“The saviour of modern poetry … this guy Eminem has created a sense of what is possible. He has sent a voltage around a generation.” Seamus Heaney.
Guy Adams writes, “He has done this not just through his subversive attitude but also his verbal energy…. A decade ago, Mathers – an angy young man from the wrong side of Detroit – decided to bleach his hair, adopt the alter ego Slim Shady and transform the landscape of popular music. In six years, from 1999 to 2005, he recorded five extraordinary albums that sold nearly 50 million copies and gave the city of Motown a new chapter in its musical history.
“I’m not afraid, to take a stand/everybody, come take my hand/we’ll walk this road together, through the storm/whatever weather. Just lettin’ you know that you’re not alone/holler if you feel like you’ve been down the same road. And I just can’t keep livin’ this way, so starting today/I’m breaking out of this cage …” Eminem
I was offered half a headphone recently. Sat, shoulder to shoulder, listening to this song filling a young mind with strength and hope. And while Ipods and headphones are often viewed as ‘anti-social’, they’re also valuable in providing a way to tune out to a world that rubs up against us so harshly these days. They also provide an intimate connection between friends (or someone new) drawn close by the limited length of an ear piece cord. And EMINEM is often viewed as a ‘bad influence’ but his latest album, Recovery, is his calling to fans to mend—as we all, in time, must.
Thanks to (you know who you are that sent me an email at 1am this morning) for passing on some Black Dog postcards to Paramore at the concert last night. There’s something very super heroish about the Twilight movies – check out this Paramore video. Another bit in the BLOG about Super Heroes is on the way. In the meantime check out Super Hero things through the Joker in the BLOG – and help spread the word by passing it on (as did this concert goer – thanks again) ….
Angus swoons … “Lost my mind down that yellow brick road.” Grab this beauty for a melancholy surround sound experience. The dynamic duo’s website is a treat too – and video clips (c-b-low). Go get lost for a while … pass it on …
When the world’s spinning way too fast to catch … and you feel you can’t keep up … yet you can’t STOP … escape … think of circles … the rolling rhythm …. the cradle … the transient nature of moments … the shifting of high points and low in an evolving space … and be held still and moved on by that thought … the circle.
