Re: why i wrote about cobain
Luke Seemann (lukeseem@stardot.com)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 07:31:27 -0600 (MDT)
Cobain and Caulfield, in common? I say thee nay. Love him as we may,
Holden was neither a lyricist nor a musician. In fact, he pretty much
lacked any talents at all. He couldn't even make the fencing team, for
chrissakes.
L.
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 depressed@collegemail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> A lot of people seem upset that I wrote about
> Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Excuse me, but you've been comparing Salinger
> and Kafka and many others. Why not Cobain?
> It seems to be he has a LOT in common with Holden Caulfield! Or isn't
> it good enough to compare with someone who's actually not a famous
> writer like Hemingway or Kafka? Don't mean to offend no one but it
> seems to me that there might be some literary snobs out there!
> And Cobain was a VERY gifted songwriter and lyricist. If you'd bother
> to learn about him and read some of his lyrics instead of
> concentrating only on *important* literature, maybe you'd find out!
>
> And to the guy who said that something about a lot of cobain's stuff
> being because of heroin, I say this: Heroin doesn't make people
> talented!
> I could use heroin for 50 years and still wouldn't be able to write
> songs like Kurt.
>
> -Grant-
>
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