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The "Kurt" exhibit is now showing at the "Seattle Art Museum", and I have to say I was kind of dreading going, as I thought it would be, well, stupid . I was preparing for the worst, but walking through, I think Kurt and his fans would enjoy the flash-less-ness of it. Some of it was brilliantly simple and evoked a melancholy mood with an creative edge. I felt super emotional while walking through it, wondering if he would have had the chance to age, if he would have found happiness. I was at this show, I mostly remember Courtney stumbling around. She was mesmerizing to me.
Photo by Alice Wheeler, Kurt Cobain at Live and Loud ,Pier 63.
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Charles Peterson, courtesy of SAM
"Nirvana, Rajis, Los Angeles, 2/15/90"
Courtesy of SAM
"Untitled (Forensic Scene)," by Jordan Kantor, 2006
This image is burned in my memory. I remember exactly where I was and what I was wearing. The same shoes that he had on in the pics.
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Gillian Peckham, Dancing in Wearing- 1994.
If you would have told me 20 years ago that a "Hard Rock Cafe" would be opening in Seattle in 2010, with grunge memorabilia plastered all over the walls, I think I would have puked in my mouth a bit. Alas, it did open, and I have to say it was fairly tastefully done, but weird none the less.
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“I like punk rock. I like girls with weird eyes. I like drugs. I like passion. I like things that are built well. I like innocence. I like and am grateful for the blue collar worker whose existence allows artists to not have to work at menial jobs. I like killing gluttony. I like playing my cards wrong. I like various styles of music. I like making fun of musicians whom I feel plagiarize or offend music as art by exploiting their embarrassingly pathetic versions of their work. I like to write poetry. I like to ignore others’ poetry. I like vinyl. I like nature and animals. I like to be by myself. I like to feel guilty for being a white, American male.”
- Kurt Cobain
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