Archive for December, 2009
Happy Christmas!
My Christmas gift to you all: Florence and the Machine and Billy Bragg – Fairytale Of New York live.
The UK Christmas #1 (not)
Maybe you’ve read about the campaign to stop X-Factor’s Joe McElderry from being the UK’s Christmas number 1, replacing it with Rage Against The Machine’s very angry anti-US racism expletive-laden “Killing in the Name. Maybe you’ve not?
Anywhoo, I’ve been hearing this a lot on Radio 1 over the last couple of weeks and I reckon this is the hands down winner for Christmas #1, except from what I understand it’s not even for sale. I present the excellent Mumford and Sons “Winter Winds”.
For comparison, here’s the X-Factor-manufactured pop contender:
and Rage’s social commentary (with profanity, beware!):
When It Rains It Pours
I didn’t quite get home in time to catch the real rain, but you can see by the flow down the hill that we got a bunch of it (1.25″ at Lindbergh Field).
Rain from Paul Sanders on Vimeo.