Battle of the Garrish Christmas Displays

A few houses down the street, the neighbors have an unattractively decorated house that blares synthesized Christmas music, seemingly out of sync with the blinking lights that hang from the house in a sparse and disorderly fashion. Directly across from them, another family has decorated their house with some positively bizarre light-up aluminum pole Christmas trees and more blaring Christmas music. When you stand in between them, you get to experience the spirit of Christmas, channeled through a surround-sound cacophony of seasonal joy. I wasn't here on Christmas Eve, but my room mate tells me that they engaged in a kind of passive-aggressive volume war with each other that resulted in both houses turning their music up to the point where you could hear them from anywhere on the street.