The 12 Zodiac Days of Christmas (and a Josh Krajcik update)

First a quick update about X Factor USA - this week's finale: Our favourite, Josh Krajcik, didn't win, after all, but was runner-up. 19-year old Melanie Amaro took the prize of a 5 million dollar recording contract with Simon Cowell's record label, and an appearance in a Pepsi-Cola commercial. Had any other contestant beat Josh I'd have felt annoyed, but Melanie, with her flawless voice, deserved to win, and in my opinion she needed the win more than Josh. He will do well, now, on his own terms - the way he has performed throughout the competition. I'll be buying his cds, and watching for an opportunity to see him live at some point. A favourite performance below, Up to the Mountain - the song he sang at "bootcamp" - chosen here because there's no bandzilla and loudly screaming audience to spoil the sound; it's a lovely song too. I still haven't found Josh's birthdate. A comment on Josh's birthdate, received this morning, to an earlier post about him, will be copied below, later.

Back to Christmas......

The Twelve Days of Christmas always seems to me to be crying out for an astrological parody: 12 days, 12 zodiac signs! Passing readers who have been wandering into this blog since 2007 (not many, I fear) may possibly recall having seen a version of this post before.

The 12 Days of Christmas is a simple enough traditional song celebrating the season. There have been attempts to attribute to the song some weird code relating to religion, Catholocism in particular, but Snopes.com clears that up - at least to my satisfaction. There is a possibility that the song has been confused with another old song, The New Dial, aka In Those Twelve Days, assigning religious meanings to the 12 days of Christmas in a question and answer style, for example; "What are they which are but six? Six days to labor is not wrong, For God himself did work so long."


Anyway... I decided to haul my old parody from the archives, add different illustration, and post again for this Christmas, 2011:

On the first day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Aries in a big hurrreee


On the second day of Christmas,
My astrologer showed to me
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreeee


On the third day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreee

On the fourth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreee


On the fifth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Five...... Leo........ kings.......
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreee



On the sixth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Six Virgos checking
Five....... Leo...... kings.....
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreee


On the seventh day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Seven tactful Librans
Six Virgos checking,
Five........ Leo... kings........
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreee.


Onthe eighth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Eight Scorps seducing
Seven tactful Librans
Six Virgos checking
Five.......... Leo..... kings.....
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrrreee



On the ninth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Nine Saggies expanding
Eight Scorps seducing
Seven tactful Librans
Six Virgos checking
Five....... Leo.... kings.......
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrrreeee

On the tenth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Ten Capricorns counting
Nine Saggies expanding
Eight Scorps seducing
Seven tactful Librans
Six Virgos checking,
Five...... Leo...... kings.....
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrrreee


On the eleventh day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Eleven Aquarians knowing
Ten Capricorns counting
Nine Saggies expanding
Eight Scorps seducing
Seven tactful Librans
Six Virgos checking
Five..... Leo....... kings.....
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And Aries in a big hurrreeee


On the twelfth day of Christmas
My astrologer showed to me
Twelve Pisceans dreaming
Eleven Aquarians knowing
Ten Capricorns counting
Nine Saggies expanding
Eight Scorps seducing
Seven tactful Librans
Six Virgos checking
Five..... Leo........ kings......
Four Cancer moms
Three chatty Gems
Two Taurus bulls
And .... Aries in a big hurrrrreeeeee

And.... a version of the original song performed here by John Denver and The Muppets.





MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL !!

Music Monday ~ Josh Krajcik of The X-Factor USA

We've slogged our way, groaning and complaining (mostly about Simon Cowell) through audition and bootcamp phases of The X Factor USA.

As I've written before on this blog, TV musical talent shows are my/our "guilty pleasures"; such shows are routinely put down as "fodder for the sheeple" by critics. But I love, and get a kick from the idea, that ordinary people of the 99%: car washers, burrito slingers, hairdressers, students, butchers, bakers and what-have-you, if they possess some musical talent, can achieve a few minutes, few weeks, months and maybe years in the limelight, able to do for an audience what most of them feel they were "born to do".

We always find at least one stand-out performer who appeals to us particularly. This time its Josh Krajcik, a 30 year old burrito slinger from Columbus Ohio. He lives with his girlfriend of 8 years, and has a 13-year old daughter. (Thanks to commenter Keena for the information). That's as much as I have so far found out about him. His birth date, unfortunately, isn't anywhere to be found on line. If looks are anything to go by I'd say he has either Taurus or Sagittarius prominent (Sun, Moon and/or ascendant). First time we heard his voice, in the earliest show, we both immediately said "Joe Cocker!!"

Josh is in the "Over 30" category. He will need to remain consistently outstanding to beat some of the youngsters who judges Simon Cowell and L A Reid appear to be pushing forward rather aggressively. I have confidence that, if any of the "Over 30" group can do it, Josh can. It doesn't matter whether he wins or not though - he'll not be slinging burritos again!

This video is from his first performance, when he sang At Last



Here at "bootcamp" at the home of the Over-30s group judge Nicole Scherzinger, with guest judge Enrico Iglesias. He sings The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face




Well....he curls MY toes!!! He'll perform again this week, on the first show on which the TV audience gets an opportunity to vote.

Anyone know his date of birth?

Finally, as it's Hallowe'en tonight, something to help create the atmosphere:

Video of Night on Bald Mountain from Disney's wonderful Fantasia...
..... all very Scorpio, in tune with astrological position of the Sun
on 31 October.