{"id":5628,"date":"2015-12-04T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:04:29","slug":"friday-vids-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2015\/12\/04\/friday-vids-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vid(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this week I was thinking not backward, to Christmases past, but ahead ten years or so to Christmases future. When M. and C. are in college and home for their breaks and L. is wrapping up her high school years. I wondered if I would still have my love of the various pop culture elements of the holiday season, and would greet the girls &#8211; and their friends who popped over to say hello &#8211; wearing thick cardigans as I offer them hot chocolate and other holiday treats, all while playing songs that are 40, 50, hell, nearly 100 years old in some cases. \u201cYour dad sure loves his Christmas music, doesn\u2019t he?\u201d a visiting friend might ask one of the girls.<\/p>\n<p>So to shake things up a bit, we\u2019ll kick off this year\u2019s Holiday edition of the Friday Vids with a couple new ones. Or two new versions of classics and then something completely different.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scott Weiland - Winter Wonderland (Official Music Video)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EojN6r2VSR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d &#8211; Scott Weiland<br \/>\nWeiland released a Christmas album four years ago, which generated a lot of \u201cHuh?\u201d reactions in the music world. Especially when folks listened to the album and found Weiland in full Bing Crosby\/Andy Williams\/Dean Martin mode. Was he serious, or taking the piss out of the classic, crooner Christmas album?<\/p>\n<p>As you may have heard, Weiland died yesterday. Which was not a terrible surprise given the way he lived. I\u2019m still not sure what to think of his Christmas music, but it\u2019s worth a spin today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings &quot;White Christmas&quot;\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDotN6Azk1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite Christmas\u201d &#8211; Sharon Jones &amp; The Dap Kings<br \/>\nFrom their thoroughly enjoyable, brand-new holiday disk.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Nick Offerman&#039;s &#039;Yule Log&#039;\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LS-ErOKpO4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nick Offerman\u2019s Yule Log.<br \/>\nPerformance art I can get on board with. Forty-five minutes of Offerman sitting quietly in front of a fire, sipping Lagavulin whisky. I explained this to S. last night and she said, \u201cThat\u2019s the dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard of.\u201d I disagree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this week I was thinking not backward, to Christmases past, but ahead ten years or so to Christmases future. When M. and C. are in college and home for their breaks and L. is wrapping up her high school years. I wondered if I would still have my love of the various pop culture elements of the holiday season, and would greet the girls &#8211; and their friends who popped over to say hello &#8211; wearing thick cardigans as I offer them hot chocolate and other holiday treats, all while playing songs that are 40, 50, hell, nearly 100 years old in some cases. \u201cYour dad sure loves his Christmas music, doesn\u2019t he?\u201d a visiting friend might ask one of the girls. So to shake things up a bit, we\u2019ll kick off this year\u2019s Holiday edition of the Friday Vids with a couple new ones. Or two new versions of classics and then something completely different. \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d &#8211; Scott Weiland Weiland released a Christmas album four years ago, which generated a lot of \u201cHuh?\u201d reactions in the music world. Especially when folks listened to the album and found Weiland in full Bing Crosby\/Andy Williams\/Dean Martin mode. Was he serious, or taking the piss out of the classic, crooner Christmas album? As you may have heard, Weiland died yesterday. Which was not a terrible surprise given the way he lived. I\u2019m still not sure what to think of his Christmas music, but it\u2019s worth a spin today. \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d &#8211; Sharon Jones &amp; The Dap Kings From their thoroughly enjoyable, brand-new holiday disk. Nick Offerman\u2019s Yule Log. Performance art I can get on board with. Forty-five minutes of Offerman sitting quietly in front of a fire, sipping Lagavulin whisky. I explained this to S. last night and she said, \u201cThat\u2019s the dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard of.\u201d I disagree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13908,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/13908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}