The Mesopotamians

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Music video for The Mesopotamians

"The Mesopotamians" design, T-shirt back

Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh are all famous Mesopotamians.
Sargon plays guitar left-handed, just like Flansy.
A Mohenjo-daren is someone from Mohenjo-daro, a city belonging to an ancient civilization in modern-day Pakistan that was contemporaneous with Bronze Age Mesopotamia.
A T-shirt featuring the four characters from this song was added to the TMBG Merchandise Store on July 10, 2007, to coincide with The Else's CD release.
A short animated teaser for the Mesopotamians video featuring the characters from the T-shirt, entitled "Mesopotamians Now", was posted on YouTube and theymightbegiants.com on July 30, 2007. The clip uses dialog sampled from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. A follow-up video entitled "After the Audition" was posted to theymightbegiants.com on August 24, which sampled dialog from The Monkees TV series episode "Find The Monkees (The Audition)", which first aired in 1967. The music video, directed by David Cowles and animated by Chris Timmons, was finally released on October 2 on stereogum.com.