Migraine, day four

Ok, so the majority of the pain is gone. But I've got a sour stomach like no one's business.

Fortunately, I've got enough energy to blog about something today. The last day of NaBloPoMo. So I'll end with somewhat of a startling noise. But more like a fork dropped on the linoleum, not like a car across the street backfiring or anything.

And no, I'm NOT able to say I found out I was pregnant on the very last day of NaBloPoMo. Hopefully that honor went to someone else.

I admit it, I've already started listening to Christmas music. I've got XM radio in the car and channels 103-107 are all holiday music all the time. 107 is called Special Xmas, or something like that. It's all of those songs that don't get the major airplay because most of them are novelty songs, or strange songs about Christmas Cowboys as sung by Wayne Newton.

I'm serious.

Two songs have really caught my attention so far. A good majority of them are silly parodies of popular songs, or interpretations of how famous bands/singers might have sung a holiday song. There's even a good smattering of Channuka songs thrown in for good measure. But here's what sticks in my mind.

I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

Be forewarned. This link will take you directly to a music file of the song. I don't know how legal it is what with copyright and all, but obviously someone likes this song. And how can you not? With lyrics like "I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy"what's not to like? It's very ba da da - dum - dum - dum, ba da da - dum - dum - dum. If you can make it through the beginning and the fact that the little girl Gayla Peevey singing the song has that kind of squeaky Shirley Temple sound going on, I think you'll like this song. If not, get over it.

Apparently, someone wrote a book based on the song, it's for sale at Amazon
I also included the Amazon link because there appear to be other "suggested titles" that look pretty neat.

For a tiny bit of background information, here's someone's personal FAQ on the song. The actual sound file links don't appear to be working. I'm not sure how old this page is. But it was the second hit from Google. Ah, fair Google. What would we do without thee?

And tonight, as I'm barreling down the highway, I hear the distinct sounds of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on a guitar. However, it sounds like the only words the singer knows is "Santa Claus is coming ...". The rest of the song is mumbled in an "I don't care about this song, I'm just trying to appease you damn people" kind of way. It could be described as a wino singing the song.
Though I'm sure artist would have some kind of beef with that description. The performace was followed by a hearty applause. No laughing, no hootin' and hollerin', just applause as if it were the performance of a master.

DAMMIT! XM doesn't have an available play list of songs on the Holiday stations and I can't remember the artists name. Back to GOOGLE!!

NO PATIENCE FOR GOOGLE ANYMORE!!

So I'll just drop a friendly email to the station and see what they have to say. News when I get it.

In the meantime, listen to I want a hippopotamus for christmas. See if you can stop singing it.

I dare you.