January 2012
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Thoughts on the Smashing Pumpkins 93 Metro show
This is freaking unbelievable. I can’t believe it’s shot this well. It captures the flailing body surfers, the violent swarm that is a 90s club show. The energy leaps off the screen! Billy Corgan is all smiley and sweet and full of life. Siamese Dream tour… Wow. This show was the month before Nirvana’s In Utero came out, two months before Pearl Jam’s Vs. This is...
Merry Christmas!
I love all you little Tumblings! Hope Santa is good to ya! ;-)
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“I remember when he got sick in Rome — I didn’t realise then that it was actually...”
– Eddie Vedder on Kurt Cobain, 1994 (via beenason)
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bayfruu:
so in the christmas list i gave my mom there were a bunch of things that i did want and a few things that just werent even possible, like: getting andy back, eddie, and miami 1992 i’m not sure what my mom was thinking but today she called me from the mall asking where she could get miami 92. she explained to me that she went to spencers, fye, new bury comics, all these stores asking for...
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My novel needs to lose about 40,800 words
*rocks in the fetal position*
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the pearl jam folder on my computer definitely...
barefoot-generation:
and the majority of them are definitely not of eddie
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Jazz Fest 2012 Line-up →
FOO FIGHTERS AND GLEN HANSARD?! AAAAHHH!!
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Got me a new blog →
It’s called “Got Me a Big Wave.” I wonder where I got that name?
It’s about everything surfing.
Interview with Kurt Cobain (Melody Maker - August...
Interviewer: When you were younger though, and really into music, you must have had posters on your wall.
Kurt: I had posters on my wall. Mostly to show off that I was really into music.
Interviewer: But weren’t there also pop stars that you were really curious about?
Kurt: Absolutely not.
Interviewer: What, never?
Kurt: I’m not lying about this, I had absolutely no desire to find out what kind of person any of these rock stars were. I don’t think I ever read through a whole article in Creem magazine after I got my first subscription when I was 12. I never finished one because I just didn’t care, I just liked the music.
Interviewer: You must be fairly unique then, because what are known euphemistically as “human interest stories” sell enormous quantities of newspapers and magazines. Editors and journalists merely respond to public demand, and the public or the record-buying public at any rate, are demanding that your privacy be invaded.
Kurt: But what is that? Who made that rule? And it is a rule and it means it’s gonna go on forever. I’m baffled by it, I’m not interested in that shit.
Interviewer: But you were interested in the life of Frances Farmer, in her personal life.
Kurt: That’s true… I don’t know how I’m gonna get myself out of this… I’m not obsessed with her as an artist, that’s not what drew me to it. It’s the tragic story. And, hopefully, in telling that story to other people I can make them see that it’s a reality, that it can happen to anybody. I don’t know, I just think there should be stricter libel laws. I’m not opposed to investigation, people coming up with proof and facts. If I have done something, then it’s fine for people to say so. But I’m a musician. I think politicians, in their professional lives, should be scrutinised every step of the way. But politicians aren’t musicians, politicians have a huge responsibility.
Interviewer: And you don’t think you have a huge responsibility.
Kurt: I have a responsibility to not promote a negative lifestyle. If I choose to live my life in a negative way which may influence kids to do what I do, then I have no problem telling kids how lame it is to act that way. I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn’t want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it’s cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there’s a hell, they’ll go there. It’s really bad karma.
Interviewer: Do you really think that a kid could be so impressed by a star’s negative lifestyle that they’d take it up themselves?
Kurt: Oh, they do, absolutely. I saw this movie, ‘Over the Edge’ [Tim Hunter’s cold account of a group of suburban teenagers who trap their parents and teachers in a school hall and attempt to burn it down]. I remember leaving that theatre and almost everyone who was in there came running out screaming their heads off and breaking windows and vandalising and wanting to get high. It totally affected them and influenced them. It may not have been the intention of the person who made the movie, and it’s a great movie, but that’s what happened. It happens a lot, with movies and music, and the people who are affected by it are usually not-very-evolved people in the first place.
Interviewer: So do you think Nirvana is a positive or negative band?
Kurt: Well, at the beginning we were… not negative, but we did address dark and negative issues. I mean, we’re not The Staple Singers but I could never see myself singing about Satan or glamorising drug use or anything like that. I just couldn’t do it. I mean, I don’t use cuss-words on my albums, not because I don’t want a sticker on my record but because there’s just no point. It’s been done a million times and I don’t personally need to use that kind of language in my lyrics. I think I have cussed a few times where it was necessary, but I think for the most part we’re pretty positive. I think the only reason we ever had a reputation for being a negative band was because of the articles written about us, addressing the drug use and stuff. Like, we’ve been accused of inciting people to drop out of society. But if we do that, it’s not in a lazy way. I mean, I’ve always thought of us as attacking that Slacker stuff. But we have pointed out things about society that’s not good and I know some people don’t like that, they think it’s dangerous. And I think that’s why they fuck with us.”
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I LOVE NIRVANA!!!!!
That is all.
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