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...friend made me a mix that included “Teen Spirit” and “Polly,” and I soon owned every Nirvana album. Now, between the poster of 5-year-old Kurt on my door in Quincy, the antique Fender Mustang (my first guitar, and the one famously endorsed by Cobain) my guitar teacher found for me in a used guitar shop in Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing...
...over again why their music has such lasting appeal. When juxtaposed with Limp Bizkit’s overbearing machismo, Creed’s creepy blend of pop and religion, or John Mayer’s annoying, emo voice, Cobain’s gut-wrenching howl and skillfully dissonant guitar-playing are as refreshing as a brick in Sean Paul’s face. Today, 10 years after Cobain’s suicide, his music appeals to us for the same reasons it did in 1991, when “Smells Like Teen Spirit” topped the charts, muffling...
...kind of an expert on Open Mic nights. I went to a guitar camp for three summers and, before you make the tired American Pie joke, let me tell you it was much cooler than band camp, except for the fact that every night was Open Mic Night. All campers were invited to play. After about a hundred crappy renditions of “White Room” and “All Along the Watchtower,” I learned to stay away. Due to careful research at the events I did attend, though, I have determined that...
After welcoming everybody to Open Mic Night, and warning that the only microphone is broken, BGLTSA co-chairs Stephanie M. Skier ’05 and M.C.D. Barusch ’06 introduce the evening’s first act, a self-written song played on the guitar. The refrain is, “Let me stay one more night in your arms/Let me stayayayayayayay one more night in your arms.” Next, a guy tells a “true story” about his first time. It was with a male model in Lebanon, who went...
Mary K. Eagle ’06 entertained the crowd singing and playing the guitar, and Pascal M. Chahine ’06, BGLTSA social co-chair, told an elaborate story entitled “My First Time” about scandalous escapades with a bisexual male model in Lebanon...