Into the ring of fire

The other day I watched Waquim Pheonix (however you spell that) play johnny cash in walk the line.

It was a pretty standard story of boy can play guitar, boy makes a lot of money playing, boy marries wrong girl, does lots of drugs, dumps girl and has a thing for some other girl who is a lot better for him but nothing goes quite right until he is a totally rich drug fucked hobo, and then things get better.

The best part of this movie for me was near the end, when Johnny is on stage playing and singing a song that goes "down down down, into a ring of fire"

This song brings a special warmth into my heart. Let me explain why, my best friend in melbourne, let me annonymously refer to him as "Mick: The crazy singaporean hacker" or M:CSH.

So M:CSH was ( IS ) a bit of a video game junkie. One game he played was a basic flash animated game, you played some big tough slow moving guy in shining armour and had a flaming sword. You could move back and forth and swing your sword. The purpose of this was to kill as many demons as possible, which would come faster and faster. When you had killed 666 demons you could try and kill the devil. M:CSH got to the devil... he is a freak. However this game has a backgound track, "Johnny Cash: Down into a ring of fire."

I had no freaking idea it was johnny cash i barely knew who he was, i thought it was some retro country band accidentally producing some awesomely sarcastic song for the game, or just by providence. It was so apt it wasnt funny.

This movie allowed me to realize I did like and appreciate Johnny cash, that little flash game laying the beat down on the devil is what johnny cash was born to support!

strangely enough there were a number of Cash songs i heard and liked and a bunch i had heard before unrealizing