Whatcha eating there, Serj? - Suicide. - Is it vegan? |
WQ: Are you f'n crazy? Of course that's what it's about, but I think now, at least in California and the groovier places like Tennessee and Oregon, we go with brown rice.
Chop suey recipe (Keeping the Peas) |
WQ: I think he's complaining about people trying to use teriyaki sauce in a stir-fry with tofu sticks.
MOM: Ha, ha, help me. I want to understand. I have my own new mom version of the song that's more suitable for young ears. I find myself singing a lot of System [of a Down] songs as I clean up kid toys.
Who remembers the Armenian genocide, Maus? |
MOM: Which argument?
WQ: The "genocide."
MOM: Oh, I think Israel is totally guilty.
What is he saying? Why doesn't he slow down? |
MOM: How sad.
Maybe Baby likes Drowning Pool. Let the bodies hit the floor
WQ: People say he wasn't even mad at Jews themselves, just scapegoating them and sending them to work camps because they had in his view unfairly hoarded too much of the wealth in Germany. But Jews swear he hated them and wanted to exterminate them all because of his hate and nothing else, which is odd because a lot of Ashkenazi Jews in Germany looked exactly like Christian Germans, so exactly that a lot of Nazis couldn't tell the difference except for some cultural markers like gesticulation (moving hands and arms) gestures when talking or speaking Yiddish (which is gibberish German making fun of Christianity).
MOM: But aren't Jews the ultimate victims who say everyone hates them.
Vegan chop suey stir-fry (Keeping the Peas) |
MOM: Is that what this song is about, genocide, first the Armenians then the Jews?
WQ: It seems to be about suicide.
MOM: Not chop suey?
WQ: Same thing.
System of a Down - "Chop Suey!" (official HD)
- Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Not In Our Name (ifnotnowmovement.org)
- Big Merla; System of a Down; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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