Letting the creative juices flow... (How gay and sexual does that sound?)

I am under the impression that the Switchfoot song "I Dare You To Move" was written after a long game of chess between the singer and someone else. They were probably stuck in a stalemate for a long time, one of the two slowly pondering his next move before the other shouted out "I dare you to move!" Yes. That's definitely what happened.

While I'm in the writing mood, I'd also like to talk about something that's been on my mind for at least two weeks now, because I hear it everywhere I go.... Christmas carols. They're everywhere! It doesn't help I work at a clothing store, but still... They should create a law that makes it illegal to play Christmas songs on the radio any earlier than two weeks before Christmas and up to New Years. Otherwise, by Christmas everyone is sick of them (or at least I am... and that's all that matters). Alright, in reality carols are not that big a deal, but people should at least change it up once in a while, and create new ones. I know The Killers did a Christmas song a few years back that was good and much different from the classics. No Doubt's version of Oi To The World is also a great one. What I REALLY have a problem with, however, is the lyrics in all these songs. Oi To The World is creative, funny, Christmasy and awesome. It's about an Indian boy named Haji who gets beat up by skinhead Trevor at a bar and they chase each other around and at the end they hug it out (Bitch?) and have drinks at the pub together. Classic. Isn't that what Christmas is really about? (Tongue-in-cheek, all you by-the-book people out there). That's creative. What bothers me is why (as I've already mentioned on Facebook) we sing slaying songs on Christmas? And we have fun slaying people?!?! "How fun it is to ride and sing a slaying song tonight!" So we're not slaying people, just singing about it! And we're riding a winter roller coaster or something while we do it? It's crazy.

Furthermore, what in the bloody Hell is a jingle horse? I have never been able to figure that out. "Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet." First of all, if a horse (and I'm basing this point on the assumption that a jingle horse is, in fact, either a breed of - or something very similar to - a typical equine) picks up its feet, then wouldn't it just lie there in the snow, uselessly. I mean, yes, it will theoretically float for the tiniest fraction of millisecond, but after that all four legs would hit the ground and the jingle horse's knees would probably snap or something... Alright, and now let's work on the assumption that a jingle horse is actually a horse with jingles on it. With that in mind, the lyrics still do not make any sense. If a person is wearing clothes, you do not call him a clothes person. What idiot wrote this?... Stupid lyricist, could have made a lot more sense if they lyrics were "giddy-up, horse-with-bells, run really fast... riding around the block." (or however that line goes). Ridiculous.

But wait, there's more! You'd think people were bad enough, singing slaying songs, but no... that's not enough. They also have to sing about whores. "Oh what fun it is to ride on a one whore-soaping sleigh." Not only are they "riding a whore" (if that's what we call it nowadays), but the whore is covered in soap! ...or at least the sleigh the whore is on is covered in soap. Makes no sense. This is what the kids listen to today? No thank you. Here's a real Christmas song: