I don't know if anybody knew, but Christmas is approaching. I know, hasn't the year gone quickly, blah, blah, blah...If you're not feeling the Xmas love, then laugh at these ridiculous album covers which range from the creepy to the surreal to the daft.

This is one record collection you won't be showing off to your mates, or taking with you to the club to drop bombs on the dance floor. These are the sort of records that lurk in your granddad's collection or you find in a charity shop in some forgotten town in the middle of nowhere, collecting dust behind those board games that have all the pieces missing except some dice.

There's more bad hair on these album covers than at a reunion of 1980s heavy metal bands. It's like if Mötley Crüe met Status Quo and their genes fused to create some hybrid hair monsters. But Christmas albums are all about cheese, bad hair, even worse clothes (think synthetic polymers designed by a blind spastic with epilepsy) and bands that you've never heard of who look like they've just crawled out of a 1970s prison for child molesters.

There's something undeniably naff about them, but that's what makes them such fun to look at.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow! Today!

I heard about this from a man down pub but I thought that's just wild fantasy, the stuff of a deluded madman. The world isn't ready for such unheard of technology. It's witchcraft, I ranted! The occult! Burn him I shouted, burn this unholy heathen!

But then he showed me this website on his iPhone and I shut up. Immersive video I said, it's wild, it's like a photo but in 3-D, that isn't really a photo 'cos it's got moving images. But...WOW!!

I think this may well revolutionise all our lives, we will no longer need to actually go out and, you know, do stuff. We can just sit at home projecting this on to the walls of our bedroom and pretend we're trekking through the plains of Africa. Or project a video on your wall of you sitting in your bedroom, watching an immersive video of you sitting in your bedroom, like some sort of horrible Escherian nightmare...