The four horsemen (bikers?) of the Apocalypse mixDVD

I’m working on a couple of longer post projects which I may or may not get posted here this evening (one post on muckety maps for the new Fortune 500 list and how the list has changed from last year’s version and the other on “the elite”). So, in the meantime to keep my blog readers entertained (and perhaps busy creating based on my ideas) here is a post describing a short mixDVD project with which one can use up some of one’s accumulating social surplus.
Here’s the idea for the mixDVD- create videos for each of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. My musical suggestions are as follows. Famine (altered version of Jammin‘- no disrespect intended to the memory of Bob Marley) lyrical snips-

No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we wont bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the rice; jah - jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.

It’s famine, (famine, famine, famine) And it’s famine in the name of the lord It’s famine, (famine, famine, famine) It’s famine right straight from Yah. Yeh! Holy Mount Zion;
Holy Mount Zion:
Jah sitteth in Mount Zion
And rules all creation.

Sure, it’s humor in bad taste, but lots of YouTube videos are. So join the crowd.

Pestilence (though Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett claim he retired and was replaced by Pollution) altered version of Musical Youth’s Pass The Duchie. If you decide to go with Pollution and the Four Bike Riders of the Apocalypse (why is that word so difficult to type?) instead of the more traditional version, you might instead go with Dire Strait’s Industrial Disease here. Their song News should probably fit into the mix somehow as well.

But he climbs on his horse
You know he feels no remorse
He just kicks it alive

His motor is fine
He take it over the line
Until hes ready to dive

War- that’s pretty easy, right?
Death- (Don’t Fear) the Reaper (or no doubt you can think of a creative alternative.

You’re on your own as far as the other four Horse-, um, bikers of the Apocalypse go, but here are their names to get you started:

1.) Treading in Dogshit (formerly All Foreigners Especially The French, formerly Things Not Working Properly Even When You’ve Given Them a Good Thumping, never actually No Alcohol Lager, briefly Embarrassing Personal Problems, formerly known as Skuzz).

2.)Grievous Bodily Harm
3.)Cruelty to Animals
4.) Really Cool People

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