The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXIV: Like Books & Black Lives, Albums Still Matter

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1997 was the last Christmas I spent at home with family... and I miss it.

I'm not a fan of Danish Christmas music. It's still kind of foreign to me. And nothing here is familiar beyond a point. An 18 year point. I can sing the Danish carols but they have no meaning to me. I miss American Christmas movies on TV, and gaudy horribly decorated homes with too many lights. I've embraced the new traditions but the are not mine. I do wonder if it will ever stop feeling surreal. It's Christmas, but it never feels like Christmas. It's so very, very strange.

How much more time do you have to serve in prison in Denmark? Can't you get your sentence commuted for good behavior? :(
 
It's been a strangely balanced year for us. I miss the girl dog achingly still. Firedog and little guy are crackers, but they aren't her. Otoh, we have had some great things happen too, together and independently. We are ending the year in a better place than we started it in more than one important way so it will go down as a year we did well I think.
There has been a ton of Yin and Yang in my life as well. I was just in the shower contemplating starting a thread about it.
1997 was the last Christmas I spent at home with family... and I miss it.

I'm not a fan of Danish Christmas music. It's still kind of foreign to me. And nothing here is familiar beyond a point. An 18 year point. I can sing the Danish carols but they have no meaning to me. I miss American Christmas movies on TV, and gaudy horribly decorated homes with too many lights. I've embraced the new traditions but the are not mine. I do wonder if it will ever stop feeling surreal. It's Christmas, but it never feels like Christmas. It's so very, very strange.
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I feel sick. Ate a ton of Bombay Mix.
Doesn't one drink Bombay?
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I am wondering what danish Christmas music sounds like, if I have heard any. Some of the Christmas music I like is very, very old music. And i have heard it in lots of countries. I am lucky with this :). Do you own some Christmas music you like?
They have some of the same carols but with different Danish text. It's a peculiar experience singing Silent Night, for example both in a different language but also without translated context. They have some lovely traditions which I really enjoy and which also add to the slightly surreal aspect of things. I can get my hands on all the Christmas music I grew up loving but it's an isolated even to try and recreate and American feeling here. I can listen to it at home, but it's not playing in other people's homes when I visit or on the radio or in the shops. The Christmas foods are all different, decorations are quite different. They often use candles on the tree, and there are very pretty cones hung from boughs and filled with pebbernødder cookies. They celebrate on the eve of the 24th. Big dinner and then singing and dancing around the tree and then opening gifts.... and then dessert, which is always the same: Risalamande. Pearl rice cooked in sweetened milk (to porridge) which is then lightened with freshly whipped cream and a bunch of chopped almonds. A whole almond is hidden in the serving dish. Whomever gets the almond wins a gift. The dish is topped with warm cherry sauce (basically cherry pie filling).

How much more time do you have to serve in prison in Denmark? Can't you get our sentence commuted for good behavior? :(
My guess is at least 5 more years. Spent the last 3 years in solitary confinement and it has left me grumpy. ;)
 
It must be incredibly difficult take by this onboard as an adult🌹
It never used to be this tough. I'm not sure what has changed. Perhaps it is just as simple as finally having lost the thrill of doing everything differently over here. Maybe I'm ready to embrace all of my traditions again and it's just unfortunate that it's not really possible to do here. :) It's hardly a hardship. I have friends and loved ones, and we will have another festive Christmas. :heart:
 
Hopefully the upcoming season can be cancelled in time before the network takes a bath on it and get it replaced with a more quality show.

I got my last White House Christmas card I'll be recieving for a while in the mail today. :(
 
Everybody dies. I mean fucking EVERYBODY. No exceptions.

Some folks die too soon. Some too late. Some just in time.

Some aspen groves and gooseberry thickets and microbes are essentially immortal -- until the next extinction event, when they die, die die. Adios.

Fictional creatures never die because they never lived. The weak Aenglish language doesn't distinguish between IS (fiction) and IS (real); no type-checking ala Pascal or Ada. Thus we'll say that both Allan Pinkerton and Sherlock Holmes were (past tense of IS) male English-born 19th-century detectives. But only context differentiates the mortal Pinkerton and the immortal Sherlock, who lives forever in new fiction.

If you want to live, don't die. If you don't want to die, don't live. Simple, hey?
 
The chicken flu restrictions is leaving my day feeling oddly ungoverned by diurnal rhythm. It's unsettling.

Darkness will fall any time now but I could be anywhere doing anything. As free as a bird🤔

Chicken flu? Is it catching?
 
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