Re: why i wrote about cobain

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:23:01 -0400 (EDT) 

Heroin is probably the most addictive and destructive narcotic sold in
America today.  It's usually taken through intervenous injection and
gives you a tremendous headrush that lasts for some time...initially. 
However, your body does get used to it, and you have to take it with
increasing frequency and in increasingly larger doses to get a not quite
as good high over time.  The Law of Diminishing Returns is in full force
here.  Eventually, you start taking it just to avoid the dangers of
withdrawal.

And from what I've heard, that's absolute terror to go through.

Since I'm posting on this topic, I liked Nirvana and thought Cobain
deserved at least some of the accolades he received by going all out and
dying on us (we could have a lot of fun with the ambiguity behind that
sentence, but I mean it as a compliment to Cobain :) ).  I see something
of a connection between Nirvana and Salinger thematically too -- possibly
disgust with society stemming from a frustrated idealism.  
Jim

On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:02:37 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>
>> The herion comment was a half joke, and literally it meant that a 
>lot of 
>> cobain's songs were about herion, which they were. settle down boy.
>
>Will someone please explain what Herion is? In Australia we have a 
>brand of
>painkiller called Herron Paracetamol but I don't recall any one ever
>overdosing on that.
>
>Strangely, despite being a huge Nirvana fan (and a huge Smashing 
>Pumpkins
>fan and a huge Grant Lee Buffalo, REM and Neil Young one for that 
>matter)
>this strand of conversation has bored hell out of me. Guess I'm sick 
>of
>everyone turning said deceased man into a cardboard
>cutout-cum-philosophical construct/archetype/ficitonal character.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>

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