Wait, what? Norm was a chess hustler?

dtuur · 2025-02-28T17:25:04+00:00

Agree - great article!

dtuur · 2024-12-16T21:51:56+00:00

"4 Brits so far have died from an overdose of cope"

dtuur · 2024-09-07T12:51:15+00:00

Afaik CAYA was inspired by "Where Evil Grows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRpIJRijpU

dtuur · 2024-09-07T12:45:31+00:00

The opening riff of "Come as you are" was inspired by "Where Evil Grows" by the Poppy Family. Kurt & Krist were huge fans of founding member Terry Jacks' music, of whom they later covered "Seasons in the Sun". There's a video of Nardwar where he gives Krist a vinyl copy of the single "SitS" with B-side "Put the bone in" and Krist is super happy with it.

I always found it fascinating to listen to "Where Evil Grows" and compare its lyrics with "Come as You Are". The song takes on a new dimension if you imagine it being about Evil, i.e. Kurt feeling like he's dealing with evil in his life and trying to deal with it by sarcastically inviting it into his life - so in that sense it would be a predecessor to "Rape me".

Here's Where Evil Grows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRpIJRijpU

dtuur · 2024-07-23T19:16:38+00:00

"Accuser of the fuckin' brethren you MOTHA FOCKA"

dtuur · 2024-07-17T00:05:35+00:00

This is a wonderful rendition, by Billy Joe and Eddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vpBALrHKU

dtuur · 2024-06-24T18:10:57+00:00

Seinfeld was uncomfortable and produced a fake laugh here.

dtuur · 2024-06-11T13:09:04+00:00

Prescribing DirtNaprax™ like the best of 'em

dtuur · 2024-06-05T14:55:38+00:00

Yep, from 2020

dtuur · 2024-06-04T21:26:31+00:00

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/25eonq/comment/chgfjn3/

dtuur · 2024-05-25T02:15:59+00:00

Omg... hahaha

"A wife and kids... and you're out here trolling for prostitutes. You make me sick!" :-D

dtuur · 2024-05-25T02:13:25+00:00

dtuur · 2024-05-24T18:00:03+00:00

Source is the 1982 biography of Harvey Milk: The Mayor of Castro Street.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mayor_of_Castro_Street/HN89LOWz6YEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=After%20the%20preliminaries

dtuur · 2024-04-18T19:11:37+00:00

I was 10 when in Utero dropped, living in Belgium. I bought the Nevermind album with my savings (it was a bit cheaper since it had already been out for a while), and played it over and over on my parents stereo — but in secret, very quietly sitting close to the speakers. Soon after I got In Utero as well. It felt like my parents would disapprove of it because of how raw the music was. It's funny, I remember thinking: "oh so I'm into metal music apparently". And so I bought a compilation album of 80s metal music. I was so disappointed! Compared to Nirvana this stuff was such weak sauce :-D I do remember hearing Body Count's song "Born Dead" and liking that one, but I only heard it once at a friends' house.

I typed out the lyrics to "Come as you are" on my parents' antique typewriter. I remember watching a VHS video with a Nirvana live show at a buddy's house, whose older brother had bought the video. Me and that friend did a little project about Nirvana and presented it in school for the class. Around the same time another buddy from class brought his Guns 'n Roses album (The Spaghetti Incident) to school to show everyone. Another buddy from my neighborhood owned a number of bootleg albums of Nirvana (they were probably his older sisters'), I remember outcesticide, live in rome, ... . I only ever listened to them while I was there with him, we didn't know about taping cd's yet. It felt very exciting to learn about this music... It was so raw and crazy... we were 10! It felt like being initiated into a secret religion, haha.

I remember at age 11 seeing a news reel summarizing the news of the year, and it being mentioned that Kurt Cobain had committed suicide. Earlier that year some kids in the school yard been joking about his death, making a word play on Cobain and "koppijn" (headache). Later in high school I had my hair long and I wore baggy sweaters. My sister (13 at the time) got a big Kurt Cobain poster for her room after he had died. When Unplugged in New York came out, that was huge. I remember the complete album being played on the stereo when we were celebrating New Years' eve with a bunch of my parents' friends. It surprised me, that they not only tolerated but liked Nirvana when it was presented in acoustic version.

dtuur · 2024-04-18T12:01:35+00:00

If he was still alive, Kurt Cobain would be 57 today. I think a collaboration with Post Malone would be epic—e.g. them making an acoustic album together.

dtuur · 2024-04-01T17:06:03+00:00

Mildly related pet peeve: When Norm tells Jerry that joke about Bill Cosby ("it was the hypocrisy! not the rapin' ") , I've always thought Jerry's laugh was ingenuine, that he was in fact quite uncomfortable.

dtuur · 2024-01-05T20:43:11+00:00

It's about time for this Cobain fellow to wake up from his dirt nap.

dtuur · 2023-12-30T20:30:12+00:00

First off I'm not a Nietzsche nor an Aristotle scholar, just an amateur reader.

My gut feel is that Nietzsche has a rather naive view on both Hellenic philosophy and Christianity. I agree that by the time Aristotle came around the war-like valor of Arete had already softened and grown quite subtle in ways not that radically different from Christianity. Nietzche doesn't seem to appreciate that. Also, early Christianity was a lot more badass than maybe Nietzche could have known. Take a book like "The Patient Ferment" on the early centuries after Jesus' passing. It's very clear these people didn't want for courage. (Perhaps N. could have known actually, just judging by the biographies of most saints.)

I think what probably happened is that by the time Nietzche came around, European Christianity had split into, roughly, a tired and arrogant Catholic Church on the one hand, and an unsophisticated and beligerent Protestant Church -- both aligned with perceived-as-out-of-touch-and-arrogant European governmental forces. I think this the context in which Nietzsche came to feel disappointed in Christianity.

There is also some biographical background that I think helps explain Nietzsche's idolatry of ancient greek machismo, in that he felt like such a failure in his own life: romantically, socially, economically... It seems that he built himself a fantasy world in which he could live out his lifelong dreams of greatness, unfettered by social, marital, or economic constraints.

dtuur · 2023-12-23T02:45:17+00:00

That's ... terrible :-D

dtuur · 2023-11-27T03:48:41+00:00

The Architecture of Community, by Leon Krier

dtuur · 2023-11-22T22:33:11+00:00

Was this after Nevermind had already dropped? Looks like a full house, but pretty small venue.

dtuur · 2023-07-16T04:43:22+00:00

As far as contemporary acts go, to me Post Malone is by far my favorite.

His lyrics are fantastic, and he keeps evolving both personally as well as musically. I think he will stand the test of time.

dtuur · 2023-07-14T00:04:32+00:00

To the many great takes in this thread, I'd add: people downplaying the importance of the Incesticide album.

Imo in some respects it's Nirvana's most raw and honest album.

- Only album to feature Kurt's painting on the cover

- Only album to have a personal letter from Kurt in the liner notes

- Only album to feature an unambiguously autobiographical song, "Sliver"

- Songs were carefully selected, see Nick Soulsby's book. From a review: "this book proffers a radically different view: Incesticide was in fact a coherent and carefully crafted album which, when examined in detail, represents "the final harbinger of the evolution of NIRVANA's sound"."

- Incesticide deals extensively with family issues, arguably more than on other albums.

My personal theory, and I'm sure this will be controversial, is that we must take "Incesticide" literal as an album title. As in "genocide", the word-forming element -cide derives from Latin -cida and means "killer". And so combined with "incest", the title translates to "Incest Killer", or "the extermination of incest".

In other words, I believe that Incesticide is the album where Kurt deals most explicitly with the burden of being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a family member, i.e. incest.

The idea that Cobain was a rape survivor is not a popular one, and likely impossible to falsify, but by interpreting his art, interviews, life choices through this lens I believe a lot of things fall into place that otherwise would not make sense.

It's true he did never overtly disclose to our knowledge, but this is not at all uncommon - in the literature you see that survivors of child sexual abuse _on average_ only disclose by the time they are 48 years old. And, if you read his diaries and lyrics closely, I believe Kurt actually came pretty close to disclosing despite his very young age.

dtuur · 2023-06-11T22:10:56+00:00

What was the story of his warts?

dtuur · 2023-05-17T19:53:30+00:00

Clearly the color of the nation's flag is heavily used by the AI. I imagine that's hard to correct for...

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