Well, part of the original lore is that I created the original "Mindless Diversions" sub-blog back in February 2011 in an attempt to create a zone where we didn't discuss politics or religion (new atheism was still a thing) and could just talk about cool stuff. Video games, movies, television, toys, nostalgia, sports, poker, and whatnot.
Right after that, I saw the movie Rango in the theater. There was a scene where Rango gets thrown from his owner's car to the side of the road and the song playing is Ave Maria:
It's just a few seconds of the song, but the song got stuck in my head. So I googled and googled and found a version from Bobby McFerrin that was absolutely amazing. He explained that he was told to learn to sing Bach Preludes as part of his exercises and he sang the Bach Prelude while the audience sang Ave Maria and I thought it was the most amazing version of the song I'd yet heard and I wanted to share it with everybody.
By 2013, I had given up the Wednesday music posts to Glyph and so didn't want to step on his toes by putting up merely a music post so, instead of ending the post with "So... what are you listening to?", I ended it with "So... what are you giving up for Lent?"
And then, in 2014, I discovered a version of the song sung by one of the last castratos and I immediately made the joke to myself "well, I'm not giving *THOSE* up for Lent" and, at that point, the yearly Lent post became one talking about Lent proper, rather than merely alluding to it.
I wanted to embed "Love and Anger" but they have that one turned off, for some reason. I went for what I am guessing was the 2nd biggest song off of that album (based off of the number of covers of the song that I've heard... Maxwell, Sons of Serendip, Ella Henderson... no other song on the album even comes close).
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Well, part of the original lore is that I created the original "Mindless Diversions" sub-blog back in February 2011 in an attempt to create a zone where we didn't discuss politics or religion (new atheism was still a thing) and could just talk about cool stuff. Video games, movies, television, toys, nostalgia, sports, poker, and whatnot.
Right after that, I saw the movie Rango in the theater. There was a scene where Rango gets thrown from his owner's car to the side of the road and the song playing is Ave Maria:
It's just a few seconds of the song, but the song got stuck in my head. So I googled and googled and found a version from Bobby McFerrin that was absolutely amazing. He explained that he was told to learn to sing Bach Preludes as part of his exercises and he sang the Bach Prelude while the audience sang Ave Maria and I thought it was the most amazing version of the song I'd yet heard and I wanted to share it with everybody.
By 2013, I had given up the Wednesday music posts to Glyph and so didn't want to step on his toes by putting up merely a music post so, instead of ending the post with "So... what are you listening to?", I ended it with "So... what are you giving up for Lent?"
And then, in 2014, I discovered a version of the song sung by one of the last castratos and I immediately made the joke to myself "well, I'm not giving *THOSE* up for Lent" and, at that point, the yearly Lent post became one talking about Lent proper, rather than merely alluding to it.
And now it's 11 years later.
I wanted to embed "Love and Anger" but they have that one turned off, for some reason. I went for what I am guessing was the 2nd biggest song off of that album (based off of the number of covers of the song that I've heard... Maxwell, Sons of Serendip, Ella Henderson... no other song on the album even comes close).