Except not, because I’ve had a pretty darn lovely Christmas Day here in the Irish countryside: snow on the window ledge, more food and champagne than is medically advisable, and nothing ahead of me but the Boxing Day cricket test on TV and hours of free time to ponder my best-of-decade list.
Hope your day has given you equal cause for contentment. For now, I give you the song without which no Christmas is really complete. Just in case you missed it.
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6 responses to ““Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it’s our last.””
Anyone who loves the Pogues is a friend of mine…beware the Christmas Banshee Guy!!
So glad to see this on here. The Pogues are an underrated (and undervalued) – in America at least – treasure. Merry Christmas!!
This song is good. Worth a listen for sure. But the fact that it’s one of the most popular Christmas songs when voted on by users is deeply disturbing to me, especially considering the content. I understand the want to be away from the saccharine content of the holiday, *occasionally* but geez people.
So I just got back from Sherlock Holmes and…didn’t care for it. Downey and Law were predictably awesome, as was their chemistry, but the mystery – the key element of any Holmes story – was totally uninteresting and outrageous. Part of the fun of mystery stories is to try and follow along to solve it with the characters, but the situations were so absurd and the clues so arbitrary that it was impossible to keep up with the pieces “coming together,” not that it mattered because I stopped caring pretty quickly and the major plot points were telegraphed from a mile away. I understood and welcomed the action-oriented approach, but it was all so ho-hum in its execution (and Guy Ritchie’s style so not appropriate for it) that it all added up to a whole lot of noise without any real purpose.
However, I did see a new trailer for Inception, which was off the hook. I decided *not* to read the plot synopsis posted on this site, so I had no idea what was going on. All I’m certain of is that I HAVE to see this movie.
“The song without which no Christmas is really complete” indeed. And if anybody wants to see the original Pogues video, of which the clip above is a rather impressive shot-for-shot amateur remake, I put it up at theWrap this morning.
Matt, focus on that beautiful last verse and don’t be disturbed. It’s an amazing song because it rises above the insults and squalor and manages to be moving and romantic in spite of the stuff that some people might think is offensive. Hey, George Bailey is a dick for most of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and that one came out okay too.
Oops, in haste I didn’t check the video! Will correct.