Hi all! Christmas is coming up, and I just finished inking chapter 1 of Small Shen. There’s still chapter 2 to go, so hopefully I’ll be able to finish that by the end of this month. No Christmas holidays for me, but that’s the way it’s always been when I’m working on a book. So I’m used to it.
This week I’m showing something I did for my musician friend Yunyu. She’s been re-writing Christmas songs to suit her darkly subversive world views, and along with Zombie Christmas, this year it’s Were-Santa. The song takes the hot-button issues of this year, specifically werewolves and misbehaving Wall Street CEOs, and mixes the two together to create… something you can troll people with at the upcoming Christmas parties. Hey, I consider this song a happy song. And ofcourse, I created some appropriate album art for it.
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You can also listen to the song and download it at SoundCloud.
Lyrics
It’s the crap-crappiest time of the year
My head’s jingle belling,
And hippies are telling me
“Be of good cheer”
It’s my most sorrowful time of the year
It’s the crap-crappiest season of all
When I become Santa,
and no I’m not mental
I just want a cure
from this crap-crappiest sickness of all
I was making a killing
In stock market trading
Cashing in on all the loopholes
I’m worse than Charles Ponzi
I took more than Madoff
But hey you’re not perfect yourself
It’s my most sorrowful time of the year
A were-santa he got me
he bit me that bastard
and now once a year
I’m transformed into this ponce with the bells
I’ll pay anything for a cure
for this sickness
and swap this for lycanthropy
And anything’s better than riding with sleigh bells
and giving my fortunes away.
It’s my most sorrowful time of the year
my pockets are echoing
my world is ending and
Don’t you dare cheer
It’s the most sorrowful time
It’s the most sorrowful time
It’s the most sorrowful time of the year
Queenie, I noticed that you update your blog every thursday, so I sent my message on a wednesday before you got the chance to go online. Seeing how I might put comments on the blog posts, I’ll try to send my next message through the site next time, but during the middle of the week.
Besides the new set of pencils, eraser and 12” x 18” sketch pad I got as a gift from one of my classmates, your reply may just be one of the best gifts I may get this year. I’ll accept it as your christmas gift to me in exchange for the sketch I sent you.
Expect at least one message from me every month over the next year. I want to see how being in contact with you will turn out for the both of us and I’m looking forward to it. It feels really great knowing that you appreciate the efforts a loyal fan and friend such as myself puts into his work and you can be sure that with practice, it will be better in the future.
Thank you very much and enjoy the holidays. I just hope this song doesn’t ruin the mood too much or kill it for anyone. (No offense, Yunyu).
Well, sure. 🙂 It’s good to see people drawing backgrounds, something that gets neglected a lot. I think that if you can draw backgrounds well, you’ve got a head start.
Have a happy holiday too. And yeah, while Yunyu’s song isn’t for everybody, some people like this sort of thing a lot. 😛
With the infinite number of reference photos on the Internet and books, it shouldn’t be a problem. I’ve just become more aware that I need to go back to basics in drawing figures. Even so, I learn from the best and that includes you.
I never said I didn’t like the song. I only said it might not work for everyone.
Sure. Good luck with that.
And glad you liked Yunyu’s song (or at least got something out of it). 😛 You’re right about it not being for everybody though (but Yunyu’s cool about that).