Monthly Archive:: May 2014
Gene Simmons is a Jerk. A Big Jerk.
On May 29, 2014 In Uncategorized
My preview of the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame show on HBO is in the Seattle Times today—it airs on HBO on the 31st. But that won’t tell you what a jerk Gene Simmons of Kiss was backstage, and even onstage. He’s on TMZ video today ripping Nirvana. He implies that they don’t
In Seattle, Food is the new Grunge.
On May 28, 2014 In Uncategorized
Okay, I said it: “Food has become the new rock & roll in Seattle. It’s what people are obsessed with. It’s what we talk about. Our chefs are the current grunge stars of Seattle.” Not that any food has ever taken me to the emotional place that a great song has, mind you, or
Is this really what Kurt Cobain would have looked at 70?
On May 9, 2014 In Uncategorized
The Seattle Times has a story today (May 9, http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023564592_agingsoftwarexml.html) on a new software program the University of Washington has developed that attempts to show aging from using a photograph. Their example is Kurt Cobain, and here are there results. In my mind it completely fails because they are using a photo from adolescence
Kurt Cobain did not write that “death scene” note, which is not actually a death scene note, either
On May 3, 2014 In Uncategorized
When CBS news reported the “breaking story” this week of what they called the “Kurt Cobain ‘death scene note,'” it seemed obvious to me that the note they were referring to was in Courtney Love’s handwriting, and not Kurt’s. I have examined thousands of pages of Kurt’s writing over the years, from a variety