A few years ago, the Grinch got a slasher Horror movie, and now another fictional Christmas villain is getting his turn to murder his haters. That man is Ebenezer Scrooge.
According to Bloody Disgusting, The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge is about a group of former college friends gather for a reunion at a winter chalet fifteen years after one of their own dies during their production of A Christmas Carol. The group then finds themselves being stalked and killed off one by one by someone dressed as a terrifying vision of Ebenezer Scrooge.
While Scrooge might be having nightmares with Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, I am dreaming about watching this Terror Films movie on December 20th!
When you hear Do They Know It’s Christmas, it is a beautiful song. However, when you listen to the lyrics, it is a really fucked up record. Yet, every year, we still listen to it and sing along.
The single, which was released in 1984, came about when Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, and Trevor Horn decided to write a song to help those who were suffering from starvation in Africa, and they asked their musician friends to join them on the track. It worked.
On November 25th, we are getting a new version on streaming music services, which is a mashup of the previous releases, Band Aid (1984), Band Aid 20 (2004), and Band Aid 30 (2014).
On Band Aid – 2024 Ultimate Mix you will hear a young Sting sing alongside a young Ed Sheeran. A young Boy George with a young Sam Smith. A young George Michael beside a young Harry Styles. The young Bono with an older Bono, Chris Martin with Guy Garvey, the Sugababes and Bananarama, Seal and Sinead O’Connor, Rita Ora and Robbie Williams, Kool and the Gang and Underworld.
The voices sing on against the Band Aid house band of Paul McCartney, Sting, John Taylor (bass), Phil Collins, Roger Taylor, Danny Goffey (drums), Thom Yorke (piano), Paul Weller, Damon Albarn, Midge Ure, Johnny Greenwood, Gary Kemp and Justin Hawkins (guitar).
That ear-piercing screech you heard that broke some of the glasses in your house has now been explained.
It was Mariah Carey’s reaction to Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, knocking her song All I Want For Christmas Is You from the top of the Billboard charts.
That’s right, the 65-year-old tune is #1 on the Top 100 charts for the first time ever. Knocking Carey down to #2.
And now I know why it is so cold in Los Angeles, hell froze over. And Carey went from Santa’s little helper to Satan’s. So, in the words of Geena Davis in The Fly, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Congrats to Lee. She is proving at 78 you are never too old to live out your dream!
It is not even Labor Day, and pumpkin spice products are all over the place. That means that the Christmas season is not too far behind.
Actually, it is here. That is because Dolly Parton released an unreleased track from her album A Holly Dolly Christmas Ultimate Deluxe called A Smoky Mountain Christmas.
While the record won’t be available until October 14th, that doesn’t mean we can’t get into the spirit now. Because nothing says ho, ho, ho like 90 degrees weather outside. The boys’ chestnuts are roasting from the heat and not from the fireplace.
If it was anyone else but the Country darling debuting a Christmas Carol in August, I would be giving them grief. But she is Dolly Parton, and she can do anything she wants because she is Dolly Parton.
Growing up in NYC, we spent our Christmases watching the Yule Log on WPIX. It was one of my favorite holiday traditions. Sadly, like all good things, it came to an end.
However, Oscar Mayer brought it back with a twist. As in, they twisted their bacon around the wood. And now I am happy it is cold outside because I am going to spend the day inside watching it and dreaming of a bacon Christmas. Which is not very Kosher.
