Cry for vengeance,

Brother Abel!

You were the first martyr.

We remember you today.

Your brother marked, and

Rejected by God.

Come forth,

first innocent victim

of the power of evil.

Father,



may I go to war?



Yes, you may,



my son;



Wear your woollen comforter,



But don't fire off your gun.

Name	Artist	Album
DLZ	TV on the Radio	Dear Science
Gobbledigook	Sigur Rós	Gobbledigook
Gettin Up	Q-Tip	Pass the Feeling On
Kim & Jessie	M83	Saturdays = Youth
I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me	Annie	Don't Stop
Hairy Candy	Tobacco	Fucked Up Friends
Courtship Dating	Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles
DVNO	Justice	DVNO EP
Golden Cage	The Whitest Boy Alive	The Whitest Boy Alive
Sandcastle Disco	Solange	Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams
Paris is Burning	Ladyhawke	Ladyhawke
Dance, Dance, Dance	Lykke Li	Little Bit EP
Out There On The Ice	Cut Copy	In Ghost Colours
Ready For The Floor [Soulwax Dub]	Hot Chip	Most Of The Remixes... Mixed By 2 Many DJ's
Collapsing At Your Doorstep	Air France	No Way Down
Lights Out	Santogold	I Believe In Santogold
Sound of Kuduro	Buraka Som Sistema ft. DJ Znobia, M.I.A, Saborosa, Puto Prata	Buraka Som Sistema
Where Do You Run To	Vivian Girls	Vivian Girls
Carol Of The Bells	The Bird and the Bee	Carol Of The Bells - Single

In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy

Santotogold - Santogold

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

Robyn - Robyn

Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward

Saturdays = Youth - M83

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

Hercules and the Love Affair - Hercules and the Love Affair

Beneath my bedtime pillow,

I met a timid pixie.

He visited during my deepest slumber,

Afraid to startle me.

Last night he unveiled Arcadia

Between the truth and the mist

Where souls frolic freely

Unencumbered by social covenant.

We loved with abandon,

Soothing our kin

And paving the future.

We ate our fill there

and curled up together.

Dreaming of true consciousness,

It manifest

Before we awoke to our everyday dream.

I saw him.

Leering at me,

Limning the future,

Touching himself,

Writhing in ecstasy.

It's not right.

He'll burn for this.

Name	Artist	Album
Departure	Crystal Stilts	Alight of Night
Bruises	Chairlift	Does You Inspire You
Circus	Britney Spears	Circus
Poker Face	Lady Gaga	The Fame
What Else is There (Trentemøller Remix)	Royksopp	The Understanding
Minimal Fox	Trentemøller	Sunstroke Vinyl
My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)	Feist	Kitsuné Maison Vol. 4
To Yourself	David E. Sugar	Kitsuné Maison Vol. 5
Danse en France (Dim Remix)	Fischerspooner	Danse en France - EP
City (Teenagers Remix)	Lo-Fi Fnk	Boylife
With You Forever	PNAU	PNAU
Tessio (Moonbootica Radio Edit)	Luomo	Digital Disco 2
Hide and Seek (Tiesto Remix)	Imogen Heap	In Search Of Sunrise 6 : Ibiza
Take It Like A Man	Dragonette	Take it Like a Man EP
Sunstroke	Trentemøller

I love Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1964. It's filled with dollops of holiday absurdity amid a hero's journey. I think that Rudolph speaks to the outcast in me.

Rudolph's father was so stern, distant and judgemental. Why should a glowing, squeaking honker preclude reindeer games? What made Santa's animals so exclusionary and mean?

His girlfriend, Clarice, is just a little too sexy for kiddies. Those eyelashes have a come hither look:

And his friend, Hermy, the Dentist was so fey.

I didn't know when I was a munchkin, but upon review of the classic, "dentist" is seems to be a euphemism for the love that dare not speak its name.

Then there's the original gay bear, Yukon Cornelius.

Here we see him licking his tool. He's a loner, loves animals and jewelry (actually obsessed with silver and gold) and has a soft spot for pork.

I imagine that en route to the island of misfit toys, Hermy and Yukon were gay for each other.

Then there's Bumble the bouncing abominble snowman.

He seemed like my friendly but potentially dangerous developmentally disabled friend. His dentures were his achilles heel; lose them and bounce off a cliff!

The misfit toys themselves were just so adorable.

Led by King Moon Racer, the winged lion, they needed to find a child to love them.

Along with the polka-dotted elephant, the square-wheeled caboose train, and the cowboy who rode an ostrich with the fish-bird,

there was the water pistol which shot grape jelly.

Finally, there was Dolly for Sue, the ostensibly normal toy doll.

What makes her a misfit? According to Arthur Rankin, she actually had clinical depression from feeling unloved. Now there's a perfectly wonderful/awful revelation! Top this all off with a Charlie-in-the-box,

and you have a far-out and charming holiday yarn befitting good-natured outcasts everywhere.