"hang a shining star upon the highest bough"
1. GUYS. IT'S, LIKE, SO CLOSE TO CHRISTMAS. And it hasn't really FELT Christmassy for me yet, this year... not so far, anyway. Not that I'm religious or really participate in gift-buying and card-giving or anything of that sort (I am SUCH a Scrooge), but well. The most I've done is put Santa hats on icons, and that's about it. BUT GUESS WHAT, IT'S OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS-TIME IN MY BRAIN. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? BECAUSE, ZOMG, IT'S JULIA FRICKIN' MURNEY SINGING MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG, LIKE, EVER. And singing it mightily AWESOMELY, I might add.
2. I was planning to upload a Christmas mix of, you know, amazing, like with Frankie and Bing and Karen (Carpenter) and Cheno, but well. All I have do now is direct you over here, where the awesome pdt_bear has uploaded some frakkin' awesome CRACK, so you can keep up with the flail that will ensue...
GUYS. IT'S JULIA SINGING HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS. LIKE, ASKLDHALSKFHLAHLDFHASDA. I MEAN IT. AND IT'S ADORABLE, TOO, BECAUSE THE NON-FINALE VERSION HAS HER... RECITING THE LYRICS FOR THE AUDIENCE AND THEN SINGING THEM. (WHAT, CANADIANS DON'T KNOW HOW TO SING THIS SONG? LOL, JULIA.) BUT BUT BUT. IT'S MOOOOAR THAN THAT, BECAUSE SHE DOES THIS THING, THIS THING WITH THE SONG WHEN SHE JUST - BELTS HIGH. LIKE AT 2:10 IN THE FINALE TRACK. FUCKITY.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. ALL THE CHRISTMAS SONGS SHE SINGS ARE ASLDHASDLADALSKDJALKHDASA. I MEAN. OMIGOD. YOU KNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS? I LIKE THAT SONG. BUT I DON'T, LIKE, FLAIL OVER IT. BUT AT ABOUT 2:31 IN THIS, WHEN SHE GOES HIGH AND TRILLS JUST GORGEOUSLY ON 'BRIGHT'? AND THE WAY SHE BRINGS THE SONG HOME? OMIGOD. I DON'T THINK I'VE... EVER ENJOYED THIS SONG AS MUCH. Except, as I've said, when it's Bing Crosby. But that's different, he's BING. (Apparently, she pointed out during the show that White Christmas was originally featured in Holiday Inn, and not the movie of the same title. A+, JULIA. As a classic film dork, I highly approve of this little factoid. Especially since Holiday Inn is one of my favourite classic movies EVER, and White Christmas... well, not so much.
AND CHRISTMAS ISN'T CHRISTMAS WITHOUT JULIA MURNEY SINGING O HOLY NIGHT. GUYS. I ADORE - ADORE - HER DUET VERSION WITH MAX VON ESSEN. ADORE IT. BUT HERE WE HAVE HER SINGING SOLO, WITH A CHOIR OF CHILDREN IN THE BACKGROUND. HER LOW NOTES ARE FUCKING SEX, AND THEN HER VOICE JUST SOARS UP, AND IT'S SO VELVETY AND BEAUTIFUL AND AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. SHE DOES THE HARMONY THING THAT SHE DOES WITH MAX AT ABOUT 2:22, AND JUST SINGS THE REST OF THE SONG THAT WAY, SLIGHTLY OFF THE ACTUAL TUNE/MELODY, BUT JUST SO AMAZINGLY, AND AND AND. I HAVE NO WORDS.
PLUS COMEDY SONG. XD 12 Days After Christmas is just one of the funniest songs ever, and Julia acts the crap out of it - you can tell just by listening to it - and I LOVE this, of course, but I have a far better cut of this song (by which I mean in terms of there being fewer noisy audience members, nothing to do with the audio), and I've listened to it often enough over the past few months to be a little less blown away than I was by the traditional Christmas songs.
OMIGOD IT'S SO OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS-TIME, GUYS, IT'S CHRISTMAS. FLAIL.
3. Also. Let's talk about a completely random fandom collision. (Ahahaha, random fandom! Mommy, I made a rhyme!) I was watching this Emil interview when he was hilariously describing what he got up to when he was done working on his album and could just tool around at home. So what he basically does is make a nuisance of himself, because his face was all swollen up from when he tried to dust something, and then he cut himself when doing the dishes. There was this ADORABLE moment of when he held up his hand as he recounted the story, of how he went crying to his wife over his fail. And it SO reminded me of, well, a very similar Julia moment. To wit:
AHAHAHA. I have waaaaay too much free time on my hands.
4. And then. You know what's adorable? You know what's adorable at the age of 59? With a horrible cold and cough and plans to return home to quietly die once she's done with the interview? Meryl on Letterman, that's who.
I don't think it's possible for anyone to be quite this CUTE and yet eloquent and FUNNY. Omigod. I spent a lot of this interview just squeeing out loud to myself and wondering: (a) how someone so sick can look so gorgeous (b) or be so funny (c) or so gracious. I mean, seriously. "I was afraid to cancel!" LMAO. And then when he started reading out her filmography and tested her on her FIRST film, and she was all, like OMFG JULIA I KNEW THAT IT WAS JUST LODGED SOMEWHERE IN MY SOLAR PLEXUS. I DIED, GUYS. DIED FROM THE ADORABLE. "You're only in the 70s!" LMAO. And she was just SO sick, the poor thing, like literally you could tell she has one of those colds when you get really short of breath and can't breathe? She keeps taking these gulps of air, and then coughs, and then she keeps laughing which can't be good for her either. SO CUTE. OH OH OH THANKSGIVING STORY. I love how she put a little bourbon into the food. XD AHAHAHA ITALIAN STORY. ALSO, "I WISH I COULD GO HOME, BUT I CAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T!" *weeps* I LOVE this woman SOOOO much. ♥
And because someone reminded me about how much I ADORE this tiny little clip of Meryl after the Globes a couple years back:
AHAHAHA. MERYL RUMBLED FOR BEING A LUSH. IN FRONT OF HER BABY DAUGHTER. *weeps* I LOVE her horrified reactions in this, when she's pushing Louisa away and looking all JUDGEY at the reporter. EEK. So cute.
5. Okay, I'm actually going to go to bed now, because it's back to work tomorrow. I hate my illness, btw. It's SO ANNOYING. I feel terrible at times - usually when I wake up - but better than okay at others, but I'm still stuffed-up, and my cough gets pretty bad. Sometimes. Like when I was flailing over Meryl. I think it was a sympathy cough, but man. Not fun, and kind of painful. Isn't it stupid to give me cough meds to keep the symptoms away for the day - except that they cause drowsiness? As if I don't have enough problems staying awake at work as is. Boo.
6. ETA: O_O WTF. All the lights just... went out. I think the electricity just blew. I like how my computer seems to be running on a different electrical system than my lights and air-conditioning though, mwahahaha. I don't think anyone else in the house is going to notice, since they're asleep and I'm... not. Faily house of fail. Our front gate is still broken, so I had to climb into the house yesterday. Would have had to do it today too, except I got my grandma to manually unlock the gate and leave it for me. Bah.
2. I was planning to upload a Christmas mix of, you know, amazing, like with Frankie and Bing and Karen (Carpenter) and Cheno, but well. All I have do now is direct you over here, where the awesome pdt_bear has uploaded some frakkin' awesome CRACK, so you can keep up with the flail that will ensue...
GUYS. IT'S JULIA SINGING HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS. LIKE, ASKLDHALSKFHLAHLDFHASDA. I MEAN IT. AND IT'S ADORABLE, TOO, BECAUSE THE NON-FINALE VERSION HAS HER... RECITING THE LYRICS FOR THE AUDIENCE AND THEN SINGING THEM. (WHAT, CANADIANS DON'T KNOW HOW TO SING THIS SONG? LOL, JULIA.) BUT BUT BUT. IT'S MOOOOAR THAN THAT, BECAUSE SHE DOES THIS THING, THIS THING WITH THE SONG WHEN SHE JUST - BELTS HIGH. LIKE AT 2:10 IN THE FINALE TRACK. FUCKITY.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. ALL THE CHRISTMAS SONGS SHE SINGS ARE ASLDHASDLADALSKDJALKHDASA. I MEAN. OMIGOD. YOU KNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS? I LIKE THAT SONG. BUT I DON'T, LIKE, FLAIL OVER IT. BUT AT ABOUT 2:31 IN THIS, WHEN SHE GOES HIGH AND TRILLS JUST GORGEOUSLY ON 'BRIGHT'? AND THE WAY SHE BRINGS THE SONG HOME? OMIGOD. I DON'T THINK I'VE... EVER ENJOYED THIS SONG AS MUCH. Except, as I've said, when it's Bing Crosby. But that's different, he's BING. (Apparently, she pointed out during the show that White Christmas was originally featured in Holiday Inn, and not the movie of the same title. A+, JULIA. As a classic film dork, I highly approve of this little factoid. Especially since Holiday Inn is one of my favourite classic movies EVER, and White Christmas... well, not so much.
AND CHRISTMAS ISN'T CHRISTMAS WITHOUT JULIA MURNEY SINGING O HOLY NIGHT. GUYS. I ADORE - ADORE - HER DUET VERSION WITH MAX VON ESSEN. ADORE IT. BUT HERE WE HAVE HER SINGING SOLO, WITH A CHOIR OF CHILDREN IN THE BACKGROUND. HER LOW NOTES ARE FUCKING SEX, AND THEN HER VOICE JUST SOARS UP, AND IT'S SO VELVETY AND BEAUTIFUL AND AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. SHE DOES THE HARMONY THING THAT SHE DOES WITH MAX AT ABOUT 2:22, AND JUST SINGS THE REST OF THE SONG THAT WAY, SLIGHTLY OFF THE ACTUAL TUNE/MELODY, BUT JUST SO AMAZINGLY, AND AND AND. I HAVE NO WORDS.
PLUS COMEDY SONG. XD 12 Days After Christmas is just one of the funniest songs ever, and Julia acts the crap out of it - you can tell just by listening to it - and I LOVE this, of course, but I have a far better cut of this song (by which I mean in terms of there being fewer noisy audience members, nothing to do with the audio), and I've listened to it often enough over the past few months to be a little less blown away than I was by the traditional Christmas songs.
OMIGOD IT'S SO OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS-TIME, GUYS, IT'S CHRISTMAS. FLAIL.
3. Also. Let's talk about a completely random fandom collision. (Ahahaha, random fandom! Mommy, I made a rhyme!) I was watching this Emil interview when he was hilariously describing what he got up to when he was done working on his album and could just tool around at home. So what he basically does is make a nuisance of himself, because his face was all swollen up from when he tried to dust something, and then he cut himself when doing the dishes. There was this ADORABLE moment of when he held up his hand as he recounted the story, of how he went crying to his wife over his fail. And it SO reminded me of, well, a very similar Julia moment. To wit:
AHAHAHA. I have waaaaay too much free time on my hands.
4. And then. You know what's adorable? You know what's adorable at the age of 59? With a horrible cold and cough and plans to return home to quietly die once she's done with the interview? Meryl on Letterman, that's who.
Click to viewI don't think it's possible for anyone to be quite this CUTE and yet eloquent and FUNNY. Omigod. I spent a lot of this interview just squeeing out loud to myself and wondering: (a) how someone so sick can look so gorgeous (b) or be so funny (c) or so gracious. I mean, seriously. "I was afraid to cancel!" LMAO. And then when he started reading out her filmography and tested her on her FIRST film, and she was all, like OMFG JULIA I KNEW THAT IT WAS JUST LODGED SOMEWHERE IN MY SOLAR PLEXUS. I DIED, GUYS. DIED FROM THE ADORABLE. "You're only in the 70s!" LMAO. And she was just SO sick, the poor thing, like literally you could tell she has one of those colds when you get really short of breath and can't breathe? She keeps taking these gulps of air, and then coughs, and then she keeps laughing which can't be good for her either. SO CUTE. OH OH OH THANKSGIVING STORY. I love how she put a little bourbon into the food. XD AHAHAHA ITALIAN STORY. ALSO, "I WISH I COULD GO HOME, BUT I CAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T!" *weeps* I LOVE this woman SOOOO much. ♥
And because someone reminded me about how much I ADORE this tiny little clip of Meryl after the Globes a couple years back:
AHAHAHA. MERYL RUMBLED FOR BEING A LUSH. IN FRONT OF HER BABY DAUGHTER. *weeps* I LOVE her horrified reactions in this, when she's pushing Louisa away and looking all JUDGEY at the reporter. EEK. So cute.
5. Okay, I'm actually going to go to bed now, because it's back to work tomorrow. I hate my illness, btw. It's SO ANNOYING. I feel terrible at times - usually when I wake up - but better than okay at others, but I'm still stuffed-up, and my cough gets pretty bad. Sometimes. Like when I was flailing over Meryl. I think it was a sympathy cough, but man. Not fun, and kind of painful. Isn't it stupid to give me cough meds to keep the symptoms away for the day - except that they cause drowsiness? As if I don't have enough problems staying awake at work as is. Boo.
6. ETA: O_O WTF. All the lights just... went out. I think the electricity just blew. I like how my computer seems to be running on a different electrical system than my lights and air-conditioning though, mwahahaha. I don't think anyone else in the house is going to notice, since they're asleep and I'm... not. Faily house of fail. Our front gate is still broken, so I had to climb into the house yesterday. Would have had to do it today too, except I got my grandma to manually unlock the gate and leave it for me. Bah.