eminem

now playing: eminem, "mosh"


note: above link is a direct download of the video (47.8mb). not sure how long it will be up. download it now if you want it.



also - my nominee for best signature file of the week: dick cheney is a persian cat away from being a james bond villian




so it's finally happened.


i've always outwardly denied that it could ever happen to me, that there's too much history that would prevent it from ever coming to pass, but come to pass it has.


i've fallen under eminem's spell.


ok, maybe that's not entirely true - but i have to concede that hip-hop is the new folk music. what eminem has done with his new single, mosh, is every bit as relevant to the social discourse as what people like dylan and CSN were doing 35 years ago. the differences are many - eminem's star had already risen about as far as it could before he decided to make this statement, whereas dylan burst onto the scene as a result of the stands he took as much (if not more so) than anything else.

it's becoming more and more obvious to me everyday that the times we're living in now are as politically charged as the sixties were, and for very similar reasons - an unjust war and leadership that's completely out of touch with reality. i'm getting the sense, on occasion, that perhaps this generation of young people might not be as apathetic and hypnotized as i'd previously written them off to be. well, maybe not as many of them as i had thought, anyway.

maybe it'll take someone like eminem to mobilize his base into the force that young people were 35 years ago - or maybe this'll simply be a small window of hope that dissipates back into apathy once the novelty wears off.

will there be long lines of black hoodies at the polls on november 2nd? or will we have already gone back to watching my big fat obnoxious boss?


we'll see soon enough.


eminem is the musical guest on this weeks' saturday night live.