New Christmas Carol Proposal

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Halloween is over—Thanks Be to God.

Now the stores will start running a loop of synthesized Christmas music through the overhead speakers.  Over and over.  Shoppers will unknowingly be inspired to shop “in the spirit of the season”.  Or perhaps, they will quickly shop simply to escape the store ; their decision making skills will be affected by the thoroughly slaughtered versions of old favorites, and junk will fly off the shelves.

I would like to propose a new Christmas song.

When my oldest daughter was about four years old, she would ask for everything and anything she saw.  We almost always said “no” and told her that she could not have everything she saw.  (She really hated when we did that.)

So here is my suggestion for a new Christmas classic:

Yes, I know.

We sang only the chorus to our four year old.  So edit the rest out and burn the chorus into the store music, and I think it could be acceptable.

Note:  Do you know how many YouTube videos of Rolling Stones with Mick Jaggers singing this song exist?  Culling through them was like watching a time continuum, with Mick and the band aging visually.

It is a Saturday and this somehow hung in my mind until I put it into a blog post.  As John Gray@ Going Gently would say:  Hey-ho.

Satisfaction

March 2010, courtesy of Bing.com

Mick Jaggers is sixty-eight years old.  Yes, yes he is.  I read it in Sunday’s paper.

Was it so long ago that I listened to him and The Who in my room on the farm?  Can’t get no……can’t get no……can’t get no…Satisfaction…

I was standing at the top of the stairs, listening to my brother’s radio in his room, humming along.  “Satisfaction?”  What the heck does he mean?  I even looked it up in the dictionary to make sure that I knew what he meant. 

State of being satisfied; reaching a point of feeling completeness; satiated

Being all of thirteen or so years old, it occurred to me that the singer should have been satisfied.  I mean, after all, here he was, from England!  England!  And, he had a record that was playing on the radio all the time.  Plus, he and his English  band had been interviewed on television.   The interviewer asked him if he had gotten 'any satisfaction', and Mick said NO. This man, this Mick Jaggers, should have been very happy, very complete.

Years later, when I had learned more about Mick Jaggers and The Who The Rolling Stones, it again occurred to me that these people should have been satisfied.  But, they were not.  Drugs, alcohol, lots of sex, fame, money—they had it all.  One of their band died from an overdose.  Each struggled with addictions of some sort.  Why weren’t they satisfied?

Now, at age 68, Mick Jaggers should be able to have a perspective of his life.  I wonder how he would answer the question:  Am I satisfied?

What do you think?  What do you remember about that era?  Those songs?