A Cry for Help

I missed it a couple days ago, but April 5th was the 10 year anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide. I remember distinctly listening to WBRU, making some food, when I heard about "a body found dead in a Seattle apartment, an apparent suicide. It's believed to be the body of Kurt Cobain." I was shocked, and pissed. I was so into music then, and Nirvana was a big part of that.

In the following month I got into trouble after writing a prose poem about the suicide, which I read to my math class one day before the teacher showed up. Someone decided to go to the teacher after class and tell her about what I wrote, and before you knew it I was sitting in the Guidance Counselor's office. Thus began a multi-year misguided effort by the Warwick school department to keep me from killing myself. My poor parents.

Anyway, I was reminded about this by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore writing in the NY Times today about the current state of Kurt's music. I always said that if he hadn't killed himself in '94, the Backstreet Boys would have drove him to it eventually.

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