Archive for December, 2005

that’s enough, cheesy christmas song writers

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Administrator
at December 3, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

i have come to the conclusion that no one should be allowed to compose any new christmas songs without first obtaining my approval.

i am presently trying to recover from a song i just heard on the radio entitled “a tender tennessee christmas”. i mean, what the frick is a “tender” christmas??

i looked it up, and tender can mean sensitive or young, or it can be a proposal or an offer. am i the only one that is confused by someone wanting to have a sensitive or young christmas? there are a host of more appropriate adjectives she could have used that would have made more sense…but, in all honesty, the song would still suck.

i have also recently heard a holiday song with the refrain, “mom and dad, you gotta get up, you gotta get up, you gotta get up…its christmas morning.” seriously. it’s as if someone was holding a gun to this guys head, demanding he compose a christmas song on the spot. and by some strange twist of events, it made it to the radio.

if people are going to compose christmas songs, they should take it seriously. write a song that will stand the test of time, become a christmas classic, or at least make a bunch of people laugh (this does not refer to the guy who wrote that bain- of- my- existence song about his grandmom getting run over by….ugh, i cant even write it.) i am talking to you, adam sandlers of the world.

lest you further put a damper on my holiday spirit, let’s just go ahead and limit our selections to bing crosby, the rat pack, or select tracks from the carpenters christmas albums. it would save me from having to write more whiny blogs while i should be out christmas shopping.

who are the animals here?

Published by
julie
at December 1, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

lately i have been in the mood to watch nice things. so i rented the king and i for the first time ever. besides the “getting to know you” and “shall we dance?” songs, i was pretty much bored for the entire 2 hours or so. but those two songs/scenes more than made up for all the loopholes in the story. like how the king wasnt even sick, but then just conveniently up and dies at the end of the movie. and what happened to the whole subplot with his latest wife and her dead lover? you are probably wondering who i think i am to question rogers and hammerstein. good point.

i even went as far as to watch the american version of “shall we dance?” which does not in any way compare to the original japanese version. but it was quite pleasant. i had forgotten i had banned anything jennifer lopez-related when i found out she uses fur in her clothing line. that makes me physically ill and mentally furious.

which brings me to the point of this entry. if you want to be informed at the expense of any kind of sense of well being as an animal lover, check out the horrifying article about why paul mccartney has banned china.

and more information on the subject is here.

i am so sickened by what i read, i immediately made a donation to peta. this article and the mental anguish i have suffered since reading it yesterday has undone all the progress i have made over the last few weeks to purge my mind of horrifying things. how is this being allowed to happen? something of this magnitude makes me forget how much i hate suv’s. makes me shameful to be a human.