Kenan Hebert on Pete Townshend on Kurt Cobain. Whew!
A must-read. Thrill! to the sound of Townshend stroking his own ego. Laugh! at the presumptuous pomposity of his opinions. Cry! as you realize he's absolutely right.…
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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— go to most recent comments76 - Mark
Hey, I'm not gonna blab on about The Who or anything else I'm just gonna plainly talk about the great Kurt Cobain. The man was and still is a genius, an artist respected by many, yet a deeply troubled person who deserved better in his life. He has helped me throughout my troubles, guided me in life and for that I'll be forever greatful. I've been through a life of holding my own backstabbing family together for the past 15 years, handling disputes between aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents. My cousin stealing money from me. Being abused and excluded by my grandparents. Being mentally unstable for a whole year with no help. Mental Breakdowns and Suicide Attempts, even a few notes. Runaways, bullying, realtionship breakups, nearly being abandoned and homeless, no dad. Heck, I could go on forever but to that there wouldn't be any real point as this is about Cobain. He helped me get through it. I'm only 15, but without his music I would have died at 12 through using a kitchen knife. Point is, he shared all he had to offer that he could offer, then some more. It killed him before he had even been murdered/commited suicide. I don't think of Kurt as a dead rock star from the past. Kurt is an inspirational man, with a good heart, a good friend who managed to do the impossible for me whilst being dead and bring me out of my slump. I just wish I'd been there for his. As for his Journals. They're his. And no matter what anyone says his spirit still lives on and should be respected. His wishes are mine, leave the man in peace. God Bless Kurt Cobain. From the bottom of my heart, Thank You.
77 - David
Pete Townshend has made more of a mark in classic rock than any other pedophile. How can you people judge him? Of course he's fit to read the journal. As his fingers slide past the, little, soft, unwrinkled pages, he lays knowledge on you like never before. Accept it. Keep on truckin' Pete.
78 - godoggo
"can I swear here?"
answer:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblogcritics.org+fuck
79 - godoggo
Oops, sorry, now I see why it cuts off long URLs. I trust the above will be deleted.
Anyways, "can I swear here"
Answer: try googling [site:http://blogcritics.org fuck]
80 - beatleszeppelinfloydwho
I am 22 years old, and can only laugh at my generation. I can't even fathom someone thinking that Nirvana was even close The Who. Seriously, there is no comparison. Unplugged in New York is pretty damn impressive, but the studio albums area mixed bag. The Who Sings My Generation, The Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia.......ALL MASTERPIECES. Kurt Cobain was talented. Kurt Cobain was also sick just like Pete said. Someone also dissed Townsehnd's abilities as a guitarist. ALthough nowhere near the top, he was always solid. His major contribution is his INCREDIBLE SONGWRITING. He wrote most of The Who's material.
81 - Your all pathetic
Yes Kurt did feel raped by the media, but that was THE MEDIA YOU IDIOTS. MTV, any popularity he gained. I believe pete townsend was perfect to comment on his diary entrys. One disturbed person commenting on anothers. Not saying that pete townsend is disturbed, he did have his problems here and there LIKE A HUMAN BEING ACTUALLY SHOULD> but he was musically talented and could understand what Kurt was going through. If you would look at The Who's background and their message they were trying to send across through their music, you would see it was pretty much the same as Nirvana's. Pete's understanding and interpretation is so complex and abstract, much like Kurt was as a person, it just makes sense. You people are to simple minded and logical. Stop busting on Pete, because you believe everything the media tells you.
82 - EVERYONE THAT BAGS ON PETE HAS NO ARGUMENT
People of the world. You have absolutely no idea how to interpret comments. Apparently everyone who calls Pete Townsend an ass, doesnt know how to spell, and is also an ass themselves. You know what I don even care if you can spell. All I care about is if you can interpret comments correctly. AT NO POINT DOES PETE CALL KURT STUPID, RETARTED, CHILDISH, ETC...... and stop using the "Oh WHY dont you go jack off to 3 year olds pete" as retaliation. I honestly want to throw up. First off, were you there when he was masturbating, or when he was looking at child porn? Oh ok well then where did you get your information from? OHHHH THATS RIGHT THE MEDIA. You Fellow Kurt murderers. I like how you just realize how stupid you are right now. I want to punch you in the head. Im not even gonna write a civilized argument anymore because ive got the strongest desire to kill all people with no common sense. The only reason you blame the media for killing is because kurt came about and made it obvious to your sorry asses. You would not be all intelligent enough to say that if he hadnt said anything first. And dont use petty arguements like, pete couldnt play any chords or what not. Thats just so childish, I dont want to go down to that level. I dont care about any of your shitty backgrounds or whatever, because we all had them, and im not gonna give you any attention. I love Nirvana, I love Pete Townsend, I love Kurt Cobain, I love The Who, I appreciate and love any music that is written that makes me feel good. I dont care what any of you have to say because I know there is no argument that can refute me. You just realize that. Just sit in, realize that im 16, and accept that I dont care what your opinion is. I dont care if you dont care about my opinion, but that would just be childish anyways. Honestly to all those who accept my views or agree, I love you. I love alot of people but right now, scum like these people who rag on others WHO THEY DONT EVEN KNOW, just make me so angry. Its incredible. Lewis Black talked about this, and how this is why people die from brain hemmorages. BECAUSE OF MINDLESS COMMENTS LIKE THESE. Im done, im absolutely done, I dont think ive ever more in my life in the past 5 minutes than any other time. This is incredible. You people are so blantantly retarted. I hope I expressed what anyone else had to say about the situation.
83 - your all still pathetic
OH and one more thing. Pete townsends music isnt moving to you little kids because he was writing for the "Mod" generation back in the 60's. And Pete called him sick not because he was blaintently dissing him, but because he was stating the obvious and you all know it you little ignorant idiots. And pete was saying that in a sympathetic way not to be demeaning at all. You should all learn your history before you make blantantly benign remarks about something you dont even know.......
84 - i embrace pete and kurt
first of all, who the hell are all of you to judge Pete even if he did look at pornography... second of all YOU DONT EVEN FREAKING KNOW IF HE DID! shut up about this damn jacking off on 3 year olds... were u there? no... o well the media said it soo well its true... what if i told the media that i know somebody and gave them your name and you had sex with donkeys... what? i betcha then ud hate the media.. put yourself in his shows.. shut up... 3rd of all EVEN IF HE DID ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.. he wrote music that changed all of your lives.. if it wasnt for him there would be no music.. 4th of all kurt cobain was the last person to do anything for our culture... basically if it werent for him... you would have no meaning for life... pete townsend is not makign fun of kurt cobain but taking his soul and embracing it.... never once does pete poke fun at him.... pete realized that never again would there be another john lennon, or david bowie, or jimi hendrix, and Kurt was the last one.... I love kurt.. i love pete.. i dont care what you say about him and i dont care if its proven true because it is none of our businesses... i love nirvana and i love the who... the who and nirvana were soo similar.. you all think o they were so different. i want you to read about kurts childhood.. o your to dumb to read... but still you read it then you wonder why he killed himself... pete WAS MOLESTED AS A CHILD and you wonder why he might do something liek what he did... have any of you ever been molested... you guys are all dumbasses... kurt was born with musical talent in his family... his mothers side of him was all about music... and you guys think he was a crap guitarist.. who cares how fast he can solo or how good of an improviser was.... he wrote some of the greatest music i have ever heard.... he killed himself because of MTV... MTV tries to control us because they just go with the trends... listen to what you believe in and not what everyone else does... so just shut up... i hate every last one of you. people who know what i am talking about i love you.... pete and kurt changed our generation... this line by kurt changed us.. i am 15 years old and i dont care what you guys say... oo you were too young to know about his music or u werent alive when pete was writing music... shut up have you ever met either of them? shut up... stand up for what you believe in.
85 - Too gay to function
All you you guys are more or less...very dumb first of all this site is baised because the only ppl here are cobain fans who need to read a REVIEW in order to buy a book. and all those fans are stupid 11-30 yearolds who has a revelation of meaning in the 90's...ok kurt is fine BUT MOVE ON...hes just a copy of a copy...he just took the beatles hit signles formula...and he wrote dumb depressign songs about how stupid america is...now if you want to do the opposite thing, be enlightned by ingenius melodies you take the beatles, and umm pete townshend did more or less the same thing in a more intellectual manner in horse's neck as kurt did with his diaries...pete ws just aware of thier publications, i guess kurt was too with a slut bag liek courtney as his wife... besides pete woudl have burnt out not faded away if his nose was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long...hes just a miserable man leave him alone FUCK
WHO IS ON TOUR THIS YEAR OR NEXT :D:D:D:D
all you looser 15 yearolds who are obssesed with pookey cookie kurt? heres a few bands who are incomparabe to nirvana:
Pink floyd
Led Zeppelin
Doors
Beatles
joplin
hendrix
supertramp
dylan
queen
AND WE CAN GO ON ON ON ONNNNNNNNN cus those are the champions ma friendddddd
86 - Lucas
Most of what Ive read in this blog is shit. I hope that Kurt is ok if he still exists somewhere in the universe. I only hope to know him better and learn something from him because i feel we have somethin in common. whats happened? Its been a lot since the last post. I want to keep enjoying myself!
87 - Daniela
Wouldn't it be really cool if Frances Bean Grew up, had a magnificent voice, and did better than her dad? I can't wait to see what becomes of her. RIP Kurt.
88 - Patterson
I think Cobain is extremely idolized,I think this will continue for quite sometime. I predict in 2000 years he will be studied as if he were Jesus.
89 - blah
read it!
90 - j.o
To get an insight from the famous Kurt Cobain sounds inviting. It may teach us some dwellings and hardships of someone's internal life. For those who dislike him for what he did, are no less better for who they are. Every one is entitled to their own opinions. If it's worth reading, then learn from it.
91 - Bob A. Booey
Did anyone see those pictures of Frances Bean in the paper recently? It's hard to believe she's already 13 -- what a dramatic life she's no doubt already lived growing up with Courtney amidst rumors of being taken away by the state every minute.
That is all.
92 - Jen
Oh yeah pete townshend? I think you're a crazed drug addict that scribbles.
93 - Sara
(Vogue interviews Frances Bean)
Vogue says that Frances Bean does not like it when her mother doesn't brush her hair and looks dirty, but rather when she dresses like a starlett and is groomed. She also says that she is VERY much into fashion and the recent trends.
(In the picture featured in the magazine, she sports 200 dollar shoes by an up-and-coming designer that is all the rage)
[/end interview]
well i don't think she is going to be like Kurt, who thought trends weren't all to cool, but not like Courtney, who on the other hand didn't give a fuck about anything (her husband, daughter, self, people around her, etc.)
94 - uao
re comment 85: Supertramp?
95 - misty peterson
I LOVE YOU KURT rest in peace, dont worry baby will find the truth
misty
96 - davvy
well, id like to mention the fact that however you look at it, this is someone elses shit your all fucking with, journals,love interests,DAUGHTER, these are choices he made, personal stuff, his music is great and should be enjoyed by all, but his family, well, its like no-one will allow any development to transpire, you just categorize, which is, in my opinion, well small minded, just see the bigger picture, enjoy his music, enjoy his story (if u can), but put down the human rulebook for a second, do something a little bit original, and dont give into those most human of urges, try and allow his daughter to grow and mature into her own person, allow his wife to try and piece her life back together, stop judging!!
97 - bret weissmann
The Who is over-rated.
98 - dani
i have read the journal..it's really rude to do that but im just curious..i really think it's a fucking lack of respect to do that..but i have thirst for kurt..i just cant get enough of him..
99 - God
In response to cmt. 85:
Oh c'mon. You're one of those stupid kids that walks around in all AC/DC clothing and says the only good rock was from the 60-70's, yet you have not even experienced any music from later generations. Has anyone else noticed the uproar with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and AC/DC among people these days??? I think it's dumb because they waltz around like people that know everything about rock music and play guitar like pros, although they might not even play.
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Pete Townshend shouldn't be judging someone that had their personal journals published. I doubt that Kurt wrote the journal to please the public and knew that he would release it with eccentric drawings, words, etc etc to please the media/public. I know I write notes for myself and leave them places to reminder myself of things, and I certainly don't write them so that when my girlfriend walks past she'll think "WOW! this note to clean the dishes is so beautifully drawn and is so fashionable!"
End of my case.
100 - ROBYNN
I think its kinda wrong reading his journel. i mean. its private. but i think its a good way to show people what he was really like rather than all the shit people hear about what he was like.
all iv got to say is think before your ead it cause it is someones diary you are reading. even if they arnt alive.
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101 - Scott Butki
I think if Townshend is going to review Cobain's journals than we should also get to read Townshend's journals to see if he is more logical or sane
102 - bettina
i tink if jou read the journals jou onderstent him end jou wil love him moor den bifoor love uit nederland
103 - kathryn
fuck pete townshend juging is so over raded kurt was a fucking jenyes and artist he has done more things in his life time the pete has ever done. kurt chaned my life
104 - kathryn
i know this has nothing about kurt cobain rilly but james that wrot up top he was 12 and did not know me then and now he goes to my school and the 2week of school he came up to me and i did not know him or ever see him arownd and he said 'i love you'HA he said know rilly iloveyou.............and you kurt cobain shert ha we went for weeks not knowing one anothers names we justknow that we both had nirvana t sherts and chuktaylers he wallked me to my classes eneryday and opend doors for me and one day he aseked my name and i said kat and i asked his and he said james the nexed peread he asked me out and isaid yes so we where together for the hole year and we come up with a dream houes frome the song breed.we lived in tree and drand pennyroylltea and had a donky cus ilove donkys so iny ways ineever thougt iwoulld ever be this head over hill about some one i just randumlly meat over the summer we broke up we still tallk alot he went to hight school soo istill love him and iplan to run away with him someday,it is crazzy that we both had the some fillings about nirvana and how we meat over nirvana there is somethin great about what kurt,crist,and david crated
105 - cortney love
OK I DID IT I KILLRD KURT
106 - amy
now wouldent life be eysyer if that rilly hapend
107 - your name
you spelled killed rong ILOVEKURTwith all my hart R.I.P kurt did not whant his life dispayed like that
108 - daniel
we have all done something unimaginably wrong to kurt...and he would have hated us for it....i feel just as badly as all of u that i have read the journals...i couldnt help it...none of us could were human...curiousity gets the better of us all in the end....its not our fault its coutneys for puttting it out.....we have no choice now but to read and wallow in a pit of out own self guilt...kurt lives
109 - Colin Stone
u kno wat i dont give a flying fuk about ur policy kurt was genius and loved his daughter he was murdered and the evedence points to it most likely how the shell of the bullet he "shot himslef" with had been ejected already and the un has to be cocked again for the shell to eject how could a dead cobain have cocked the gun when he was dead anthe autopsy showed he died the second the bullet was fired so like ya u fuker read this and say he abandoned his daughter he was murdered plain and simpl and the people who say we should focus on his music well if the music meant anything 2 you you should know the truth on how it ceased! BITHCES
110 - GoHah
>>>he was murdered and the evedence points to it most likely how the shell of the bullet he "shot himslef" with ...
...came from a grassy knoll . . .
111 - Ashleigh
I think it's cool that his journal was posted, although I have the book of ALL of his journals so hahah beat that bitches hahah yeah but you know i got at the library, but im going to buy me one at Hastings or one of our fucking book stores...KURT COBAIN is the fucking king, and i love him and damn he is one fine mother hahah
112 - Brian Bell
Ashleigh, how did you gather and get all of his journals? If you're writing the truth, then reveal how you know this information and how/where any of us, Especially Me, can obtain this very encompassing, enlightening, elucidating, very personal (i hope more personal) than the compressed, compromised "journals" release to the public. Tell Asheigh! I must know. And are you old enough to have been a fan and hence been a son during his living Years...though he is a light that will never go out, Which is an optimal use of Morrissey's lyric.
113 - Brian "Rebuttle" Bell
Rebuttle is one of Kurt's most often used terms to articulate his contra-stance or opposing or divergent opinion.
Anyway, after reviewing Ashleigh's post after i wrote mine, i now think she means that someone posted on this blog site or some other website portions, excerpts, snippets? - of Kurt Co-opt-but-never-baneful Journals...please LET ME KNOW, for i am really interested Hopefully ASHLEIGH comes back to review her post to see whether a person has response to it.
114 - robby mcbain
pete townsend, u fuckin evil little sellout bastard, i hope u choke on your insensitive words.what a fuckin no-mark bastard!
115 - Eve
Hi! Does someone have the link to his review? It doesn't seem to work anymore. Thanks! BTW, I don't want to read the book because Cobain was always such a private person when he was alive (or tried to be!) But if anyone wants a bit of an insight into the mystery surrounding his death, I'd recommend reading 'Witnesses To The Unsolved.' (must be read with an open mind about psychics, though!)
116 - The who vs nirvana?
Pete townshend,through the 60s, 70s and 80s, went through everything kurt cobain did during his years of fame. Pete, a deep thinker, always asked questions. He questions what he really did, and why he did what he did. Why he was a rockstar. And what rock n roll meant. He faced sever drug problems in the early 80s and nearly died of overdose. He too, for brief periods, was a junkie like kurt cobain.
This is what I have 2 say. The 2 are great in their own respects. Kurt cobain was always down to earth, always cinical. Pete townshend the same, at times cynical, at times philosophical, even witty and funny sometimes. It was pete who created rock n roll that nirvana utilised later. Townshend was the first rock n roll star to connect with his audience, and mirror their lifestyles and ways of life, something that cobain will always be remembered for.
Townshend has every right to say what he did. He's done it all and lived through all of it. He's gone through fucking hell being a rockstar and he stayed alive at the end of it. He is the founder of rock n roll. Fuck you all if you think he's not in the same league as cobain. There'd have been no nirvana if it weren;t for the who.
117 - Jake
Stop making a big deal of this. Kurt didn't even really want to become famous. Do you think he would want somebody reading his journals? Maybe, maybe not. Just shut up.
118 - ja-ha-nii
listen pplz, if ur gonna read the guys journals dont judge him..cuz im sure we all have deep dark sectrets and shouldnt be judged on our bad days..i know hes dead but even dead ppl need respect k.btw I LOVE NIRVANA AND KURT COBAIN KICKS ASS!!
119 - Jazz
I have read Kurt's journals, and loved it.
The only thing is, I truly,truly believe Courtney took out ALOT from his journals. the parts that explained what kind of a manipulative bitch she was, and how he wanted a divorce.
Shame on you Courtney.
She only sold his journals for money, it was an easy way out of her money problems. She could've tried playing more gigs or gotten an actual JOB but she took the easy way out. I know it's HIS privacy and he probably wouldn't want people to read it, but of course people are going to. and I just wanted to learn more about Kurt from his OWN words.
I also believe she was involved in his murder. Check out www.cobaincase.com, and judge for yourself. She is a sick person.
Shame on you Courtney.
I miss you Kurt :{
You truly changed me in so many ways, I can't even begin to explain.
I'll see you up there one day..
120 - Emily
I'm not sure where Pete Townshend was coming from,I mean I give him credit for the songwriter he once was,the thing is "was",he doesn't know what he's talking about. Pete doesn't even compare to Kurt Cobain,Kurt is better in every way then Pete Townshend
121 - julia
reading kurt cobains words aren't so differnet from listening to his music, although his music is way better.
122 - gerry from concrete
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
knows not what it means
and I say yeah
kurdt's song for me and you
123 - MARIANNA JANE CLOSE
Thursday 15th February 2007
I have never read Kurt Cobain's so-called Diarys,because i strongly disagree with his corpse being raped by his ex-wife yet again for cold,hard,cash.They were personal and private he never intended to have them published;if he had wanted to publish his personal-writings,he could have published them himself in his tragically-brief Lifetime on Earth,could he not!?
I have never read any biographies of Kurt Cobain or NIRVANA for exactly the same reason:i despise so-called "RockBiopics" written by some salivating-sychophant or envious-loser out to make a fast-buck.They never present an accurate portrait of the person and are tedious in the extreme:the usual trite,sh$te,hackneyed rockstar fodder of cheap-souless-sex,hard-drugs and boring rockstar stories about nothing.Yawn.A waste of time.That wasn't all Kurt Cobain was, i am sure, and i very much doubt that his Family and True-Friends want to see him become one more cheapened corny rockstar-tale of cheap-sex,drugs and "rock 'n'roll" YAWN!(some cashcow-milking for the Record Companys and his Ex-Wife ["EX-Wife":on account he was murdered so is no-longer married,technically-speaking])The hackneyed -tale of the mythologised "hero" of self-indulgent,narcissistic suck-cess;because that isn't who Kurt Cobain was,really,i believe.
In the same vein, i detest so-called "Rockbiopic" Movies acted-out by some souless-buffoon Hollywood Actor who gets paid 10 x the amount the Musician ever got paid in his whole God -Damn Life for PRETENDING TO BE SOMEONE HE IS NOT! ie:Moron!Fugugly dumb fxxktard Val Kilmer in SH$TFACE's(my name for him)(Oliver Stone's) sychophantic -homage to Ol$ver's first rockstar-crush the nauseating -arrogant overated puerile-pooetry(sic:poetry!?) of doggerel-Jimbo i mean!Jim Morrison.(in SH$TFACE's PopCorn Blockbuster FastB$cks Movie:The DOORS-which i have never watched on-account i cannot stand Val Kilmer,for-one and secondly for reasons as-above and thirdly because i hate SH$TFACE!)
So,no i do not want to pay Good-Money to watch some imbecilic vomitworthy Hollywood Cretin(Actor) prance around like a total-twat acting-out his pathetic rockstar-fantasy and getting paid $10,000,000 for doing so;when most Musicians would never earn that in their entire Professional career.Sickening!
As for Pete Townsend who was indeed caught with Child Pornography downloaded onto his computer which he had to fully-conciously use his Credit- Card to illegally download "for research purposes".Why didn't he inform the Police,first of -all,before he felt an inexplicable and highly-suspect need to download Child Pornography!?They would have asked him exactly why he felt this dubious-need and probably put him on file as a suspected pedophile.
He gives me the creeps.I would not want to meet him.
He can claim he is innocent,fine! I have my personal-opinion on the matter.Better to be safe than sorry.No smoke without fire.Whatever.
I'm not saying Pete Townsend is a certifiable Pedophile;i am saying the circumstances are very -suspect-sounding to me and i would not want him around my children,if i had any.
He could have rang-up ECPAT(End Child Prostitution and Tourism) and asked them if he could download seized-images of Child Pornography from known Sexual-Abusers:"Sex-Tourists" a less-honest less-emotive ,less-graphic-sounding word than known Pedophile;as "S$x-worker" is the Pro-Pr$stitution Lobby: EVIL C$NTS(see Dogsh$tty U.K.Government for details in dogsh$tty-Liverp$$l )dogsh$tty -campaigner's word used nowadays for dogsh$tty-pr$stitute/wh$re/h$$ker/sexual-abuser as all dogsh$tty-pr$stitutes are sexual-abusers.(Conciously sexually-abusing every single partner and child of every single -person they have demanded cash for some dogsh$tty-sex from)
But,Pete Townsend didn't telephone an Anti-Child Pr$stitution Campaign Office-he downloaded images of Child Pornography on his home-computer ,deliberately and conciously using his Credit-Card which is how he got caught,i think.
So,can you put 2+2 together!?
Why would anyone do that,unless they wanted to do it thinking because they were a rich famous rockstar,they were above the LAW!?
Why would anyone travel to South-East Asia,specifically Thailand,Cambodia,Vietnam,(unless,perhaps they were a Vietnam Veteran wanting to remininesce on their "Heroic" -Vietnam Tour of Duty!?)knowing it is one of the most evil,vile places on Earth practically a Pedophile-Shangri-La.I would never travel to South East Asia,myself because i know what goes on there-it is a sh$thole.Pedophiles and Pr$stitutes breed Pedophiles and Pr$stitutes like maggots breed flies.What can you do!?let them know you know exactly what they are and avoid them like the PLAGUE.
Yours sincerely,
Marianna Jane Close
124 - Laine
Personal attacks are not allowed? Seems to be plenty going on here. So much for rules huh?
125 - Logan ********
by reading these journals, i have a much deeper understanding of kurt and his personal life. townshend still has no buisness reviewing them, though. i can understand wher kurt is coming from (with his childhood anyway.) my parents divorced when i was 5 and i was diagnosed as hyperactive as well. reading these journals saddens me to a point of desperation as to where i wish i could sit and talk with cobain. a man as deep as cobain should never have had to resort to drugs to solve his deeper, personal problems with himself and courtney love. however, cobain claimed that heroin was the narcotic that could reduce his later undiagnosed stomach pains. cobain was a deep man who i believed may have wanted to die only due to the pressures of being a part of NIrvana and the instant, almost, shall i say, overnight stardome. however, i do believe that courtney love killed him. for example, the shotgun found at the scene was fully loaded when it was found with three shells. not a single shot in the chamber. cobain was so young and had more time than any other potential rockstar. brilliant he was, however under too much pressure along with pains going all the way back into his early childhood. his lyrics, so deep and explanatory to cobains inner feelings. all that is, in words, left to say is: rest in peace kurt, rest in peace.