A Little Something About Myself

I've read two short stories recently from incredible authors and they both stunk.

The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We Love Jack Black!

 Moi Say Moi a few years ago:

I've always thought the greatest example of an actor being matched with a character was Jack Black in School of Rock. I honestly don't know why he doesn't just put out a new one every year.

I'd also say that he may hold the same distinction when it comes to supporting characters; it's unfathomable to even try to imagine anybody else trying to be his character in High Fidelity (for which he also won a spot on the much unheralded XMASTIME MOVIE CAMEO HALL OF FAME!!!).

SPECIAL XMASTIME VIDEO SPECIAL: not one but TWO videos below!! You're welcome, Earth! 

 

Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime

It's kind of weird to think that even if I did meet my soulmate right now, she will never have known me for most of my life.

🤯 du Jour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIDE NOTE! As I asked in 2009, is Matthew McConaughey's Wooderson the single greatest example of an actor who went on to have a long and very successful film career as a leading man, yet will never top his supporting role performance in his film debut?

This Magic Moment du Jour

I've posted this Steve Jones clip before but every time it pops up I'm reminded it's absolutely one of the all all-time Hall of Fame things I've ever gotten from the Internet. 🤗❤️🇬🇧🎸

Asked/Answered/So What

RANCID ….and Out Come the Wolves
TODD SNYDER Songs from the Daily Planet
DRIVIN & CRYIN Mystery Road

Tuning Out (In)

There’s a list of songs for which if I hear them being played at my Wegmans I will pull my headphones out so I can enjoy the song playing as I stroll throughout my Wegmans and apparently this is that list.

Ideas. I Have Them.

If Iran REALLY wanted to make Trump's empty head explode & humiliate him in front of the entire planet they'll announce that they're willing to work out a deal to end the war, but they'll only work on it with Obama.

In America

Think of the incredible morality-bending & twisted pretzels of logic it took for Trump to get elected a second time after a very public tryout that included breaking the world record for US Presidential impeachments and fomenting an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, and now here we are in the middle of a war with Iran during which Trump’s decisions have been bafflingly stupid in historic ways, both in execution and in the unfathomable consequences of which he apparently took a grand total of 0 minutes to consider, and what’s the general buzz from people about getting out of this war?

Nobody’s expecting Trump to actually win the war.
Nobody’s expecting anyone to ask him how he could be so stupid to have made it happen in the first place.
Nobody’s expecting him to have us come out of this fracas better than we were when we started it.
Nobody’s expecting him to give a shit about the 13 dead soldiers.

ALL anybody seems to want at this point, ALL anyone is demanding on the American side of things…

…is that we somehow make it so Trump can get out of it without being embarrassed; the #1 concern seems to be what we all need to do to make sure that Sir Lord FatBoy Baby Fuckwad has a soft landing without any of his easily bruised & tender feelings being hurt.

And when he runs in 2028, he will start with a baseline of 70M people eager to vote for him again.

That’s the single-most example of “white male privilege” I can even imagine, much less recall.

Line du Jour, from Somewhere

"World War I was industrial slaughter."

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), "isn’t this just a thinly-veiled excuse to remember how incredible Blackadder Goes Forth is?"

Sigh. Yes it is, faithful readers, YES it is. 🤗🇬🇧🤣🤣🤣🤣

What She's Found

In January of 2000, Op handed me a Maxell tape on which he’d put the V-Roys’ Just Add Ice album on Side A and Marah’s debut album Let’s Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later on Tonight on Side B; after about a month of listening to this one song below over & over I finally flipped the tape over to Marah, which changed my life in many ways, and while I can’t really remember listening to or caring about any other song on the V-Roys album ever since, I’ve always loved this song (even if after the second chorus it just kinda fizzles away into not much, really).

Parking Lot

Here's an all-time great moment from the Marah show I mentioned last week. 🤗🎸🥁🕺

AN XMASTIME PRAYER CARD, by Xmastime 😔🙏

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Xmastime Films

WINGSTOP: An Xmastime Musical Review

Watch Previous Xmastime Films Here

In America

One way we don't even realize how horrific Trump's been is how desperate we are to "normalize" anything we can as fast as we can; I'm one of those people who finds themselves saying "hey I'm fine with ICE existing, I just want to go back to how it was before Trump came back into office", but then I see something like what I wrote 8 years ago today & realize that eagerly returning to what we incorrectly remember "normal" to be only serves to move us one step closer to the full-on authoritarian regime he thirsts for that waaaaaaaaaaay too many people are happy to give him.

 

 

Xmastime's Genius Motel Room Photography du Jour

Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime

The only socioeconomic class you're allowed to reference by name without pissing off that particular class is the middle class.

I Miss You NYC

14 years ago ago today I left 100 Metro & Brooklyn; in a few months I'll have lived as long since Brooklyn as a I did in Brooklyn, which is depressing me all to hell.

 

XMASTIME, Accidental Photography Genius

In America.

If you're jazzed about Trump setting $1.8B aside for Jan. 6ers then you're gonna be absolutely THRILLED when they announce what people in the Epstein files will be getting.