today is 'record store day'.
am i NOT supposed to feel cynical about this? its so innocent, like 'ice cream day' or something. but really you know its just about selling more shit.
but maybe thats what this country needs right now: more people buying shit they dont really need. did all holidays start this way? a few big businesses (or churches) got together during tough times and made up a 'holiday' that fed into the collective unconcious desire for hedonistic polytheistic/pagan-style mass gatherings? people at a party will act like they believe anything you say as long as it keeps the party going.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
tvotwtf?
looks like courtney love shoulda gone to freecreditreport.com
poor lil frances bean.
i read in a book with a lot of pictures in it that kurt and courtney lived in LA for a year around the time 'nevermind' came out. the book had some photos of them and baby frances in their little bare-walled apartment in koreatown or wherever it was, all happy and scruffy in their pajamas. it was pretty surreal to see how small and intimate their life seemed compared to what was going on in kurt's career at the time, and the media feeding frenzy that was right around the corner.
i wonder if when they lived here they ever went out in silverlake and saw some shitty bands. if so, what sort of shitty bands were 'around' in LA back then?
since 'grunge' hadnt happened yet was it all hair metal bands and a pre-record deal weezer? (is the fact that weezer even dared to exist in a hair metal-and-punk-dominated LA actually incredible in retrospect?) or were they hip enough to go see pre-record deal beck play a leaf-blower at some silverlake coffeeshop? were there tons of record collector bands playing jangly college pop, or was OC/long beach pop-punk/ska and hardcore the only visible alternative? so many questions. aging LA natives, feel free to chime in.
i also just realized that this week marked the 15th anniversary of kurt's suicide. miss ya buddy! your band totally didnt suck. but your wife's did.
poor lil frances bean.
i read in a book with a lot of pictures in it that kurt and courtney lived in LA for a year around the time 'nevermind' came out. the book had some photos of them and baby frances in their little bare-walled apartment in koreatown or wherever it was, all happy and scruffy in their pajamas. it was pretty surreal to see how small and intimate their life seemed compared to what was going on in kurt's career at the time, and the media feeding frenzy that was right around the corner.
i wonder if when they lived here they ever went out in silverlake and saw some shitty bands. if so, what sort of shitty bands were 'around' in LA back then?
since 'grunge' hadnt happened yet was it all hair metal bands and a pre-record deal weezer? (is the fact that weezer even dared to exist in a hair metal-and-punk-dominated LA actually incredible in retrospect?) or were they hip enough to go see pre-record deal beck play a leaf-blower at some silverlake coffeeshop? were there tons of record collector bands playing jangly college pop, or was OC/long beach pop-punk/ska and hardcore the only visible alternative? so many questions. aging LA natives, feel free to chime in.
i also just realized that this week marked the 15th anniversary of kurt's suicide. miss ya buddy! your band totally didnt suck. but your wife's did.
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