#happy xmas war is over

[miss-star-dust]

Trying not to cry whilst putting the Christmas tree up with my family since Happy Xmas (war is over) just came on.

I'm trying not to cry because I can't explain to them that it's because of Dead Gay Wizards and the mental fandom that prefers angst and pain lmao.

[dorothy16]

stephentrask 2023 Wrap-Up - Part One BTS rehearsal of our “Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)” - “Wig In A Box” mashup. On December 19, Darren Criss brought “A Very Darren Crissmas” to the Lexington Opera House and @jane_is_not_acoustic videotaped our rough and ready first run through at my studio that afternoon. Here is the mashup we performed that night, “Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) and “Wig In A Box”. It’s a fun bit of off the cuff music making with a couple of friends, a couple of instruments, and a couple of songs.

[bybyefromurgirlodam]

channeling Yoko Ono and John Lennon in the happy xmas (war is over) intro into every interaction with everyone today

[queenofstelena]

The war is over (Elena turning off her humanity edit)

[ringosmistress]

[musingsofmaisie]

Only one that even comes close and fuck the rest of them.

RIP Shane McGowan. You are missed.

Fairytale of New York was without a doubt the most memorable and heartfelt Christmas song ever made. As someone who spent more than 30 Christmases working in the ER, when I heard this song for the first time I thought “these are my people.”

Thanks for all the music.

[dovetailjoints]

just when I think my love for John has hit peak capacity, the holiday season rolls around and I remember he wrote the best Christmas song of all damn time

[datshitrandom]

Darren Criss and Stephen Trask at Lexington Opera House | December 19, 2023 | 📸 via stephen

[weedle-testaburger]

i just thought of a weird idea for a christmas poll:

[feralchaton]

And so this is Christmas (War is over)

For weak and for strong. (If you want it)

The rich and the poor ones (War is over)

The road is so long. (Now)

[therealjohnlennon]

Yoko and I meeting Henry Kissinger to talk about peace. We said to stop fighting and killing each other, he suggested that to achieve world peace we commit war crimes, bomb civilians, overthrow democratically elected leaders and kill everyone. That way we will achieve peace because when everyone’s dead they can’t fight each other. RIP.

[littlequeenies]

1971 - May Pang can be seen on the backround of the cover photo of John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's "Happy Christmas" (War is Over), recorded between October 28 and 31, 1971.

The Harlem Community Choir – 30 children, most of them four to twelve years of age – came to the studio on the afternoon of 31 October to record backing vocals for the counter-melody and sing-along chorus. Photographs for the original sleeve cover were also taken during that session by Iain Macmillan.

Third photo, our screencap from May's documentary "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story".

[krispyweiss]

“WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” Gets Oscar Nomination

- Animated short is showing in select theaters in package with other nominees

A 53-year-old song inspired a short film that is now up for a 2024 Oscar.

The animated short is titled “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” and based loosely around 1971’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over!).” But this 11-minute film focuses not on the main title, but rather, its parenthetical subtitle.

“This is an anti-war song; it’s a protest song,” writer and director Dave Mullins said in a making-of featurette for the film. “It’s why we didn’t make a Christmas or holiday short - we made an anti-war short.”

There’s no dialogue as “WAR IS OVER!” tells the story of soldiers on opposing sides of a fictionalized battlefield playing a surreptitious game of chess via carrier pigeon as the fighting rages. The filmmakers had trouble finding a place for the title song - executive producer Sean Ono Lennon had no interest in making a traditional music video for such a well-known number - so it runs over the credits. Thomas Newman composed the score, which Mullins said serves “as the emotional voice of the characters.”

Lennon said he wanted to “do good by (his parents’) art” in working on the short.

“What I don’t want,” he later told The New York Times, “is for my mother and father’s work to disappear with the sands of time.”

Not yet streaming, “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” is showing in select North American movie houses in package screenings with other Oscar nominees in the Animated Short Film category.

3/2/24