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LA Weekly — Christ­mas in LA: Toeknee’s ‘Navi­dad en Los Angeles

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There aren’t that many songs about Christ­mas in Los Ange­les specif­i­cally, so when one landed in our inbox a few weeks back we paid par­tic­u­lar atten­tion. It’s by an LA-based song­writer Tony Hundtoft, who goes by the name of Toeknee. The song has a pretty nice back-story, accord­ing to the songwriter:

“Navi­dad en Los Ange­les’ was writ­ten in the days lead­ing up to Christ­mas in 2006. My bags were packed and I was set to fly home to Nebraska, only to arrive at LAX and find that I would likely not be home for the hol­i­days after all; a bliz­zard had crip­pled the city of Den­ver, caus­ing all flights in and out to be canceled.”

He con­tin­ues:

“When I returned to my apart­ment dis­il­lu­sioned that I was still in Los Ange­les, I began writ­ing this song. I remem­ber find­ing some solace as I explored just what it was that felt so dif­fer­ent about the idea of spend­ing Christ­mas here. I love this city, though, and as reflected in the lines just after the bridge of the song, found the Christ­mas spirit in the City of Angels after all. The con­cept of “home” has always been inter­est­ing to me, and I hope it’s a song that other Ange­leno trans­plants might feel they can relate to also. It should prob­a­bly be noted that I was able to some­what mirac­u­lously catch a flight through Den­ver two days later when the air­port reopened, avoid­ing my first ‘Navi­dad en Los Ange­les’ for another year.”

Pes­simists and Grinches ignore this song. The rest of you, here’s a song that cap­tures one man’s expe­ri­ence in LA over the holidays.

The pre­ced­ing post was orig­i­nally writ­ten by Ran­dal Roberts, of LA Weekly.  You can view the orig­i­nal arti­cle by click­ing this link to the article.