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Tuesday, October 26, 2004

I don't care if your computer does not have a sound card.

I don't care if you do not like Emminem or his hip-hop rap music.

He has released the animated music video for his latest single "Mosh." If you need a description of it, let me say you could call it the music industry's equivalent of Michael Moore's blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11.

One of the intriguing stories that unfolds in the song is of a soldier who returns home from serving in Iraq, only to find at his homecoming a letter informing him that he's being re-deployed. Then, while he is gone, his wife receives a notice informing her that they are being evicted from their home. (Anyone who has been reading newspapers since March 2003 knows that these two incidents I've just named have occurred to families all over this vast country.) 

And you are probably thinking "Yah, I betcha the video ends with masses of people rioting and storming the White House led by Eminem himself."  Well, you're wrong.

The resolution in the film displays all of those citizens who have felt disenfranchised, abused, or foraken by this government march on city hall and stand in line to vote.

It's a very powerful message backed up with an amazing creation of animation. I'm impressed. I see golden statues in their future.


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