history collides

TNC and sullivan

not much more to be said; except…

January 11, 1992: Nirvana’s Nevermind reached number one on the US Billboard album charts, replacing Michael Jackson’s Dangerous. “…that was the revolutionary tipping point“: Cobain’s goal for the 1990s “to debase every known form of pop music” had happened.

the spirit of grunge: a retrospective from radio 4. miranda sawyer examines a significant slice of GenX history on this side of the Atlantic – the impact of the commodified and co-opted grunge music and aesthetic. shame it’s only half on hour long as it’s an astute critique.

(friday 8 april, 1994)

…

And now you are dead.
I was in San Fransisco, driving up the 101 past Candlestick Park when the news came over the radio, LIVE 105 – the news that you had shot yourself.
A few minutes later I was in the city and I pulled the car over and tried to figure out what I felt.
I had never asked you to make me care about you, but it happened – against the hype, against the odds – and now you are in my imagination forever.
And I figure you’re in heaven, too. But how, exactly does it help you now, to know that you, too, as it is said, were once adored?

D.

– extract from Letter to Kurt Cobain, in Polaroids From The Dead,
by Douglas Coupland (1996)

with the lights out, it’s less dangerous

LB

for the love of a good show tune

neil patrick harris took the tony’s by storm it seems,

“This show could not be any gayer if Liza was named Mayor and Elton John took flight!”

bravo, doogie hoswer, MD, bravo. 🙂

LB

sOnic soundtrack

a very dear friend of my bro’s, phil grier, has a radio show going out on rte’s 2XM digital station for alternative music.

sOnic prOjector podcaster, including a link to the iTunes podcast

Music from the Silver Screen. The Sonic Projector radio show features soundscapes. Film, television, gaming, advert and internet scores are the order of the day.

Featuring scores from Steve Jablonsky to Bjork, Carter Burwell to DJ Shadow The Sonic Projector is the essential ticket to your score at the movies. (See what I did there). Playing out bi-weekly Thursdays 2200GMT and Sundays 1800 GMT.

nice one, Phil.

LB