Route1's Holiday Viewing Guide

Route1 has been enjoying some fine holiday viewing in between holiday preparations, thanks to YouTube and an early Christmas present DVD.
Here are some video chestnuts guaranteed to brighten any holiday season:
"A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)."
No Christmas is complete without Charles M. Schulz's ode to the true meaning of Christmas. I haven't been able to see it on TV this holiday season, but I have watched it several times on YouTube. Look for part one of three, located here.

We love music during the holiday season. Some of us just can't handle 24 hours of Christmas music, that's all.
YouTube provides a nice respite from traditional holiday tunes.
Check out Weezer's excellent "Keep Fishin'" video on YouTube, located here.
Weezer always craft wildly original videos to accompany their impossibly catchy songs. Add the Muppets, and you have four-plus minutes of welcome respite from the non-stop sonic wall of caroling and "O Tannenbaum."

If the blaring Christmas music on the five-disc CD player were a monster (and by hour No. 14, it *IS* a monster, believe me), then I would want to be Ultraman.
We opened a few gifts the other night, during a gift exchange between just the four of us Hogstroms.
Annika, bless her, got me Series One, Volume 2 of the 1966 classic Japanese television show, "Ultraman," on DVD. You can learn about the series (which I worshiped as an 11-year-old growing up in Concord, Calif.) here.
Ultraman could grow to 200-feet tall, fired energy bursts from his hand and used martial arts to destroy all types of monsters.
Right about now, I would love to see what he could do against Garth Brooks crooning "White Christmas."
Happy holidays everyone!