A week early, but oh well..

I had been planning to write a little something on April 5th with regards to the passing of Kurt Cobain...but as you are well aware if you read this with anything vaguely resembling regularity, I'm going to be away next week getting sunburnt and drunk (tho not necessarily in that order) in Cancun. Thus, I'm writing today. A full list of things I'm going to miss out on will follow, and while I'm sure you're not exactly crying for me, this is my blog, so nuts to you....

Anyway, I know I've posted here that Nirvana's popularity and supposed influence on the entire "grunge" movement is mostly revisionist history when you look closely at the details, and their comparison to Pearl Jam, for example....but that's not to say that their influence is imagined, by any means. It's just that the curious circumstances surrounding his demise have greatly propegated the legend.

Digression: I couldn't help but chuckle when I heard yesterday that an investment group headed by U2's Bono is actually looking to purchase much of the Nirvana catalogue. Countney Love apparently needs the money, and it just makes me happy to know that that talentless hack (who never wrote a decent song without either Kurt or Billy Corgan) won't be getting any more royalties off of her dead husband's work....but I can't help thinking that Cobain's rolling over in his grave knowing that Bono would have the rights to his music...

Anyway, if you're not overly familiar with the details of the supposed conspiracy theory regarding how incredibly unlikely it was that Cobain's death was suicide, and care to know, then I strongly suggest that you check the link above out. Little details I found interesting include the medical evidence (which qualifies more as overwhelming than "little"), as well as the Lollapalooza headlining gig that they were about to turn down... and just the general vibe that he was actually planning to "retire" and fade back into obscurity. Struck me as interesting.

Anyway, I guess I just wanted to point out one the first quasi-defining moments of my generation, as most people my age just barely qualify to be able to discuss Nirvana in any tangible way. When they came through TO for the tour following In Utero, a guy in my class went to the concert, and it was a big deal that he could stay out that late on a school night...give me a break, tho....we were like 12 or 13 at the time..... ;)

I think this should inspire me to actually read the Kurt Cobain Journals that I got for Christmas a few years back... I can't really place why I haven't sat down to read it yet, I guess it just got put in a box when I moved away from Kingston and I haven't looked at it since.

Meh...