How to explain all the love and admiration I feel for you, how your songs and thoughts continue to make a difference for all of us. wherever you are I wish you a happy birthday.
kurt cobain introducing his daughter, frances bean to their new kitten Spina Bfida. circa early summer 1993
[ID: Kurt Cobain smiles and cradles a little brown striped kitten in both hands. Cobain is a young white man with blond, straight, almost shoulder length hair and scruffy facial hair. He wears a gold ring on his right ring finger and a white tee shirt with a design that is mostly not visible from this angle. /End ID]
It’s been 28 years since Kurt Cobain died and it’s always surprising and yet, completely understandable, how much his life and death and music still affects people. When you read the accounts of his last few months, it’s just so apparent that everything failed around him.
And you know, in 28 years, not that much has changed in the way we approach mental illness and addiction. I think to the KPOP deaths of recent years and it serves as a constant reminder for me to be kinder and more understanding to other people.
I don’t have a favourite Nirvana song because I only reach for them when I’m in a certain mood. For total catharsis, these two are my most played and the closest to being called my favourites because they have my favourite lyrics in them: You Know You’re Right|Aneurysm.
Nirvana purposefully botched their performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit on the British TV show “Top Of The Pops” to protest the show’s policy that required artists to sing live vocals over pre-recorded back tracks
