1994 - Get ready to go dark ... WAY dark as we present this award-winning stop-motion animated Christmas short, The Junky's Christmas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, narrated by and starring William S. Burroughs, based on his short story. It's very rough sledding, but surprisingly touching at the end. Not For Everybody - Discretion Advised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-CCKaORM80
What the heck ... in for a penny, in for a pound. Our second holiday gift is ALSO a Burroughs production, this time pairing him with Tom Waits. Hop in the Wayback Machine as we go back four years to 1990 and their collaborative musical The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets - imagine The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a musical and you BEGIN to come close to this weirdness. The Wikipedia article below goes into more description, but
why spoil it for yourself? Hit play first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQkzAbCjio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Rider
Is there ANY way to salvage this day and shed SOME ray of happiness? NOPE! Instead, we're shedding TEARS here as we TRIPLE down with the 2024 John Lewis (UK) Christmas ad which has people up in arms - why? Watch it and read the article below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4U8-km4pc8
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/14/john-lewis-christmas-advert-shopping
There, there, it's all done - that wasn't so bad, was it? I'm sure we'll have something happy tomorrow. Wellll, relatively sure ...
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