It Was Punk, It Was Perfect, Now It's Awful..

* have fantastic sex with commitment and honour with someone whoo treats me as i deserve and dont give my power away * DO NOT SLLOW MYSELF TO BE A DOORMAT INA RELATIONSHIP EVER EVER AGAIN * hopefully start another family someday -- soon. meet that guy * know that Kurts spirit is tended to and tend to it daily * LEARN TO DRIVE * STOP SMOKING GO TO HYPNI THERAPY AND JUST DAMM WELL STOP * another year, another year without even wine no matter how hard i try to justify that "wines okay" knw that is the demon voice and put it out of my thoughts * dont go to nightclubs with 19 year olds * stay pissed off at the world for song usage * no more surgery for any reason other than medical until i really need it in my 60s*

I read these with empathy and say, you go, C! We will fight the wine demons together. Good call on staying away from the knife til 60. I, too, resolve to learn to drive.

The picture above is just one of the many, many reasons I love Google images. It takes us all back to a more innocent time, a time when Kurt and Courtney were (ill-advisedly) considered alt-rock teen pin ups for a minute or so. Can you remember or imagine a time when Kurt smiled like that for the cameras? This picture belongs in the Smithsonian.

While on the subject of "punk" (sort of..), I want to share this great quote from Iggy Pop, from an old interview with Peter Gzowski (1977): Some necessary research to try and make sense of the hot mess that is Velvet Goldmine (old sort-of fictionalized bio pic of David Bowie) led me to it-

" I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... heartless manipulators, about music... that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. And it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten... but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control. And, ah... when I'm in the grips of it, I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever, have you ever felt like that? When you just, when you just, you couldn't feel anything, and you didn't want to either. You know, like that? Do you understand what I'm saying, sir? "

Ewan McGregor plays the Iggy Pop character in the film and yes, he does show full ass and peen for about the tenth time in film. Among his many noteworthy talents as an actor, McGregor is single-handedly leveling the playing field for male full frontal nudity in film, and seems to have a great time doing it. While McGregor puts his all into the role - and does a good representation of Iggy Pop in the early 1970's, strangely he looks distractingly like Kurt Cobain from the early 1990's.

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