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A Biography of Kurt Cobain
Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven

Kurt Cobain's life and death fast became rock'n'roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, Nirvana, defined the music scene in the early 1990s and their songs spoke to and for a generation. Music journalist Charles R. Cross, a veteran of the Seattle music scene, relates this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it. Heavier Than Heaven is the definitive life of one of the twentieth century's most creative and troubled music geniuses.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2001

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Sceptre, London, 2001
382 oldal · ISBN: 0340739398

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Kurt had wisely sized up his situation and realized the band would get more gigs, and more experience, if they played for free. What did they need money for anyway? They had Tracy and Shelli.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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Later in the evening, he hung out with Tobi, and she ended up sleeping on the floor of his hotel room. She wasn’t the only one in his room – like always, there were a half dozen friends who needed a place to crash – but it was no small irony that Tobi was sleeping on his floor the day he’d sold half a million copies of an album that was ostensibly about how she didn’t love him.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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Shillinger spoke the words that were now painfully obvious to Kurt no matter how much he wanted to deny them: “You’re really famous now, Cobain. You are on television, like, every three hours.”
[…] “I don’t know about that,” Kurt replied, sounding very young. “I don’t have a TV in the car I live in.”

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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One day he and John Fields were walking home from school when Fields told Kurt he should be an artist, but Kurt casually announced he had other plans: “I’m going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory,” he said. “Kurt, that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard – don’t talk that way,” Fields replied. But Kurt was steadfast: “No, I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix.”

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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Kurt was a master at exaggerating a yarn so as to tell an emotional truth rather than an actual one.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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He was adept at cartooning, and in this way he first began to learn the art of storytelling. One recurrent cartoon from this period was the adventures of “Jimmy, the Prairie Belt Sausage Boy,” named after a canned meat product. These tales documented the painful childhood of Jimmy – a thinly veiled Kurt – who was forced to endure strict parents. One full-color, multi-panel edition not so subtly told the story of Kurt’s conflicts with his father. In the first panel, the father figure lectures Jimmy: “This oil is dirty. I can smell the gas in it. Get me a 9-mm wrench, you lousy little creep. If you’re gonna live here, you’re gonna live by my rules and they are as serious as my moustache: honesty, loyalty, dedication, honor, valor, strict discipline, God and country, that’s what makes America No. One.” Another panel shows a mother shouting, “I’m giving birth to your son and aborting your daughter. PTA meeting at seven, pottery class 2:30, beef stroganoff, dog to vet 3:30, laundry, yes, yes, mmm honey, it feels good in the ass, mmm, I love you.”

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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Despite the fact that he’d say the exact opposite in interviews, Kurt cared very much what people thought of him.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Kurt Cobain
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Perhaps in some small attempt to leave behind his past and the associations the band had with Aberdeen, Kurt came up with one final name for the group. Foster first heard about the new name when he saw a flyer at Kurt’s house for “Nirvana.” “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s us,” replied Kurt. “It means attainment of perfection.” In Buddhism, nirvana is the place reached when one transcends the endless cycle of rebirth and human suffering. By renouncing desire, following the Eight-fold Path and through meditation and spiritual practice, worshippers work to achieve nirvana and thus gain release from the pain of life. Kurt considered himself a Buddhist at the time, though his only practice of this faith was having watched a late-night television program.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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Once Kurt moved in with the Reeds, he made several short attempts to return to school at Weatherwax. He was already so behind in his classes it was inevitable he wouldn’t graduate with his class. Kurt told his friends he might pretend to be retarded to get into special-ed classes. Jesse would tease Kurt and call him “Slow Brain” because of his poor grades. His only real participation in school was art class, the one place he didn’t feel incompetent. He entered one of his class projects in the 1985 Regional High School Art Show, and his work was put into the permanent collection of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mr. Hunter told Kurt that if he applied himself he might be able to get a scholarship to an art school. A scholarship, and college, would have required graduating from Weatherwax, something Kurt didn’t see as a possibility unless he was held over an extra year (later in his life, he claimed falsely to have been offered several scholarships). Eventually Kurt dropped out completely, but not before first enrolling in Aberdeen’s alternative Continuation High School. The curriculum was similar to Weatherwax’s, but there were no formal classes: Students worked with teachers on a one-on-one basis. Mike Poitras tutored Kurt for about a week, but the boy didn’t stick with it long enough to complete the orientation. Two weeks later, Kurt dropped out of the school for dropouts.
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He also took a second part-time job, though this one he rarely discussed. It was a position as a janitor at Weatherwax High School. Each evening he would don a brown jumpsuit and push a mop through the hallways of the school he had dropped out of. Though the school year was almost over by the time he began, the contrast between his peers’ preparing for college and his own particulars left him feeling as diminished as he ever did in his life. He lasted two months before quitting.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Kurt Cobain
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He took off the gun’s safety.
He smoked his last Camel Light.

Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain


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