CHRISTMAS CHEER!!!!

Current mood:PRAISE THE LORD!!!!
Category: Music

So....

I have the in-laws staying here at Fort Giovanna

Yes boss, IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!

And as we were about to sit down for the catholic press xmas fish supper, I decided it was time we ramped up the FULL ON XMAS ACTION!!!!!


'How about some Christmas music???' I said cheerfully...

'YES!!' Mrs Giovanni said


Now, Mrs Giovanni loves Christmas, so I thought I was doing the right thing..

But, it was only as I was browsing my records I remembered I'd cleared out all my xmas records at some point during the last year.

Yes boss, this year (or maybe even 2007) I decided I was no longer going to make an Xmas novelty Number 1 - at least not one that directly related to Xmas: sleigh bells jingling HO HO HO!!!.


It was therefore a long browse before I found something I figured appropriate...

Chirstmas Music From Guildford Cathedral (Guildford Cathedral Choir Pro Arte Orchestra (Conductor: Barry Rose) (John Barrow (Baritone))

YES!!!

CHRISTMAS HYMN SINGING!!!!

PERFETTO!!!


So, I put the record on, and we sat down for salmon in thyme and lemon and salad and sweet potatoes..

And the solemn and serious hymn singing from some gloomy new old cathedral drifted in and slowly sat on things...

Now, I don't know if it was catholic guilt over missed church attendance, or the general gloomy deep character of the music, but the music didn't seem to be working at all well...


'What is this???' Mrs Giovanni eventaully asked in her 'couldn't keep quiet if she were a jew hiding in a cupboard and the nazis were searching the flat' kind of way.

'It's Christmas music...' I said

'It's awful' Mrs Giovanni replied

'BUT THIS IS WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT!!!'

'I WANT JINGLE BELLS!!!' Mrs Giovanni said 'WHY DON'T YOU PLAY JINGLE BELLS!!!'

'I DON'T HAVE JINGLE BELLS!!!'


There was whispering, and 'Can you change it??' and 'It's too loud - you'll wake the baby...' and, I quickly realised I was enjoying this unexpected bit of passive aggressive musical oppression VERY MUCH INDEED!!!

Yes boss, the longer it went on, the more tense and awkward things got, and though I adore them all, I was loving the fact I'd achieved completely opposite goals to those I'd intended!!!


Of course after a while, the music itself began to tax my patients as well, but the sheer cheeky joy of the gloomy xmas not happy clappy religious BUY BUY BUY IN OUR STORES TODAY music meant the disc ran until it finished...


HO HO HO!!!

ROCK 'N ROLL!!!

STICK IT TO THE MAN!!!

and all that...

Currently listening: Roaring the Gospel By James Yorkston Release date: 2007-06-25