Do you hear what I hear?

[evadne_noel]

When someone said to me the other day, “Oh, your name is Noelle? You must have been born at Christmas!” (NO), I knew it was about time for me to break out my yearly rant about how much I hate Christmas music. Enjoy my vitriol!

Comments

[frenchroast]

My problem with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra isn't the radio overplay (because I avoid the radio at all times of the year) but the fact that 2/3 of everything on their CDs is NOT rock+traditional Christmas music. If I want to hear snotty children or random vocalists singing random pieces of Christmas music strung together, I can get that pretty much anywhere else. I like the vast bulk of my Christmas music instrumental, or choral, because I'm picky about which versions I'll listen to with individual voices.

[evadne_noel]

I feel that the problem with a vast amount of Christmas music is that most people are not picky, but are so unpicky as to drive the small percentage of people who are totally insane.

[frenchroast]

I think you've nailed it right there.

I'll just comfort myself with "Nutmeg" from Stephen Colbert's Christmas special. Now that's a song I can get behind.

[evadne_noel]

Oh, LOL. I'd never heard that song before, but when you mentioned it, I had to go look it up.

[frenchroast]

It makes me happy not just because it's hilarious, but because nutmeg has long been deserving of some appreciation. Cinnamon is so overrated. I swap nutmeg for cinnamon in half the recipes that call for cinnamon (it makes all the difference in oatmeal cookies). Besides, cinnamon doesn't have any hallucinogenic properties, but nutmeg...

[evadne_noel]

Sadly, all nutmeg reminds me of is the state nickname for Connecticut, where I was born. We got called the "Nutmeg State" because passed off wooden nutmegs as real. Oh, yeah. I'm from the Forgery State.

[da_pimpmasta]

I... Your icon... It... I...

No words... Should have brought... A poet

[frenchroast]

Excellent referencing of Contact there.

[capri_chan]

That is the best Christmas icon ever.

[frenchroast]

*nod* I just wish I remembered who made it.