The Tradition

Inspired By Christmas Story Prompt: Your Christmas eve tradition

In my family

everyone comes home for Christmas.

It doesn’t matter how far away they live

it doesn’t matter who is angry with who

or how deep they were buried

at the stroke of Midnight on on Christmas Eve

everyone in my family comes home for Christmas.

Wednesday On Saturday

Today I binged ” Wednesday ” on Netflix.

I didn’t plan on doing that, but once I got into the first episode I just kept going until it was over and I was sitting there with my empty popcorn bowl and a big satisfied grin on my face.

In the end I can’t say which of my scenes were my favorites because each scene was woven into the next in such a fashion that I really can’t tease them apart.

But there were the musical highlights and I LOVED those.

At the Never More  soiree  the students danced to “Goo Goo Muck”  by the Cramps.

Goo Goo Muck came out when I was a Sophomore in high school and I did love that song. I also remember people dancing to it.

Wednesday used some of those moves that people did to punk music or new wave back then, but it was a lot more graceful and the passion in that wasn’t rooted in anger or the desire to not show passion of any kind at all.  So I liked it. Oh heck. I loved it.

GOO GOO MUCKY BY THE CRAMPS

When the sun goes down, and the moon comes up
I turn into a teenage goo goo muck
Yeah, I cruise through the city and i roam the street
Looking for something that is nice to eat
You better duck
When I show up…
The goo goo muck.

I’m the night headhunter looking for some head
With a way out body underneath that head
Well I’ll get you baby with a little luck
‘Cuz i’m teenage tiger and a goo goo muck
You better duck
When I show up…
The goo goo muck

Yeah, the city is a jungle and I’m a beast
I’m a teenage tiger looking for a feast
I want the most but i’ll take the least
‘Cuz i’m a goo goo muck tiger and a teenage beast, yeah…
You’d better duck, you motherfuck!

…The goo goo muck.

Songwriters: Ed James, Ronnie Cook

Paint It Black is one of those songs that I seek out just so I can hear how people are arranging it.

The version from Wednesday featured a cello instead of vocals but what I thought set this apart from other versions is that the montage fit the song perfectly and as a BIG bonus ” Wednesday  ” reminded me of a gargoyle when she performed the song. Her neck was stretched out, her hands looked like claws and she was looking down- but not at her hands.

The visual and the music created a truly memorable version of this song:

PS

There was a lot f buzz before ” Wednesday ” came out about why this  wasn’t released at Halloween and dropped before Thanksgiving.

Well it features Pilgrims and in a round about way Thanksgiving.

:::Evil chuckle:::

 

Black Friday Meets Black Heart

The tradition in mah neck  of the woods is fer Ma an Pa to pack up the young-uns into their over priced Bro Dozers and head off to their Mothership- other wise known as Walmart- where they kick off the Christmas season by participating in a ritual called ” Black Friday. “

I truly and with all my heart hate the neck of the woods I moved to- moving here was one of the biggest mistakes of my life- and I hate the stupid traditions they celebrate.

So I am going to stay in with my dog and watch ghost movies until my eyes bleed because I’d rather have bloody eyeballs then to ‘celebrate’ a Black Friday that does not involve me spending time with people like Macbeth’s Three Witches: