I went late night shopping yesterday evening, and very nice it was too. This year I have had an excellent lead into Christmas, and I was beginning to feel slightly festive, which, when you don't have children (or are not one yourself) is not always that easy. And after subjecting myself to TMF's 40 ultimate classic Christmas hits yesterday (Which was wrong - no Shakin' Stevens in the top 20, but the Darkness @ no. 2 - I sincerely hope someone is joking), I was really starting to get into the spirit.
But that has been blown out of the water today.
Today is my last day in uni. Whilst working at home next week I was looking forward to enjoying some Christmas movies. But wait, a search of the Radio Times tells me that "Mary Poppins" doesn't appear anywhere in the listings over the next 14 days. Ok ok, what about "It's a Wonderful Life". Nowhere. What the freak. Surely the definitive version of Charles Dickens's "Christmas Carol" by the Muppets will be somewhere.
Not even on Channel 5.
I don't want to watch Bridget Jones, The Grinch or Barney's Christmas Cracker. They're crap. Screw "Mrs Santa Claus", give me Poppins, Goddammit. Surely there's some kind of law that covers this kind of thing - it should at least be in the BBC's charter.
I'm going to play 3d Santa for half an hour whilst listening to Shaky and try to restore my feelings of Goodwill to all men.
3 comments:
If you're looking for festive films, I can recommend a nice heartwarming romantic comedy, set at Xmas time...
Catherine
I think not. There are at least three things wrong with calling it a heartwarming romantic comedy. Please don't get me started...
I actually dreamt I was in that film the other night. I played a lead guitarist in a band that was kicked out of his group so that the lead singer's love interest could replace me. Rab C Nesbitt was our tour manager.
If Curtis is reading this, that's was dream, ergo, my idea, so keep your filthy mits off.
Eek, that last sentance went somewhat astray. And I hadn't even started drinkin' then.
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