The Poptimists Advent Calendar Day 2
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poptimistsBefore I post the Exciting New Poptimists Feature starting today I should attend to the exciting old poptimists feature I started yesterday, so...
Peter And The Test Tube Babies - I'm Getting Pissed For Christmas
A bleak song and the bleakest part comes at the end, with Peter & Co's banter referencing a particular celebrity which makes you realise that they've been doing this - almost exactly this - for at least 20 years. So the "no future" in the chorus has become a little talisman, one that actually means "a future precisely like the present, please". Still, what's Christmas without a little ritual?
Meanwhile, entirely non-Advent related but we need to keep a lid on the number of posts cluttering up your flists, here's a Eurobosh cover of Simple Minds, as requested by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boyofbadgers.
Peter And The Test Tube Babies - I'm Getting Pissed For Christmas
A bleak song and the bleakest part comes at the end, with Peter & Co's banter referencing a particular celebrity which makes you realise that they've been doing this - almost exactly this - for at least 20 years. So the "no future" in the chorus has become a little talisman, one that actually means "a future precisely like the present, please". Still, what's Christmas without a little ritual?
Meanwhile, entirely non-Advent related but we need to keep a lid on the number of posts cluttering up your flists, here's a Eurobosh cover of Simple Minds, as requested by
boyofbadgers.
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