overthinking
Feb. 1st, 2010 04:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksSo I was listening to the They Might Be Giants song 'The Mesopotamians', which unfortunately has the distinction of being the best fiction about Mesopotamians I have yet encountered. In that song, Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh are in a rock band. The narrator is clearly one of them: "Hey, man, I thought that you were dead/I thought you crashed your car"/"No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar."
I started trying to figure out which one of them the narrator is. Because the one thing we know is that it isn't Ashurbanipal: This is my last stick of gum/I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some/Except for Ashurbanipal, because he says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-Daroan.
The thing is, though, I would have absolutely insisted that in this set of people Ashurbanipal would be the one playing the bass. Because I assume that Gilgamesh is the lead singer, you know, the charisma and all, and I can't see Sargon not insisting on lead guitar, and Hammurabi is also pretty clearly the drummer.
Maybe Ashurbanipal plays keytar? But who the heck is on bass?
I started trying to figure out which one of them the narrator is. Because the one thing we know is that it isn't Ashurbanipal: This is my last stick of gum/I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some/Except for Ashurbanipal, because he says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-Daroan.
The thing is, though, I would have absolutely insisted that in this set of people Ashurbanipal would be the one playing the bass. Because I assume that Gilgamesh is the lead singer, you know, the charisma and all, and I can't see Sargon not insisting on lead guitar, and Hammurabi is also pretty clearly the drummer.
Maybe Ashurbanipal plays keytar? But who the heck is on bass?
