This is Halloween, This is Halloween....errr Christmas?

So it's Christmas eve and i'm sitting here watching The Nightmare Before Christmas.....not the most festive Christmas eve i've ever had. It's not even really a Christmas movie - the plot is actually kinda frightening and morbid. I had a friend confess to me that it used to scare him....but i guess when the main character is a skeleton and his girlfriend is a rag doll who consistently loses limbs and poisons her creator that might be kind of scary.

There are children throwing snowballs here
instead of throwing heads
They're busy building toys
And absolutely no one's dead

The plot, for those of you who have never seen it, is basically a skeleton named Jack who is bored with halloween so he stumbles into Christmas town and decides that he wants to take-over Christmas and do it the halloween-town way.

[JACK]
Listen now, you don't understand
That's not the point of Christmas land

Now, pay attention
Now we pick up an over-sized sock
And hang it like this on the wall

[MR. HYDE]
Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?

[MEDIUM MR. HYDE]
Let me see, let me look

[SMALL MR. HYDE]
Is it rotted and covered with gook?

My favorite sequence is actually the one where the evil little trick or treaters, Lock, Shock and Barrel, go kidnap "Sandy Claws" so that Jack can take his place.

Kidnap the Sandy Claws, beat him with a stick
Lock him up for ninety years, see what makes him tick

Kidnap the Sandy Claws, chop him into bits
Mr. Oogie Boogie is sure to get his kicks
Kidnap the Sandy Claws, see what we will see
Lock him in a cage and then, throw away the key

SO how is this Christmassy? Am i just morbid and enjoy twisting tradition?

I wouldnt' go that far. I quite like tradition and it always bothers me that my family doesnt' seem to care about it as much as i do. Nothing is the same from when i was a kid and nobody else seems to care about the fact that we hardly spend any time with one another even during the holidays. I think Christmas is a time for family and togetherness and people get too caught up in the gift-receiving of the season. So maybe if we did kidnap the "sandy claws" and get the "I want" mentality to lessen we'd all be better off. Regardless of what you believe, I think most people can agree on the importance of being thankful for one another and being there for the people that you love. And really the people of Halloween-town all love Jack (afterall he does make walls crawl) and they do come together to help him create his dream of Christmas...and although they fail in completing the Christmas vision, they fail together and bounce back together with an even better Halloween.

Together sounds pretty good to me.....
..5 days till Ottawa.