On 12/18/2016 4:28 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I've read the words, it's not a Christmas song, and anyone who thinks it
is is sadly misinformed, just because they've recorded it as one doesn't
change that. Cohen didn't even try to masquerade it as a Christmas
song. It doesn't mean I don't like the song, but It's like
Springsteen's "Born in the USA" which isn't a patriotic anthem. Those
who support or decry it for that reason are wrong. It's not patriotic
at all, and they're being intellectually lazy.
Don't want to violate the taboo on politics here, but I consider
Springsteen's "Born in the USA" a very patriotic song for its courage
calling the country out for not living up to our professed values.
It's just not jingoistic patriotism - "my country right or wrong", but a
call for the country to be what it claims to be.
It's the patriotism embodied in Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"
responding to Kate Smith & Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
On 12/18/2016 3:49 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but
I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well
established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it
being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group
called Pentatonix is a case in point.
Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song)
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling
<[email protected]> wrote:
Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all...
What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM
station, you
know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a
national
chain, etc., etc., but... Right now it's playing all Christmas
music, all
the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and
then to
get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing...
After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of
Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song."
I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the
compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the
kibosh
on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who
get the
joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas
mix.
The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job.
Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small
light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available
"New"
Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular,
reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full
horror:
http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it
How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is
beyond me,
don't they care about their image at all...
(All puns intended).
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