Green Christmas For Me

The Christmas Season. The time where families get together, drink too much, make fun of each other for our weight problems and inability to maintain meaningful relationships. At least it's only once a year.

It's also the time where you buy gifts for people you care about. This seems extremely commercial and meaningless, but I'm definitely of the school of thought that you shouldn't buy people things that they want. At least in my family, if you want something, you buy it, unless you can't afford it, and if someone in my family can't afford something, I know that I can't either. Instead, I buy people things that emphasize our common interests. So, for example, if I'm going to buy my little brother a CD for Christmas, I don't buy him the Al Green CD he asked for, I got him the Dan Deacon CD that's so crazy and fun I knew he'd love it.

Speaking of CDs and Christmas, I think that Barenaked For The Holidays, the Barenaked Ladies' Christmas CD, could be my all-time favourite Christmas CD. This coming from a guy who usually passionately dislikes Christmas music (starting in November, my mom plays nothing but Christmas 24-7, regardless of if it's good, some of it really can't even be considered music). But this CD has some really good songs, and it really has that cheery fun you want out of a Christmas CD, without being cheesy.

Great endeavors

I'm not in the habit of making habits.
The thought of almost instinctively performing tasks seems much beyond me.
Because this is something so difficult for me it makes the band No Little Kindness's current undertaking all the more impressive to me. They have set out to create a new song every week. I don't know how long they've been at it or how long they will be going for, but after hearing this weeks release I hope the keep it up until I'm struck deaf and possibly even after.