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The ash remains of legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain have gone missing from the Los Angeles area home of his rehab-prone widow Courtney Love. Cobain's ashes were reportedly kept in a pink teddy-bear-shaped bag along with a lock of his hair and were swiped along with thousands of dollars worth of jewelery and clothing. (What? No golden shrine. One of the greatest rockers of all time was kept in a pink teddy-bear-shaped bag?) "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt'... MORE

I dig out Nirvana's Unplugged CD today, as inspiration for my guitar-learning. It's been a while since any music really affected me, but this CD just hit the spot. Cobain's voice just kills me. And as for my playing along to it? Well, it'll make any pro guitar player weep, and call social services to get my instrument taken away and put into care!

By MARCUS WOHLSEN SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression. Then Kelsoe, a prominent psychiatric geneticist at the University of California, San Diego, did something provocative for the buttoned-down world of academic medical research: He began selling bipolar genetic tes... MORE

I'd forgotten why I like Nirvana so much, and not because of their grungie loud sound but because of Kurt Cobain's amazing lyrics and songs like this one,where you can almost feel his feeling of depression and lonelyness through his unique and raspy voice. This is a song for the isolated souls. Maybe there is something in the way that might help us through the day.

So tonight I went to my first trance rave. I guess I committed a major faux-pas though- when everyone else dances to the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" remix, that isn't your cue to start a mosh. I don't think that girl will forgive me anytime soon...

I posted this a long time ago but I deleted it when I sobered up because sobriety does crazy things to people. The song came up tonight in conversation and I wished to share this whole rest of it, but it wouldn't have worked. It is so hard talking to new people because you don't know how long to wait before you let them in on the fact that you are totally fucking insane. Anyways, here's the old stuff: As I sit here half, nay, three-fourths drunk on unfiltered sake, I ... MORE

I went to go see the new Kurt Cobain: About A Son documentary which recently opened at the IFC Center here in New York. While interesting, it was a difficult to watch film made up of 90 minutes of Cobain interview soundbites set to "ambient cinematography." I guess I was expecting more of a dyed-in-the-wool documentary about one of the last great icons/heroes/rockstars/whatever of the last several generations. About A Son was definitely different, in that the hour and a ha... MORE

Apparently this clip is kinda famous (I'm seeing it for the first time. Seiken pointed me at a miserable cover of "Final Countdown", and there in the related videos was something with the name of my high school in it.

I must have done like 6 plays/musicals and 10 choir/jazz/etc. concerts in this hall. They really didn't want us to play rock - now I see why...

Five of the best youtube minutes you will ever see. It's like the history of early 90's rock neatly packaged for your consumption. A great song by a band that changed the face of music, the most disastrous bass toss ever caught on film, and Dave Grohl mocking Axl Rose in front of millions of people. Enjoy

When Nirvana was putting together Nevermind, an album that set the tone for the rock music of the 90s, they weren't all that famous. They couldn't make their album art budget stretch far enough to use a stock photo of a baby swimming so the photographer they hired, Kirk Weddle paid $200 to some friends of his, Renata and Rick Elden, for their use of their 4 month old son, Spencer, for the shot. In 2001, in honor of Nevermind's tenth anniversary (and his own tenth birthday)... MORE

I always find it fascinating to go to Amazon.com and read the negative reviews about great albums. For instance -- Nirvana's "Nevermind". While most reviewers there give it five stars, one in ten will give it only one (there's almost no in between). Here are some clips from the one-star reviews: "I am sorry but I just don't get it. My only take is that the late 80's got so bogged down and stale with the everywhere hair bands that anything new and angry sounding would ... MORE

April 5th will be the 13th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide. He was 27. Only 27. I graduated high school in 1993, and more than any band that I have ever seen during my lifetime, Nirvana actually changed the landscape of popular music. I mean when Nevermind was released, it debuted at number one...knocking Michael Jackson out of the top spot, it that doesn't signify a sea change in American youth culture, I don't know what does. His music really did change the cultur... MORE