http://www.stocki.ni.org/news/item/27

JOHNNY CASH NIGHT

Fri 27th Oct 2006

news of a Church service with a difference...

JOHNNY CASH WORSHIP

(no it is not Johnny we are actually worshipping...)

SUNDAY 29th OCT 2006

FISHERWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BELFAST

Stocki leads the alternative service that will have Johnny Cash songs
from Elijah Grinstaff, Ruth McCavery and Frank Ferguson, his mother's
hymn book led by Gordon Ashbridge and video clips...as well as Stocki
applying lessons from Cash's life to ours via the Scriptures...
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http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art11-nineinchnails.html

Transgressing Boundaries in the Nine Inch Nails:
The Grotesque as a Means to the Sacred

Andrew Tatusko
Seton Hall University

[snip]

[30] In the Johnny Cash re-make of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt"
(2003) we return to the possibility that grotesque disruption of
boundaries may not be a complete deconstruction of the boundaries that
structure and regulate experience-in short, complete nihilism.  It
is here that the end may indeed be a beginning, but Reznor leaves us
with that question unanswered.  Johnny Cash clothed the song in
intense introspection and retrospection when he re-recorded it and Mark
Romanek produced a video for the song in 2003.  With one change of the
song's lyrics, Cash turns something corporeal to something somewhat
sacred.  In one line, Reznor sings "I wear this crown of shit,"
but Cash turns the lyric into "I wear this crown of thorns."  The
video echoes the past career of Cash and weaves in scenes of the
crucifixion of Jesus.  When Nine Inch Nails perform this song live,
Reznor sings these lines as a silhouette in front of a massive movie
screen that shows scenes of death, decay and torture.  As the chorus
goes in both versions, "You can have it all/ my empire of dirt/ I
will let you down/ I will make you hurt."  But the conclusion of the
song, that also concludes the album, is "If I could start again/ a
million miles away/ I would keep myself/ I would find a way."  It is
in this line that Cash shows scenes of the crucified Christ.
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Johnny Cash quiz
by David Buckna
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=17055