Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 16, 2017

I don’t start playing Christmas music until the tree is up (just bought it, but it’s in the garage, soaking in some water). It helps put off the inevitable. Saves my sanity. ;P

Jingle Cats is/are cuter.

Big brother is listening.

After hearing some of the recent versions of old favorites, including hymns, I can understand their need to run in sub-freezing weather.

Although, to be fair, I heard a ‘reasonably’ well done remake of Eartha Kitt’s Santa Baby. Singer tried for it but only Eartha could do that song and make it work.

I just listen to Christmas Carols by the three tenors and suddenly all is well. Those voices…

I like the Blue Christmas by Seymour Swine.Kazoo solo is funny :~)

I don’t stream, I just listen to Christmas music on YouTube and select my own songs. I’ve heard some Trans Siberian Orchestra and quite a few of Da Yooper’s “Rusty Cheverolet”.

I wonder what it’s like to work in a department store in December. Must be kinda like the Disney World employees in the Small World section. They probably have to rotate them out into rehab every 3-4 hours.

Dude, this time of year my playlist is lots of Bossa Nova and Be Bop and jazz arrangements of Xmas songs. And Elvis’s Xmas Album. And NO Little Drummer Boy. Goddess, I hate that song.

I haven’t heard that song in a dog’s age…

ho ho ho

Try Mannheim Steamroller for Christmas music.

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For a while, there, I wasn’t so sure about the idea of algorithms choosing my music preferences for me, but then I remembered I am obnoxious and don’t take suggestions all that well. After all, I was listening to Jean-Luc Ponty, Ry Cooder and Little Feat when radio-station program directors were trying their level best to sell me on Led Zeppelin. And that was when I was young and supposedly impressionable. Granted, I was also listening to a bunch of the other stuff they were pushing, some of it prescient, some of it embarrassing*. Maybe the down-low here is that I just don’t care for Led Zeppelin.

And so it is with Spotify or Pandora or Amazon or Apple (they should merge and become “Ample”) or whoever’s mainframes believe they can do my thinking for me. Some of the stuff they’ve thrown at me I’ve really liked and may not have discovered otherwise. Plenty of stuff they’ve thrown my way, I’ve ducked like the high hard one. Most of it probably passed by unremembered like so much white noise.

All in all, I’m just happy anybody is trying to sell me on any music. I can always ignore something I don’t like, but it’s hard to dig what you never got a chance to hear.

I just used the word “dig” in that context. So now you know I liked Donovan, too.

*and some of it just plain confusing; like, I don’t think anybody actually liked anything on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack but they didn’t want to seem like they were missing the Next Big Thing, with the salient exception that EVERYBODY likes “Stayin’ Alive” to this day, whether they admit that or not.Frazz by Jef Mallett for Dec 16, 2017 | GoComics.com

Then what evil I do, to be cursed all these years w/ the Little Drummer Boy and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus? Gad!