The Skull of Kurt Cobain
Apr 11, 04 | 10:06 pm by John SabottaFor Billy Beck:
“Imagine what might have happened if Cobain and other alternative artists had been able to maintain this new counterculture long enough to hook up with the anti-globalization movement of the late ’90s” - Michael Lewis Goldberg, University of Washington “associate professor”, quoted in the April 7th Seattle Weekly
I ask - what unseen factor can possibly explain statements like this?
“Kurt, you were inexcusably rude to our guests this evening. I don’t care if they were globalists, I will not tolerate such behaviour in this house.”
April 12th, 2004 at Apr 12, 04 | 4:13 am
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April 12th, 2004 at Apr 12, 04 | 2:31 pm
Goldberg: a delusion in search of a punishing corrective.
That tears it: I’m going to call my band “Fascist Lust”.
April 12th, 2004 at Apr 12, 04 | 7:50 pm
Hmm. “Fascist Lust”
Sounds a little too industrial band -ish.
April 12th, 2004 at Apr 12, 04 | 9:01 pm
Imagine what might have happened if Cobain and other alternative artists had been able to maintain this new counterculture long enough to hook up with the anti-globalization movement of the late ’90s” - Michael Lewis Goldberg, University of Washington “associate professor”, quoted in the April 7th Seattle Weekly
G. POTTER: *raises hand* Ohhh! Professor Goldberg! Professor Goldberg! I know, I know!
PROF. GOLDBERG: *warily* Yes, Mr. Potter?
G. POTTER: The retarded commies could have induldged their innane and pointless hobby of screaming slogans in the street, vandalizing private property, harrasing small business people who sunk their last dimes into a Starbucks or McDonalds franchise, and they would have been ‘cooler’, right?
PROF. GOLDBERG: *sighs* Mr. Potter….
G. POTTER: Long ROLLING STONE articles that were already damn near unreadable would have been made longer and even less readable by including mumbled explanations of ‘changing the, like, world’ and ’stopping, like, exploitation and stuff’….
PROF. GOLDBERG: *growing angry* MR. POTTER!
G. POTTER: Cryptic and laughably angsty lyrics that already read like teenaged suicide notes written after a particularly bad day in gym class would have been made EVEN FUNNIER by inclusion of lines about exploited third worlders and how the capitalist bosses make them work barefoot on broken glass and buy their dope at inflated company store prices…
PROF. GOLDBERG: *foaming* That’s it! That’s it!
G. POTTER: *singing*
..Seven cents a day…Ohhh
My body draped in rags..Awww
My hands are bleeding, no no no..
My home is made of paper bags…Yeeeaahh…
PROF. GOLDBERG: *explodes* GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM POTTER! I’m failing you for…for…for LACK OF COMPASSION FOR THIRD WORLDERS and…and…FAILING TO SHOW SUITABLE RESPECT FOR THE GRUNGE STYLE! GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!
G. POTTER: *shrugs* Sure. But you can’t fail me. I’m not even a student at this school. I just wandered in and sat down one day.
PROF. GOLDBERG: *perplexed* Why??
G. POTTER: John T. Kennedy told me it was a good place to make fun of commies.
April 12th, 2004 at Apr 12, 04 | 9:25 pm
John Sabotta: that’s okay. A proper administration of loud guitars makes short work of any illusions about that “industrial” horseshit. I’ve never seen it fail: there is no mistaking even a 50-watt Marshall on the other end of the quarter-inch line from One Who Knows.
I’ll take my chances.
April 12th, 2004 at Apr 12, 04 | 10:05 pm
I’m still waiting for someone start a punk band named Phallusy.
April 13th, 2004 at Apr 13, 04 | 1:16 am
hi beck!
this is lung.
lung thinks (or maybe another lung thinks) that you should call your band “lung”
also you should cover “sugar sugar”. that is lungs favorite “rock” song! lung loves to sing it as loud as she can (until stuff starts coming apart.)
also if you want to be “industrial” lung can loan you the corpse grinder that lung got from ted v. mikels. it makes industrial grindy noises. lung has loaned it to many famous “rock” musicians like front 242 and laibach and even kmfdm! trent reznor even made a music video with the corpse grinder! it was all black and white and scary and the corpse grinder made lots of grindy industrial noises while trent reznor threw baby carriages and mannequins into it!
you could do that too. ( the name of the corpse grinder is “lung”. lung likes to name everything “lung”)
lung
ps: lung likes to play your music while she is helping the people of fallujah to be nice. fallujah is kind of flat now, and parts of it glow at night. most of the bad people have gone far, far away. maybe some helpful little creature helped them! (tee hee!)
April 13th, 2004 at Apr 13, 04 | 4:40 am
“Imagine what might have happened if Cobain and other alternative artists had been able to maintain this new counterculture long enough to hook up with the anti-globalization movement of the late ’90s”
I’m imagining mass shotgun suicides of sea-turtle-costume wearing hippies.