As Christmas grows closer, I get busier with all sorts of gatherings with friends and family, so expect posting to be light for the next couple of days.
However, that means that you’re not going to leave empty-handed: I’m still providing offbeat Christmas tunes for you to enjoy. The first is a parody of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive classic Takin’ Care of Business titled Takin’ Care of Jesus:
For those of you who are South Park fans (like the Ginger Ninja and me), I present a couple of Christmas-related audio and video treats.
In an earlier entry for the Audio Advent Calendar, I mentioned that O Holy Night was my favourite of the religious carols and presented a version performed by New Orleans jazz musicians. Here’s another one performed by Eric Cartman, with the assistance of an electric cattle prod.
For those of you who don’t mind a little swearing in their Christmas music, I present two versions of Mr. Garrison’s Merry Fucking Christmas, in which he sings about how he travels to the middle east, India and Japan to spread Christmas cheer in his own special way. Here’s the video version, courtesy of YouTube:
For the last working day for many of us, I offer something both mellow and amusing — indie-folkie rock darling Grandaddy, doing a number called Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland.
Yesterday, I presented two “radio play” style MP3 files starring Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man, in various Christmas-related bionic adventures. Today, I present two more:
Christmas Lights (7.4 MB MP3): A few days before Christmas, Air Defense Command intercepts a strange coded communication and Steve must help decipher it. You get three guesses as to the origin and content of the message.
Elves’ Revolt (8.1 MB MP3): The elves have gone on strike and have allied themselves with a terrorist and the polar icecap is melting! It sounds like the sort of thing that the NDP would get in a tizzy about, but instead it’s up to Steve Austin to save the day.
While we’re talking about the Six Million Dollar Man, take a look at these bionic goodies…
The intro and theme song we know wasn’t the only one — there was an alternate intro and theme with lyrics sung by Dusty Springfield! Here it is:
Here’s the Quebec French intro for the show, L’Homme de Six Millions. Note that instead of “Better…faster…stronger,”, they say “stronger…faster…better”. I’m surprised I don’t hear a “tabernac!” in the dialogue when the ship crashes:
Here’s the German intro:
Here’s the Hong Kong (Cantonese) version. Note that his name isn’t “Steve Austin”:
Unlike the other intros, the Italian one isn’t the American intro with dubbed dialogue; they rolled their own:
And last but not least, here’s the Six Million Rupee Man, a skit from the British/Indian sitcom Goodness Gracious Me:
[via Making Light] Take Santa Claus and cover him in the style of the introduction to the new Battlestar Galactica series and you get this…
By the bye, I am incredibly behind on my Battlestar Galactica viewing. “How far behind?” you might ask, to which I would answer “Well, I saw all of season one, and that’s about it.” Luckily, I’m on holiday this Friday and don’t go back to work until Tuesday, January 2nd.
