It's the most wonderful time of the year(?)

[johnnygoodtimes]

--I just do not feel like Christmas. Even putting up the tree, decorating the house, wrapping the few presents I've bought so far -- I'm not feeling it. And I love Christmas. People at work have been warning me for months about how "this place ruins Christmas" because we start setting up the holiday merchandise and artificial trees at the beginning

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[opaleye_dragon]

I'm feeling Christmas right now, mostly because I get to stare at pretty lights and window displays with music playing while waiting for the bus after work every evening. And, there's a giant northpole mailbox, which makes me happy. However, I expect not to feel Christmas on Christmas because several of my cousins won't be at our usual family gathering. More importantly, this will be the first time in a long time my mother, brother and I won't all be in the same place Christmas morning.

I hope you receive your jesus rays!

[topsyturvytown]

lol that song sounds amaaaaazing i need to get it! the boy george/pet shop boys one, that is!

PRICK UP YOUR EARS I LOVE THIS MOVIE 4 REAL. i actually love this movie SO MUCH that i bought the joe orton biography of the same name upon which the movie was based (also recommended, if a tad redundant.) funfax: i'm like 99% sure i read somewhere that this song was at least in part inspired by adam ant reading that biography of joe orton! ~fandoms collide~

as for joe orton, i got one of his works, head to toe, and found it totally indecipherable. to be fair, it's a novel, and as far as i can tell he's more of a playwright than a novelist. there are moments that shine but the pace is so slow and it's SO LONG even though it's a short novel. so avoid that, i guess! i have heard good things about entertaining mr. sloane.

[johnnygoodtimes]

lol idk why I love it but I do. It's a cover of a Dusty Springfield song, which is part of the reason it rules. (ETA: Or maybe it was by Brenda Lee, I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure they used one in the movie by Dusty S., but whatever. I guess there are lots of versions.)

I want to read Orton's play Loot, since that's the one I guess he was winning awards for at the end of the movie/um, his life. I have no ideas what his plays were like from the movie, so I'm curious to find out. I suppose I'm expecting something like Oscar Wilde witticism but I could be completely off.