REPOST: Let's Get Some of These Borrowed Christmas Images & Tunes Outta the Way

http://ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2009/12/lets-get-some-of-these-borrowed.html

Now I'm not particularly in the Christmas mood yet this year, when it seems like there is Christmas uber-overload at every turn.  But recently, I finally got around to looking at those stat charts Big Brother Blogspot puts together for the serious, driven, self-aware bloggers.  Guess what?  The series of Borrowed Christmas Images are continually dominating my stats & graphs.  So here is the first of a series of re-blogs of last years Christmas re-blogs...

Let's Get Some of These Borrowed Christmas Images & Tunes Outta the Way
originally posted on: Saturday, December 19, 2009

From: http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/273312319/thanks-christopher


From: http://musicartstyle.blogspot.com/2009/12/does-santa-freak-you-out.html
Does Santa freak you out? Do Clowns and Mimes freak you out? Well check out some of these Santa's. Some of these are just wrong! Check out this great little site dedicated to scary pics of Santa - tis the season!
sketchy santas: http://www.sketchysantas.com/


From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-jingle-bells.html
This vintage wrapping paper has stylized bells in fashionable, period colors.

Another little Christmas treat for ya'll."Jeri Kelly - Poor Old Santa Claus"

"Ray Bolger - L'il Elfy"
 

Click here to open your present: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4417OC39

From: http://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post/281070115/freaky-victorian-santa-detail-via-stevechasmar
Freaky Victorian Santa (detail) (via stevechasmarhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opiummuseum )

From: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/12/santa-school-images-from-the-life-magazine-photo-archive.html
Santa School Images from the Life Magazine Photo Archive
The Life Magazine Photo Archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life is a great time waster. Typing in random nouns or verbs and seeing what nineteen fifties artsy fartsy gems appear is grand fun. Check out the archive's large gallery of photos from a Santa School. Pick a noun, Christmas or otherwise, and kiss several hours away

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-groovy-style.html
Here is another piece of vintage wrapping paper for your visual pleasure and inspiration!

From: http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/2009/12/it-wouldnt-be-christmas-without-creepy.html

Santa In Animal Land (1948) Christmas Puppet Show. Slightly frightening puppet animals are upset that Santa Claus only brings gifts to kids, so Kitty Kat hunts down the official Santa Claus for animals. "You can thank me for your holiday nightmares later."

From: http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/281392580/slim-aarons-bacall-and-bogart-1951
Slim Aarons Bacall and Bogart 1951

From: http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-big-enchilada-podcast-2009
NEW BIG ENCHILADA PODCAST: 2009 Xmas Special


The elves have finished putting it together and now the Be-bop Santa Claus has delivered the second annual Steve Terrell Podcast Christmas Special right into your electronic stocking. There's a little Christmas cheese and a little Christmas sleaze with Yuletide goodies from The Rockin' Guys, Wildman Fischer, Andre Williams, Pee Wee King, The Fall, Nervous Norvous, Be-Bop Santa Claus, The Turtles, The Drive-by Truckers, The Handsome Family and more.
CLICK HERE: http://a38.video2.blip.tv/6050002859157/Robotclaw-Podcast17TheBigEnchilada2009ChristmasSpecial638.mp3?bri=8.3&brs=175 to download the podcast. (To save it, right click on the link and select "Save Target As.")
Or better yet, stop messing around and CLICK HERE:http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blip/NpPp to subscribe to my podcasts.
The official Big Enchilada Web Site with my podcast jukebox and all the shows is HERE: http://www.bigenchiladapodcast.com/
Here's the play list:
(Background Music: We Wish You'd Bury the Missus by The Cryptkeeper)
The Last Month of the Year by The Tarbox Ramblers
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by The Legendary Shack Shakers
I Want to be King of Orient Ah by Elastica
There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Midnight Stage by Captain Beefheart
Be-Bop Santa Claus by The Be-Bop Santa Claus
Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus by Pee Wee King
Sleigh Bells, Reindeer and Snow by Rita Faye Wilson
(Background Music: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by BeauSoleil )
A Christmas Carol by Tom Leher
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by The Fall
I'm a Christmas Tree by Wild Man Fischer
Rudibaker's Christmas Wish by Andre Williams
Monsters Holiday by Bobby "Boris" Pickett
(Background Music: Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer by Los Straitjackets)
Something Funny in Santa's Lap by The Moaners
Santa and The Sidewalk Surfer by The Turtles
I'm Waiting for Santa Claus by Nervous Norvous
Mrs. Claus' Kimono by Drive-By Truckers
A Johnny Ace Christmas by Squirrel Nut Zippers
Jinglecide by The Rockin' Guys
So Much Wine by The Handsome Family
(Background Jingle Bells by Twitty Bird & Friends)

From: http://bebelestrange.tumblr.com/post/281363462
1963 Disneyland Christmas Star (via Miehana http://www.flickr.com/photos/miehana )

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-60s-presents.html

This is a very cool store wrap on a giant roll. Judging from the graphics, the tomato-red/chartreuse, and the older roll it is on, I think it is early to mid 60's.

From: http://patchworkgarden.blogspot.com/2009/12/deck-halls.html



From: http://ratb0y69.blogspot.com/2009/12/fleshtones-stocking-stuffer.html
The Fleshtones - Stocking Stuffer @ 320 kbps - Covers are included
1. Hurray for Santa Claus 2. Six White Boomers 3. Super Rock Santa 4. You're All I Want for Christmas 5. Champagne of Christmas 6. Canadian Christmas 7. Mr. Santa Claus 8. Christmas With Bazooka Joe 9. Run, Rudolph, Run! 10. I Still Believe in Christmas 11. In Midnight's Silence
From the garage rock gods who brought the world ''Super Rock,'' Stocking Stuffer is the Christmas album for music fans who hate run-of-the mill Christmas music. The Fleshtones just want to rock and they re not about to let peace on earth or good will toward men get in the way. ''Hooray for Santa Claus'' opens the disc with a speaker busting ode to the guy
in the big red suit and ''Champagne of Christmas'' looks back to The Fleshtones classic R&B roots while extolling the virtues of more than a little yuletide bubbly. Stocking Stuffer is festive enough to get you in the holiday mood but rocks hard enough to keep the eggnog flowing through mistletoe make-out sessions and drunken sing-a-longs. If Santa is
cool enough to leave this little gem in your stocking, this year you ll actually look forward to Christmas music!
(Click on above link to original ratboy 69 blogposting for possible download link)

From: http://peteoswald.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-holidaze.html
Pete Oswald: Happy Holidaze

From: http://www.donnalethal.com/2009/12/most-of-christmas-present.html
The Most of Christmas Present - Why do I love this cover so? Is it the man in the chair? The dog?

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-abstract-drummers.html
I like this strange, vintage paper very much. The graphics are bit unsettling and the colors quite quirky...

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/288892497/joan-crawford-is-coming-down-your-chimney-and
Joan Crawford is coming down your chimney…and she’s got a gun. Merry Xmas! (Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull.)

From: http://cargohoo.tumblr.com/post/289965297/julie-london-id-like-you-for-christmas
Julie London - I’d Like You For Christmas (click link above to listen)

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/289927323

"The Christmas Song": Origins, Alex Chilton & Chipmunks...

Here's a re-post from a poster called FuzzGuitar02 on the  Alex Chilton - The man and his music ... Yahoo group:


"I'm sure most have heard it, but it seems like a good time, and I have some interesting information on it. 

The Alex version:


Story of it's origin: 
"The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") was written in 1944 by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to “stay cool by thinking cool,” the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. 
“I saw a spiral pad on his piano with four lines written in pencil,” Tormé recalled. “They started, ‘Chestnuts roasting ... , Jack Frost nipping ... , Yuletide carols …, Folks dressed up like Eskimos.’ Bob (Wells, co-writer) didn’t think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics.” 
The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song early in 1946. At Cole’s behest — and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records — a second recording was made the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. 

Here's a spoof, "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire" was made by Bob Rivers: "

Re-blog: The Dark Side of Christmas - The Cramps, Evil Santas, Krampus & XXXmas Sleaze

Amplify’d from ttexshexes.blogspot.com

Another Xmas re-run, but it's a humdinger...

t.tex's hexes

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Dark Side of Christmas - The Cramps, Evil Santas, Krampus & XXXmas Sleaze

From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/12/black-christmas.html

Black Christmas - Here is a cd compiled by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach of The Cramps. Artwork care of Lux himself. This was originally put together for some magazine, but I can't recall which.

Have a BLACK_Christmas!: http://www.rockndog.com/Black_Christmas/ http://www.mediafire.com/?dtdyhzbwgzy

From: Chuck Miller's The Cramps Blog: http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/

From: http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-cramps.html The three drawings below are by Benjamin Marra, who says: "These were sketches for an assignment that didn't pan out. It was a cool one: to illustrate a Cramps Christmas album cover. I think my friend and colleague Ted McGrath ended up getting the gig. Dems da breaks ..." http://benjaminmarra.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

From: http://brainsteakbikini.blogspot.com/2009/12/congo-christmas.html

Congo Christmas "Kid send me this letter from L.A. on December 28, 1981. Artwork : Kris Guidio" -Krom at Brain Steak Bikini - Far out with The Cramps

From: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-and-happy-new-decade.html

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new decade, compliments of myself and Krampus, St. Nicholas' cloven-hooved, chain-swinging, lolling-toungued, child-punishing Eastern-European sidekick.

If what you see interests you, then you might want to check out The Devil in Design: The Krampus Postcards, which you can purchase from The Morbid Anatomy Bookstore by clicking here: http://astore.amazon.com/morbanat-20/detail/1560975423

From: http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-oh-no-not-another.html

Various Artists: Oh! No! Not Another... Midnight Christmas Mess Again!!

1. Hazy Shades of Winter - The Slickee Boys 2. Christmas I'll Be Home - The Vipers 3. Star - The Cheepskates 4. Santa is Comin' Down Again - The Psycho Daisies 5. Santa Ain't Santa - Woofing Cookies 6. Jesus Christ - The Love Pushers 7. O Tannenbaum Now - Das Furlines 8. Blue Christmas - The Ravens 9. Wreck These Halls - Howard & Jag's X-mas Vacation 10. Sleighbell Bop - The Holidays 11. Coal in My Stocking - The Backbones 12. Christmas Eve at KNL (Kansas Neurological Institute) - The Iguanas 13. Snow is Falling - Dementia 13 http://rapidshare.com/files/323806337/02-xmess.zip Two more volumes of Midnight Christmas Mess: http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-midnight-christmas-mess.html http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-its-midnight-xmess-part.html From: ???

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/298523373/addams-family-christmas

Addams Family Christmas

From: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ja0u9vcxkW0/SzLLyLKwkpI/AAAAAAAARS4/EIEglKv36bI/s1600-h/ouija.jpg

"Never Kill Santa Claus" from the February 1973 issue of The Witching Hour #28, followed by a xmas themed ouija board text tale

From: http://therealbigrockcandymountain.blogspot.com/2009/12/boogaloo-santa.html

From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/12/have-you-been-good-or-bad/

Navidades con Chucha La Loca (Solo Para Adultos)

From: http://snakeoilblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/greatest-story-ever-told.html

Santa Claus versus The Devil

I first saw K. Gordon Murray's Santa Claus at the 25th Street Theatre in Waco, TX in 1966. It's impossible to overstate the profound effect this film had on my life. Of course, it was the English dubbed version I saw, but nowadays I'm partial to the original spanish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_E1BoZ-dvY 

While most commercial adaptations of the Santa Claus legend add a distinctive twist to the traditional story this film is unique in its depiction of a Santa who works from outer space, and who does battle with a demon sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas.

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/292025519/rene-magritte-woman-1923

Rene Magritte, Woman, 1923. From: http://crookiesblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-2010.html

Happy 2010 - "How terrible do I feel about using the same image I painted from last year?! I think I can squeeze a few more years out of this one." - MATTHEW CRUICKSHANK (via death becomes her)

From: http://powsley.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-munsters.html

'AL "Grandpa Munster" LEWIS signed this cool MUNSTERS CHRISTMAS photo for me back in 1989!' - PATRICK OWSLEY

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/sets/72157594429321748/ Vintage Christmas Krampus Postcards

Men about to be punished by lady Krampus

Vintage Christmas Postcard - Krampus and Saint Nick

Girl with her favorite Krampus Figure (Dated 1906)

Krampus stealing babies and taking them to Spain

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73902814@N00/3016951354/in/set-72157608818462424/

Holiday Grotesque #1 KRAMPUS! 1st in a new series of Holiday paintings in trading card size by Matthew Kirscht.

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/298466738/the-best-new-years-postcard-ever-via

Another by Matthew Kirscht From: http://sundayblues.org/archives/233

Rev. A.W. Nix was one of the great singing preachers whose fiery, earthshaking sermons are enough to send any sinner running for salvation. Nix made his mark with his first coupling, the incredibly intense “Black Diamond Express to Hell Pts. I & II” in 1927. This was one of the best known and popular sermons with Parts 3 and 4 issued in 1929 and parts 5 and 6 in 1930. He cut fifty sermons for Vocalion through 1931, railing against sinners in sermons with provocative titles like “Goin’ To Hell And Who Cares”, “The Fat Life Will Bring You Down”, “Jack The Ripper” and “Hot Shot Mamas And Teasing Browns.” He had a special affinity for the holidays as evidenced in recordings like “Death Might Be Your Christmas Gift”, “That Little Thing May Kill You Yet (Christmas Sermon)”, “Begin A New Life On Christmas Day – Part 1 & 2″ and “How Will You Spend Christmas?” (via PCL LinkDump/Donna Lethal) Listen & download here: http://www.baddogblues.org/clips/nix-present.mp3

From: http://dailyhitler.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-daily-hitler.html

How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas

(From the Daily Mail) Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, 'Germanic' cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a new exhibition has shown. The way the celebration was gradually taken over and exploited for propaganda purposes by Hitler's Nazis is detailed in a new exhibition. Rita Breuer has spent years scouring flea markets for old German Christmas ornaments. She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration. Selected objects from the family's enormous collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne. 'Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis - after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,' Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. 'The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.' The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals. The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin. The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees. Civilians were encouraged to send patriotic Christmas cards to soldiers at the front. The Iron Cross shaped Christmas tree decorations commemorate the start of World War One. 'Either it was a six-pointed star, which was a symbol of the Jews, or it was a five-pointed star, which represented the Soviets,' Breuer said. It had to go. In the 1930s, the Nazis tried to change the ideology of Christmas. But when World War II started, the focus became more practical. There were also tips on how to make Christmas cookies in the face of food shortages.

In 1944-1945, the Nazis tried to reinvent the festival once again as a day to commemorate the dead, in particular fallen soldiers. 'By then nobody felt like celebrating,' Breuer explained. Happily, the German people mostly ignored the clumsy propaganda efforts and continued with the same traditions as before. The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the traditional Christmas carol 'Unto us a time has come' is still sung. 'The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow,' Breuer said. Surprisingly, German churches put up little opposition to the Nazification of Christmas. 'You would have expected them to protest loudly and insist that it was a Christian festival,' said Breuer. 'But instead they largely kept quiet, out of fear.'

From: http://dailyhitler.blogspot.com/2009/12/hitler-getting-beat-by-krampus.html

Hitler getting beat by Krampus

From: http://gmtplus9.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-with-satan.html

James Chance... Christmas With Satan (2002, Tiger Style TS-038 .mp3 audio 06:14). Christmas With Satan was originally released by James White on A Christmas Record (1981, ZE Records ILPS 7017). It was replaced by No More Christmas Blues by Alan Vega on the 1982 edition. Listen & Download: http://www.box.net/shared/static/y7e6huh0x9.mp3

From: http://texaspunktreasurechest.blogspot.com/2009/12/culturcide-santa-claus-was-my.html

Culturcide "Santa Claus Was My Lover/Depressed Christmas" 7"

A Christmas time classic from Houstons own Culturcide... Especially the b-side. Merry Christmas (or whatever you're into) from the Texas Punk Treasure Chest! 1. Santa Claus Was My Lover 2. Depressed Christmas DL: Culturcide "Santa Claus Was My Lover/Depressed Christmas" 7": http://www.mediafire.com/?khymmgjcjjn

From: http://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Publicity-photo-of-Joan-Collins.html

Publicity still of Joan Collins being terrorized by Oliver MacGreevy in 1972’s horror anthology Tales from the Crypt.

From: http://hereliesrichardsala.blogspot.com/2009/12/slightly-dated-look-at-psycho-santa.html

Art by Richard Sala (via death becomes her)

From: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas.html?zx=78378242f3b8b718

From: http://nonozeroblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/have-yourself-sleazy-little-christmas.html Have yourself a sleazy little Christmas

From: http://MicheleWitchipoo.deviantart.com/art/Babalon-Babes-Holidays-2009-147204491

Babalon Babes Holidays 2009 by ~MicheleWitchipoo Read more at ttexshexes.blogspot.com

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/j6dd