I really like that poem, and the performance is top notch too.

A nice ripping apart of a retarded video

I just watched it, and it's asinine. He puts words together more because they rhyme and sound 'cool' than actually make any sense.

It's drivel. And as the AA says, he doesn't separate 'Jesus' and 'Religion' at all. If he loves church and the bible and god and jesus then he's loving religion for fuck's sake.

And how can anyone agree with 'Salvation is freely mine and forgiveness is my own, not based on my merits but Jesus's obedience alone'

Huh? So, your merits mean nothing. What you do, what you bring to the table mean nothing? What a fucked up attitude.

The guy in his 'poem' says that he used to be a 'Christian' while getting wasted and having sex and watching porn... but apparently now he's 'seen the light' and doesn't do that stuff.

Instead he's another self righteous dick who thinks that he's found 'the answer' and must tell everyone how he has.

And.. ahem, he has the gall to say in the text under his video (the poem one, not the AA):

Wanna start helping and serving Jesus in a practical way? checkout the company of the watch I am wearing in the video! They give 10-25% of all proceeds to non profits and the bands and faces are interchangeable! http://www.cruxwatches.com

The poem is one of 191 sonnets that make up Les Regrets, written while du Bellay was stuck in Italy, deeply disillusioned by what he found, and homesick. The chorus goes "but when will I see, alas, my own little village, with its smoking chimneys, and in what season?"

http://www.poemhunter.com/joachim-du-bellay/biography/

There's two slightly different versions of this poem floating around, though both of them make the mistake of confusing military branches. "Soldier" does not refer to just anyone in the military, but specifically someone in the Army just as "Marine" means someone in the Marine Corps. So, a solder would not say, "My life is my God, my country, my corps."

Still gets an upvote though.

Why thank you, I do try!

In reply to this comment by carneval:
You find some very odd *quality stuff

Most heartfelt poem ever.

"Nuit Blanche" means "sleepless night" in French btw.

Below, a "remake" by the same director, with a poem by Leonard Cohen and music by Clint Mansell (too bad it's a commercial):

What's the background of this song? It's clearly related to Burns' "Red Red Rose"; is this a musical setting (with some word changes) of the poem - or is the poem based on an older folk song (or something)?

Preferred the music to the poem tbh mind.

I guess his old poems still have a meaning; just replace Whitey On The Moon with Big Corp.

You are certainly correct. Time magazine used the term in June 1939, even Wikipedia tells us that much. But we also know from this clip that it's not 1939.

Now, the German term "Erster Weltkrieg" was used as early as 1928 by Stefan George in his work "Das neue Reich", more specifically his poem "Einem jungen Führer im Ersten Weltkrieg".

Is it the earliest mention of the term? No idea. And that's still just the German version, who knows at what point in time the English decided to steal it.
>> ^DerHasisttot:
I think the focus is on the "First" in "First World War," but nice resources. Yay I can still read Sütterlin or whatever that font was called.

Yep, Lucretius was a great mind indeed! One must also give credit to Epicurus, though, the philosophy of whom inspired that of the roman poet.

>> ^bamdrew:

Great article about "On the Nature of Things", by Lucretius,... the article makes the point that the rediscovery of this ancient Roman poem about godless physics is thought to have pulled European society out of the dark ages.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_greenblatt
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/08/08/110808on_audio_greenblatt (good audio podcast by article's author)

Great article about "On the Nature of Things", by Lucretius,... the article makes the point that the rediscovery of this ancient Roman poem about godless physics is thought to have pulled European society out of the dark ages.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_greenblatt

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/08/08/110808on_audio_greenblatt
(good audio podcast by article's author)

>> ^cito:

yea this is horrible, "canned" new pop is really an embarrassment on the music industry.
Companies like ARK music factory <- wikipedia them
and others hire people that can halfassed sing then as with ARK they have more computer techs than musicians running them through ableton/flstudio and compression to make them halfassed acceptable then they buy songs at 100 dollars a pop, hell ARK Even advertises on craigslist for songwriters they pay 100 dollars per song or "poem" to give the "artist" which is the wrong term for it something to sing.
pop music today is pure canned crap pretty much. Companies like ARK music factory is just an overcomplicated 419 Nigerian scam... don't believe me go read up on them , they are ran by a nigerian who used to run 419 scams.
And he is now turned his scamming on the music industry


If people injoy the end result its not necacerly an issue so long as people reolize that the people to be credited with the making of the music are the enganears and producers not the person "singing".

for example say I wrote a computer program that just randomely produces music that happens to be satisfying or makes it so that annyone pushing buttons randomely or with very littel skill can prodcue satisfying music . i dont see why that would be a bad thing or why it should not be listend to or enjoyed.


I think if anything ark music factory just show how the money making aspect is tied more into exsternal factors and not nececcerly tied into the music directly.

I got the impresoin that ark music factory were prity up front with the fact that they simply produce music for people that want to pay for it regardless of there tallent. I dont get the impressoin that they are telling people that they will make it big and ritch from the music as if its an investment maby they do ?


The biggest issue with modern music is Radio , tv , film and advertising forcing me to listen to music that I don't want to listen to and worse than that they play things repeatedly over and over. its as if i was to flash a light of a specifc colour in your face all the time its just plane anoying.