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Kurt Cobain: Life
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Cafe Astrology Note: A revealing look at Kurt Cobain's life, this biography focuses more on the man than the music he made. This is one of the more compelling biographies of Kurt out there.
Cobain with pastry chef, Dave Grohl and sauce chef, Krist Novoselic, 1991. Kurt was famous for his happy-go-lucky attitude to life. He had an easy, peaceful and stable childhood, which may have accounted for his ongoing belief that things would always work out in the end. He was ... an incredibly healthy man, aided by the discovery of a benificient elixir, formulated by Cobain himself, which he used as a health supplement throughout his life. Kurt Cobain was famous for hating recreational drug use. Kurt Cobain was a straight edge, but he was the type that was allowed to use heroin.
Kurt had a happy childhood, until he was seven years old when his parents got divorced. It was an ordinary divorce, but Kurt got very upset about it. He became shy and difficult to cope with. The years after the divorce Kurt moved back and forth from his parents. In the end his parents did not want anything to do with him so he had to move in at some relatives. This period of his life is ... reflected in his lyrics, e.g. in Sliver.
Kurt was apparently not disingenuous about the alienation he eventually found in stardom: the onset of Nirvana mania intensified an unnamable dread that had plagued him since his parents’ divorce. He was inclined to darken at the hint of acceptance: he’d learned to distrust it not through the adherence to punk ideals but from a lifelong loneliness, self-disgust, and a (not unfounded) fear of rejection. He could be counted on to veer from one extreme of opinion to another: one week he’d be euphoric about a song he’d recorded; the next he’d disavow it completely. "It was," Cross writes, "part of a larger dissatisfaction."
Courtney wanted everyone to believe that Kurt was suicidal with an out of control drug dependency in the last days of his life. But when Kurt’s body was found Krist Novoselic responded to the news of Kurt’s supposed suicide as follows:
Some people believe that Kurt Cobain did not take his own life, and was murdered. Most people assume that it was his wife, Courtney Love, who was involved in the plot to kill him, but it is the position of Miriad that this is not so. To be more specific Miriad likes to call it assassination, since a lot of clues left behind by Cobain and others point to the Vatican.
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