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[gothwalk]

The Christmas decorations have been up in Dun Laoghaire for some time now - rather nice, actually, plain coloured lights in the streets, zigzagging back and forth over half a mile or more, and garlands and swags of greenery red ribbons, and small twinkling lights in the shopping centre. But apart from one rendition of Home for Christmas back around September, I hadn't heard any Christmas music. Today, however, Fairytale New York was playing in the shopping centre, and one of my co-workers has just gone past humming Sleigh Ride Together With You. I don't get much impression of the season approaching any other way - I don't watch TV, listen to any but a pirate alternative radio station, or read newspapers.

I usen't to care much about Christmas. But now that I have some significance to attach to it, between Yule and Christmas-in-Finland, I look forward to it every year.

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[cheerfulcynic.livejournal.com]

Wait for a bus outside Clerys. Slowly enter a homocidal rage as you do.

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Christmas music...

...pirate alternative...

When my eyes first lighted on this post somehow these two phrases leapt out at me before I read it, immediately conjuring an image of festive Yuletide carollers interspering their melodies with "Arrrrrgh!" and "Heave ho, me hearties!"

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

I'm either getting pirates wearing flannel and decorating a Christmas tree with the intestines of their most recent adversaries... or twentysomethings dressed in total granola gear offloading booty from a ship onto their yacht, which has a corporate logo proclaiming them to be the gentler and more environmentally friendly pirate alternative.

But then, I'm still at work with nothing to do and two days of thanksgiving vacation to look forward to.

I'm such a dork.

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Heh....Fairytale of New York is my favorite dysfunctional Christmas song. Alas, it sort of describes the family my cousin married into and divorced out of. They fit a lot of the negative stereotypes about Irish-Americans. I resent them for doing so, because a good bit of my own family has Irish origins.

Decorations in shopping malls here went up around 1 November. My mom and I are both annoyed that Thanksgiving, which is a very big holiday here, gets lost between Halloween and Christmas. We love the Christmas season, but it used to be confined to the real season, i.e., Advent. Ah, well. Capitalism marches onward.

I listened to holiday music for the first time (this year) last night--Excelsis--A Dark Noel. Goth Christmas music, gotta love it. :-