Cobain 'Journals' Bolstered with New Material (i feel guilty)

[Socialist Christian]

I admit i read the first, he is indeed my artistic hero, and i respect his privacy, but me and him are so simlar i couldnt resist the urge to know the real Kurt, even more. It just buttressed my support.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=3&u=/nm/20031120/en_nm/books_cobain_dc


<snippet>
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The paperback edition of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's "Journals" has been bolstered with 14 pages of new material, including an extended narrative about a semi-fictional serial killer.



Riverhead released the volume Nov. 10, with a front cover reproduction of Cobain's red Mead notebook bearing his hand-written caveat, "if you read, you'll judge."


"Frankly, we had this the first time around, but we chose not to include it, because it's disturbing and bizarre," Riverhead co-editorial director Julie Grau told Billboard.com of the serial killer-themed pages. "We checked, and there was a serial killer that shared some of the traits and biographic facts that he writes about. But it's hard to know if Kurt was inventing all of this but had pieces of facts he recalled."


"I think the first time, we thought it would skew the appreciation of all the material that was in here," Grau continues. "Now that the hardcover has come out and the journals have been judged and read, we thought people could handle it."


"Journals" now also features lyrics to an unrecorded song titled "Travelin' White Trash Couple," a cookie recipe and a previously unpublished list of Cobain's favorite albums, one of the artist's favorite topics for doodling in his notebooks.

[Socialist Christian]

1. correct link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=3&u=/nm/20031120/en_nm/books_cobain_dc

[Socialist Christian]

2. No. No nirvana fans jeez<nt>

[ellie]

3. Yes!

I am a big Nirvana fan! I just don't visit the lounge all that often. I bought Kurt's journal for my husband and looked through it a bit. It was a bit painful for me. Embarassing, I know, but I really LIKED Kurt.

I saw that they are releasing the paperback version and I will have to pick it up. I save magazines and stuff with info on them. In fact, we recently moved and I was looking for the box with all of the magazine covers in them after he died. I had a couple of things to add to it. I don't collect anything else and it isn't an obsession, so I tell myself.

I really like his unreleased material. Have you heard any of the Outcesticides? The first one is really great. The production is not as slick, but I like Nirvana that way. I never paid attention to production before they came out, but slick just isn't the way to listen to them. I lent my copy (of the first Outcesticide) to a friend and he scratched it all to hell. Now I have to see if it can be repaired or spend another $30 to buy a new one.

Have you heard about the Charles Peterson's "Touch Me I'm Sick" about the grunge era? Spin magazine had an article about it. Although I am not wild about the grunge label (I realize that the media has to label movements because they can't wrap their brains around anything original), I thought that music was really alive then. It talks about all the bands performing and how fans overlapped because there really weren't niches. Music today is so boring, it really makes me wish for the past.

Vive Kurt!

[Socialist Christian]

4. I havent heard any of the outcesticides

i had a friend who was trying like hell to get 1-5 he said. I hadnt checked out touch me im sick either, im with you on the grunge label, it got commercialized and it led to its downfall, i remember when they were on mtv announcing that Electronica was the new grunge, and etc etc etc. I read Heavier than heaven by Charles Cross and that converted me to a Cobainian. With the Exception of the Melvins and a few sup pop artists (Buzz Osbourne is an ass)i feel a lot were just nirvan lites, i keep hearing people say Alice in Chains were better on a song by song basis, and im like what the hell? lol. Even to this day rock elitists look down on nirvana and the whole seattle movement as i call it. There was a documentary i saw on showtime about 3 months ago about the "grunge" era i cant remeber the title. It looks like it was done in 95'- i thought it ws decent, it was raw and uncut the way i like my musical docs. Damn its hard to believe he would be turning 37 on feb 20th if he were still with us

[ellie]

5. I tried looking for the Outcesticides

online, but couldn't find them. They are released by Blue Moon records. I am not sure where you are in the U.S., but independent record stores may have them. They are bootlegs.

When Kurt was alive I read "Come As You Are," then lent it to someone who lost it. It was pretty good.

Did you see the movie "Kurt and Courtney?" It was mildly interesting with the theory that Courtney had him killed. I really have no idea what he saw in her. Frances looks just like him!

I really like the whole grunge era. I like Alice in Chains too, but I don't think they were better songwriters. I was bummed when Layne Staley died. And, this past summer I saw Pearl Jam for the first time. They were great! Don't listen to the rock "purists." They don't know what they are talking about.