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Merry Bassmas

Merry Bassmas

Christmas celebrations should be festive, and with that festivity comes music. If you’re looking for something new to add to your holiday playlist, consider Charles Berthoud’s slap-tacular electric bass performance. The arrangement is based on Trans Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24.

All I Want for Christmas… Is Silence

All I Want for Christmas… Is Silence

It’s nearly Christmas, and Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is burrowing its way into ear canals everywhere. Film editor Fabrice Mathieu created this movie mashup in which characters can’t escape Mariah’s ubiquitous song and music video as it takes over every TV on the planet. Find the list of all 40 movies in the YouTube description.

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DJ Cummerbund: Rebel Navidad

DJ Cummerbund: Rebel Navidad

In the midnight hour, I want to wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart. DJ Cummerbund has done it again, mashing up Billy Idol’s hit Rebel Yell with José Feliciano’s seasonal classic Feliz Navidad. With special guest appearances by Rob Zombie, Wham!, and Rush, it’s sure to bring joy to your holiday festivities.

If Holiday Movies Were Honest

If Holiday Movies Were Honest

Every year, movie studios and TV networks spoon-feed viewers what they hope will be the next Christmas classic. Roger from Honest Ads calls bulls*t on these movies, filled with unrealistic relationships, product placements, and stupid clichés.

Beast Reality: Merry Muthaf*#%in’ Xmas

Beast Reality: Merry Muthaf*#%in’ Xmas

(PG-13: Language) “I’ma give you my North Pole like you’re Missus Claus.” MC Spotz, Killah C, Dr. Shellz, and Xzibit bring the cheer with a special Christmas gift that deserves a place on your holiday playlist alongside Dick in a Box. We’re looking forward to carolers singing this tune outside our front door.

Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree

Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree

Oi! Oi! Deck the halls with boughs of holly! AC/DC and Brenda Lee lock horns, giving us the perfect cure for Mariah Carey’s annual auditory assault. Bill McClintock’s latest mashup deftly blends metal with cheerful mid-century pop, giving us a new classic to add to our Christmas playlist.

Wheatus: Christmas Dirtbag

Wheatus: Christmas Dirtbag

Wheatus revisits their 2000 pop-punk hit Teenage Dirtbag with this special holiday edition. Christmas Dirtbag updates the lyrics to be about a kid who doesn’t think he’s getting any presents from Santa. Though, in the animated music video, it’s a dog who feels left out. From the EP Just a Dirtbag Christmas, which also includes a string quartet version.

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Love & Victory Cocktail Ornaments

Love & Victory Cocktail Ornaments
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Decorate your Christmas tree with booze when you pick up these clever cocktail ornaments from Brooklyn’s Love & Victory. The hand-blown glass ornaments come in martini, margarita, Mai Tai, old-fashioned, spritz, Negroni, Bloody Mary, and straight whiskey versions. They also have a web-exclusive set of ice cube ornaments to keep your bar-tree cool.

The Star Wars Christmas Parade

The Star Wars Christmas Parade

If retailers can put their Christmas decorations out before Halloween, we can, too. In this silly holiday edit from Auralnauts, Vader pitches the idea of a Life Day (er, Christmas) parade to Palpatine. Set against the snowy backdrop of Hoth, Santa guides his AT-AT reindeer to deliver a load of gifts to the good little Rebels.

Spinning Xmas Tree Plays DOOM

Spinning Xmas Tree Plays DOOM

We recently got a look at Sean Hodgins’ unique (and dangerous) spinning Christmas tree that creates the impression of a tree using lights and a persistence of vision illusion. After fans asked him if it could be programmed to play DOOM, he posted this video demonstrating the tree’s ability to be used as a gaming display.

Persistence of Vision Illusion Christmas Tree

Persistence of Vision Illusion Christmas Tree

Most of us celebrated Christmas with a real tree or a store-bought fake one. Sean Hodgins made his tree out of light. He created the electronic tree using a triangular bar rigged with LEDs that spins at high speed to create the illusion. It looks amazing, but it’s dangerous enough that he stands behind a blast shield to use it.

Home Alotus

Home Alotus

Artist Jamie Umpherson rings in the holidays with a version of The White Lotus season two opening credits but with characters from Home Alone. He used the AI imaging software RunwayML to generate character portraits and scenes, then blended them into moving compositions. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!

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Zombie Santa Claus

Zombie Santa Claus

North of the Border imagines what it might be like if the zombie apocalypse hit the night before Christmas. Santa is still coming down your chimney, but he’s looking for brains instead of milk and cookies. This handbuilt sculpture of the undead St. Nick includes a sack full of toys for all the good little zombies.

Joy to the World Brass Quintet

Joy to the World Brass Quintet

Kick off the holidays with this jolly brass arrangement of Joy to the World, performed on two trumpets, solo horn, flugelhorn, and soprano trombone by musician Seb Skelly. His brass cover of Elton John’s Step Into Christmas belongs on your holiday party playlist too.

Christmas Rocket Tree Goes Rogue

Christmas Rocket Tree Goes Rogue

Like last year, maker Xyla Foxlin and Joe from BPS.Space wanted to celebrate the holidays with a rocket-powered Christmas tree. But this year’s launch didn’t quite go according to plan, and the flaming yule tree literally went sideways and turned into a missile that could have easily taken out Santa and his sleigh of reindeer.

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Snowman Ornament

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Snowman Ornament
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You know the feeling – you just ate one too many Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and your mouth, esophagus, and stomach are starting to burn. This glass snowman is having an existential crisis after downing a bag of the spicy puffed snacks and is about to melt all over your Christmas tree. Toss a glass of milk on him for a new holiday tradition!

Christmas Decorations Gone Wild

Christmas Decorations Gone Wild

After these Christmas decorations were set up in London, England, strong winds took hold of some of the giant metallic baubles decorating Tottenham Court Road, and the balls went rolling down the street, resulting in a wonderfully surreal scene. We half expected the music from Katamari Damacy to start playing.

Things Could Be Worse Christmas Cards

Things Could Be Worse Christmas Cards
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From burning the cookies to forgetting to put booze in the Egg Nog, the holidays are filled with minor disasters. But these Xmas cards from Calamityware imagine bigger catastrophes like evil snowmen, tentacle monsters, and deadly alien spores. The message inside says “You can’t escape the holiday spirit.” Sold in a 20-pack.

2022 Beer Advent Calendar

2022 Beer Advent Calendar
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Ring in the holidays with the best craft beers of 2022. GiveThemBeer’s annual advent calendar comes loaded with a dozen great cans from breweries like Lagunitas, Cigar City Brewing, Oskar Blues, and Bell’s. If your gift recipient prefers something a little stronger, they also sell whiskey, tequila, and vodka calendars.

Wordle Xmas Ornament

Wordle Xmas Ornament
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If there’s one game that took over phones this year, it was Wordle. Now you can pay tribute to 2022’s popular word game every year with this Word Game Xmas Ornament from Urban Outfitters. Unlike Wordle, this unofficial ornament only has five rows, so you’ve got one less try to guess, but someone already solved it anyway.

Die Hard Advent Calendar

Die Hard Advent Calendar
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It’s not even Halloween yet, so obviously, it’s time to start planning for Christmas. What better way to count down the days than with Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza? Leatherhead Laser Work created this hilarious wood advent calendar of Die Hard’s baddie meeting his maker. There’s also a Midnight Edition.

Spirited (Teaser)

Spirited (Teaser)

Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, and Octavia Spencer star in this feel-good holiday flick that takes elements of A Christmas Carol and adds a dash of whimsy to the occasion. Expect witty banter, Broadway-style musical numbers, and tap dancing. Coming to Apple TV+ 11.18.2022.

Violent Night (Trailer)

Violent Night (Trailer)

We already know that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. But if you’re looking for more Santa Claus in your vigilante action films, look no further than Violent Night, an upcoming holiday flick about a wealthy family held hostage when a tired and jaded Santa (David Harbour) comes down the chimney and stumbles onto the criminals.

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