Do I know it's Christmas time? You're damn right I do with the annual ubiquotious holiday pop hit parade we're subjected to every year on the radio. I love the holidays for the most part and the other day I was even making an xmas mix cd for a non-party I hosted with a friend when a thought occured to me. I was listening to "Feed the World" by Band Aid and there is a part in the song where all the different rock stars give shout outs and say "happy christmas" and all this shit. Then at the end Bob Geldof, I think says something like "It's Thursday November 24 1984 and we've been here all night and I think it's time we went home, please you, middle class listener and non-rock star, feed these people in Africa, I need to go see if my limo is outside to take me back to my ridiculous mansion." Ok it wasn't exactly like that, but he did say they needed to go home and he, David Bowie and an assortment of rock stars ask us to please reach out and help these people in Africa, because do they know it's Christmas time AND they'll be no snow in Africa this year. Bob Geldof, David Bowie, Sting, Bono...have your heads been stuck up your collective European asses for the past millenium because when has there ever been SNOW or CHRISTMAS in AFRICA? And you know what I bet they like it that way. Also fifty percent of the people involved in Band Aid are no longer making music and if they are it's on the mainstage at your local county fair...that's right Heaven 17 and the Style Council! I love the song but can't help but feel the subtext of a guilt trip coming on as Bono belts out "tonight thank god it's them instead of you!" Yes, rockstars who throw televisions out of hotel suites and have excessive parties on yatchs telling me to feed the people in Africa, way to pass the buck Bandaid!

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