Posted by Amanda Marcotte December 25, 2007 in Music, Video
For your thoroughly secularized holiday, a song by Gogol Bordello:
And thank you to the reader who sent me this picture of her disco ball-bedecked Christmas tree!
If you have money this year for charity, I recommend Katha Pollitt’s charity list for ideas.
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Gogol Bordello rocks! If you like them, check out Nervous Cabaret, too.
And a happy non-ecumenical gift giving day to all.
I want that tree.
Thanks so much for turning me onto this Gogol Bordello! Holy shit they rock!
The lead is like Frank Zappa’s secret Ukranian bastard child. Yes! I think I’ll have to buy a CD and for me to say that means a lot.
Or, as the posters at Slacktivist would say: Happy GNHFPPSAD (Great Northern Hemisphere Feast and Potlatch for the Prevention of Seasonal Affective Disorder)!
Merry merriness to all of you.
Happy Yule or Happy Atheosmas.
Here is a claim for the first xmas tree.
http://www.firstchristmastree.com/
Also on youtube you should look up the History Channel’s “Christmas Unwrapped” and a similar program, “The origin of Christmas”, surprisingly made by jesus freaks but well worth watching.
Kate - Start with the “Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike” album. You’ll be singing “Start Wearing Purple” at the top of your lungs at inopportune moments in no time.
Ugh. My partner’s family are major TV “news” junkies and when it doesn’t involve two people shouting at each other, it’s all about who is and who is not saying the word “Christmas,” whether it is a bookcase or a cross over Huck’s shoulder, and do you think that’s important or not, and other invented non-stories. I can’t wait until the season is over and I can listen to my newly purchased Gogol Bordello CD on my way back to a bullshit-free sanctuary.
Great song and video.
Long live Gypsy-punk music!
Crap! I leave town for a couple of days and come back to find my Solstice (or the winter holiday of your choice) tree had a starring spot on Pandagon.
Heh, and you’re welcome.
Rob: Tar-zhay would be your friend for the tree, but I’m keeping my tiny disco ball source a secret.
Heh. My mom and I are not the only ones with pink disco trees… As for our stuff, I must point to Borders.