There's this great new Johnny Cash video out, one for the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt. It's a great video, one that's gotten written up in Slate and Rolling Stone (which I would set a link to, but the site sucks) because it's so good. And the song's really good too, especially once you get over the shock of the fact that Johnny Cash (Johnny Cash) is singing a Nine Inch Nails song.

According to Rolling Stone the video is so good and so well received that it's going into deep rotation on VH-1 and MTV2. It even says it's one of the best videos created in a long time. No mention, however, of it being on MTV. You know, the station that supposedly plays music videos. The station that's initials stand for Music Television and not Crappy Reality Show Television. The station that at one time actually made and broke bands.

I know, Johnny Cash ain't exactly as hip as, say, one of the guys from the Backstreet Boys whose got a new solo CD out. Nor is he as cute as Justin is. But still, it's Johnny Fucking Cash. Just once….once….wouldn't it be cool if the video actually made TRL and as it played they'd show all these 16 year old girls saying something like "I love Johnny Cash cause he's so cool and I just want to say hi to my dawg's at Roosevelt High!" Wouldn't that rock? Wouldn't that be a sign that maybe things were allright in the world?

Eh, forget it. It would never happen.