In. De. F-ing. SCRIBABLE.
December 8, 2006
I was sitting in one of the cafés in our nearby shopping town this morning, listening to the (sigh: inevitable, this is Ireland) Christmas music playing in the background. What they had playing was actually fairly pleasant, for a change — a compilation CD — and I started thinking idly about blogging a list of my ten favorite pieces of Christmas music.
Having finished the errands I’d gone out for, I came home and fired up the machine and prepared to get back to work on the screenplay I’m finishing at the moment. And while hunting down a couple of things on the Web, I found…this.
It’s a rendition of “O Holy Night” that bears the same relationship to the general performance- level of recorded Christmas carols that the inimitable and invaluable The Eye of Argon bears to the general class of published heroic fantasy.
Oh me. Oh me. Do NOT have liquids anywhere near your mouth while listening to this.
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December 8th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Ugh. Cleanse your palate with this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJP8bkVWEtQ
December 9th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Well…
Wifey cannot see any problem with the first one, saying it compares very well with some of the music I subject her to . So she just doesn’t like Satriani or Vai, mkay?
As to the second, it appears to have been taken down for copyright reasons or similar, so my palate remains uncleansed.
I’ll proffer this as an alternative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dna0oWu_EU
HTH HAND
December 11th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
It brought tears to my eyes, and not in a good way.
December 13th, 2006 at 1:28 am
Oh lord. That man was drunk when he recorded that, right? He had to be. Or it’s a joke. Please?
February 1st, 2007 at 7:36 am
[…] To welcome in the second week of December, as Christmas Day approaches closer, I introduce you to an anonymous singer’s rendition of “O Holy Night” (courtesy of The Sneeze, courtesy of Out of Ambit). As The Sneeze’s blogger writes, “What I love about it is just when you think it couldn’t possibly get any worse, it does. By a lot. And it does this more than once.” […]