Santa Claus is coming
Oct. 7th, 2004 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthLast time I checked, it was October.
But the stores are already full of Christmas stuff.
Things I hate about Christmas:
electric bulbs that are supposed to look like candles. If you are afraid to put real candles on the tree, leave it. (Exceptions might be made for people with pets or little kids)
Stupid figures in front yards. (This annoying American habit has come to Germany, not getting less annoying on the way.)
people going to church on Christmas eve simply because they don't have anything else to do (worse still, people sending their kids to church to have them out of the way.
Christmas songs played in stores, sung by badly trained children's choirs
too much decoration on the outside of houses or in the windows or any other place were I can see it and be annoyed by it.
the stupid "peace on earth" stuff that somehow implies you should suddenly love the stupid family you try to avoid during the rest of the year.
Pseudo-Christian decoration in atheist houses. If you don't believe in this, why don't you just have a party and don't worry about the star of Bethlehem in the window?
Speaking of pseudo-Christian stuff, I was recently forcefully reminded of why I don't usually listen to the radio. The horror has a name: Xavier Naidoo. The self-acclaimed savior of the world is played a little too much in German radio stations, IMHO.
I don't need to be converted to Christianity or whatever he believes in when I'm working out in the gym and are defenseless, meaning I can't even switch the radio off. If I want to be preached to, I'll go to church, thank you very much. It's enough for me to hear his voice to want to go and kill him. And I am usually pretty good in ignoring annoying music and /or musicians (like the terrible Eternal Flame version by Atomic Kitten, ruining a perfectly good Bangles song or the equally terrible Preluders singing Losing my Religion). But with Xavier Naidoo, I break down and become some sort of Miss Hyde.
This is the main good thing about American radio. No Xavier Naidoo. As far as I know, he hasn't made it over there yet.
But the stores are already full of Christmas stuff.
Things I hate about Christmas:
Speaking of pseudo-Christian stuff, I was recently forcefully reminded of why I don't usually listen to the radio. The horror has a name: Xavier Naidoo. The self-acclaimed savior of the world is played a little too much in German radio stations, IMHO.
I don't need to be converted to Christianity or whatever he believes in when I'm working out in the gym and are defenseless, meaning I can't even switch the radio off. If I want to be preached to, I'll go to church, thank you very much. It's enough for me to hear his voice to want to go and kill him. And I am usually pretty good in ignoring annoying music and /or musicians (like the terrible Eternal Flame version by Atomic Kitten, ruining a perfectly good Bangles song or the equally terrible Preluders singing Losing my Religion). But with Xavier Naidoo, I break down and become some sort of Miss Hyde.
This is the main good thing about American radio. No Xavier Naidoo. As far as I know, he hasn't made it over there yet.
