In reverse herse curse (dead hand prose at 4am):

-O Royal Tannenbaums: For those lucky enough to work for Public Radio and live in a posh suburb, have kids talented and bright enough to go to the best schools…and then have to come home all b/c their significant relative claims to have a terminal sickness..
Makes me wonder if my being cursed enough to have jack shitte for a job and live next to a secondary hwy. (statistically proven to increase major illnesses) is my own damn fault, or some consolation that once the children leave home, they will be smarter never looking back-wahh!
Well, I ain’t Wes Wilson (The Aquatic Life, in which Bill Murray hunts a fish that killed his friend), but why did I write O Tannenbaum…oh, my fat ego..there are thousands of John Harts… I wonder if they all got teased..”the big fat f–t”ad insicknitum.
-”You” Albert Finney, from the movie ‘Scrooge’(1971). I usually play this vid. every fall after Halloween, b/c the ghosts and effects used to scare the crap outa me, but now I save it til’ mid-winter, knowing what a great actor Albert Finney is, even though he has too often been cast into roles of the soon departed, or worse. The song ‘You’ is actually a 3 part sequence where he sees his beloved fall in with him, then out of love with him, and he, alas, alone. Dickens was a four letter word with my heart…it is scathing, wonderously burning, yet gentle as it sets out what I fear most-of dying-at the same point of showing what it means to live w.o living….sigh-I need Charlie Brown, sometimes, for a gas off!
-Power In The Darkness: Tom Robinson Band (T.R.B)-E.M.I, 1977. Two chords and the truth-that pre-dated, and in my mind, should have devastated Bono and his macho buddy nacho echo rosetta bonehead.
-The Little Drummer Girl-Joan Jett..ain’t no doubt about which side of the skins she beats on!
-The Slutcracker: Original Burlesque Rewrite of a horrendously homogeneous…or was that originally skim white wholesome production. Anyways, I’m writing well after 2010, so you needen’t carry protection…it’s over til’ Xmas 12..keep clean til’ then!!