Recommended Listening:
Northaunt
Pain is Better
The Ominous Silence
{Created in Adobe Photoshop}
Friday, December 23, 2011
Sketch: Father Christmas
Recommended Listening:
Northaunt
Pain is Better
The Ominous Silence
{Created in Adobe Photoshop}
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Agreed. I've always thought those particular qualities of Santa always made him sound more like a menacing specter of judgement and punishment rather than the bringer of joy and rewarding gifts. Really, that whole song is just one big implication of "You better behave yourself or Santa's gonna kick your little ass up one side and down the other."
For me, it is a flashback to that discovery of the scary elements in the Grimm's fairy tales like where the three sisters in Cinderella are cutting off bits of their feet to fit in the glass slipper. I've always been more interested in the origins of stories and myths rather the white washed stuff we're fed by Disney and such.
An interesting take on that in a less violent and more sexual train of thought is Alan Moore's Lost Girls. Be forwarned: it is pornographic in nature, but perhaps some of the most tastefully done pornography I've ever read. I do recommend it if you enjoy that sort of thing...and can afford it. It is a GIANT of a book!
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