Top 5 Fave Christmas Videos

Finally, I have made it back. Later than I hoped but I managed to pull myself together here at the end of the day to lay out what are my favorite Christmas Videos from YouTube.

What better way to end Christmas than to remember some funny, spectacular and all around great music...as well as some geekery. *ahem*

Well, let's get this party started.

And one side note, I won't be doing a detailed review of these videos. At this point, I'm lucky to be awake considering my lack of grammar or typonese that's happening to me right now.

I will come back for a future post to give more elaboration once I've had something called sleep. I hear it does wonders.

So let's start off with...

Number 5
Faith Hill - Where are You Christmas?

What can I say? I'm a fan of Faith Hill and a fan of this song.

Number 4
Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus

Who doesn't love a good flash mob and by people who can actually sing? I must give props where props are due.

Number 3
Doctor Who: The Snowmen - Christmas Special Trailer

Okay, while this doesn't have anything to do with Christmas music or a Christmas movie...he does fight a bad..."force" and saves the world in time for Christmas. I'll be waiting for my turn to ride in the TARDIS.

Number 2
Chevy Chase (Christmas Vacation Rant)

Okay, if you haven't seen this movie or at least never heard of it even in passing...I don't know if we couldn't ever be friends till you watched it. Might make exceptions if you like tacos though.

And the Number 1 Fave Video for Christmas is....
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo [Timeless Version] by the Trans Siberian Orchestra

Now this song and video are my absolute faves. It's exciting, thrilling, enjoyable, and classic with rock n' roll thrown in. I would go nuts if I ever got to see them in concert. It's on my bucket list.

So there you have it, my Top 5 Fave Christmas Videos from YouTube.

I sincerely hope you and yours had a great holiday this year no matter what it is you celebrate. I know I did.

As for me, I think the bed is calling my name right about now.

I'm Creative Karma here at Video Roulette and I love Christmas.

About the Christmas Special hiatus

Well, as most can figure that actually look at this site, though if no one's reading I'm talking to myself and that's a bit disturbing, knows that for the past few days there hasn't been any videos for the preceding days.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was going with my father to pick up my brother from basic. Pretty much all of my days have been filled with family hang outs and more Christmas shopping and the like. By the time I'd get home, I was too tired to even care.

So, tomorrow will be the first day I have free to catch up a bit. Yet, considering the amount of days I have to cover I will be doing something different.

I will scour the YouTube pages for what my fave four Christmas themed videos are and I may rate those or just talk about each one in turn briefly. On Christmas Eve, I will made a bit of time to post one for Christmas Eve and I will drag my tired corpse in on Christmas Day for the grand finale.

Until then, don't let the crazy shopping and stress get to you and enjoy the time you're off from work or are looking forward to the presents you'll be receiving. I know I've dreamt about that.

This is Creative Karma and I will return.

Video Roulette Christmas Special Day 17 & 18 - Tinsel & Garland

Back again are you? Well, this is going to be a double shot of videos so it'll be much shorter on the reviewing end. Why a double shot?

Tomorrow, I'll be leaving my home early, spending the night somewhere, then making the rest of the trek in the morning to pick up my brother on Wednesday. In the end, I might not even be back on Wednesday but Thursday. So there might be a double shot now and one when I get back as I most likely won't be taking my laptop with me.

But let's jump in. I went for two different words: "tinsel" & "garland". With that put into YouTube these were the videos I found.

All right, let's break this up a bit.

Video 1: Is this some sort of soap opera? I'm even sure where this comes from and honestly...I don't really want to do the work to find out. I really hate soap operas with their excessive drama. Even the acting seems rather rough considering it might be a soap opera. So really....who cares?

Video 2: I took a chance watching this video because it didn't seem to be a music video per say just a guy singing. After watching this video, I knew I had heard this guy before. He has a great voice and can really hit those notes. This guy really has it going for him and he'snot bad looking either. I say, time well spent. I think for once...I might break my own rules and look for more of this guy on the chance it gets even better.

So there we are, my Day 17 & 18 double shot of the Video Roulette Christmas special. The time for Christmas is counting down. Got your shopping done? I know I did.

I'm Creative Karma here at Video Roulette and I'll take some Garland.

Video Roulette Christmas Special Day 16 - Spice

Welcome back for day 16 of the Video Roulette Christmas Special.

Now, you might be wondering why am I not doing a list of the top 8 videos that almost made the cut. Well, it  is getting late here and I won't have the time to do one tonight. But secondly, I don't really have 8 videos have haven't made the cut. For the most part, I've been extremely lucky in finding videos I can review.

So, I say to that, if you think you have a video that would work for my top 8 videos that almost made the cut, I welcome you to link the video to me on twitter or on facebook.

Onward to the video.  Christmas words are running a bit thin and I'm doing my best to save the ones giving me Christmas videos till the very end. Why the word spice? Well anyone that knows their stories knows about the presents brought at the birth of Jesus. At the very least, we spice up the food and drinks around the holidays.

With the word "spice" leading the way, we have this video:

I can give my rating right now: OMGWTF?!

Yeah that's not on the rating scale but the last part of that is. The guys voicing over the video are hilarious but the game...just no.

I'm sorry to say I ever liked the group at this point.

There's....nothing else to really say. I never ever want to see this video game again...EVER.

I'm Creative Karma here at Video Roulette and I'm in dire need of brain bleach.

Video Roulette Christmas Special Day 15 - Family

Ah, day 15 and life is good. I finished up all my Christmas shopping today save for filling up a stocking once I know who's stocking I'm going to fill up. It's a family tradition of ours now to draw names from a hat to determine who will be filling up whose stocking.

This is yet to be discovered as my brother is currently still in training for the national guard till we pick him up on Tuesday. We are more than ecstatic that he is getting time back at home for Christmas and the New Year.

Being on that subject, I decided that searching for the word 'family' would be a good enough word for my Christmas Special. As we all know it's the season for all families to come together and spend time with one another.

And with my thoughts set to 'family' YouTube had something else in mind for a video:

I have to admit this is soooo my favorite moment from Family Guy. This show is one of my all time faves and this episode was so funny.

I could watch this video over and over again and looking even for every part of this running gag through the show. It makes me laugh every time. That's why this even makes me sing a 'hallelujah chorus'.

Well, that's all from this chick. I'm Creative Karma here at Video Roulette and I know the bird is the word.

Video Roulette Christmas Special Day 14 - Advent Calendar

Day 14 of the Video Roulette Christmas Special and I'm going strong once again. Last night I more or less breezed through that out of pure tiredness.

Last night I saw a video that I wasn't sure what to do with. My mind simply refused to process what I saw. Maybe I needed something simpler but now with my brain refreshed, I jumped back on to look at the video again. 

I needed to see if the oddity was with the video or my brain. If it was the video then it'd be placed on the list of videos that almost made the cut; however, if it was my brain...well then I need t get that checked and give it a fair show.

The words that sparked this effort were submitted by the Cinema Chick: advent calendar. While this is technically an online version of that I never thought before to actually use that as the Christmas words. 

For those that need the definition of advent calendar: a large card with a brightly colored sometimes tinseled design on it that contains small numbered doors for children to open on each of the days of Advent, revealing pictures beneath them. And the word Advent means the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world.

So here is the video that the words Advent calendar:

This video at first threw me for a loop. Imagine watching this when you are physically and mentally tired and trying to make sense out of what you're seeing or even wanting to think that hard.

So the second time around I watched it with a clean slate and while it still threw me I at least knew where I could go with it and the words that come to mind: WTF?! 

I honestly wanted to know what these guys were thinking. Sure they were thinking of doing something funny original but I feel like they missed the mark a long time back. It almost pains to me to watch and I was scared enough that I considered not watching the whole thing. My questioning of their mental states is where I place this in the epic "WTF?!"  category.

Whew, I made it through. Day 14 is done with more to come. I hope by the end of this my brain hasn't leaked out of my ears.

I'm Creative Karma here at Video Roulette and if that Santa ever comes to my house there may never be a Christmas again.

Video Roulette Christmas Special Day 13 - Bells

Back we are again and yet it's nearly the next day for me. My day was so filled up with other things I haven't had any time up till now to put out a post. Real life really buried me today.

Nevertheless, I will quickly jump into Day 13 of the Video Roulette Christmas Special. Is it my unlucky number? We'll soon find out.

I have to say for a while actually it was. Mostly considering I've been kept away from doing this at an earlier time and then trying to come up with a video I could actually rate. In the end, and with much debating, I finally found something that's not a how to for fruitcake or whatnot like that. All of those would automatically be labeled as who cares.

This time around, as you no doubt know by looking at the title of this post know I used the word "bells" for my searching. Everyone knows about the song silver bells and the like and while that is a very classic song I was more interested in finding the less known videos.

Like this one  for instance:

Again, you might say that this song is just as iconic and well known about as silver bells. Well, you are right and wrong. This song is a very well known song and yet it is usually a song of bells, trumpets, and maybe a piano I don't for sure. Yet, here is a man playing it with his cello instead. I know remakes have been done before but I was curious enough to give it a watch.

I was actually quite impressed. It keeps traditional while also being different. Yet, being that I was looking at this video closely enough to notice that at one point his bow strings were breaking and it stays like that. Seems odd that something wouldn't be done about that but it's just my opinion.

All in all, not a bad video I'd say. Well worth the listening to and worth a rating of 'time well spent'. It almost makes one want to get all traditional and whatnot. Considering the inability to come up with interesting words that may happen for me sooner rather than later.

I'm Creative Karma here at Video Roulette and while this has nothing to do with the video or Christmas: I'm going to see The Hobbit! Geeks rejoice!