Category: video
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Danielle LoPresti: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Because it’s all about the kids when it comes down to it, right? One of my favorite covers of a Christmas classic.
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Sick of The Pseudodoors.
It’s been a while since I trolled young people, and settled well into cold winter I have precious few opportunities to chase off cheese-eating cretins who try to make a shortcut out of my yard. Indeed, our university is in winter break, so I can’t even hope to menace the drunken kids who stop by…
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Tunesday: The Minutemen, Corona
If you kids ever wonder why we olden shits scoff at your Beeber and all that empty Disney crap, it’s because the music we played to make the double-hung windows shake was unimaginably awesome. You know nothing about the 1980s–Patti Labell and Duran Duran? I never once saw a girl wearing leg warmers on the…
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Tunesday: Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah!
This is for you, Robin. But that doesn’t mean we can’t all enjoy it! Well I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift…
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Tunesday: That’s Love
Every year, when the Christmas music is stowed away, I look forward to catching up with Steve & Edye’s holiday album, “That Holiday Feeling.” Until next season, guys….
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Soundtrack To Then New Years Post
I wrote a New Years post, though I’m not sure why. THIS should be playing while you read it.
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Tunesday: White Christmas
The Grandaddy of old Christmas videos…and the best-selling single of all time. Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye, with a special vocal surprise if you listen through to almost the end (around the 2 minute mark).
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Fairytale of New York
Yesterday I praised the Christmas crooners of previous generations, but we’ve had some good stuff of our own. This bitter, poignant winter tale touches on the melancholy undercurrent of the holiday so perfectly that it never fails to make my mom cry. Adding the sad epilogue, in which Kirsty MacColl was horribly killed on her…
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Tunesday: Weird Andy Williams
Nostalgic, but strange. I remember my mother and grandmother both filled with anticipation for the annual Andy Williams Christmas Special variety show.
Old Road Apples 