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 <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> 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). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
