Monday, December 12, 2011

underrated christmas favorites

eating too much, drinking too much, shopping too much...what's not to love about the holiday season?! while there are many things i enjoy about this time of year, a few stand out above the rest as helping me to be my merriest and brightest.

1. all i want for christmas


sometimes i feel like i'm the only person that's ever seen this movie, but it's usually on tv at least once or twice in december. never mind the fact that i have it on dvd because i can't get enough of a young ethan embry (then, ethan randall), his dad's apartment with a pinball machine in it, a cute mouse named snowball, kevin nealon as his mom's mean new boyfriend, his crush from boston with perfect hair, and all of the other things that make this movie a classic.

2. hanson's christmas album, snowed in


i am completely, 100% dead serious when i say that this is the best christmas album ever made. i have listened to it every year since thanksgiving day in 1997 when my parents surprised my teenybopping-ass with it. flawless from beginning to end. youtube sampler above for you poor, deprived souls who have never heard this gem.


3. eggnog


















i kind of pretend to be cool and say i enjoy eggnog mostly for the spiking possibilities, but the disgusting truth is that i could drink a carton straight with no spirits...and 75% of the time i pretty much do. um, it's like melted ice cream!


6 comments:

  1. My underrated Christmas favorites
    1. Just Friends: Seriously one of the funniest holiday movies around. Glad Comedy Central plays it in December.
    2. Claymation Christmas- With the California Raisins, et. al. Made in the 80s. Classic. "Here We Come a Wafflin."
    3. Boyz II Men, Silent Night. I mean, wow. Perfect. And nobody plays it on the radio!

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  2. loves it! all of these are fantastic. and for real, i feel like everything boyz II men just faded away with the new millennium. we need to bring them back.

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  3. I love my eggnog without the inebriation too. Add to that my sister's homemade Christmas cookies and Celine Dion's 'Oh Holy Night'.

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  4. perfect! i forgot to mention that i love mariah carey's "all i want for christmas is you", too :)

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  5. I agree that Hanson album is pretty mmmmFestive, and I too enjoy a good carton of the Nog, but I have to say, not only have I never seen that movie, I've never even heard of it.

    Here are my additions...

    4) Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas - and it has to be the original one with Kermit the Frog as the narrator.
    5) RuPaul's christmas album called 'HoHoHo' - AMAZING. I highly recommend her version of 'All Alone on Christmas' if you've never heard it.
    6) Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale - It tastes like Christmas and Crazy Family all in one bottle.

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  6. oh man, i'm not familiar with any of these things, but i'm so excited to add all them to my holiday stockpile!

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