Have yourself a merry little whatever

Here is a list of my favourite Christmas songs just in time for, well, Christmas. 

SAD CHRISTMAS + MY NUMBER ONE CHRISTMAS SONG: JONI MITCHELL, 'RIVER'

The only Christmas I've ever known has included flies conquering the turkey, sweating with the effort of pulling a bonbon with my sister and squinting over the Sahara desert-esque parking lot looking for my car after last minute shopping on Christmas Eve. But if I am ever old and lonely and tired of this Australian life I think that I would move to Europe for the winter and live in a little house with a fireplace and on Christmas Eve I'd sit in an armchair and listen to River and cry over romantic failures and read poetry and be over-dramatic about everything. This song encompasses a lot of what is sad about Christmas because in our natural human way of balancing ourselves out, what is, for some, a time of great joy and happiness is, for others, a time of heightened sadness and reminders of regrets. I mean this song is still beautiful when the sun sets in this blistering part of the world but I just think it belongs on a frozen lake somewhere in Canada at Christmastime. 

WISTFUL CHRISTMAS: TIM MINCHIN, 'WHITE WINE IN THE SUN' 

IT'S-CHRISTMAS-BUT-THINGS-ARE-STILL-SHIT CHRISTMAS: KATE MILLER-HEIDKE, 'THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS'

COMEDY CHRISTMAS: THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER, 'PRESENTS' 

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS: JUDY GARLAND, 'HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS'

WHAM! CHRISTMAS: WHAM! 'LAST CHRISTMAS'

While I'm flogging some great Christmas tunes here is a preview of my friend's Christmas album entitled A VERY KELLEHER CHRISTMAS. I think it's genius. 

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank every single one of you (and you Mum) for reading this blog and in turn supporting me so much - whenever someone approaches me and tells me they read something off my blog that they liked or whatever it's like being hugged by a puppy. Merry Christmas and I hope to continue to provide mildly amusing prose for you to peruse in the new year. Much love and take care and don't hurt your teeth on the coins in the Christmas pudding. 

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