Christmas hit midtown NYC this week.Like an anvil.
The decorations are beautiful for the first couple of weeks, especially in the Radio City/Rock Center neighborhood. But it's really all a bit much, especially when the throngs of gawking tourists make it nigh impossible to cross the street to get to work.
Still, the weather and the strings of lights make it clear that Christmas is a-coming, so I'll kick off the season with one of the many fabulous songs from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, a longtime Pop Argot household favorite. Alice Otter should get an entry of her own someday for the winsome "When the River Meets the Sea," but for now, here's the Nightmare, the unlikely winner of Frogtown Hollow's talent show with their self-descriptive ditty "Riverbottom Nightmare Band." As a friend once pointed out to me, it really strains credibility to think that a group of antagonistic glam rockers would actually win a sleepy town's Christmas talent show. But "Barbecue" and "Brothers" and the rest are in fact inferior tunes to RBNB. (Hat tip to friend Vern for inadvertently suggesting its acknowledgement.)
And I've been thinking a Behind the Scenes/where-are-they-now treatment of the RBNB is long overdue.
[ETA: I fixed a couple errors in this after posting - really oughta go back and watch that in its entirety.]
2 comments:
I still think they sucked. Bring on Sha-na-na!
ANother good one from Emmett Otter:
"We've made curtains, and handkerchiefs/And clothing for the poor/From the one bathing suit that/ your grandma otter wore"
-D*
They don't make 'em like that any more... of course, no one wants to oil a snake, either.
If you're gonna do that quote you have to really stretch the "pooooooooor" IMO. :)
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