Today's Mirror has a piece on how kids are afraid to go outside nowadays and so spend endless hours, "playing on their PlayStations". It's a slightly confused article, unsure of whether to castigate videogames or today's society. In the end it settles, somewhat dejectedly I feel, on the latter.
Talking about confusion, the same paper has a great report on Eminem's alleged rider for his forthcoming UK tour:
"The hip-hop megastar wants his dressing room turned into a fully-quipped games parlour with an "arcade-type ambience".
The singer insists that his play room - which has to "comfortably accommodate eight persons" - is kitted-out with full-sized electronic games, a monster TV with PlayStation, ping-pong table and basketball hoop."
Two things. "Arcade-type ambience"? Does that mean he wants a group of 15-year-olds in shell suits gathered round swearing in mockney accents, while a man in a grubby windcheater loiters in the doorway gathering the courage to pop into the porn shop next door? And what the hell are "full-sized electronic games"? Has Eminem been ripped off on a previous tour, perhaps walking into his dressing room to discover a miniture Xbox, and teeny versions of Halo and Splinter Cell? No wonder he's so angry in all his songs if they try to pull that kind of s**t on his ass.
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