countdown to meltdown: the first recessionist video!

So...
I made this video today because I needed some sort of catharsis. This election/economic drama is just getting to be too much!

I had to set it to music, and could think of no better song than Orff's "O Fortuna" from "The Carmina Burana." More than likely, "O Fortuna" is a song you've heard before but never knew the title of, as it is frequently used in trailers for epic or apocalyptic films. I had the great privilege of seeing the entire "Carmina Burana" performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta when I was in high school. I think I fell in love with it because I was still studying Latin at the time. Oh yes, I should probably mention that the song is in Latin. I tried putting subtitles on the video, but they only took away from it. So here are the lyrics in English and Latin:

SECTION I: FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI (FORTUNE EMPRESS OF THE WORLD)
1. O Fortuna (Chorus) O Fortuna, velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem; Egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata mihi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis mihi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!	O Fortune, like the moon with its changing phases, you are ever growing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; Poverty and power it melts them like ice. Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing. Shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. When health and virtue are against me, are only pain and exhaustion, forever in this vale of tears. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong man, everyone weep with me!

and a little copyright disclaimer:

I consider this video an academic pursuit. I cited my sources.

This video is also available on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXYp9PuXLg