Christmas Playlist Day Six

by on December 24, 2013 at 8:07 am
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To finish off this year’s Christmas playlist we have “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” sung by Thurl Ravenscroft.

If I do a countdown of Christmas specials I would put this one close to the top. As I’m a huge fan of Dr. Seuss, Chuck Jones and of course Boris Karloff. I even like the movie version of it make no mistake I agree with all the bad stuff said about it but it’s a nice bit of world building and creates a good “Real” version of Mr. Geisel’s world.

Anyway… Merry Christmas and enjoy.

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Hoopoe

by on December 23, 2013 at 12:02 pm
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HoopoeThe color version of the Tyrant of Nephelokokkygia, the Hoopoe.

Putting him here is a direct to Aristophanes play where he is the King of the Birds because in Greek Mythology King Tereus of Thrace had been turned into one.

As a fan of the Birds I’d played around with designing him many times but generally went more anthropomorphic making it more of a man wearing a bird costume rather than an actual talking bird.

 

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Christmas Playlist Day Five

by on December 23, 2013 at 9:39 am
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For today’s contribution of Christmas cynicism and mockery we move on to Stephen Colbert‘s “A Colbert Christmas: A Colbert Christmas”. It’s a fun show that directly spoof numerous annual celebrity specials with the usual cameos that are all fun (I especially like the Feist as an angel who leaves a recorded response to God’s prayers) But the best part is Stephen and Willie Nelson as the “Fourth Wise Man” spoofing the Bing Crosby/David Bowie “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Peace on Earth” Duet with “Little Dealer Boy” I am absolutely amazed how they both kept a  straight face while doing this.

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Christmas Playlist Day Four

by on December 22, 2013 at 9:08 am
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Being part of the first generation who grew up on Sesame Street from it’s beginning I am very fond of it’s Christmas special “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street” Watching it today it comes off as a bit schmaltzy but still fun. But then no countdown of Christmas cynicism would be complete without Oscar the Grouch.

Enjoy

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Christmas Playlist Day 2

by on December 20, 2013 at 10:59 am
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I’m not the biggest fan of Family Guy. Most of the time I think it consists of the adventures of a sociopathic man-child being enabled by his slightly smarter friends and family… But the music’s generally good. Seth Macfarline seems to share my liking for old Broadway soundtracks and displays it as much as he can get away with.

The “Road to episodes” are especially fun each with a pretty good songs. So for today’s darkly cynical, satirical Christmas Song is “Christmastime is Killing us” from “The Road to the North Pole” episode

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