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Tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. I would wait to post a tribute post until tomorrow but I won't be online at all tomorrow (well to check my e-mil but that's because I'm waiting for an important note from my professor).
Nirvana has done a lot of great things for a lot of mediocre people. In death Cobain gained ten times the fans he would have had when alive, most of which are fifteen year old fangirls that want to glue his ashes together and rape them. *confused stare*
But along with gaining a following of teenaged fangirls, Nirvana has a small (but growing) following of artists, people that have true respec for what the music really is.
'm not going to go in to a long rambling entry on how "nirvana saved my life" or how "Kurt has insired me soooo much" etc because that's cliche'd bullshit. Nirvana has inspired a lot of people, some deserving, most not.
I actually did have a reason for this post (and it's cross posted to every nirvana community on LJ, blurty, GJ and DJ).
Something I'm sick of:
People acting like Heavier Than Heaven is the bible for Nirvana/Cobain fans. People quote that book as though it is the ultimate truth. As a writer andaspiring journalist (granted my journalism will be more in the form of documentaries not books) I am appalled by Cross's presumptuous attitude in Heavier than heaven. One thing people forget about most journalists is how they stretch the truth and exaggerate. Cross may have many facts in that book, I'm not denying that, but I'm not going to take it as the ultimate truth about Kurt Cobain's life because most of the information in there was something no one but Kurt would know. Cross didn't know how Kurt felt about situation X Y or Z. Cross didn't know what Kurt did after he lost his virginity, or in his last days alive.
People need to learn to take biographies with a grain of salt. Don't just assume everything is true because someone did research. Doing research doesn't make your exaggerations true, just the facts they're based on.
I don't know if that made sense, of if the people in most of these communities would really care seeing as how most Nirvana/Kurt Cobain communities are full of teenage fangirls that love announcing their unhealthy obsession with a dead man as if that's some sort of badass bragging rights.
Me? Bitter and Cynical?
Naaaaaahhhhh
/fin
PS- rest in peace Kurdt.
PPS- cross your fingers for Tom Grant's April project.
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