(diaryland) April 04, 2010 - 8:11 a.m.

It's Easter and all that, but let me bring you back to Christmas because I have the power to do that.

I have been eating my Advent Calendar chocolates finally.

But also, I came across a Christmas song by Bob Dylan just then.

When I was in Greece, there were many strange advertisments on the TV, and I did watch a lot of TV. Man vs Wild was always on. The Parthenon could wait a little longer.

Anyway, there were ads for people in multicoloured wigs doing Carry On type things in a theatre, and there were ads for a terry towelling animated bear in y-fronts doing a song. There was a high-falutin' ad for a men's fragrance named Dimple that used English to make itself seem more toff but actually expressed ideas in the voiceover that English people just wouldn't have. I'm not going to go into it.

But then there was an ad for what seemed to be a serious polka album - a guy spoke in a deep Greek voice about something, and then would say, "Bob Dylan. Christmas in the Heart."

We were like, "What?" Uh, Robert Allen Zimmerman suddenly heavily into polka AND the most commercialised Christian holiday EVER? Nah. And the name of the album sounded like an English phrase that a non-English person who had got to Year 10 English in school would have come up with. "Christmas in the heart." Huh?

But then we started looking at the ad, and there was a relaxed looking guy in a hat clutching alcohol that did look a shitload like Bob Dylan. It WAS Bob Dylan. So then I started thinking that maybe people did strange things in Europe that we as Australians could never fully understand. Like Dimple for Men.

But then I came across it on one of my 'I'm trying not to start the day yet' internet jaunts. So it's real. It's an actual, full song. And it's not just for Europe. And neither is the album. And it's probably the best Christmas album ever. And it's for charity. That last bit is the only bit I can understand.

This is it.

Did it get advertised on the telly over here?