I just realized....

[kyrielle]

...that I have less than one week until the radio station I usually listen to for music (and traffic) starts the all-Christmas-music all-the-time round.

The first time they play that stupid Christmas Shoes song, I think I may just turn them off for the whole season. I like Christmas music, but I have never liked that one and I do not want to hear it now even more than then. It's stupid, it's sentimental, and it's stupidly sentimental in ways that hurt.

Maybe they'll be tired of it by now. Because it is stupid. But they weren't yet tired of it last year, so I doubt I'm so lucky.

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[kyrielle]

...it's stupid. The kid's mother is dying, the kid is young enough to have hardly any money and to win money off strangers by looking pitiful, and he's out shopping alone? What the (expletive deleted) was his family thinking to let a young child go shopping alone at such a time?

And since when is the message of Christmas that a pair of shoes matters more than a DYING PARENT? Walk away from your family and go shopping, buying things, helping others buy things, THAT is the spirit of Christmas. Not family, not togetherness, not any sort of religion...crass consumerism. And it's so important a boy should wander alone and depend on strangers so his mama can have PRETTY SHOES...but not her son by her side. (and if he wasn't by her side, which might be uncomfortable, then surely he should be with family or a trusted family friend, not out wandering?) Also, since when does Jesus care what shoes someone's wearing? Not that kids don't have warped notions of God sometimes, but why on earth are they being reinforced by the adults?? O.o

Uh. Frankly, I think the parents in this song should be charged with child neglect, and the kid is (as many kids are) fairly clueless, consumeristic (love our society) and weak of heart.

It's STUPID. It's just STUPID.

[spirit-dragon.livejournal.com]

*hearty applause* AMEN to that! That is what I went off about last year...like "shoes? If I'm dying, I want shoes? Cause we all know that if I go up to the pearly gates in crappy slippers, I am SO not getting in."

My personal fave holiday song is the hawaiian one (not going to attempt to spell it) that is in the Griswold's Christmas movie. Nothing like something THAT cheesy to get me in the mood. Well, that and Yukon Cornelius!

[kyrielle]

Mele Kalikimaka! I love that song. It's one of my favorites, although I think my very favorite is "Christmsa in the Northwest".

And I really like Snoopy's Christmas, but it's not really a contender for favorite.