Missing the Paigow (et al.) [sniff]

[dtb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I have decided it is not worth it to try to attend my family Christmas so I want to take a trip. I will be by myself, so ideas of where to go?

How about Puerto Rico? I could use a buddy poolside...

In other seasonal news:

I am feeling a little guilty, as I rather enjoy singing along to the xmas carols on the radio. As an old friend once said, "Those goyim sure do know how to put on a holiday!" I think I can get past the "sing to Jesus" aspect of the sing-along, but if some Jew/ess out there could chime in and make me feel a little less traitorous, I'd appreciate it. (If not, I'm sure I'll get over it on my own...)

So, once I get past the guilt, can anyone recommend some traditional xmas carol record? The songs I like are the "sing to Jesus" ones (funnily enough) rather than the "Red Nosed Reindeer" variety. Also, while I love choral music, for the sing-along, I prefer something that's one person and someone that doesn't get too inventive with the "interpretation". Say, like Amy Grant. (I know, blech - but she does a nice job with the Jesus music.)

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by dtb
So, once I get past the guilt, can anyone recommend some traditional xmas carol record? The songs I like are the "sing to Jesus" ones (funnily enough) rather than the "Red Nosed Reindeer" variety. Also, while I love choral music, for the sing-along, I prefer something that's one person and someone that doesnt' get too inventive. Say, like Amy Grant. (I know, blech - but she does a nice job with the Jesus music.)

I'm a Not Jew, but . . .

I like Amy Grant's Christmas albums. She has a warm voice, and I like her takes on the traditional songs.

She has three of them, but I like Home for Christmas the best.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by dtb

So, once I get past the guilt, can anyone recommend some traditional xmas carol record? The songs I like are the "sing to Jesus" ones (funnily enough) rather than the "Red Nosed Reindeer" variety. Also, while I love choral music, for the sing-along, I prefer something that's one person and someone that doesn't get too inventive with the "interpretation". Say, like Amy Grant. (I know, blech - but she does a nice job with the Jesus music.)

If you like a cappella jazz/gospel*, Take 6 is the way to go.















* Yeah, I know. It's more than one person, and by its nature it's more interpretive than you may want. Sue me. I still think it's cool.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
How about Puerto Rico? I could use a buddy poolside...

In other seasonal news:

I am feeling a little guilty, as I rather enjoy singing along to the xmas carols on the radio. As an old friend once said, "Those goyim sure do know how to put on a holiday!" I think I can get past the "sing to Jesus" aspect of the sing-along, but if some Jew/ess out there could chime in and make me feel a little less traitorous, I'd appreciate it. (If not, I'm sure I'll get over it on my own...)

So, once I get past the guilt, can anyone recommend some traditional xmas carol record? The songs I like are the "sing to Jesus" ones (funnily enough) rather than the "Red Nosed Reindeer" variety. Also, while I love choral music, for the sing-along, I prefer something that's one person and someone that doesn't get too inventive with the "interpretation". Say, like Amy Grant. (I know, blech - but she does a nice job with the Jesus music.)

Guilt? Imagine what Barbara Streisand went through after she punched out “the” Xmas album of the 70s... And I think that one was all Jesusy stuff.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I'm a Not Jew, but . . .

I like Amy Grant's Christmas albums. She has a warm voice, and I like her takes on the traditional songs.

She has three of them, but I like Home for Christmas the best.

Burl Ives, baby. That cat was the shit (that he allegedly hated children gives it a John Watersish campy comedic undercurrent). And the Bowie/Crosby version of Little Drummer Boy is killer.

I hate the Harry Connick xmas disc. I don't hate Connick; I just think that disc blows.

ETA: I just cited Waters and Streisand back to back. That should disturb me. Somebody start a thread about hot wings and strip clubs... must redeem myself.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by dtb
How about Puerto Rico? I could use a buddy poolside...

In other seasonal news:

I am feeling a little guilty, as I rather enjoy singing along to the xmas carols on the radio. As an old friend once said, "Those goyim sure do know how to put on a holiday!" I think I can get past the "sing to Jesus" aspect of the sing-along, but if some Jew/ess out there could chime in and make me feel a little less traitorous, I'd appreciate it. (If not, I'm sure I'll get over it on my own...)

So, once I get past the guilt, can anyone recommend some traditional xmas carol record? The songs I like are the "sing to Jesus" ones (funnily enough) rather than the "Red Nosed Reindeer" variety. Also, while I love choral music, for the sing-along, I prefer something that's one person and someone that doesn't get too inventive with the "interpretation". Say, like Amy Grant. (I know, blech - but she does a nice job with the Jesus music.)

I just impulse-bought the new Reverend Horton Heat Christmas CD, in part because I am going to go see the good Reverend tonight. First Christmas CD I have bought . . . maybe ever. Not bad, but it may not be quite what you are looking for. Maybe I'll pick up some Amy Grant. I hear she has a really warm voice, and I love warm voices. And by "warm voices" I mean "wet pussies." Does anyone know if Amy Grant has a wet pussy?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I just impulse-bought the new Reverend Horton Heat Christmas CD, in part because I am going to go see the good Reverend tonight. First Christmas CD I have bought . . . maybe ever. Not bad, but it may not be quite what you are looking for. Maybe I'll pick up some Amy Grant. I hear she has a really warm voice, and I love warm voices. And by "warm voices" I mean "wet pussies." Does anyone know if Amy Grant has a wet pussy?

Sopping. Like Nerf football left in a swimming pool. You can’t wring it out.

[andViolins]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I have decided it is not worth it to try to attend my family Christmas so I want to take a trip. I will be by myself, so ideas of where to go?

Hedonism II. A great place to show off your TITS!

aV

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Burl Ives, baby. That cat was the shit (that he allegedly hated children gives it a John Watersish campy comedic undercurrent). And the Bowie/Crosby version of Little Drummer Boy is killer.

I hate the Harry Connick xmas disc. I don't hate Connick; I just think that disc blows.

ETA: I just cited Waters and Streisand back to back. That should disturb me. Somebody start a thread about hot wings and strip clubs... must redeem myself.

John Waters has his own xmas CD. I haven't heard it, but it sounds intriguing:

Baltimore’s greatest filmmaker has demonstrated a deep appreciation for that very American crossroads of kitsch and sensationalism since the late ‘60s, at least. Of course, quirky Christmas anthologies abound already – the three best probably being Christmas Party With Eddie G, American Song-Poem Christmas, and Where Will You Be Christmas Day. But the songs on A John Waters Xmas are novelty songs for the true connoisseur, including recordings so saccharine and horrifying you wonder how the engineers did not run from the booth screaming; "Happy Birthday Jesus" by the precocious Little Cindy is likely the scariest thing you will ever hear in your life. Not everything is so "Outsider"-y and thrift store score; there’s the rocking, funny "Fat Daddy" by Fat Daddy, a delightful song by the Coctails with the singing saw as the lead instrument, and a gorgeous obscure doo-wop number called "Christmas Time Is Coming (A Street Carol)" by Stormy Weather.

These Christmas classics were hand picked by Waters himself: "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" by Tiny Tim, "Happy Birthday Jesus" by Little Cindy, "Sleigh Ride" by Alvin And The Chipmunks, "Here Comes Fatty Claus" by Rudolph And Gang, and "Santa Claus Is A Black Man" by AKIM & The Teddy Vann Production Company, to name a few.


"Have a merry, rotten, scary, sexy, biracial, ludicrous, happy little Christmas"--John Waters

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I just impulse-bought the new Reverend Horton Heat Christmas CD, in part because I am going to go see the good Reverend tonight. First Christmas CD I have bought . . . maybe ever. Not bad, but it may not be quite what you are looking for. Maybe I'll pick up some Amy Grant. I hear she has a really warm voice, and I love warm voices. And by "warm voices" I mean "wet pussies." Does anyone know if Amy Grant has a wet pussy?

1. I had no idea the Reverend put out a Christmas album. I may need to track it down.

2. Los Straightjackets play great Christmas music, but it's instrumental. With Mexican wrestling masks.

3. Young Fresh Fellows did a great song about Amy Grant. I don't think it addresses the wetness issue, though.

Ollie (she don't spoil the child, she don't spare the rod, she just gets rich 'cause she works for god) Ramone

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
IMaybe I'll pick up some Amy Grant. I hear she has a really warm voice, and I love warm voices. And by "warm voices" I mean "wet pussies." Does anyone know if Amy Grant has a wet pussy?

If you cut me, do I not bleed? Sniff.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by dtb
How about Puerto Rico? I could use a buddy poolside...

In other seasonal news:

I am feeling a little guilty, as I rather enjoy singing along to the xmas carols on the radio. As an old friend once said, "Those goyim sure do know how to put on a holiday!" I think I can get past the "sing to Jesus" aspect of the sing-along, but if some Jew/ess out there could chime in and make me feel a little less traitorous, I'd appreciate it. (If not, I'm sure I'll get over it on my own...)

So, once I get past the guilt, can anyone recommend some traditional xmas carol record? The songs I like are the "sing to Jesus" ones (funnily enough) rather than the "Red Nosed Reindeer" variety. Also, while I love choral music, for the sing-along, I prefer something that's one person and someone that doesn't get too inventive with the "interpretation". Say, like Amy Grant. (I know, blech - but she does a nice job with the Jesus music.)

When the Brazenette was an infant, I would often find myself crooning Christmas Carols to her in lieu of lullabies. I am a big fan of Oh, Come All Ye Faithful. It rests pleasantly in my middle range.

So, don't feel quilty.

(She now knows all the words and can sing along to Eidelweiss, which is what I switched to when I started to worry that she might pick up on the Jesus imagery. And then, last week, at the prompting of her father, she informed me that "Lying makes the Baby Jesus happy." So there you go.)

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter


"Have a merry, rotten, scary, sexy, biracial, ludicrous, happy little Christmas"--John Waters

This makes me wish I had waited until today to order my holiday cards.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen

(She now knows all the words and can sing along to Eidelweiss, which is what I switched to when I started to worry that she might pick up on the Jesus imagery.

You realize, don't you, that Eidelweiss is loaded with anal sex imagery?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
You realize, don't you, that Eidelweiss is loaded with anal sex imagery?

And Nazis.