Personally lonely, globally violent, musically unexciting.
December 2011
I Don’t Owe You Anything - The Smiths
“Oh I don’t want to go out tonight
Oh I don’t want to go out tonight”
I Bleed - Pixies
Where you can’t go anywhere without listening to the same music, where you can’t go anywhere without hearing the name of the Great Leader and his son, the Dear Leader, where all broadcasts, all songs, all jokes, all references are - just for those magic few weeks - just like living in fucking North Korea.
Christopher Hitchens on Christmas (2007)
Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley
In Your Own Sweet Way performed by Wes Montgomery
Winterlong - Pixies
The Ramones | Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)
Feeling ready for a very efficient secular present-giving day
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits
William, It Was Really Nothing by The Smiths