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We are kindred spirits. This journal entry is so timely for me. In the last couple of weeks I have been revisiting my love for Nirvana and Kurt. His birthday was last week. I was 14 in 1994 when I learned of Kurt’s death. I was just contemplating on how deeply it really affected me. In doing so, I did exactly what you did with the song “Oh me” and took a listen to each version since I had never heard the Meat Puppet’s version either. It’s such a beautiful song and your version is quite beautiful as well. Thank you for that. You put into words everything I had been thinking and feeling recently about the wonder I have felt in feeling so connected to someone I’ve never met. It was his innate ability to make the outcasts feel like it was ok to be on the outside and to make us all feel less alone somehow by expressing his extreme loneliness so exquisitely. I played that Unplugged album so much. I’m going to be playing Nirvana on repeat again and revisiting my angst ridden teenage self.

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