Top 10 Favorite Holiday Songs

Hello and happy holidays! I'm sure you've all been bombarded with holiday music everywhere you go, and most of it, well, sucks. Here is a list of my Top 10 favorite UNSUCKEY holiday songs, in no particular order. Plus, a few "bonuses" that technically aren't Christmas songs, but mention Christmas and have that holiday vibe.

1) Merry Christmas/I Don't Want to Fight - The Ramones
2) Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby/David Bowie
3) Baby Please Come Home - U2
4) Christmas Rapping - The Waitresses
5) Santa Clause is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen (though this is getting OLD)
6) The Hanukkah Song - Adam Sandler
7) D*ck in a Box - Andy Sandberg/Justin Timberlake
8) Happy Xmas - John and Yoko
9) Blue Christmas - Elvis
10) Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC

BONUS:
* Ave Maria - Chris Cornell
* Two Thousand Miles - The Pretenders
* Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

Happy Listening, happy healthy holidays to you and yours!!!

Pretty Sure I'm Not Human

Hello and happy holidays! Inspiration (ie COMPULSION) always strikes at the strangest times. Today, after a LOOONNNGG dryspell, I started coming up with a mental list. Maybe the yearend is making me take stock, maybe all my "to do" lists triggered something. More likely, however, I was thinking of the things I SHOULD DO and things I DID THAT REALLY DIDN'T LIVE UP TO THEIR HYPE. So I started mentally ticking off the movies EVERYONE'S seen that I haven't. And then the books/movies I read/saw that EVERYONE loved, but left me saying BFD. So feel free to wonder, like I have, if I'm actually even HUMAN, or maybe I'm missing a crutial DNA that everyone else seems to have IN SPADES.

MOVIES I'VE NEVER SEEN:
1) Godfather (any), Goodfellas, Scarface - just too violent
2) Star Trek (any)
3) Rocky (any)
4) Casablanca
5) Gone With the Wind - just too damn long.
6) Fletch
7) whatever the movie is where Meryl streep says , "The dingos took my baby". And let me say, if a dingo DOES really take her baby I do NOT want to EVER see this movie. And it's not the least bit funny.
8) Deliverance
9) Sex and the City
10) It's a Wonderful Life
11) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
12) James Bond - that's right NONE


BOOKS/MOVIES I FOUND MEDIOCRE AT BEST:
1) Bridges of Madison County
2) The Lovely Bones - where's the JUSTICE!?!
3) The Shawshank Redemption
4) The Art of Racing in the Rain - again...JUSTICE?!?!
5) Erin Brockovich
6) The Blindside - Hallmark movie of the week, in my opinion
7) Tuesdays With Morrie