Big Bulbs - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
There's a specific, tender joy in a pop song's horn section, no? The first twenty seconds of this are just so darn peppy.
Strings of bulbs are so strongly associated with xmas that we often call them "christmas lights" regardless of season (though N.B. they're known as "fairy lights" on the other side of the pond). I was reading some history of this and it ends up being a history of electrification: people coated buildings in festive lights nearly as soon as they could and strung up glass globes of candles before that.
Anyway, given the startling lack of Lightamin D around this time of year-
- it doesn't surprise me that there are a lot of northern-hemisphere festivals of light going down. (Not All Festivals, mind you, and I admit that bibliomancy, apparently part of traditional Persian solstice celebrations, is even more rad than big bulbs.)
There's a specific, tender joy in a pop song's horn section, no? The first twenty seconds of this are just so darn peppy.
Strings of bulbs are so strongly associated with xmas that we often call them "christmas lights" regardless of season (though N.B. they're known as "fairy lights" on the other side of the pond). I was reading some history of this and it ends up being a history of electrification: people coated buildings in festive lights nearly as soon as they could and strung up glass globes of candles before that.
Anyway, given the startling lack of Lightamin D around this time of year-
- it doesn't surprise me that there are a lot of northern-hemisphere festivals of light going down. (Not All Festivals, mind you, and I admit that bibliomancy, apparently part of traditional Persian solstice celebrations, is even more rad than big bulbs.)