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.
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
"The same system that stole the gift of your time then had the temerity to ask you to celebrate the bars of the prison that holds you - those bars being the hands upon the clock-face. You poor bastards have no idea what they took from you."
Bang on. Also, ouch! Now I want to get rid of my wristwatch.
I think Christmas day should actually be the new year, as that's about the time the birth of the new Sun happens and the days start getting longer.
Happy Newyearmaxxing, Luke! Wishing you all the best during the northern hemisphere's winter season.
And a happy newyearmaxxing to you, Tim! Christmas day makes a lot of sense, as the sun begins to make its way back across the horizon towards it midsummer zenith in the north-eastern sky.
Its for the pot bangers! I must admit 15 years ago, when married and a drinker, I'd head off to a 'drink and nibbles' affair to drink away the boredom. I had the misfortune of heading into the local Tesco today to buy a few items that I needed and the usual knuckle scrapers, old blokes chaperoning their wives' trolley contents with incontinent shuffling was deeply annoying. I find the whole thing a non event. The rest are simply going through the motions, men going along with it in the hope of a leg over. All a bit tame. To coin Eddy Murphy in Trading Places 'Merry New year'.
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.
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
"The same system that stole the gift of your time then had the temerity to ask you to celebrate the bars of the prison that holds you - those bars being the hands upon the clock-face. You poor bastards have no idea what they took from you."
Bang on. Also, ouch! Now I want to get rid of my wristwatch.
I think Christmas day should actually be the new year, as that's about the time the birth of the new Sun happens and the days start getting longer.
Happy Newyearmaxxing, Luke! Wishing you all the best during the northern hemisphere's winter season.
And a happy newyearmaxxing to you, Tim! Christmas day makes a lot of sense, as the sun begins to make its way back across the horizon towards it midsummer zenith in the north-eastern sky.
Its for the pot bangers! I must admit 15 years ago, when married and a drinker, I'd head off to a 'drink and nibbles' affair to drink away the boredom. I had the misfortune of heading into the local Tesco today to buy a few items that I needed and the usual knuckle scrapers, old blokes chaperoning their wives' trolley contents with incontinent shuffling was deeply annoying. I find the whole thing a non event. The rest are simply going through the motions, men going along with it in the hope of a leg over. All a bit tame. To coin Eddy Murphy in Trading Places 'Merry New year'.
Merry new year!