blogmas 24

okay, to anyone who is still with me, merry christmas! or happy holidays or whatever! i'm not spending christmas with family this year, but will probably be watching this later because that's what we used to do on christmas eve in our house. i will probably disappear for a week or so but i will return in 2015 with more stuff! my new year's resolution is to start posting videos too...

happy new year!!!

blogmas 23

i know, i'm a day late, but look! i found a weird al christmas song!

blogmas 22

i know we're probably a bit too close to the big day for a bah humbug song, but i only just found this and i fucking love corey taylor...

blogmas 21 - black mirror, white christmas review

there's this tv series on channel 4 called black mirror. charlie brooker writes it. recently there was a christmas special. it was one of the best and most depressing things i have ever seen.

if you missed it you can still catch it on 4od. it was pretty amazing. jon hamm from mad men (which i've never seen, but he's always jon hamm from mad men) is in it, and rafe spall who was in that rom-com with the mentalist. and nymphadora tonks is in it too. it's kind of like the twilight zone movie, where there are like three stories within a framing story. as with all those things some of he stories are better than others but the way they're tied together works really well. there's stuff about social media and artificial intelligence in there, but the central conceit is that in the future you will be able to block people like you do in twitter in real life. this idea isn't just a gimmick to hang a story on, it becomes central to the story itself and leads to a truly horrifying and very miserable ending. so yeah, if you want to feel really depressed this christmas and at the same time inspired and uplifted by the fact that a christmas special this amazing actually exists in the world, then check it out.

blogmas 20

thought it was probably time to get serious.

blogmas 19

bob clark not only directed black christmas, he also made this...

blogmas 18

i did warn you that when i ran out of ideas i would probably post the black christmas trailer...

but it is a fucking awesome movie.

blogmas 17

another day, another amazing christmas movie trailer...

blogmas 16

i suppose i should post something vaguely religious. this guy counts, he's a reverend...

blogmas 15

they made five of these?

blogmas 14

funnily enough, i'm not that big a fan of nightmare before christmas. i feel like i should like it but i never quite got into it as much as most people i know. i am, however, a huge korn fan so korn covering kidnap the sandy claws is kind of amazing...

blogmas 13

a bit late, i know, but this is worth it. behold the trailer for the most terrifying christmas film ever...

blogmas 12

hey! i know! how about a really cheery christmas song to celebrate the fact that it's friday and you don't have to go to work for two whole days (unless your stupid employers have their christmas party on a saturday and you feel obliged to go even though it will mostly feel like being at work except with alcohol)! this is a song by harvey danger called sometimes you have to work on christmas...

blogmas 11

the closest thing to an amanda palmer christmas song...

blogmas 10

never been much of a 'trekkie' (is that the right term?) but this is fucking awesome...

blogmas 9

from the best fucking christmas album ever...

i love the vandals.

blogmas 8

this one, well, you just have to see for yourself...

blogmas 7

probably everyone knows this already, but there's this podcast called professor blastoff, and it's very funny. it's three comedians (tig notaro, david huntsberger and kyle dunnigan) and a guest discussing science, although mostly they joke around. anyway, kyle dunnigan released a christmas album last year, here's the video for one of the songs -

blogmas 6

still feeling rough, but do have a bit more festive spirit today. enough to track down this amazing retro xmas atari ad anyway...

blogmas 5

okay, this isn't particularly festive but i am ill today. i mostly feel like this...