By far my fav xmas song. I love two things: Linda’s mullet and the choir of children who practiced all year long. Also sampled well by De La Soul.

By far the greatest Christmas song ever made by the man they called “Dr. Funk”. Best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip.

Song can be downloaded here.

Words can’t even express how excited I am to dig into this. The new album from Badly Drawn Boy is available now from the official site, as well as from Amazonand iTunes, the album features 15 new tracks written for, and inspired by, the upcoming ITV1 movie ‘The Fattest Man In Britain’.

Here is the first single: Is there nothing we could do?

And I guess you could call this a trailer for the movie:

Movie synopsis:
Morris Morrissey (Bobby Ball) is a part time taxi driver and full-time personal manager to the one and only Georgie Godwin (Timothy Spall), who is convinced he holds the title of ‘Fattest Man In Britain’. Combining both his roles, Morris keeps Georgie well fed and watered then brings taxi loads of tourists to gawp at the “eighth wonder of the world”.

It’s 23 years since Georgie left his house and he relies on Morris and Janice to survive. A new addition to his ‘family’ arrives when social services send problem teenager Amy to tend to his overgrown garden.

When the pregnant teen rows with her drug addict boyfriend, Georgie offers her a safe place to stay and she moves in and in return sets about cooking his supersize meals, cutting his hair and decorating the house.

But Amy worries about Georgie’s health and wants him to lose weight, offering to cook him low fat meals, but Morris thinks their futures depend on Georgie staying fat. And the big man is unwilling to change his ways as it’s all he knows and he’s proud of his title.

Finally, Morris engineers Georgie a shot at the big time when he is asked to take part in a live weigh off with his rival Big Brian on the local TV news. Georgie sets about gorging on food like he has never done so before and is helped along by his friends and neighbours who bring him a steady stream of meals and snacks – from curries and samosas to lemon meringue pies and bags of broken biscuits.

Will Georgie reign triumphant in the weigh in or will Big Brian take his title?

Song is off the upcoming album Teen Dream – scheduled for release on January 26, 2010.