Warning: Includes excessive, prolonged violence, and Andy Williams singing without a hint of irony.
Confused about who is killing who? See the dramatis personae.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
With lyrics by our old buddy Pat Boone
Thanks for posting this, PZ. What can I say? The minute I saw it, I thought of FTB, and you.
No. I am concerned about who is killing whom – and about bad grammar.
This is wonderful. Creative and apt!
The Seder-masochism animated film she’s working on has several cool bits as well, available at…http://blog.ninapaley.com/category/seder-masochism/
I need to put her blog on my watch list.
She missed the Sassanids! And IIRC there was rather a bit of back-and-forth between crusaders, arabs, and turks.
Nina Paley is absolutely brilliant!
Check out her series “Sita Sings the Blues.” Hindu legend set to the music of Annette Handshaw.
It’s an interesting story, too. Nina was “couch hopping” in New York and came across a collection of 20’s and 30’s recordings thus (re)discovering Annette Handshaw. Annette’s signature was to say “That’s all” at the end of her songs. Very endearing.
I became quite a fan of both Paley and Handshaw and located several CD’s on Amazon and eBay.
I know, WTF, right?
Brlliant!
Hey! Don’t go knocking Andy Williams; that man could sing!
Also, the ‘Exodus’ song is a kick-ass piece of movie music, minus the lyrics.
Ah, yes, good old Pat Boone. No wonder the lyrics were so trite.
Andy Williams had a great voice, often put in the service of pap. (I admit it: I never liked “Moon River.”)
Currently, there are three hot wars going on in the Middle East, in Syria, Iraq, and Israel/Gaza. Seems to me to be a good place to be from, far from.
Nina Paley is awesome. She went through a lot of crap with copyright ridiculousness over the film of Sita, but stuck with it. You can still copy and download it freely, thanks to her perseverance and good contemporary business model.
Missing: The US and USSR, fighting each other through Israeli, Syrian, and Egyptian proxies. Poor old Jordan wasn’t a proper proxy for either, and was the biggest loser.
For more fun, read the comments for the angry “This video is misleading – we were promised this land in the bible” complaints.
“Yeah, there’s your promised land. Now go kill those people who have the nerve to be living there already.”
Grand … and accurate.
Not to be pedantic, but I don’t think the Byzantines fought the Romans considering that the Byzantines WERE the Romans.
You could have warned me about the fake hebrew font. God that’s horrible.
The eastern empire overthrew the western empire through shenanigans and hiring barbarians to invade Italy for them ca 470; and later (around 600, I forget exactly), they invaded Italy directly. I don’t think Rome and Constantinople ever crossed swords in the Levant though. And the cheat sheet alludes to taking liberties in that respect.
The “Angel of Death” laughs as the last tribe standing claim that arid blood soaked piece of land.
Hey, even as an atheist, my money is on the metonymous “Angel of Death”, because “he” is the only sure winner in that part of the world!
in a possibly sychronicitous coincidence, I was reading an old thread in which I linked this very vid…nearly 2 years ago. I still like it!
Powerful and very apt.
Intense dark humor. Love it.
So, how many people said that God was with them and that they would have this land to themselves until they died in those three minutes?
Not knowing who any of those people were, and apparently not knowing how to read, i was blown away by the song, because in my head i thought the song had been specially composed for that video. I wasn’t prepared to find out that someone had sang that song from a radically different perspective.
Now it’s gone from “holy shit, that’s fucking brilliant” to “holy shit, that’s fucking scary and sad”. Still a great song, though, and i want a poster of the angel of death.