Word: cobain
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...part of both the artist and the observer. Often, it’s only without manipulation by technology that some real meaning can emerge.The real thing feels better. It might require more work, but there’s always more reward. I’m just glad Kurt Cobain isn’t around to play “Guitar Hero” with you, because he would have beaten you and your roommates, then destroyed your entire living room.—Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...last time pop music was dealt this card, it went by the name Kurt Cobain, another lower-middle-class kid for whom being messed up was a source of creativity and, eventually, the killer of it too. Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers. No matter how true her music feels, it's hard to tell the difference between pain and performance and impossible to guess how approval reinforces her self-perception...
Born in 1979 in Perth, Australia, he told me that he grew up playing hockey with his dad and his sisters. And his heroes were musicians. "Kurt Cobain and Bono," he said. "I guess they were about the only heroes I really had. I wasn't raised on movies." He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19, and fame came very quickly, including a big break in the 2000 movie The Patriot co-starring fellow Aussie Mel Gibson. Celebrity had its discontents, though he found solace with the actress Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda. But he complained...
Grays Harbor, a foggy bay 90 minutes outside Seattle, has been known for two things: paper mills and the rock star Kurt Cobain, who was born there in 1967. Both are memories now, and in recent years the area had fallen on the hard times familiar to blue-collar communities across the U.S. But Grays Harbor is showing new color, thanks in part to the Seattle biofuel company Imperium Renewables, which just opened the nation's largest biodiesel plant there. The four-month-old refinery positively gleams (and smells vaguely like lawn clippings because of the vegetable oil used...
...group who still go to movies are critics, like me, who are paid to. Nor do the films have much appeal for today's young people. No one under 45 could even remember the '60s, let alone have lived meaningfully through those days. Kids are nostalgic for, like, Kurt Cobain, and the Adam Sandler years of Saturday Night Live. The last thing they'd want to see is a reprocessing of their parents' youth...