― ARE YOU OTM?, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― YOU ARE NOT OTM, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: I don't even know that he killed himself.
UNCUT: Is it possible that Kurt was murdered?
GORDON: It is possible.
― discus (dr g), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― OTM OTM, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― dot com dot com dot com, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― i see (eman), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/aliens.jpg
"I think el duce is our man"
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
When I was an alienCultures weren't opinions
Gotta find a way, a better way, when I'm thereGotta find a way - a better way - better way
Never met a wise manIf so it's a woman
Gotta find a way, a better way, when I'm thereGotta find a way - a better way - better way(x2)
Just because you're paranoidDon’t mean they're not after you
Gotta find a way, a better way, when I'm thereGotta find a way - a better way - better way(x3)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laughing to Infinity, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I suspected this was the "music on drugs" dude! Glad to hear you didn't actually understand the other thread either!
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laughing To Infinity, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
What's the point of this? Who gives a shit what people like Kim Gordon or the Foo Fighters believe.
― Joel (aquabahn), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.gardenal.org/churrascogrego/textos/palpatine.bmp.jpg
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, so that's good. You're weren't suspecting the thread-starter was me.
You have yet to explain how you know all about Paul Leary, but it is inconceivable to you that Kim Gordon could be "in the know". After all, she was only friends with him and his limited friends, toured with him and was a member of one of the bands he highly looked up to. And you're close to Paul so well that... well, no that's right, you just were talking a bunch of shit.
― Laughing To Infinity And Beyond, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Caught Red Handed at Sam's Hofbrau (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― pooooooo, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
COBAIN: I don't even know that she killed herself. There are people close to her who don't think that she did...
UNCUT: Do you believe the theory that Kim was killed by someone else?
COBAIN: I do, yes.
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: Yes I do think that Kurt Cobain killed himself.
UNCUT: Do you think that Kurt Cobain was murdered?
GORDON: Yes I do think that Kurt Cobain was murdered.
UNCUT: So who did it?
GORDON: Jon Poneman.
UNCUT: Weird.
GORDON: Yeah.
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: I don't even know that he killed himself. There are people close to him who don't think that he did...
UNCUT: Do you believe the theory that Bean Cobian is Jojo?
GORDON: I do, yes.
― discus (dr g), Thursday, 10 November 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Caught Red Handed at Sam's Hofbrau (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
just sayin'
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
UNCUT: Do you believe the theory that JoJo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is loosely based on Richard Pryor's own life?
― gear (gear), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: Flash, aa-aaaah! He saved every one of us!
UNCUT: sausage
GORDON: Trust the Gordon's fisherman.
― Fellow Player Alonger, Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: Yes, let's go.
They do not move.
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: What's that?
UNCUT: Peanut Butter Jelly with a baseball bat
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
GORDON: Me too.
UNCUT: Do you believe a theory?
GORDON: I have evidence.
BEAN COBIAN: I am jojo.
GORDON: Your dad was murdered.
― discus (dr g), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link
UNCUT: That is very fascinating
JOJO BEAN: I AM DOGFACE BOY
JOE PISCOPO: smell my panties
GORDON: FUCK OFF
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
there is this story of the ex-bassist of guns'n roses duff mckagan who was one of the last persons to see cobain. they flew from la to seattle sitting together in the 1st class. mckagan met a friend at the airport in seattle who said to him that they should not leave cobain in the state he was in alone. when they looked behind cobain was gone.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 6 April 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
I was at a gig in Glasgow and Norman Blake and maybe some other Teenage Fanclub guys were there and the people I was with said, "Wow, they (the Fannies) are all really upset because they're just heard Kurt Cobain killed himself". Then I think someone made up a tasteless joke about Kurt Cobain - it might even have been me - and we all laughed.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 April 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
That doesn’t sound like you. Oh wait.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
The Duff story is related, by Duff, in this which is grim but well made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is0OGzUmk-Y
― piscesx, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
Didn’t find out until Saturday morning when listening to the Danny Baker show on Radio One. Predictably Baker was less than respectful when talking about him.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 7 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
It was a Friday*, sometime between 3 pm and 4 pm - school was over for the day and the dinner rush hadn’t begun yet. Between the kitchen and the restaurant area of the country club where I worked as a busboy was a preparation area or station, a place to prepare little bowls of butter, fold napkins, sort silverware, unload racks of drinking glasses. I was in there, doing one of those things probably. The layout of that room and the various adjoining entrances are very clear even now: the stainless steel industrial counters and refrigerator, the ice machine, the coffee makers, the cinderblock walls painted a shade of yellow so pale it was nearly white. If you turned to the right of where I stood you’d cross a hallway and enter the kitchen. If you turned to the left of where I stood you’d have four choices, two of them leading to well stocked bars, one leading to the main dining room, another leading to the room used to stage the weddings and special events featuring unimaginative DJs. Whatever I was doing had to be done and as I was doing it I talked to an older waiter, mid-20s, who is probably a middle aged banker now - he looked like a middle aged banker then. I was 17, about to wrap up junior year. It wasn’t the ideal job, but what job is? Getting that one had to do with connections but, certainly, I took the work seriously. The waiter projected an air of empathy but that was probably a mask; he was nice enough. He wandered around singing the chorus of Pearl Jam’s “Daughter” to himself as though it were the whole song. We worked with worse people. Like that asshole tennis pro, a sneering weasel in a headband and glasses, who chose that moment to join us, bursting through the entrance near the kitchen, laughing, to let us know that Kurt Cobain was dead, that he’d blown his brains out, before fucking off sweatily to teach another tennis lesson, or whatever. (I posted this on FB the other day.)
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
^This was in Phoenix, Maryland, at what was known as the "Towson Golf & Country Club" - I think they call it something different now.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Like that asshole tennis pro, a sneering weasel in a headband and glasses, who chose that moment to join us, bursting through the entrance near the kitchen, laughing, to let us know that Kurt Cobain was dead, that he’d blown his brains out, before fucking off sweatily to teach another tennis lesson, or whatever. (I posted this on FB the other day.)
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings)
david foster wallace could be such a dick
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
Ha! In my memory he was more of a Steve Albini type.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
Did he play poker with the guests as well as tennis?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
My Facebook post on where I heard the news that was, according to some, that generation's "Where were you when you found out John Lennon died" moment:
Today is the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death but it's not the 25th anniversary of when all of us found out about it. That was three days later on the 8th. Still, I'll tell my story now...
Ric Ricard was pissed at me.
I had procrastinated and not picked up Pearl Jam tickets. We were set to cover the band when they played at the Patriot Center (now called EagleBank Arena) in Fairfax, VA for a concert review for a British magazine - I believe it was Metal Hammer. We often would try and cover shows outside of NYC because getting credentials was easier and my folks lived near there so we had a place to crash after the show.
Because I didn't take the train into the Epic offices from Brooklyn during the day to pick up the tickets, after he got off work Ric had to pick me up, drive into the city to get them, and then drive to the DC suburbs while dealing with rush hour traffic.
"If we don't get there in time for me to take pictures, you're paying for my gas," he said. Which was quite the threat since I was always broke. It also showed how pissed he was.
We finally get to the venue. We missed Mudhoney but had time to pick up his photo pass. However the person at will call says, "Sorry, the band revoked all photo passes."
Ric, who was already on edge from the long drive, traffic and being pissed at me, snapped at the guy, "What do you mean?"
"There was a death in the band," he said.
"Wait, who died," Ric asked. He told us it was Kurt Cobain.
Ric's response was classic: "He's not in Peal Jam!"
We didn't play the radio on the drive down, listening to cassette tapes the whole time, so even if a radio station might have announced it, we didn't hear it. So this was how we found out.
The band played a really intense set (which I found in full on YouTube - linked below) and Eddie Vedder broke into tears at one point. Ric didn't get to take pictures but fortunately Pearl Jam was one of about three rock bands he liked at that point and since his photo pass was revoked it wasn't my fault so I didn't have to pay for the gas.
After the show on the way to my folks' apartment Ric and I were discussing it. We were wondering how he died. Drugs seemed the most likely culprit.
Get to my parents' place and immediately tell dad I have to turn on MTV. I didn't have cable at the time and it was amusing having dad roll his eyes remembering when I lived at home and would change radio and TV stations but he acquiesced and at that point is when we learned that it was suicide.
Ric and I got real quiet - we couldn't believe it - and even dad started to pay attention (dad would recount to me Nirvana lyrics published in the Washington post a few days later, telling me he liked them) and we watched MTV for a few hours before finally getting to sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8CbK5lDsI0
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
I guess I was in a supermarket because I saw it on the Daily Star which was the only UK paper to carry the news on its front page
in my attempts to verify this with pictorial evidence just now I found a story on their website titled Kurt Cobain ‘KILLED by Illuminati after making chilling 9/11 warning in THIS photo’ which is literally based on youtube comments. can't believe the Daily Star would etc
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link