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[0034] shine on, shine the lights on me
MADE IT TO CHRISTMAS. Presents for mother and brother taken care of, just gotta get to my grandmother ahead of my mother so that I can wrap the former's present FOR the latter WITH the former, since I wound up coordinating that somehow. And then we will all eat some food and maybe play a board game or something and that will be a HOLIDAY.
It's funny, I just realized that, as our family has grown older and more secular (we used to be twice-a-year Catholics and now we are not even that), Christmas has sorta just slid backwards from a thing we do late on Christmas Eve and early into the morning, to a thing we just do almost entirely on Christmas Eve. It's like how, after Aurora made them cancel midnight showings of movies (since the time was definitely the problem there, not the insane gun culture), they shifted to doing previews of opening movies late on Thursday, but those previews have slowly crept earlier and earlier over the years, so now movies just fully open on Thursdays but we still pretend otherwise for some reason. ANYWAY, MERRY CHRISTMAS, I'M OUT.
Wikipedia Sez: New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Simple Minds. The album was released in September 1982 by record label Virgin, and was a turning point for the band as they gained critical and commercial success in the UK and Europe.
Prior Familiarity: None! The Breakfast Club one is pretty much the only Simple Minds song I could confidently say I know.
What I Did While Listening: LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS SCRAMBLE BEFORE HEADING OUT, GO GO GO
Verdict: I... think this may be a perfect pop album? Further analysis is required, but... yeah. Damn.
Favourite Song: Someone Somewhere or Glittering Prize (shoutout to the Herbie Hancock solo in Hunter and the Hunted, though).
It's funny, I just realized that, as our family has grown older and more secular (we used to be twice-a-year Catholics and now we are not even that), Christmas has sorta just slid backwards from a thing we do late on Christmas Eve and early into the morning, to a thing we just do almost entirely on Christmas Eve. It's like how, after Aurora made them cancel midnight showings of movies (since the time was definitely the problem there, not the insane gun culture), they shifted to doing previews of opening movies late on Thursday, but those previews have slowly crept earlier and earlier over the years, so now movies just fully open on Thursdays but we still pretend otherwise for some reason. ANYWAY, MERRY CHRISTMAS, I'M OUT.
Wikipedia Sez: New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Simple Minds. The album was released in September 1982 by record label Virgin, and was a turning point for the band as they gained critical and commercial success in the UK and Europe.
Prior Familiarity: None! The Breakfast Club one is pretty much the only Simple Minds song I could confidently say I know.
What I Did While Listening: LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS SCRAMBLE BEFORE HEADING OUT, GO GO GO
Verdict: I... think this may be a perfect pop album? Further analysis is required, but... yeah. Damn.
Favourite Song: Someone Somewhere or Glittering Prize (shoutout to the Herbie Hancock solo in Hunter and the Hunted, though).