APRIL 8th - Burn Out or Fade Away? It is Better to Be.
On this day in 1994, Nirvana lead singer, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in his home outside Seattle, Washington. Injection marks in his arms, a 20-gauge between his knees, and a fatal wound to his head. Normally, I would stay away from such a heavy event, but he’s been on my mind recently. Maybe it’s the new documentary coming out about him, or the fact that I recently re-discovered Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged album, or friends discussing him on Facebook, or the deep YouTube dive I did into the Teen React YouTube channel, which incidentally completely fascinated me and also made me feel decidedly ancient, in which today’s teens talked about Nirvana: Now, if you didn’t get sucked in by that black hole of YouTube specialness, I shall continue. There are far better authorities on Kurt Cobain and Nirvana than me, and though I certainly appreciated his music and artistry, I was never the biggest Nirvana fan. So I won’t add my uninformed two cents about musical influence and legacy and all that st...