It’s beginning to feel a bit like Christmas
It wasn’t, certainly - partly because I’m not used to this tiny lead-up to the event. In the UK we complain about … well, about everything, because it’s such jolly fun, but ALSO about the fact that shops start decorating for Christmas in about September. But here, there’s this domino rally of holidays, and all October the shops and the television and everyone are all focussed on Halloween, and in November it’s all Thanksgiving, and then suddenly, just after Thanksgiving, RIGHT at the beginning of December, THEN all the Christmas decorations arrive.
So I’ve barely had any time to warm up at all. Luckily, I have a few shortcuts to Christmassiness. Tinsel: Have. Mince Pies: Now have. Mulled Wine: You bet your ass.
And the one sure way of doing that, for me, since my friend Peet introduced me to it a good few years ago (or a few. or ‘three’), is to listen several times a day to this version of a Christmas classic from Bahamian outsider artist Joseph Spence. I have the MP3 if any of you need to take it to a party - you should email. Or buy it, obv - but in the meantime, here is a video version of the mumbling king.
SANDY CRAW IS COMMINNNNN …. HURUMNMNMNMNMNMNNNNNNNNN….
Is it just me, or have shops in the UK stopped selling tinsel? Can’t find it anywhere…
Comment by Richard Gillin — 19 December, 2008 1:39 am
Right that’s it, sod Buckley and whatsherface, Sandy Craw is Comin nnnhmmhnnn For Christmas Number One! I think people will be able to sing it better when they’ve had too much mulled wine, I may have to conduct an experiment to prove this
Comment by Tea & Biscuits — 19 December, 2008 3:09 am
Honest and for true? SF shops didn’t set out the twinkle lights and the mamboing animatronic Sandy Craws until after Thanksgiving? I gots to move back there because out here there were resin angels simpering at the skeletons across the aisle from at least mid-October. I will add that at once to my ‘reasons I must leave the desert’ list, right after ‘I hates the desert.’
Comment by Megan — 19 December, 2008 7:29 am
Tinsel? Can’t move for the stuff in Dunfermline. Any colour you like. I like gold.
That song is…odd. Think I’ll have to play it again.
Comment by Mr Farty — 19 December, 2008 3:45 pm
Year after year. And still teh LOLlolz.
Comment by Cliff — 20 December, 2008 5:00 am
This never gets old… but it’s a contender for a classic.
Comment by asta — 21 December, 2008 5:32 pm