Apocalyptic writing was really popular around the time of Jesus from about 200 BC to 200 AD. It featured revelations where people would be recued from the shit sandwich situation that they were in by a divine presence that would judge the evil save the righteous. If you were a subject of Greco-Roman rule you’d want to be saved too. After all, they feed people to lions and nail them to trees. It is during this time that most of the New Testament was written including the book of Revelation.
Fast forward to the present day. People still think that this apocalypse is right around the corner. The world has been perpetually ending for 2000 years, so we must be getting close right? With this in mind let’s watch some music videos. YAY!
Got to start with the theme song for the Apocalypse. Don’t forget to yell out Leonard Bernstein.
Okay, now let’s get serious. Tool serious. In 1996 Tool released this song about the destruction of L.A. brought about a vengeful Mother Nature who he calls Mom. The term Aenima is a play on the concept of an enema (flushing it all away) and the theological concept of anima which is best described as a soul. The lyrics are really cool. The video? Well, its tool so get ready for some creepy animation.
Depressed? Angry? Hey the Apocalypse is not all that bad. Prince has a good plan, dance. Remember when all Prince cared about was dancing and having a good time, even in the face of a nuclear meltdown? Those were the days. In 1983, the concept of 1999 seemed a long way off. Unimaginable even. Then, it came and went and nothing really happened. This was a common problem 2000 years ago when grand predictions of the Second Coming never happened. It killed the genre of apocalyptic literature, and continues to bring about anti-climatic New Year’s parties. Which just goes to show you how ridiculous fearing the Apocalypse is. Still, like Prince instructs, we should forget our worries and Get It On. Awwww yeah.
3 comments:
nice. I can't believe I've never seen that Tool video before. Why are they so creepy?
Sorry about the long front page on the post. The "fullpost" trick would not work for this one.
kinda fixed it but it looks fine on my screen, i'm using a firefox browser though so dont know how it looks on explorer or whatever they are calling it now just a long post which i cool with me, by the way how can i get one of those jesus navy hats?
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