![Day 7: the Underplayed Christmas Carol Advent Calendar 2025. Christmas at the Zoo by the Flaming Lips, Bonus: Reindeer in the Night by the Missile Toads. Three Giraffes, two zebras at a Christmas light watering hole, an elephant, a parrot, and a reindeer all glow in the night inside the entrance gate of Gotham Zoo, famously a hangout for Penguin during the Christmas motif heavy Tim Burton masterpiece Batman Returns. This depiction of Gotham Zoo.
The Flaming Lips gained fame in the alternative era, back in 1993 when “She Don’t Use Jelly” playing heavily on MTV could lift a band to the next-level. I’ve seen the Flaming Lips a few times and they put on a psychedelic rock theater show second to one, the Pink Floyd (& assc solo acts). Yet the Lips have a unique identity, iconography and a more alternative-art rock sensibility. As a fellow “guitar picker from Oklahoma City with a pair of blue jeans on,” (def poet Eddie Cochran), I can tell you there’s something surreal about Oklahoma—which may explain why great psychedelic bands come from there, the Lips and also the Starlight Mints.
Bonus: Reindeer in the Night by the Missile Toads, a self-described “jolly old” punk band that has 21 different Xmas songs like “Sock Full of Coal,” “If the Elves Were United,” and “Santa is a Nazis” available—get ready for a hit of nostalgia kush—on Bandcamp. Live Christmas Party renditions on YouTube also give a good measure of the band. The MTs write of their Xmas output: “every arrangement has the nip of a wintry night, the glitter of the tree, the warmth of the fireside with [its] gay red stockings dangling from the mantelpiece in anticipation of Santa’s visit.” 17 Nov 2013. They haven’t unseated the Vandals as the greatest Christmas punk outfit, but they’re sleighing in their shadow.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7kl2oibuldol4ubr3lyjjg5e/bafkreifxwldbcbqwypipli27sccdkkbnlx72hvfqxquj2nivky7tmwy2jy)
Day 7: the Underplayed Christmas Carol Advent Calendar 2025. Christmas at the Zoo by the Flaming Lips, Bonus: Reindeer in the Night by the Missile Toads. Three Giraffes, two zebras at a Christmas light watering hole, an elephant, a parrot, and a reindeer all glow in the night inside the entrance gate of Gotham Zoo, famously a hangout for Penguin during the Christmas motif heavy Tim Burton masterpiece Batman Returns. This depiction of Gotham Zoo. The Flaming Lips gained fame in the alternative era, back in 1993 when “She Don’t Use Jelly” playing heavily on MTV could lift a band to the next-level. I’ve seen the Flaming Lips a few times and they put on a psychedelic rock theater show second to one, the Pink Floyd (& assc solo acts). Yet the Lips have a unique identity, iconography and a more alternative-art rock sensibility. As a fellow “guitar picker from Oklahoma City with a pair of blue jeans on,” (def poet Eddie Cochran), I can tell you there’s something surreal about Oklahoma—which may explain why great psychedelic bands come from there, the Lips and also the Starlight Mints. Bonus: Reindeer in the Night by the Missile Toads, a self-described “jolly old” punk band that has 21 different Xmas songs like “Sock Full of Coal,” “If the Elves Were United,” and “Santa is a Nazis” available—get ready for a hit of nostalgia kush—on Bandcamp. Live Christmas Party renditions on YouTube also give a good measure of the band. The MTs write of their Xmas output: “every arrangement has the nip of a wintry night, the glitter of the tree, the warmth of the fireside with [its] gay red stockings dangling from the mantelpiece in anticipation of Santa’s visit.” 17 Nov 2013. They haven’t unseated the Vandals as the greatest Christmas punk outfit, but they’re sleighing in their shadow.
Day 7. A new theme for the 2nd quarter will emerge.
Christmas at the Zoo by 🔥👄
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Bonus: Reindeer in the Night by 🚀🐸
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