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.

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!

Song of the Day - Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Originally performed by blues musician Lead Belly, "Where did you sleep last night?" rose to legendary status when covered by Nirvana In their MTV Unplugged in New York set. Cobain does an amazing job of bringing this 1944 song to Generation X'ers and all nirvana fan's to come.

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the
whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows
Her husband, was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found

The Bands That Brought me to Rock (Post #300)

Since this is my 300Th post I figured what better to write this post about than the music that I love, Rock!

So I'll take you all through a small journey. 1999 I was completely engulfed by rap Music especially West Coast rap and specifically that of 2PAC "Makaveli" Shakur. I didn't listen to rock because
1. I didn't like it
2. My friends only listened to rap and referred to rock music as "White boy $#!T."

But in 1999 I heard a song that changed the way that I looked at rock when I first heard Rage Against The Machine.

They were this hybrid child of rap and rock. Zach De La Rocha's flows over Tom Morello's extraordinary guitar skills was a match made in heaven.

Later that year I fell in love with a song by another group that seemed to be a fusion of funk, punk rock, and rap. That band was Red Hot Chili peppers.

The first time i heard "Californication" I immediately loved the smooth sound of the opening guitar riff. I still remember going on a camping trip that year with my buddies (not the gang members but my school friends), and belching out a tone deaf rendition of californication at the top of our lungs which woke everybody at the camping sight up that night. I kept RHCP in the closet since my friends didnt listen to rock but I did pick up their album.

In the year 2000 I heard a song called Lithium by an early 90's Aberdeen, WA based alternative punk rock group that pioneered a sound called "Grunge." The band was the legendary Nirvana.
Nirvana hit me like lightning. I had heard "Smells Like teen spirit" before but never really got into it. Lithium and all Nirvana Lyrics really summed up my depressed lifestyle at the time and So Nirvana became (and continues to be) one of my favorite rock bands of all time.

In 2002 I first heard the band Emery which without a doubt is my favorite rock band.

Emery really got me into the scene with their emo/screamo style of music. This is currently the type of rock that I am really into.

In 2003 my friend began introducing me to the world of hard rock. Although I didn't like some of it, the frustration that went into a lot of these lyrics really helped me to cope with relationship issues at that time. Three Days Grace was one of the best at expressing this anger towards the ex- girlfriend.

i bought their CD and lost it after a while but returned to it last year along with a return to harder rock.

Post #300 is dedicated to this amazing musical root genre called rock. Gotta love it!

I'm on a plain...!

...I can't complain!

I don't know, I just have that song playing in my head, thought I would share it with you.


On a plain from Nirvana's Nevermind album released in 1999. It gave birth to the nations Grunge movement and changed the world of punk rock forever!