I saw "8 mile" last night. It was okay. It's not a tale about a hero. Pretty much like "Rocky" with a mike. I also saw Hanin Elias play at the Bastard last night. It wasn't far too different what I expected. A lot of Atari Teenage Riot. She also did "Destroy 2000 years of culture" by ATR. All these riot-videos in the back, I don't know. A lot of people who go for that have never been at a riot. Add the "State of Emergency"-videogame and you have a new placebo-experience to go for. Hanin kept screaming "are you ready for World War III?" It's part of the image, but it doesn't have a shock-value anymore. Neither does the grotesque gabba-noise she's using. The whole act is endangered of looking like nothing but a big pose. It's making use of imagery from a safe distance. It's art through the lense of watching too much TV. The Eminem-cartoon is more real than that.

Uh-oh, I wrote a lenghty thing over at Bazima's