Everybody’s Looking For You Down At The House.
As if to emphasize that I haven’t been (a) blogging too much of late – blame busyness on all manner of counts, I’m afraid – and (b) writing about seasonal music at all, despite my promise to do that very thing, iTunes has just happily provided the following double bill to provide a little bit more guilt:
I love the fanmade videos for both of these, even if I’m not convinced by the edits made in the Eels song, which is actually twice as long in real life. But still: The OC! How can you say no to that?
There’s something about both of these songs that are weirdly… maybe not melancholy, but definitely ambiguous about Christmas and the surrounding season. As I get older and more ambivalent about it myself for a multitude of reasons, I’ve learned to appreciate that kind of undercurrent a lot more. Still: Everything’s gonna be cool this Christmas. Right?
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