Ace of Spades HQ

« Kerry Pollster Predicts... Three Point Bush Victory?! | Main | EXIT POLLS: ~~BUSH LEADS OHIO 49-4~~ Kerry ahead by four, damn it all »

November 02, 2004

When the Man Comes Around

Kinda coincidental. I've never been a Johnny Cash fan-- I don't think I could name one song, except for Ring of Fire (typical culturally-insular Yankee, I know)-- but I heard this song at the beginning of Dawn of the Dead (Best. Zombie Movie. Ever.), and I'd intended to review the movie and mention how great this song is, and how well it works as an introduction to the film.

Anyway, someone has used the song to construct a musical haigiography to Bush.

From the Corner.

I love this song. I think I'm going to have to find out what's up with this Johnny Cash character.

posted by Ace at 12:44 PM

Comments

I could tell you were a culturally insulated Yankee when you spelled dually "dooley".

Posted by: Ken J on November 2, 2004 12:46 PM

dude, pick up the 5 disc johnny cash box set. i was never a fan before, then got it for christmas last year, i discovered that song then, and was hooked. he also does a great version of U2's One.

Posted by: monkey man on November 2, 2004 12:48 PM

Ken, I am no yankee--but I figured no one would know what I was talking about if I spelled it that way. Ace merely transcribed my dumbed-down spelling.

Ace, this Johnny Cash character is worth your time. He is the favorite country musician of people who don't like country music--a title he took from Kenny Rogers, to everyone's relief.

Posted by: See Dubya on November 2, 2004 12:50 PM

Check out the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Not only is it the best movie released this year, but it featured the song over the opening credits/montage of havoc at the beginning of the movie. Spooky as hell.

Posted by: McGurk on November 2, 2004 01:01 PM

I just read my post, and had to think... I'm sorry, but Team America (FUCK YEAH!) is a close second...

Posted by: McGurk on November 2, 2004 01:02 PM

I was inspired by Dawn of the Dead and an image of John Kerry.

Johnny Cash is great. "The man Comes Around" is an awesome collection of music. He does a remake of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" that outshines the original.

Posted by: joey on November 2, 2004 01:07 PM

1. 28 Days Later is a great zombie flick.
2. "American IV: The Man Comes Around" also contains great covers of "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails) and "Personal Jesus" (Depeche Mode).

Posted by: Phil Smith on November 2, 2004 01:09 PM

Well, at least you "discovered" Johnny sooner than I discovered Townes Van Zandt. I was so enjoying his acoustic work on "A Gentle Evening with TVZ" when I was rudely advised that he's been dead for seven years. Damned!
At least I still have Eva.
Best,
Tim

Posted by: Tim Cross on November 2, 2004 01:10 PM

Great Stuff, Ace. Thanks!

Posted by: Jennifer on November 2, 2004 01:19 PM

Check out the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Not only is it the best movie released this year, but it featured the song over the opening credits/montage of havoc at the beginning of the movie. Spooky as hell.

Ummmm... didn't I just say that?

I feel like Jan Brady. Am I invisible? Have I no voice?

Posted by: ace on November 2, 2004 01:24 PM

Johnny Cash Live Folsom Prison and his last album. It is great to compare the two works. Folsom Prison was recorded in 1967 and is very endgy. However his last album you can feel a man who knows he will meeting his maker soon. Both are excellant. Just got love a man who sings, "i shoot a man Reno, just to watch him die" but can also sing bible verse.
Ace you are Red Stater at heart, you will love Johnny!

Posted by: KimR on November 2, 2004 01:31 PM

Dear Johnny: More Kim Richards, less Helen Thomas.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos on November 2, 2004 01:31 PM

Four Words: Sunday Morning Coming Down

Posted by: Jersey Matt on November 2, 2004 01:33 PM

Dude you, MUST get into Johnny Cash! His last album, the one containing this song, is a fine piece of work, but you should look at some of his earlier stuff too, when he was still in full voice. I particularly like his first CD with American Recordings, called, I believe, "American Recordings" (in a fit of originality.) It came out about 10 years ago or so, and won a Grammy.

Posted by: Barry N. Johnson on November 2, 2004 01:44 PM

Ace, I had seriously considered starting my own blog to discuss Miami Vice, D&D, right-wing politics, and country music. That was going to be the Ace Plus One. That was my Ace in the Hole.

Screw you.

Oh, and try some early Emmylou Harris. She's amazing and quite a looker to boot.

Posted by: See_Dubya on November 2, 2004 01:47 PM

Everyone loves Johnny Cash, have yet to meet anyone who doesn't. I hate country, but love the Man in Black.

Posted by: Moonbat_One on November 2, 2004 01:49 PM

Message received. Johnny Cash = cool.

I've been playing When the Man Comes Around for like two hours now.

Posted by: ace on November 2, 2004 01:51 PM

A great Johnny Cash song title, if not a great song (my dad had this on a Cash LP):

Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Dog

Its a fun tune...if he finds that dog suckin' eggs agin, he gonna send that dog to the henhouse in the sky, 'hear?

Posted by: lauraw on November 2, 2004 02:22 PM

Jacked this from an email I got - another Jimmy Dean song re-done by J. Cash

Posted by: fat kid on November 2, 2004 02:22 PM

I got into Cash after hearing him cover Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage."

And it was even MORE bitterly angry than the original! I was hooked.

Posted by: Kieth on November 2, 2004 03:27 PM

Egg-Suckin' Dog is on the Folsom Prison record, already recommended, right alongside Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart.

The San Quentin record's worth getting too.

Posted by: Brian on November 2, 2004 03:50 PM

Oh no! Hamas' de facto press agent at the UN complains that she can't use her credit cards or rent a card now that she's been sanctioned as a terrorist operative
Why does this keep happening to members of the "political organization" (per Tucker Carlson) of Hamas?!?!

Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern
Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044.
Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...?
You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews.
Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?

Sydney Sweeney has passed from celebrity to Meme Legend

Garth Merenghi is interviewed by the only man who can fathom his ineffable brilliance -- Garth Merenghi
From the comments:

I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.

Now that's some Merenghian prose.
Garth Merenghi on the writer's craft

Greetings, Traveler. If you still have not experienced Garth Merenghi -- Author, Dream-weaver, Visionary, plus Actor -- the six episodes of his Darkplace are still available on YouTube and supposedly upscaled to HD. (Viewing it now, it doesn't appeared upscaled for shit.)
I think the second episode, "Hell Hath Fury," is the best by a good margin. Try to at least watch through to that one. It's Mereghi's incisive but nuanced take on sexism.

TJM Returns with a discussion of Auteur Theory.

Podcast: The elections! NYC, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, and the future prospects of the Republican party...

Update on Scott Adams:

Scott Adams had approval for this cancer drug but they hadn't scheduled him to get it. He was taking a turn for the worse. Trump had told him to call if he needed anything, so he did. Talked to Don Jr (who is in Africa) , then RFK Jr, then Dr Oz. Someone talked to Kaiser and he was scheduled. Shouldn't have needed it but he did and he says it saved his life.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

"Trump" goes trick-or-treating

Funny retro kid costumes, thanks to SMH
Good to see people honoring Lamont the Big Dummy

Four hours of retro Halloween commercials and specials
The first short is the original 1996 appearance of "Sam," the dangerous undead trick-or-treater from Trick r' Treat.

ICYMI: Australian journalist actually presses Kamala Harris when she repeatedly dodges questions about Biden's mental fitness
Kamala admits she didn't have the stamina to run for president, while continuing to insist he had the mental capacity to serve as president. He was too frail to run but perfectly strong enough to govern. Yeah sure whatever lying whore.

On Wednesday, we'll see the "Beaver Super-Moon." Which sounds hot.

Podcast: Historian and Pundit Robert Spencer joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the Islamists in our midst: Mamdani in NYC, all across Europe, and others.

Full Episode: The Hardy Boys (and Nancy Drew) Meet Dracula
I don't remember this show, except for remembering that Nancy Drew was hot and the opening credits were foreboding and exicting

According to Grok, Latrine John-Pissoir has never failed to mention she is "black" (or "queer") during her book interviews
She may not know what the hell her book is about, but she definitely knows that "every day I wake up black and queer." Join the club, sister!

Schmoll: 53% of New Jersey likely voters say their neighbors are voting for Ciattarelli, while 47% say the cheater/grifter Mikie Sherrill
The "who do you think your neighbors are voting for" question is designed to avoid the Shy Tory problem, wherein conservative people lie to schmollsters because they don't want to go on record with a likely left-winger telling them who they're really voting for. So instead the question is who do you think your neighbors are voting for, so people can talk about who they themselves support without actually having to admit it to a left-wing rando stranger recording their answers on the phone.

Hackers take over University of Penn website, calling the school a "dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards" and threatening to release its admissions files to prove illegal racial discrimination
No lies detected so far

Live Now: Dana Loesch is interrogating Heritage President Kevin Roberts on his insistence that the gay Nazi Nick Fuentes is an absolutely essential "conservative" voice whose ideas we must take seriously and who we must absolutely not exclude based on his Naziism

TJM Complains about Wreck-It Ralph The very topical premiere of TJM's YouTube Channel.

Interesting football history: How the forward pass was created in response to the nineteen -- 19! -- people killed playing football in 1905 alone
The original rules of football did not allow forward passes. The ball was primarily advanced by running, with blockers forming lines with interlocked arms and just smashing into the similarly-interlocked defensive lines. It was basically Greek hoplite spear formations but with a semi-spherical ball. As calls to ban the sport entirely grew, some looked for ways to de-emphasize mass charges as the primary means of advancing the ball, and some specifically championed allowing a passer to throw the ball forward.