"You probably know I come from Kent. I hear people mention the word. They mutter it as they see me."

Merry Christmas from Shepherd Cat.

I'd just play Machine Gun. youtu.be/uXN4JgsWcwI?...

Top tip: if you have guests who don't get the hint and refuse to leave after about 8:30 or so, you are morally permitted to start barking non-sequiturs at them until they flee in alarm.

Up to midnight with Beverly Kenney. I hope everyone had the best Christmas Day available to them.

Born this Day: Rod Serling (born December 25, 1924) Best known as the creator and primary writer of The Twilight Zone, he won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1960, 1961, and 1962. His written works include the original screenplay for Planet of the Apes.

"Dandylion for Oxfam" by Belinda Lyon

Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...

::Norman Rockwell town meeting dot gif:: this is a tragically underrated Disney movie

Christmas Day movie: the wonderful Remember The Night boxd.it/cekJiL

Roland Barthes on the delicate seasonal art of ‘strewing meringue mushrooms and holly leaves on a traditional log-shaped Christmas cake’:

Visited my younger brother last night. He has a friend whose life is so full of incident that my brother has set the ringtone for him to the drum beat from the Eastenders theme tune.

A special Christmas INVENTORY is FREE via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon now. What the Incredible String Band got up to 58 years ago today, and may the pure light within you guide you all the way on. 🙏 Christmas Day 1967/2025: The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter. www.patreon.com/backlisted

This Inventory wouldn’t have been possible without @daveamitri.bsky.social, his partner Josie and her Uncle Terry, whose collection of ISB albums this is. Thanks for sharing them with me. Thank too to Stephen @thelilactime.bsky.social for welcoming me into the fold. x @backlisted.bsky.social

Le temps long Rodney Smith

One of my presents from @andrewmale.bsky.social

LATE Scott Walker. Punching turkeys, sleigh bells as big as beach balls etc

Merry Merry 🎄

‘And girls in slacks remember Dad, And oafish louts remember Mum… ‘ Merry Christmas from me and Betjeman. 🙏 @backlisted.bsky.social

Merry Christmas bluesky! Please enjoy this festive episode of @backlisted.bsky.social which was a pure joy to record! All about Asterix - the good, the bad, the ugly and the very silly www.backlisted.fm/episodes/254 @robertshearman.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social

Wouldn't have made a Christmas album for religious reasons, but it would have been amazing if they did: Toumani Diabaté Alice Coltrane

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without C5 showing a badly-colourised version of Scrooge (1953) in the wrong aspect-ratio.

lol "Scrooge indeed represents the most persecuted minority in the US today: big business."

A Kranky Christmas Gift For You: released circa 1998 and featuring GYBE, Stars Of The Lid, Labradford, Tim Hecker etc stretching traditional festive fare into horizonless winter whiteouts, aided by a guests including a Sinking Of The Titanic-style brass band

Scott Walker Bobbie Gentry The Left Banke Simon & Garfunkel

Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums: Tindersticks Sigur Rós Max Richter Matmos Hania Rani

Ahem.

I like to imagine that Station to Station by David Bowie might have been a Christmas album

And someone has put it on YouTube! Result! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Bill Evans Trio Gil Evans Woody Shaw David Lynch Michael Nyman

Shadow Morton George Russell Jacques Brel Carla Bley U-Roy

Eno in this style

HOLIDAY 5IVE: Jodeci D'Angelo P Funk Saadiq Jill Scott

Tindersticks

Curtis Mayfield with The Muppets. Arthur Russell.

A Joe Meek produced various artists one would have been cool

what a great thought...(I'll have to look up Bobby)

Scott Walker. I make do with a Jack Jones Christmas (though it is very good).

The Bobby Hutcherson one would have had a really cool and conceptual one word title, like Creation, Advent or Solstice

Sergio Mendes Michel Legrand The Jesus & Mary Chain The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Aphex Twin

Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums: Jonathan Richman Cocteau Twins Bobby Hutcherson The Everly Brothers Blossom Dearie

A Christmas Carol 2: Hated By Parasites

"They say they're ghosts but where are the sheets? No sheets, no sheets, only chains. Very disrespectful!"

"I also have not read it." Merry Christmas, everyone. Here is my annual reposting of the message board where Ayn Rand fans discuss A Christmas Carol. forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/t...

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Truth.

The annual tradition of posting Glenda Farrell’s 4-part tree-trimming escapades from 1938: (1/4) “‘There's an art to trimming a free,’ claimed Glenda Farrell, and invited the skeptical cameraman, Charles Rhodes, up to demonstrate.” …