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Tag Archives: Eminem
Lose yourself in the (banjo) music: Kasey Chambers’ cover is a cover in name only
There are many stories behind Kasey Chambers’ cover of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” … but you can look all that up if you are so inclined. Which I imagine you might be after you watch the above clip. Australia’s mega-star Kasey … Continue reading
Eminem’s Jack and the Bean
In Eminem’s song “The King and I” – which plays over the credits in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, with Cee Lo Green doing the raucous chorus (an exact echo of Jailhouse Rock), early on comes this verse: Modus operandi, bottle-a blonde … Continue reading
Guess who’s back. Back again. Shady’s back. Tell a friend.
Pete Davidson and Eminem, the progression: December 6, 2020: March 28, 2021: May 22, 2022: This past Saturday, Pete Davidson did his third Eminem sketch on SNL, this time a joke about Lorne Michaels wanting to “do a music video” … Continue reading
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
Reading for pleasure has taken a hit, what with all the research I’ve been doing, for this or that, and so I haven’t done one of these “stuff I’ve been reading” things in a while. I have barely slept in … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Movies, Personal
Tagged Eminem, fiction, film noir, Fred Astaire, friends, Ginger Rogers, Martin Scorsese, Memoirs, Robert De Niro, Russia, stuff I've been reading
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Color-Coded Rhyme Scheme
TRIGGER WARNING: very graphic and disturbing lyrics. VERY. TRIGGER WARNING for mentions of rape and murder and stalking. If you watch/listen and are shocked by it and turned off … 1. I don’t blame you but also 2. don’t say … Continue reading
Music Shuffle for a New Era
If you follow me elsewhere, you know there have been huge changes in my life in the last 4 or 5 months. Changes tragic and changes new. I have moved. I now live by the ocean in a house surrounded … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Alanis Morissette, Bleu, Bo Diddley, Brendan Benson, Britney Spears, Carl Perkins, ELO, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Everclear, Gene Vincent, Glee, Green Day, Indigo Girls, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Liz Phair, Madonna, Mike Viola, Pat McCurdy, Pink, Prince, shuffle, Waylon Jennings
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Anxiety, Eminem-style
Eminem is insane and this makes me laugh. His latest album just dropped about three weeks ago and I am still enggged in it, trying to absorb it. There’s a song “Discombobulated”, and it’s all about how he doesn’t know … Continue reading