Happy Holidays!

Today is Christmas, one of the winter holidays! Woot! Hope the holidays are good for you, and you are enjoying them with (or without) family and friends! Usually we all have a good meal for Christmas dinner, and I'm definitely looking forward to that.

Here's some music to enjoy while doing whatever you are doing on this Christmas day! (or any other day, really ).

The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight). The band that helped started some of the music I really got into... Punk! New Wave! And this song could, unfortunately, represent a lot of people's holidays with friends and family. Heh. Pogo all around the room!

Saturnalia is Soon!

Last Sunday I watched a movie! Me! I really, really enjoyed it, which shocked the heck out of me. And, it is a Christmas movie, although that really didn't occur to me when I watched it. I wasn't paying attention to that aspect. Yea, there was a Santa in it but it was more the social and cultural stuff the movie discussed that struck me.

The movie is called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue'. It was filmed/released in 1947. Yes, it's in black and white. It's a comedy. No, I didn't recognize any of the stars' names, except Alan Hale, Jr (Hi, Skipper!), although I recognized a face or two. You can watch it, or download it, on the internet archive.

Mom (Mary), Jim, Trudy, Dad (Michael J. O'Connor): image from the Movie Database