2 - i'll be home for christmas because my preemie twins were born in november and we were wishing that they would be home for christmas, but that year it was only in our dreams.
either planes trains and automobiles or love, actually
song? i work retail. i hate all christmas music. lol we play like 5 Putumayo World Music christmas cds on repeat. lol maybe i'll say the beatles one or the britney spears one i heard in h&m last night that i was like "oh, this almost sounds like britneys autotune is a bit off" and the girl behind the counter looked at the cd and said "oh, it is britney."
1. DIE HARD!!!! Can't believe no one has picked this already. You don't have enough guys on your talkback, Enty.
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. I love almost every version ever done by every artist. It's always fun to see if they can hit the high note on "hang it from the highest bough".
1. "A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott as Scrooge, and...a kind of non-typical one, but I love "The Family Man" with Nick Cage & Tea Leoni. 2. "Last Christmas" by Wham
Movie: 'Surviving Christmas' with the website's mascot has been the movie we pop into the DVD player in late December.No I didn't actually spend money on it-I accquired it. All the rest are on TV on one time or another anyway. I know it got bad reviews but it makes our family feel so normal after watching it. Music: 'The 12 days of Christmas' by Bob and Doug Mackenzie. Buy the whole CD if you find it good luck and follow it up with a viewing of 'Strange Brew'.
1. White Christmas. 2. All I want for Xmas is you - the version by Vince Vance and the Valiants.
However, to tell you of a Xmas tradition in our house -while others are watching It's a Wonderful Life and the Christmas Story, in our house we have the Xmas eve "fighting movie" where we gather to watch a good action film. Started with Gladiator and last years was Taken with Liam Neeson. But tell people you are hurrying home on Xmas Eve to watch the Xmas eve fighting movie and you get quite a few funny looks.
We watch them all but my guilty pleasure is a Christmas Vacation, I think I'm married to Clark..love my husband to pieces, every Christmas he becomes possessed, spends too much money and drags home the "perfect" tree. My favorite Christmas song - any one my granddaughter sings
Fave Movies: A Christmas Story; The Year without a Santa Claus; Christmas in Connecticut (old Barbara Stanwyck/Dennis Morgan flick)
Fave Songs: The Christmas Song (Nat "King" Cole); Merry Christmas, Darling (The Carpenters); Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses); Christmas in America (Melissa Etheridge)
I work in retail, but still not tired of singing along with the piped in tunes!!! (Although I'm getting a little tired of all the different versions of "Last Christmas" we're hearing this year!)
... actually, there's another song that (mercifully) I don't hear played to death anymore that has a lot of meaning to me, because I lived alone and far away from any family for years and only came home at Christmas (if I could afford to come home at all), so I also ran into old friends from school then, too.
It's called Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg. I totally related to that song and it still gets me when I hear it. Transports me.
Song: When I was kid, the choir in the church I attended would sing the song "Peace, Peace" (peace on earth and good will to all, this is the time for hope, this is a time for joy, now let us all sing together of peace, peace, peace on earth...) and at the same time the congregation would sing Silent Night. The two songs together would make me cry every time, and every single time I tell someone about this (even right now) I find myself choked up and tearing up.
Anonymous 11:57-Isn't Holiday great? So few people have heard of it, and I love to watch it on New Year's Eve. Lew Ayres is imcomparable as the brother. The whole cast is great. I think it's better than The Philadelphia Story.
I absolutely LOATHE Christmas (bad Christmases as a kid still haunt me) but my favorite movie is, of course, "A Christmas Story".
As for music...I honestly cannot think of one Christmas song that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the ears repeatedly. Yep, I'm a Grinch to the extreme!
Christmas Movies (I can't choose just one): Christmas Story, Love Actually, White Christmas and All I want for Christmas (with Ethan Randall-now Ethan Embry- and Thora Birch.)
Christmas Songs: Maybe this Christmas by Ron Sexsmith and What Are You Doing New Years' Eve by Rufus Wainwright (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1idhwIW_n4)
lol @ Tenisha: I say the same thing "white christmas, with bing, rosemary, danny and that other chick" Good, but I cannot ever remember her name to save my life.
Oh, and people laughed at me because when I moved to MN and had my first white christmas, I just kept saying "I feel like I am in a movie" It is just so awesome!
A TV Movie from the 70's called The Gathering with Ed Asner
Have yourself a merry little christmas- in the film Meet Me in St Louis - where little Tootie goes down in the snow after Judy sings the song to her and kills all the snow people.
ELF (I can't help it) and a tie between "We Need a Little Christmas" and "It's the Most wonderful Time of the Year." My mom bought a record ("That Christmas Feeling") at JCPenney when I was 3 and I still listen to it.
Movie: Holiday (just discovered it this year, Elf, Home Alone, Scrooged w/ Bill Murray (I love when he gets an uppercut with the toaster), Love Actually
Songs: Merry Christmas (war is over) John Lennon, 3 sentences in and I'm a weeping mess.
George Michael-Last Christmas Eartha Kitt-Santa Baby
Movie - "White Christmas". It ain't Christmas until Vera Ellen and Danny Kaye dance.
Song - I'm a huge sucker for Christmas music. I've got tons of CDs. Kenny & Dolly anyone? My fave song though is any version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Will Downing's is great).
Movie- Christmas Vacation or Scrooged...I have already watched Vacation 4 times this month:)
Song would be Santa on the Rooftop by Trish Yearwood, or Merry Christmas Mary by Paul Overstreet. The first because its one of the only Xmas songs you can dance too, and the 2nd cause it is so pretty.
2. none. sorry, i hate christmas music - it's the same every year, doesn't anyone else get sick of it???
also, does anyone else find the lyrics to "santa claus is coming to town" creepy and mean??
and no i'm not a scrooge. i love to celebrate christmas and always with my family. we eat wonderful food and all have a lovely time together - only just without the retarded christmas music.
and i also forgot - i actually do like that "wamakanepucka" or whatever the song is - when chevy chase is dreaming about his swimming pool. i guess that song is alright.
"It's a Wonderful Life". Fave movie, no matter what the season.
"Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. How can you compete with a classic holiday line like "you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot--happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last"? Always gives me the warm and fuzzies.
Song(s): Carol of the Bells 2000 Miles by The Pretenders The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Loreena McKennitt
This all made me think of one other thing that was always a favorite of mine: the commercial for Norelco shavers with Santa riding it like it was a sleigh. When that came on TV, I knew it was Christmas time.
Movie: Old School is a tie between We're No Angels (Bogart, Ustinov and Aldo Ray -- amazing!) and The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant, David Niven) NOT to be confused with that garbage that Whitney Houston put out - blech
Newer Movie - Love Actually cannot be topped.
Song: Carol for Another Christmas -- Henry Mancini and Sting's Gabriel's Message is haunts me throughout the year, not just at Christmas.
Song- Too many to choose! O Holy Night sung by Mariah Carey or The Christmas Song sung by Frank Sinatra. And of course, White Christmas for sentimental reasons.
Any of the classics, including TV shows like Charlie Brown and the original Grinch.
Any of the classics, from the Nutcracker music to "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and "Your a Mean One Mr. Grinch". (I love the line "You've Got Garlic in Your Soul".)
1) Holiday Inn (Here she comes, Miss Hit and Run) 2) Joy to the World. I also like the U2 and Boss Christmas versions of songs (Merry Christmas, Baby, Baby Please Come Home)
Another great Christmas tune is "Christmas Time is Here," as heard in the excellent "Charlie Brown's Christmas. Both always make me sentimental and weepy, in a good way.
So since that is taken .. "The Lion in Winter" .. O'Toole, Hepburn, Hopkins and Dalton .. freakin' amazing dialogue .. it's not traditional holiday fare .. but it is amazing none the less.
And Favorite song .. "Do You Hear What I Hear" .. by Bing Crosby .. which I was just SHOCKED to learn was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis and was recorded by Bing the day JFK was assassinated in Dallas ... : /
I deleted my post about the best Christmas song for folks not into Christmas songs .. I had posted Hollywood Undead's "Christmas in Hollywood" .. but I fear what you guy would think of me!! LOL!! Many bad words and often questionable materials sung about in there! But .. it is on You Tube if you would like to subject yourself to questionable holiday material!
But then I thought about Jon La Joie's "Cold Blooded Christmas" .. still questionable and some bad language but funny as hell. When I saw it for the first time last year I damn near wet my pants laughing!
Merry Christmas Christmas and Christmas Song Dislikers!! Hope you like one of these!! ; )
Movie - Elf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, or A Christmas Story
Song - so so so many. Santa Baby, Do You Hear What I Hear, You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Brian Setzer version is kick ass), Jingle Bell Rock, but I confess to LOVING Dominick the Donkey!!!!
I forgot to mention, I've never seen Miracle on 34th Street or It's a Wonderful Life. What can I say, my mom was not a movie watcher when I was growing up?
I have red hair and my kids call me heat mieser when I get up in the morning!
film, dont do christmas films but I do love putting the kids to bed and watching the depression that is Eastenders on christmas day. Second favourite part of christmas after opening pesents at 4 am.
song, fairy tale of new york. Cant belive its 9 years since her death. Cant belive its 7 since Strummers death either, that was a shite christmas anyway but news of his death just compleatly ruined it for me.
Who mentioned Emmitt Otter's Jug Band Christmas? Wow, that brings back memories! My brother and I used to watch that every December for YEARS. I haven't seen it in god knows how many years. Off to YouTube!
Whoops, forgot some more favorite songs: The Kinks' "Father Christmas", "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", as sung by Bruce; and the Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping".
1. Movie, with kids watching: Emmet Otter OR Any of the Fraggle Rock "Christmas" episodes. Heck, anything pre-death Jim Henson will do.
2. Movie, without kids: Die Hard 1. It has action, has the slightest hint of "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" nudity & is also Christmas-themed.
3. Songs: Christmas Disco music (especially "What I Want For Christmas" from Christmas Disco Party - Close your eyes & the cheesy 1970's variety hour sets practically make themselves).
Simple is good. Have a great weekend Enty!
ReplyDeleteMovie - Love Actually
Song - All I Want for Christmas is You
Hands-down: A Christmas Story for favorite movie.
ReplyDeleteFavorite Christmas song: O Holy Night (yeah I'm an ex-Catholic schoolgirl, I'll always love that song!)
1. A Christmas Story, It's A Wonderful Life, Holiday (Grant/Hepburn)
ReplyDelete2. The Christmas Song
I like it all, I simply cannot pick one.
ReplyDelete1. A Christmas Story
ReplyDelete2. 12 Days of Christmas when singing to myself. Silent Night at church.
1. Holiday Inn
ReplyDelete2. Baby It's Cold Outside, Dean Martin
movie - Jim Carrey Grinch
ReplyDeletesong - Backdoor Santa by BB King
1- the year without a santa claus
ReplyDelete2 - i'll be home for christmas because my preemie twins were born in november and we were wishing that they would be home for christmas, but that year it was only in our dreams.
Movie - toss up between Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, and Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
1. Home for the Holidays
ReplyDelete2. Christmas in New York, The Pogues
Movie-A Christmas Story and It's a Wonderful Life
ReplyDeleteSong-Oh Holy Night, Joy to the World
1. Elf for fun, and It's a Wonderful Life for gratefulness
ReplyDelete2. Carol of the Bells
What's yours, Enty????
Film: Tied between A Christmas Carol w/George C. Scott as Scrooge and A Muppet Christmas Carol w/Michael Caine as Scrooge.
ReplyDeleteSong: Torme's Christmas Song and Carol of the Bells
Movie: The Grinch
ReplyDeleteSong: Once in Royal David's City
1. A Christmas Story - never gets old..."you'll shoot your eye out"
ReplyDelete2. I Pray On Christmas - Harry Connick Jr.
1. The Polar Express (have kids)
ReplyDelete2. Christmas Wrapping (by the Waitresses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jy4X87fDk4
not actually video, but I like it
either planes trains and automobiles or love, actually
ReplyDeletesong? i work retail. i hate all christmas music. lol we play like 5 Putumayo World Music christmas cds on repeat. lol
maybe i'll say the beatles one or the britney spears one i heard in h&m last night that i was like "oh, this almost sounds like britneys autotune is a bit off" and the girl behind the counter looked at the cd and said "oh, it is britney."
1.CHRISTMAS VACATION
ReplyDelete2.THE CHRISTMAS SONG (CHESTNUTS) and MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING by THE CARPENTERS
Tie: Grinch w/ Jim Carrey & Elf
ReplyDeleteAny Boney M Christmas song
Ya Enty, what's your favs?
1. Nightmare Before Christmas
ReplyDelete2. What's This (from Nightmare Before Christmas)
1. DIE HARD!!!! Can't believe no one has picked this already. You don't have enough guys on your talkback, Enty.
ReplyDelete2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. I love almost every version ever done by every artist. It's always fun to see if they can hit the high note on "hang it from the highest bough".
1. "A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott as Scrooge, and...a kind of non-typical one, but I love "The Family Man" with Nick Cage & Tea Leoni.
ReplyDelete2. "Last Christmas" by Wham
haha Julie..I know what you mean..I used to work retail and by day 2 of Christmas music, I was so over it
ReplyDeleteMovie:
ReplyDelete'Surviving Christmas' with the website's mascot has been the movie we pop into the DVD
player in late December.No I didn't actually spend money on it-I accquired it.
All the rest are on TV on one time or another anyway.
I know it got bad reviews but it makes our family feel so normal after watching it.
Music:
'The 12 days of Christmas' by Bob and Doug Mackenzie. Buy the whole CD if you find it good luck and follow it up with a viewing of 'Strange Brew'.
1. It's a Wonderful Life or Muppet Christmas Carol
ReplyDelete2. White Christmas- Bing
movie - A Christmas Story
ReplyDeletesong - Bowie/Crosby Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
Movie: Toss-up between Christmas Vacation and Home Alone.
ReplyDeleteSong: Santa Claus is Comin' To Town - The Boss
1. Christmas Story AND Bad Santa.. I am a Gemini.. I get two!
ReplyDelete2. Santa Baby - Ertha Kitt!
A Christmas Story. (and I do keep TBS on all day on Christmas - ha!)
ReplyDeleteHave a Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives
The Nightmare Before Christmas or Christmas in Connecticut
ReplyDeleteSanta Baby or Carol of the Bells
1. Holiday Inn (Bing Crosby/fred Astaire)
ReplyDelete2. Holy night
1. White Christmas.
ReplyDelete2. All I want for Xmas is you - the version by Vince Vance and the Valiants.
However, to tell you of a Xmas tradition in our house -while others are watching It's a Wonderful Life and the Christmas Story, in our house we have the Xmas eve "fighting movie" where we gather to watch a good action film. Started with Gladiator and last years was Taken with Liam Neeson. But tell people you are hurrying home on Xmas Eve to watch the Xmas eve fighting movie and you get quite a few funny looks.
movie - love actually and elf
ReplyDeletesong - baby its cold outside
Bad Santa
ReplyDeleteWe Three Kings
The original Miracle on 34th Street
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas Wish and Holly Jolly Christmas
Enty????
lol w/ looserdude. Die hard is an awesome choice.
ReplyDeleteMovie: Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
ReplyDeleteSong: Merry Christmas Darling, The Carpenters
Miss - It's got to be Bad(der)Santa! the unrated version, hysterical
ReplyDeleteMovie - Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong - Last Christmas by Wham
1. Christmas Vacation
ReplyDelete2. The Christmas Song- Nat King Cole
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
ReplyDelete"All I Want for Christmas is You" - Mariah Carey
Movie: Elf, Home Alone, or Christmas Vacation
ReplyDeleteSong: Let it Snow (which is strange because I despise snow, I guess I dig the idea of staying in, drinking, and snuggling by a fire!!)
We watch them all but my guilty pleasure is a Christmas Vacation, I think I'm married to Clark..love my husband to pieces, every Christmas he becomes possessed, spends too much money and drags home the "perfect" tree.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas song - any one my granddaughter sings
Bing is my favorite actor and singer of all time, so anything of his.
ReplyDeleteActually I love it all...grinch, christmas story, miracle, home alone, oh I could go on for days.
And the music...oh the music! I love it all too.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Sound of Music, Carol of the Bells
ReplyDeleteMovie: Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong: too hard to choose... although I really love Carol of the Bells
Movie- Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong- Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid.
Let the tomato throwing begin!
Movie - A Christmas Story
ReplyDeleteSong - Jingle Bell Rock
And I do have to say the Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without having seen "A Christmas Story" at least once. I also have TBS on all Christmas day!!
Impossible for me to pick just one...
ReplyDeleteFave Movies: A Christmas Story; The Year without a Santa Claus; Christmas in Connecticut (old Barbara Stanwyck/Dennis Morgan flick)
Fave Songs: The Christmas Song (Nat "King" Cole); Merry Christmas, Darling (The Carpenters); Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses); Christmas in America (Melissa Etheridge)
I work in retail, but still not tired of singing along with the piped in tunes!!! (Although I'm getting a little tired of all the different versions of "Last Christmas" we're hearing this year!)
Christmas Vacation
ReplyDeleteOh Holy Night
Tie between Santa Clause is coming to Town and Christmas Story. Favorite Christmas Song would have to be Here We Come a Wassailing.
ReplyDeleteScrooged with Bill Murray. The end always makes me cry. I watch it every Christmas Eve with a glass of wine.
ReplyDeleteStop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie. It reminds me of my dad being at sea and coming home for christmas.
LOVE IheartJackSparrow's choices - Nightmare before Xmas and "What's This?" from the same movie. So to be different I'll say:
ReplyDelete1. Bad Santa/Elf
2. Feliz Navidad (puts me in the BEST cheery mood, for some reason)
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ReplyDelete... actually, there's another song that (mercifully) I don't hear played to death anymore that has a lot of meaning to me, because I lived alone and far away from any family for years and only came home at Christmas (if I could afford to come home at all), so I also ran into old friends from school then, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's called Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg. I totally related to that song and it still gets me when I hear it. Transports me.
pogues christmas in ny is the greatest...w/ christie maccarol?
ReplyDeletealso bing's melikliki maka!!!
ReplyDeletei know, i just butchered that
1. Elf, Nightmare Before Christmas
ReplyDelete2. Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney (don't hate, appreciate!)
More from me,
ReplyDelete1. The Sesame Street Christmas Special from the 70's
And more for 2, Yes, I love "Meli Kelikimaka", and "Santa Baby", the Eartha Kitt version. Oh, and "Feliz Navidad" by Jose Feliciano.
Movie: A Christmas Story/Charlie Brown Christmas
ReplyDeleteSong: Washington Square-Chris Isaak, Christmas Wrapping-Waitresses
Movie: Christmas Story
ReplyDeleteSong: When I was kid, the choir in the church I attended would sing the song "Peace, Peace" (peace on earth and good will to all, this is the time for hope, this is a time for joy, now let us all sing together of peace, peace, peace on earth...) and at the same time the congregation would sing Silent Night. The two songs together would make me cry every time, and every single time I tell someone about this (even right now) I find myself choked up and tearing up.
Anonymous 11:57-Isn't Holiday great? So few people have heard of it, and I love to watch it on New Year's Eve. Lew Ayres is imcomparable as the brother. The whole cast is great. I think it's better than The Philadelphia Story.
ReplyDelete1. The Year Without a Santa Claus
ReplyDeleteGo Heatmiser.
2. Merry Christmas(War Is Over), John Lennon
Movie: "Christmas in Connecticut"
ReplyDeleteSong: "We Three Kings"
@ rocket queen - I want to sing feliz navidad right now! It is a fun one.
ReplyDelete@ chihuahuense anything bing is great! I watched all his movies ( I LOVE the ones with Bob Hope ) when I was a kid
@ captivagrl - I retract Bad Santa and go with your Bad(der) Santa! Much better!
1. Sound of Music
ReplyDelete2. Last Christmas- Wham or O Holy Night- Charlotte Church version
What are yours, Enty??
Christmas movie: A Christmas Story (I'll never get tired of Ralphie)
ReplyDeleteChristmas song: O Holy Night (sentimental reasons) and Santa Baby (dirty girl reasons)
I'm old....
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas NBC showed The Hallmark Hall of Fame:
Amahl and the Night Visitors...
I miss it so.
and I'll watch ANY Christmas movie.
song...Hark the Herald Angels Sing
White Christmas w/Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Danny Kaye
ReplyDeleteand the song "White Christmas"
I live in so cal and dream of a white Christmas every year! :)
1. Elf, Bad Santa, The Santa Clause
ReplyDelete2. The First Noel, Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton, Santa Claus is Coming To Town as sung by the Jackson 5
I absolutely LOATHE Christmas (bad Christmases as a kid still haunt me) but my favorite movie is, of course, "A Christmas Story".
ReplyDeleteAs for music...I honestly cannot think of one Christmas song that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the ears repeatedly. Yep, I'm a Grinch to the extreme!
Oooh Vivian, I love that Wham song too!
ReplyDelete1) It's a Wonderful Life
ReplyDelete2) Grown Up Christmas List (Amy Grant's version)
Movie: Charlie Brown Christmas/Rudolph-I know these aren't movies, but it doesn't feel like the holidays without them.
ReplyDeleteI do love A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim and A Christmas Story- my husband bought us a red rider bb gun one year :P
Song: Angels We Have Heard on High and the music from The Nutcracker.
Christmas Movies (I can't choose just one): Christmas Story, Love Actually, White Christmas and All I want for Christmas (with Ethan Randall-now Ethan Embry- and Thora Birch.)
ReplyDeleteChristmas Songs: Maybe this Christmas by Ron Sexsmith and What Are You Doing New Years' Eve by Rufus Wainwright (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1idhwIW_n4)
@ Miss Oh yeah, the "road" movies are very funny.
ReplyDeletelol @ Tenisha: I say the same thing "white christmas, with bing, rosemary, danny and that other chick" Good, but I cannot ever remember her name to save my life.
Oh, and people laughed at me because when I moved to MN and had my first white christmas, I just kept saying "I feel like I am in a movie" It is just so awesome!
A TV Movie from the 70's called The Gathering with Ed Asner
ReplyDeleteHave yourself a merry little christmas- in the film Meet Me in St Louis - where little Tootie goes down in the snow after Judy sings the song to her and kills all the snow people.
movie: none
ReplyDeletesong: none. Oh wait, I like Handel's Messiah (technically Easter music) and Carol of the Bells.
I'm not a Christmas person, I hate how commercialized it has become.
Movie: The Bishop's Wife
ReplyDeleteSong: I'll be Home for Christmas. I also love John Denver and the Muppets singing The Twelve Days of Christmas. ("Piggy Pudding?!)
B - I remember Ahmal and the Night Visitors, too.
i'm not big into movies, but i do really enjoy Eartha's Santa Baby. her purr is sexy!
ReplyDeleteMovie "A Christmas Story"
ReplyDeleteSong: "Carol of the Bells"
I do love me some Heat Miser, too!
1. Christmas Vacation
ReplyDelete2. The Eagles' version of "Bells Will Be Ringing"
I cannot hear the song 12 Days of Christmas without thinking about Eddie Izzard talking about it-
ReplyDeleteFIVE GOLD RINGS (always sang really really loud, all other lyrics mumbled)
"12 monkeys mating, 11 donkeys dancing, 10 pygmies farming, 9 socks a-swimming, 5 gold rings..." on Dressed to Kill
ELF (I can't help it) and a tie between "We Need a Little Christmas" and "It's the Most wonderful Time of the Year." My mom bought a record ("That Christmas Feeling") at JCPenney when I was 3 and I still listen to it.
ReplyDeletewhat? It isn't Christmas without a little Handel. And I believe that the parts referring to the resurrection are saved for only Easter performances
ReplyDeleteGood ones!
ReplyDelete1) Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, with Year Without A Santa Clause running a close second.
2) What Child Is This sung by anyone, and anything sung by the MTC.
1. Absolutely Die Hard
ReplyDelete2. Happy Christmas by John Lennon with Bob & Doug MacKenizes version of 12 Days of Christmas a close second.
Holiday Inn
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas Song, Nat King Cole
A Christmas Story
ReplyDeleteLittle Drummer Boy
Movie: Holiday (just discovered it this year, Elf, Home Alone, Scrooged w/ Bill Murray (I love when he gets an uppercut with the toaster), Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSongs: Merry Christmas (war is over) John Lennon, 3 sentences in and I'm a weeping mess.
George Michael-Last Christmas
Eartha Kitt-Santa Baby
Elf
ReplyDeleteChipmunk Christmas Song! "I still want a hula-hoop" kills me!
Elf
ReplyDeleteChipmunk Christmas Song! "I still want a hula-hoop" kills me!
Nightmare before Christmas
ReplyDeleteFeliz Navidad (Jose, no Celine Dion!!)
1) Three-way tie between: Mixed Nuts (more people need to see this movie!!), Christmas Vacation & Scrooged
ReplyDelete2) Happy Christmas, John Lennon
Movie - "White Christmas". It ain't Christmas until Vera Ellen and Danny Kaye dance.
ReplyDeleteSong - I'm a huge sucker for Christmas music. I've got tons of CDs. Kenny & Dolly anyone? My fave song though is any version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Will Downing's is great).
Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim. What's up with this George C Scott thing. And I have never watched Christmas Story.
ReplyDelete1. A Christmas Story
ReplyDelete2. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
1. A Christmas Story
ReplyDelete2. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Favorite Christmas Movies :
ReplyDeleteScrooged
Bad Santa
Favorite Christmas Songs :
Back Door Santa - Clarence Carter
Marshmallow World - Bing Crosby
The Littlest Snowman - Bob Keeshan
Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas or Love actually
ReplyDeleteSong: Mitt hjerte altid vanker (My heart always wanders) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27JqZ8eEZlw&
The House Without A Christmas Tree or Walton Christmas;
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas Song by the Carpenters
The House Without A Christmas Tree or Walton Christmas;
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas Song by the Carpenters
Can the nutcracker ballet count? Not quite a movie, but they occasionally have it on public broadcasting! ;)
ReplyDeleteFor song, I like the old lang sye as said above for the serious and gary allan's "let's be naughty and save santa the trip". ;). Its just a cute song!
Jbdean_79
Being lazy with the anon cause I'm on my bb and takes me forever to sign in!
Can the nutcracker ballet count? Not quite a movie, but they occasionally have it on public broadcasting! ;)
ReplyDeleteFor song, I like the old lang sye as said above for the serious and gary allan's "let's be naughty and save santa the trip". ;). Its just a cute song!
Jbdean_79
Being lazy with the anon cause I'm on my bb and takes me forever to sign in!
Movie: "A Christmas Story"
ReplyDeleteSong: "The Christmas Song" as sung by Nat King Cole
Favorite christmas movie- How the Grinch stole Christmas (the cartoon version)
ReplyDeletefavorite Song- I wish it could be Christmas Everyday
Movie- Christmas Vacation or Scrooged...I have already watched Vacation 4 times this month:)
ReplyDeleteSong would be Santa on the Rooftop by Trish Yearwood, or Merry Christmas Mary by Paul Overstreet. The first because its one of the only Xmas songs you can dance too, and the 2nd cause it is so pretty.
Movie: Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas & A Christmas Story
ReplyDeleteSong: The Drifter's version of White Christmas.
Yay for the holidays!!
1. The Ref
ReplyDelete2. O Holy Night
Movie - Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong - Sleigh Ride by Ella Fitzgerald. It's my ringback tone.
1. christmas vacation
ReplyDelete2. none. sorry, i hate christmas music - it's the same every year, doesn't anyone else get sick of it???
also, does anyone else find the lyrics to "santa claus is coming to town" creepy and mean??
and no i'm not a scrooge. i love to celebrate christmas and always with my family. we eat wonderful food and all have a lovely time together - only just without the retarded christmas music.
oh wait, i forgot white christmas!!! i LOVE that movie!
ReplyDeleteand i also forgot - i actually do like that "wamakanepucka" or whatever the song is - when chevy chase is dreaming about his swimming pool. i guess that song is alright.
ReplyDeletefavorite movie-A Christmas Story (I am married to a Ralph, no joke, so far he still has both eyes)
ReplyDeletefavorite Christmas song-O Holy Night
Movie: Elf
ReplyDeleteSong: Do They Know it's Christmas
A Christmas Story and "Silent Night." Although a close second is the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." :)
ReplyDelete"It's a Wonderful Life". Fave movie, no matter what the season.
ReplyDelete"Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. How can you compete with a classic holiday line like "you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot--happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last"? Always gives me the warm and fuzzies.
Movie:
ReplyDeleteIt's a Wonderful Life
Song(s):
Carol of the Bells
2000 Miles by The Pretenders
The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Loreena McKennitt
Jen said...
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Chipmunk Christmas Song! "I still want a hula-hoop" kills me!
Me too!!
Oh, and I'm going to throw in the 12 Days of Christmas, Bob and Doug Mackenzie style.
ReplyDeleteA beer....in a tree.
2. Turtle Necks.
3. French toasts.
4. Pounds of backbacon.
5. GOLDEN TOUQUES.
6. Packs of 2-4
7. Packs of smokes.
8. Comic books.
Take off, eh.
This all made me think of one other thing that was always a favorite of mine: the commercial for Norelco shavers with Santa riding it like it was a sleigh. When that came on TV, I knew it was Christmas time.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVk6JKDa3zI
We traditionally watch an Esther Williams movie on Christmas
ReplyDeleteAnd, no contest, Christmas Wrapping.
Movie: Old School is a tie between We're No Angels (Bogart, Ustinov and Aldo Ray -- amazing!) and The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant, David Niven) NOT to be confused with that garbage that Whitney Houston put out - blech
ReplyDeleteNewer Movie - Love Actually cannot be topped.
Song: Carol for Another Christmas -- Henry Mancini and Sting's Gabriel's Message is haunts me throughout the year, not just at Christmas.
Movie - The Year Without a Santa Claus (actually the ONLY one I like)
ReplyDeleteSong - Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie and Bing Crosby
1. Tie between Charlie Brown Christmas and Miracle on 34th Street (any version)
ReplyDelete2. All of them. Impossible to choose one or even 50. I'm a sucker for Christmas. XD
1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Suess version not the jim carrey one
ReplyDelete2. All I Want For Christmas Is You- Mariah Carey, so true
I can't choose just one!!!
ReplyDeleteMovie- Love Actually and Elf
Song- Too many to choose! O Holy Night sung by Mariah Carey or The Christmas Song sung by Frank Sinatra. And of course, White Christmas for sentimental reasons.
I also loooove the song Skating by Vince Guaraldi Trio its the song that comes on when Snoopy is ice skating.
ReplyDeleteAny of the classics, including TV shows like Charlie Brown and the original Grinch.
ReplyDeleteAny of the classics, from the Nutcracker music to "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and "Your a Mean One Mr. Grinch". (I love the line "You've Got Garlic in Your Soul".)
The Christmas List is an ABC family movie which I love.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Santa Baby by Ms Kitt and I will add Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton.
1) 1941 (It takes place at X-mas) or Christmas Story.
ReplyDelete2) I want a Hippo for Christmas. or anything by Brian Setzer.
1. Love Actually (love me some Martine McCutcheon) :D
ReplyDelete2. Christmas Song by Nat King Cole (yeah, old skool cool)
The original Miracle on 34th Street. God, I love that movie.
ReplyDeleteChristmastime is Here, the Vince Guaraldi instrumental from The Peanuts Christmas special.
Movie: Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong: Santa Claus is Back in Town, first track on Elvis' Christmas Album. When I hear that, it just makes me happy.
O Holy Night is a close second.
1) Holiday Inn (Here she comes, Miss Hit and Run)
ReplyDelete2) Joy to the World. I also like the U2 and Boss Christmas versions of songs (Merry Christmas, Baby, Baby Please Come Home)
1. "Love Actually" and "A Christmas Story"
ReplyDelete2. "Blue Christmas" sung by Porky Pig
Another great Christmas tune is "Christmas Time is Here," as heard in the excellent "Charlie Brown's Christmas. Both always make me sentimental and weepy, in a good way.
ReplyDeleteOooh! One more song: "Please come home for Christmas" an old school song sung by Charles Brown.
ReplyDeleteIt was re done by the Eagles, but that newer version paled in comparison.
Whenever I hear the bells that begin that song, I get chills. It's a soulful Christmas tune.
#1 A Christmas Story
ReplyDelete#2 The Christmas Song by Alvin & the Chipmunks. No, seriously, it really puts me in a holiday mood. :)
Movie: The BBC version of A Little Princess starring Amelia Shankley.
ReplyDeleteSong: tossup between "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day", "Bring a Torch, Jeanetter Isabella" and "Good King Wenscelas."
@Ms. Cool - TOTALLY!!! I love that movie!!!
ReplyDeleteSo since that is taken .. "The Lion in Winter" .. O'Toole, Hepburn, Hopkins and Dalton .. freakin' amazing dialogue .. it's not traditional holiday fare .. but it is amazing none the less.
And Favorite song .. "Do You Hear What I Hear" .. by Bing Crosby .. which I was just SHOCKED to learn was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis and was recorded by Bing the day JFK was assassinated in Dallas ... : /
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ReplyDeleteI deleted my post about the best Christmas song for folks not into Christmas songs .. I had posted Hollywood Undead's "Christmas in Hollywood" .. but I fear what you guy would think of me!! LOL!! Many bad words and often questionable materials sung about in there! But .. it is on You Tube if you would like to subject yourself to questionable holiday material!
ReplyDeleteBut then I thought about Jon La Joie's "Cold Blooded Christmas" .. still questionable and some bad language but funny as hell. When I saw it for the first time last year I damn near wet my pants laughing!
Merry Christmas Christmas and Christmas Song Dislikers!! Hope you like one of these!! ; )
Movie - Elf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, or A Christmas Story
ReplyDeleteSong - so so so many. Santa Baby, Do You Hear What I Hear, You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Brian Setzer version is kick ass), Jingle Bell Rock, but I confess to LOVING Dominick the Donkey!!!!
Movie: "1941" (1979)
ReplyDeleteSong: "Mele Kalikimaka" Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Film - Love Actually or The Holliday
ReplyDeleteSong - Fairytale of New York
It's a Wonderful Life(i cry continuously for the last 15 minutes!!LOL)
ReplyDeleteCharlie Brown Christmas(makes me think of my mom and dad, who have been gone WAY too long)
Christmas in Connecticut great 1940's flick
Merry Christmas Darling ~Just love it
Feliz Navidad~wouldn't be Christmas without it!!
Movie: Home Alone
ReplyDeleteSong: Christmas in New York - The Pogues.
A Christmas Story and Do You Hear What I Hear but only, and I mean ONLY, the Bing Crosby version.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention, I've never seen Miracle on 34th Street or It's a Wonderful Life. What can I say, my mom was not a movie watcher when I was growing up?
ReplyDeleteI have red hair and my kids call me heat mieser when I get up in the morning!
Movie: Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong: O Holy Night
Wonderful Christmastime by paul mccartney
ReplyDeleteMovie[s]: ABT's "Nutcracker", "Love Actually" and "Die Hard"
ReplyDeleteSong[s]: Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" and "What Child Is This"
film, dont do christmas films but I do love putting the kids to bed and watching the depression that is Eastenders on christmas day. Second favourite part of christmas after opening pesents at 4 am.
ReplyDeletesong, fairy tale of new york. Cant belive its 9 years since her death.
Cant belive its 7 since Strummers death either, that was a shite christmas anyway but news of his death just compleatly ruined it for me.
It's a tie between A Christmas Story and Nightmare before Christmas. (It's on at 8 pm ET tonight on Disney Channel.)
ReplyDeleteI love the Temptation's version of "Rudolph".
Who mentioned Emmitt Otter's Jug Band Christmas? Wow, that brings back memories! My brother and I used to watch that every December for YEARS. I haven't seen it in god knows how many years. Off to YouTube!
ReplyDeleteWhoops, forgot some more favorite songs: The Kinks' "Father Christmas", "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", as sung by Bruce; and the Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping".
ReplyDeletemovie: national lampoon's christmas vacation.
ReplyDeletei absolutely cannot stand "a christmas story"; it has to be one of the worst movies of all time.
song: what child is this
Another good Christmas song
ReplyDeleteNothing But A Child by Steve Earle
1. Scrooged, Christmas Vacation, The Family Stone
ReplyDelete2. The Little Drummer Boy
I don't know about "favorite," but...
ReplyDelete1. Movie, with kids watching: Emmet Otter OR Any of the Fraggle Rock "Christmas" episodes. Heck, anything pre-death Jim Henson will do.
2. Movie, without kids: Die Hard 1. It has action, has the slightest hint of "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" nudity & is also Christmas-themed.
3. Songs: Christmas Disco music (especially "What I Want For Christmas" from Christmas Disco Party - Close your eyes & the cheesy 1970's variety hour sets practically make themselves).
Movie - Bernard and the Genie, which I can't find anywhere. tv - I keep forgetting about Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean.
ReplyDeleteSong - O Holy Night. Brings me to tears.
We're No Angels with Bogart
ReplyDeleteWar Is Over by Lennon - this was the first song I ever loaded on my iPhone
Movie: Love Actually
ReplyDeleteSong: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
1. It's A Wonderful Life - My family is obsessed with this movie and are planning a trip to NY next year to go to the IAWL Festival in Seneca Falls
ReplyDelete2. All I Want For Christmas Is You & O Holy Night
Die Hard
ReplyDeleteHave Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
so easy
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it's christmas, baby please come home by U2
A Christmas Story for movie. Nothing else even comes close.
ReplyDeleteAnd as I hate all Christmas music, I'll choose the Christmas baby lament, "It Sucks to be Born Around Christmas".
Favorte Movie(s): A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Love Actually
ReplyDeleteFavorite Song: Merry Christmas If That's Ok by MST3K
#1 White Christmas
ReplyDelete#2 Baby, It's cold outside
#1 Christmas Vacation
ReplyDelete#2 Christmas Vacation (the song played during the opening animation to the film)
1 - While you were sleeping
ReplyDelete2 - Brenda Lee Rocking around the Christmas tree