It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

This might be my favorite Christmas song. It's officially my favorite Christmas song that I first heard without registering it as such. I owned a CD of the Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With God -- and it's really annoying me right now that I can no longer recall the provenance of my Pogues awareness -- long before I heard it on the radio while shopping in the pound store at The Pavilions, Uxbridge, UK in December of '07.

I was just thinking U.S. radio stations and holiday playlists would throw it into rotation, I might cut them a little slack for starting the Christmas music in October. As if... I'm pretty sure you can't say "faggot" on air in the U.S. Even if it doesn't mean what you think it means. (Case in point: I once saw frozen faggots on sale in Iceland. Completely true statement, that. Only makes sense in the U.K.)

In any case, the other day I decided to look up the guitar chords and work on learning them on the piano (actually, Blake's Casiotone MT-100). I didn't realize this video existed until today, but it makes me want to aspire to learning it on my penny whistle as well. (Won't the neighbors love that!)

And speaking of penny whistles - I want to have a holiday party and play the Musical Instrument Game a la Jimmy Fallon.  (To do list: buy harmonium from any Mission thrift shop.)

The existence of which I discovered by watching this other awesome Christmas video. 100% guaranteed to temporarily alleviate Grinchiness.

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