Today I will be playing Super Mario Bros. Wii followed by Sherlock Holmes at Alamo Drafthouse. Murr Crimmus.

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/what-we-want-for-xmas.html

As you all SHOULD know, Chris and I love sneakers... and we love Star Wars.... so yeah.. buy us presents....

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/my-internet-dating-christmas.html

Soo... it's fucking weird out there... but sometimes a cute dude will send you a funny video...

but most of the time it's this...

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/holiday-image-wished-redux.html

gotta pass these along before they become irrelevant. there's no way i'ma remember about these things next year. fuck yeah santa!

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/wunderkindbeatboxer.html

the german site i spotted this on used the phrase "dem japanischen Wunderkindbeatboxer" to describe this dude, which is kind of all i think i need to say. be sure to check out dudes other videos to get the whole WUNDER part of the title.

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/holiday-image-wishes.html

i hope everyone's having a quality holiday so far! my pa's computer is driving me nuts, but i guess that's to be expected a little.

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/very-venture-christmas.html

somehow i missed out on all of this, and am only now making up on lost time. these were all posted over at quick stop entertainment over the past few years, so make sure to head over there and click on their ads so they make money through your almost entirely passive actions. if you're like me, you might even get tempted into picking up some crap you don't need from sideshow collectibles.

the monarch & dr. girlfriend: little drummer boy/peace on earth


the monarch & henchmen nos. 21 & 24: hard candy christmas


venture industries: venture aid 2006


the monarch & dr. girlfriend: fairytale of new york


henchmen 21 & 24: wonderful christmastime


and while i'm at it, THIS is news to me as well for some reason? fricking internet, you're my only true friend.

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/have-chip-tunes-xmas.html

you know what this is and you should know if it's for you, which is to say, it is an albums worth of christmas songs done up low bit-rate stylee and it is in fact for you. and you. and also you.

A C64 Christmas

EDIT: just found this, my favorite from the comp, rolling around in my good ole divshare:

do they know it's christmas?


also: check this xmas demo for the commodore 64, advertising an amazing variety of 16 colors!

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/awesome-french-xmas-mix.html

i know next to nothing about this mix and downloaded it sometime early this morning from a blog i have forgotten about. it's tied into some french thing called the mamie van doren show that may or may not be a show having anything to do with mamie van doren.

i think it was made by this guy? with such high quality product (the dubstepped-on hanukkah stuff is a desperate, clammy-handed WANT) the details become a little irrelevant and you can do your own damn homework.

Un Noel Unplugged avec Johnny Holiday et Dj No Breakfast

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/moonface-boy.html

the new ep from wolf parade (and many others) dude spencer krug, alias moonface, titled dreamland and consisting of the 20 minute song marimba and shit-drums, is available for a pay what you want sort of pricing scheme ala radiohead, and i gotta say that i'm really digging it. 12 bucks plus shipping is a bit steep to pay for 20 mins on one side of vinyl, but i'm thinking that each time i listen to this thing between now and january 26th i'm gonne be getting closer and closer to going for it.

i'm posting it up here, but since it's free from the source you should go and get it direct, mkay?

moonface: marimba and shit drums

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/okay-now-what-fuck.html

No one told me that David Lynch was supposed to direct Return of the Jedi!

I had to hear about it from the INTERNET (who granted, is like my second best friend, but still)

this was quite upsetting... as you can imagine...

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/i-have-question.html

I recently subscribed to two different astronomy new feeds, and they update like 20 times a day! How is this even possible?! How is it that new announcements in research can be made everyday, let alone 20 friggen times per day?

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/what-guy.html

So if ya haven't run across it yet, ya best be checkin out Sketchy Santas. It's a nice grouping of all those hilarious photos of children and mall Santas.

This specific photo above is just too reminiscent of Mysterious Skin, no?

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/fuck-yes.html

Flashy Fashion on flickr

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/pauls-boutique-audio-book.html

audible got together with the dudes over at the 33 1/3 series of books (and i think maybe rolling stone magazine?) and are giving away the unabridged paul's boutique book for free (absolutely no commitment to audible whatsoever).

i don't know about anyone else out there but this is pretty much a dream come true since over the course of the next week and a half i'm bouncing around between more than a few airports.

the book is read a little stiffly by this dude which results in some unintentional humorosity, but the story of the making of one of the few undisputed modern classics is totally absorbing regardless of the amount of starch in the vocal collar of the dude reading it.

COP IT HERE!

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/some-dan-deacon-posters.html

i just scanned a couple of posters from the two dan deacon shows i caught this year and though i'd share since they're sitting on the computer right in front of me and all...

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/holidays-made-terrible.html

found video masters everything is terrible is having a pretty epic sale on their dvds right now, dropping 5 bucks off the price and throwing in a "holiday special" dvd to the first hundred to answer the call.



if you're on the fence about what a steal this is, the onion av club review is a pretty glowing one, giving the film an -A.

http://www.picklesdickles.com/2009/12/christmas-is-canceled.html

y'know what... christmas is canceled...

i'm sure my christmas spirit will reinflate itself at some point between now and the 25th but damn if these two and a half minutes didn't completely kill it for me while simultaneously destroying my hope for this generation. sorry to get all grumpy old man about this, but i just saw the "jersey shore" promo for the first time today too, so try and explain how that and this shouldn't make me think twice about procreating.

and while i'm thinking about it, you got it way wrong sasha frere-jones.