Best Christmas ever…
Brother George arrives fresh from his Arctic expedition 🙂
Let the gaming commence, Mousetrap! 🙂
The Star Wars team cautiously make their way across the lounge, lookin for the Death Star plans I got as a present, while Henry plays his new Skylanders game.
Talking of the Death Star plans 🙂
In my mid-twenties I took time to stop and take stock of what Christmas really meant to me.
Well it certainly wasn’t the Christian Christmas, since I’m not a member of that religion and the whole celebrating Jesus’s birth sort of falls down for me upon releasing that the whole thing was early Christians adopting pagan traditions (this happened all over the shop – Easter is another good one).
And its sure as shit not the bastardised Commercial Christmas with its Coca Cola Santa and its mantra of “Buy at Christmas or the Economy is fucked!“. I mean I like presents as much as the next guy but I hate the whole stress fest that goes around it. Oh and for your conspiracy theory lovers (and skeptics) out there, if you ever want to think about how easy it is to manipulate someone’s reality think about the ritual we go through with small children at Christmas time (thankfully its all fun and magic for them, and they soon see through it as they get older).
No for me its a time to have a break and celebrate that despite all the trials of the year gone by, me and my loved ones (which includes the whole of Reality seen and unseen) are still here (even the ones that have walked through the Doors of Perception) and that Reality is having a short pause for thought, allowing us mortals to stock up on summertime levels of energy through being “Excellent to Each Other and Party On Dudes!” (aka entering a state of pure love) , having a right good old knees up , before the whole Wheel of Time starts turning for another cycle 🙂
So without much more pontification here’s my favourite ‘Christmas’ Song 😀
For me and my brother 🙂
A strange deep calm hit me after the dairy isle. Christmas is going to Rock 🙂
I’m like listening to Slayyyyyer. Very few people know that Raining Blood is the tale of a visit to Santa’s Grotto gone wrong 😀
So me and Henry finally got to see Star Wars VII The Force Awakens at our local Odeon. Truly it was Star Wars day for Henry since as well as the film he watched five episodes of the Clone Wars, as well as the introductory film, and wore his Storm-trooper outfit all day. To say he was a little excited would be an understatement.
Henry quote of the day, as the film suddenly came to an end “OH! I’m going to have to wait two years for the next one!” 🙂
The film was absolutely amazing. I loved it and so did Henry 🙂
So result 😀
Thank goodness he’s not seen any of the Clone Wars , so that will keep him occupied until this afternoon 🙂
Well I’ve officially destressed from the day job. Took four days, which is right given the level of nonsense going on at the moment (short version currently being restructured with a good 30% redundancies).
Now getting the family Christmas sorted, as well as chilling out to a bunch of Chinese Hong Kong Action movies after hours (aka Kung Fu Christmas). Oh and me and a very excited Henry are off to see the new Star Wars film this afternoon 🙂
So tell me about this Christmas nonsense 😉
Just found out I’ve been fired from the Deptment of Fun. I’ve been replaced by a bunch of Clowns 😀
Aliens is the classic Christmas Film, not Die Hard as some people have erroneously
Hidden in the subliminal Occult Layer (only properly exposed in the 5:1 surround sound Blu-ray release) of the film, it’s a modern critique of the futility of the Christian Christmas (as symbolically represented by the Marines – each of whom are an analogy of the different sects of that religion) faced with the merciless onslaught of Consumerism (the Aliens) and need to return to ancient pre-flood Midwinter celebrations (where it was Pyramids not Trees that were erected OUTSIDE the house for obvious reasons) via the vector of BIG FUCKING GUNS! 😛