Check It. Tweet Museum.

Call me old-fashioned, but I'm not much a fan of Twitter. Do I really care about what happens every single second of your day? I don't, because you're probably not that interesting.

Many celebrities do happen to think they're interesting, and having a Twitter somehow further validates this. And granted, sometimes I do like knowing what John Mayer is thinking about at certain moments in time. Okay, maybe not, BUT if I did, I'd want Tweet Museum to illustrate it for me.

I don't know much about this recent discovery of mine, except that it seems fairly new and it is completely awesome. Odessa Begay has taken random tweets from a fair set of celebrity Twitter-ers (Twits? Twats? I've had this annoying boggle before) and created her own accompanying visual illustrations, tongue-in-cheek of course. Above? Inspired by Mayer's rather drab tweet: "Christmas on December 25 is merely a suggestion. It can come anytime between the 25 and 31. And it's happening now." I'm impressed by Begay's creativity with that one.

Begay says on the site that she only updates every Tuesday, and considering it only started in January, there aren't many Tweet-illustrations to browse through yet right now. This one's going in the bookmarks, though: ready to visit anytime I need a good chuckle with Nick Jonas and unicorns.

-- Chau Tu

Photo credit: Tweet Museum

Etc. Holiday tunes

Even though they start before Thanksgiving, radio stations never even scratch the surface of all the Christmas music floating out there in the universe. I would love to hear your guesstimate on how many versions of "Silent Night" have been recorded, because my calculation is somewhere close to infinity (I mean, even Willie Nelson has a rendition).

To help you sort through it all, Pandora has an option to create stations that will only play holiday-geared jams. So when you search an artist they pop up twice, once with (Holiday) after their name. Want to hear Christmas music similar to "Wonderful Christmas Time"? Pull up Paul McCartney (Holiday). Easy Peasy. You can still be festive and never have to hear Mariah Carey again*.

One of my favorite x-mas treats is The Kinks' "Father Christmas"--a song completely ignored by radio(most likely for its rollicking realism) but in heavy rotation in my apartment. Check live footage of it below.



Comment with your favorite Christmas cuts. Links are welcome!

*J/K. Mimi+"All I Want For Christmas is You"=Luv 4 Eva.

-- Heather Robertson