Year-round Yuletide oddities
Wavy Noah and Uspa G try to impress Mr. McCarthy with their “Newtonmas” carol, which is solid rap with ‘Rudolph’ for a (near) backbeat. Personable and enlightening, for street nerds.
A ’12 Days’ routine from Jessica Picanzo and Sarah Butler allows for all the advanced info. “12 Days of Newtonmas” is chill, for girl physicists.
A.cute.Ang.le (is the name actually Ang Le?) delivers a fairly talented parody of ‘White’ with “White Newton(mas).” Academics can be fun(damental).
Continuing to keep extra credit alive, AP kids like Marly Dure do their singing best with “Newtonmas” carols. Mostly they crack themselves up.
The kids of 117B have an earnest ‘God Rest Ye’ parody for “Newtonmas Caroling.” Clever by c.
Parodies pale on the topic of simultaneity of yule and yer own beeday.
The Radio Ate My TV has “We Wish You a Merry Christmas Happy Birthday Mashup” with The Muppets, Jackie Vernon’s Frosty the Snowman, John Denver, and more all stitched together to chilling effect.
And here’s a near miss, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas And A Happy Birthday (For Kelly And Paul)” by Kendra Masonchuck. Yeah it’s for twins, tweaking ‘Wish You’ only slightly. It’s Steamroller symphonic big, though, so that’s fun.
Momentary reprieve from the judicial juggernaut arrives just in time for Xmas. Mind your Ps and Qs, however, ‘cuz more ‘n Santy is watching.
Crazy Al Cayne talks and raps a ‘JBells’ parody with “Out on Bail.” It’s almost too good to be true for a drug runner.
Plead temporary merriment! Wanting to kill someone shouldn’t be so bad for that time of the year. But, after all, Santa is watching….
“Frosty is the Devil” and announces how bad he wants you dead, according to the metal of Santa’s Angry Elves.
The Hatchet Family want to BLUE ALERT “Kill Santa Man.” Rap premeditation. Unnastand?
Princess Rizu cosplays videogame antics with the parody “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder.” The quickest way to a man’s heart is through the chest wall with a sharp knife.
I’ve dipped into Xmas drug snuff plenty before. But there’s always room for one more narcotics-related seasonal song.
A ‘Little Drummer Boy’ harmony parody (a la Bing/Bowie) funs up the crack problem. “Little Robbie Boy” by Spiffster is impressive in its awfulness.
Street troubadour Billy Basturd caroldy-es his “Drug Cartel Christmas” to ‘Jingle Bells,’ yet he’s riffing at warp speed. So i enjoyed parts of it.
Unlike local area networking (LAN) the wireless networking technologies of Wi-Fi have been trademarked. So now i have to capitalize that forever….
A couple years ago it seemed hilarious for little kids to parody the ‘Where are You Christmas?’ from ‘The Grinch’ with “Where are You Wi-Fi?” Most of these fame-grabs are pretty horrible. Here’s Aaron rehearsing his skit before the school assembly.
Criag Newmark’s San Francisco want ads website went nuts before the millennium and Craigslist gave Ebay a run for their junk.
“Do You See What I See (On Craigslist)?” is writen and performed by Carrie Stoller, but it’s out of her range. Still, fun, and a strange inner look at her searches (eccentric much?).
That last post reminded me about some carol parodies about our ‘War on Christmas’…
Finger pointing and ‘All I Want’ reworkings make me uncomfortable, so let’s flip through MistleThumb (Dong Crosby, Ebenezer Spooge, Manheim Cornholer, and Douglas Firburger, feat. Doodie Garland)’s “There a War on Christmas… with Jews.” It’s funny, right? Am i looking at this wrong? (BLUE ALERT)
More awful, Joe Hart clatters out “Happy Holidays” to ‘Jingle Bells.’ The list of alternatives is nice, but the syncopation is headache inducing.
More imaginative, Steve Goodie plays with Lennon’s ‘Merry Christmas (War is Over) in his “War on Xmas is Over.” A bit strident, but pretty.
More amusing, Talking Primate’s voice breaks on “Moron’s War on Christmas,” a ‘Holly Jolly’ take off that sticks the landing.
Welcome to the Millennium. In 2006 Bobby Henderson wrote a book satirizing religion (and perhaps science) as being a bunch of post hoc ergo propter hoc. In The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster our new theory that a pasta based entity created all allows that disproving is harder than proving (see ‘Russell’s teapot‘). This oddness became the new freak flag for hipsters to wave, since they liked the beer-drinking, pirate-talking, colander-wearing nonsense it promoted. Have you been touched by His noodly appendage?
Patrick Rebun and friends (The Oufs) gives us our best introduction “Flying Spaghetti Monster” with appropriate grunge.
This belief-system is wide ranging (shoutouts on South Park, Futurama, and a CNN segment), so it has many holidays–not just a 12/25 translation. (Which would be “Noodlemas.”)
But gospel inventions include “Amazing Taste” by the Pastafarian Gospel Choir invading the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers. Can i get a Ramen! [Herein is the reason for the religion: to insert itself among the established rites that waste the time of our culture–heck, i ‘member doing that with other younguns who touted Oy Danky Goo as belief in everything and nothing.] Also comes the so-called Spaghetti Monster hisself with a “Pastafarianism Hymn.” Devotion of the ocean!
Time for the ‘caroldies’: “O Noodly Night” from Dogeyed Welders is pretty and charitable. Funny.
Barlow has a labor of love: “Carol of the Bells (FSM version).” These adherents go all out for their anti-identity.
[Ed. note: the Invisible Pink Unicorn competes for this demographic, but currently has no cool holiday carols.]