rant · moment 7 of 14
His Dad's Terrible Wine Salesman Songs and the 47-Year-Old's Kid Song
from My Last Christmas · #128
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3 minTim describes his father's uninspired acoustic songs about selling wine and his dogs named after Maya Angelou, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Frederick Douglass, then mocks a 47-year-old family friend who performs a song co-written with an 11-year-old about colors.
- 21:03Tim's father sang a nonsensical wine-salesman song about taking a newspaper ride on the train with coffee.
- 21:22Writing songs are fucking easy and pointless—just describe the weather over an acoustic guitar and everyone calls you an artist.
- 21:50A 47-year-old guitarist at the gathering played a song he co-wrote with an 11-year-old based entirely on color names.
- 22:38Tim's take: children's thoughts are mostly worthless, and he doesn't want to hear songs written by kids.
- 23:34Watching his father and the 47-year-old sing wilderness-packed retarded songs in the den felt like a final Christmas Tim needed to endure.
- 24:01Tim decided this was the last Christmas he'd participate in sing-along hokey-pokey family gatherings.