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Ingrid Finch's avatar

Yep I gave all that New Year crap up when I realised that my ancestors celebrated Alban Arthan (The light of Arthur) or Winter Solstice. The new year is already here and started when the light started creeping back in.

Your last post with all the amazing music was fascinating too and it had me on a deep dive looking into the origins of Solfeggio.

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KGOAMAN's avatar

I hadn't thought before of how technological and forced the rigmarole is, with the tense countdown to an exact moment that you get off the tv or radio, and the thing at parties where everyone has to kiss each other. I liked one new year at Joe's when Moe did some juggling and Kate said if you open your mouth any wider a ball will fall in, then they needed a tall dark man to knock on the door at midnight with some coal for an old new year tradition so they sent Moe out to do it. A decade ago I spent midnight watching the tv screening of London firework display with the most awful synthetic plastic music that made everything feel empty and meaningless and a bit sinister, with a hint of the 2012 olympic opening ceremony, though less explicitly sinister. Here is a link to comedian Alistair Williams parody voiceover for it (he's done the same for subsequent years like the ghastly Paris one too) https://www.thevoid.uk/void-post/the-satanic-corona-virus-ritual-at-the-2012-olympics-alistair-williams/ Merry new year too

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