Too Much Too Soon

I thought I'd try and get into the spirit of things by listening to my Auto Playlist I have optimistically called 'Christmas'. Anything with the word Snow or Christmas or Winter etc. is included, but it throws up all kind of clashes:

Winter Is Gone - Nick Drake: a demo which is not especially cheery,
A History of Holes - Nine Horses; included because the album is called Snow Borne Sorrow, not very festive,
A Change of Seasons IV: The Darkest of Winters - Dream Theater, another un-festive track,
Holly Herald - Jethro Tull, from the Christmas album of a couple of years back: it's jolly, but maybe too much for this time of the morning,
Jingle Bell Rock - The Fall. This is more like it!
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - JT. I once programme my old VIC=20 computer to play this carol and loved the polyphonic outcome; the sounds were much better than on the Spectrum, although the memory was something like 3.5k vs. 16k on the Spec and 64k on the C64.
The Librarian - more Nine Horses,
Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins from the very rare 'Snow' EP: great fun,
Winter - Tori Amos: I don't really like her voice, but this is okay,
Plight (The Spiralling of WInter Ghosts) - David Sylvian from the strange 'Camphor' album,
River - Gentle Giant. Only included on Auto-Play because there's a song of the same name by Joni Mitchell which IS relevant to christmas. This isn't.
Winter Wonderland - Cocteau Twins, from the 'Snow' EP again,
Winter Snowscape - more JT. Better than Holly Herald, but too much.

I got fed up of this and turned to Pendragon (Not Of This World) for the walk to work. Ahh, that's better.

The Independent seems to have lost it completely this morning. I can put with a bit of Blair-bashing, but today was just rabid. A re-write of history to suit their ends. Get over it.

Plus, England seem intent on throwing away the Ashes. It'll all be over tomorrow.

T - 4; M - 3; D - 4, except for the people who insist on stepping on my toes.