I went as Rudolph for Halloween

Best of 120 Minutes: This is one of my favorite songs that I a) don’t own a copy of and b) never even really heard that much. For some reason using a violin to duplicate Status Quo’s feedback driven guitars in the original version just has me bouncing up and down. Maybe not the best version of the song ever but hey, I can only post what I can find.

Got a few more random rants to unleash tonight. Here they go…

I saw my first house with lit Christmas decorations last Thursday. Is it a Thanksgiving tradition to egg houses? If not, can we make it one? Seriously, what the hell? It’s November 15th do you really need to have your Christmas decorations up and lit? I can understand the putting them up while the weather is nice but would you go ahead and light them? It’s a week away from Thanksgiving so you’re jumping an entire season. Just bizarre.

A friend of mine had a similar rant on her blog on this topic focused more on stores already pushing all of the Christmas stuff. I can at least accept that a little, corporations don’t have souls and only answer to the brutal hand of market economics. If it makes Halls money to have their Christmas tree up in September well damnit, that’s what they’ll do. Even if it is the dumbest thing in the history of the planet. But your own house? Wouldn’t you at least have enough sense to wait until you at least cooked Thanksgiving dinner?

Seriously, Americans have a really big problem with embracing the moment. We are either focused on making the future perfect or reminiscing about a past that never technically existed. We celebrate holidays before they occur for no reasons that relate to the holiday. VH-1 creates instant nostalgia for past decades without ever focusing on all of the crap that took place then. Apparently the early 80’s consisted solely of bad Hall and Oates videos, which isn’t how I remembered it. No one lives in the moment anymore. We don’t live with a sense of wow, just with a worry that tomorrow isn’t going to live up to what yesterday should have been.

Switching topics: Wow, I just looked at Christian Slater’s filmography in an attempt to determine his third best film after Heathers and Gleaming the Cube (assuming we toss out Pump Up the Volume). I didn’t realize that his career tanked so quickly. I’m forced to pimp “Untamed Heart” as his third best film and I consider that to be one of the worst films ever made. A character convinced that he is unable to love due to the fact that he has a baboon’s heart? Slater and Tomei making out at a hockey game and not getting beer thrown at them? I think at one point I declared it to be a horror film.

On the plus side, we do have another Winona Ryder sighting. She is going to be playing Spock’s mom in the new Star Trek film. This is of vital importance to, uh, guys who are even geekier than I am. I mean, even Star Wars geeks look down at Trekkies. Ooh, watch out, they have phasers. What a bunch of nerds. But, Winona’s getting work so that is a good thing.

ND football stories tomorrow as I am still recovering from sitting out in the rain for hours. Apparently all they needed to win was to have me in the stands. I apologize for my lack of effort in this season’s end result.

The five random CDs for the week.
1) Cowboy Mouth “Word of Mouth”
2) Lyle Lovett “Live in Texas”
3) Caitlin Cary “Waltzie”
4) Joe Henry “Fuse”
5) Natalie Imbrigulia “Left of the Middle” (hangs head in shame. I must have been really drunk that night.)