a great pun (“wrapping” instead of what they’re doing, which is rapping.)
And there’s the storyline, which is about a busy young woman, living in some big city, running into the same guy all year. She’s independent enough that she doesn’t need to do Christmas with other people, but she runs into her guy right at the last minute, and yes, has a romantic Christmas. It’s hard for me to not wish I was this girl, modern and fun.
Hope you’re all “doing Christmas right this time” too.

Wonderful Christmastime

Firstly, I love how 80s this song is. It sounds like something that could easily be on an old school episode of Doctor Who. Rhythmically and vocally this song is doing some pretty bizarre things, but it still works well.
Plus, Paul McCartney’s being pretty adorable in this video. I like how the video really looks like some of the grainy footage from an actual family Christmas video.

Blue Christmas

Since it’s the season, and I’ve been blogging pretty heavy topics of late, I decided to mix it up by bringing you some of my favorite Christmas songs this week. (Feel free to post your favorite songs too, especially if it’s a lesser known Christmas song. Always looking for something good.)


When people talk about Elvis, they talk about the hips, the women, that mansion of his, his daughter marrying Michael Jackson. But there seems to be so little acknowledgment of what a great voice he had, how smooth it was and a good example of singing it is. It takes a fair amount of breath control to get that right.
The song itself is nice, because while being about a blue during Christmas it also is a blues song.
If you look at this particular performance, you can see him screw up his face, and there’s something very gritty about that, more rock than pop, more Johnny Cash than we would expect.
Also, doesn’t he have long eyelashes?

Some Thoughts on The Holiday Ham

Here's a video about Smithfield and how they have failed, so far, to phase out gestation crates. The video depicts gestation crates, which confines pigs to the smallest space they can possible be squeezed into. They have no way of moving around, and often have sores and injuries as a result of their confinement. This is sad, especially when other corporations have been willing to change their practices.
I don't like ham or pork, but for those of you who like to have ham for your family Christmas meal, consider thinking about who you are buying from. Some companies have better, more humane practices than others.
Thanks to Linh Dinh for the link.