30 Days of Truth: Day 13

Day 13 - A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter)

To Nirvana,

You don't know me but you have been my best friends when i had no friends. You made me feel like I was understood when I was an outcast. You kept me living when i felt like dying. Your music was a window into my soul when I was 16 years old. And today, your music still reminds me of tougher days, when i was depressed, contemplating suicide, broken and beaten down. You were with me when I didn't understand who I was or what my place was in the world. You were, you are more than words could ever say. You were me.

Kurt, You shouldn't have done it! I understood you, and you understood me. You were so brilliant, such a genius. you had EVERYTHING in the world going for you. you inspired an entire generation to be better than they were and yet you ended your life before everybody could see your fullest potential. The world will never know how much Kurt Cobain could have done. But what you did for me and countless others, we could never repay to you. We are forever in your debt.

Thank you,

-J.

Forever Missed...

I’m so glad I was born in the eighties and grew up in the 90’s! I had a chance to listen to the music of two of the best and most meaningful artists of all time, Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur. I think about this new Generation and I feel bad for them. They don’t have a voice for their generation, a voice to express their frustration, a voice to state their case, a voice to articulate what they are too scared to say without being ostracized by those that have it all together.

To me Kurt and Pac were the heart and soul of the 90’s. Even though they were from completely different worlds they had so much in common. They both came from single parent households, they both had a turbulent adolescence, they were both homeless at one point, they were both super talented, their voices were full of pain that bled out through their music, they both became the greatest in their respective genres, they both spoke from the perspective of the misunderstood, the frustrated, the depressed, the borderline insane, they were both extremely talented, extremely successful, and they both died in their 20’s.

I could picture them meeting each other, being awkward at first having come from different walks of life but talking, realizing that they were similar souls and deciding to have a beer as they relive their turbulent lives through nostalgic stories and poetic memories about their lives. That meeting would have been the stuff of legends.

The thing about Kurt and Pac is that they made those that were misunderstood, depressed, disliked, and different feel as if somebody was writing symphonies set to their everyday lives. The young and misunderstood of generations X and Y found artists that weren’t just making music but were creating vivid portrayal of the lives of countless teens and young adults by admitting that they were different when everybody wanted to follow the flock. They were themselves in a world where everybody is trying to be anybody else but who they actually are. They showed us beauty in imperfection, reason in misunderstanding, and unity in being disenfranchised. They spoke volumes that continue even years after they have been gone and will continue through those that understood them because they understood us… because they understood me…

Taking Punk to the Masses!

On April 16th of next year The Experience Music Project in Seattle will be opening a huge exhibit telling the story about the legendary Nirvana! The exhibit is called "Taking Punk to the Masses" and will include exclusive memorabilia of the band ranging from unseen photographs, paintings done by Cobain, smashed up guitars, and a confessional area where fans can leave messages about how Nirvana’s music affected them! Come April I will definitely go see this in Seattle!

Nirvana’s music understood me in a time that I barely understood myself. It voiced my angst and personal torment, making me feel like I wasn’t alone after all. To me, Kurt Cobain was more than just a favorite artist, he was a friend that I never knew in person. Needless to say that it will mean a lot to me to see this exhibit. I really can’t wait toexperience punk being brought to the masses and bringing tribute to Cobain and Nirvana!

Cobain Biopic!!!!!!!!!

There are few things more exciting to me than the idea of a Kurt Cobain Biopic. Perhaps the possibility of a 2pac Biopic, or the possibility of winning the trip to the “Living a better story seminar." But aside from those things, nothing can be more meaningful than a movie made by an Oscar nominated director about a man who shared more in common with a teenage me than any of my peers. Nirvana’s music takes me back to the age of 17, where I was a college freshman, addicted to Marijuana and nitrous oxide, misunderstood by my fellow school peers and the “homies” on the block. A recluse, often surrounded by those that claimed to love him, a depressed young man that had everything going for him and a brilliant anti-social extrovert, I quickly fell in love with his music and felt that if anybody, he understood what I was going through. Cobains life was cut short by his own hand way before I even started listening to his music but his memory lives on through his music and through the fans that not only remember his life and departure, but know that his spirit lives on through his art. So to all of us that remember him and miss him, this movie will be monumental; another way to immortalize the grunge hero of the 90's!