tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post7948377844486038902..comments2024-03-27T17:20:17.463-04:00Comments on The Gnostic World Of Candy Minx: Nevermind 20 YearsCandy Minxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-45865760933886149322013-02-23T00:56:34.293-05:002013-02-23T00:56:34.293-05:00I have read so many posts regarding the blogger lo...I have read so many posts regarding the blogger lovers but this paragraph is genuinely a nice piece of writing, keep it up.<br /><br /><br />Here is my site <a href="http://eatdelicious.co.uk/story.php?title=edwinazbu-payday-loans-direct-lenders" rel="nofollow">payday loans uk</a><br /><i>my webpage</i>: <b><a href="http://www.bauklotz.tv/Biki/index.php?title=Benutzer:LazaroHar" rel="nofollow">cash advance harrisburg pa</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-72401042629362845942011-09-27T17:05:57.208-04:002011-09-27T17:05:57.208-04:00I was headed to Japan in 1991, and I missed the wh...I was headed to Japan in 1991, and I missed the whole grunge thing! Beautiful post, tho, Candy :-)Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09504992439212714138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-90569039630643511702011-09-23T23:45:46.394-04:002011-09-23T23:45:46.394-04:00Oh other weird timing....like remembering that SNL...Oh other weird timing....like remembering that SNL joke. Timing played into things around Cobain's death. The issue of SPIN was Soundgarden on the cover and the caption was "Soundgarden kills grunge dead". Spooky. And then his wife's best album came out and she was on the cover of SPIN about a week or so later.Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-76856376898435365302011-09-23T23:44:06.994-04:002011-09-23T23:44:06.994-04:00Wow, what an incredible view from that couple. Ver...Wow, what an incredible view from that couple. Very interesting. You know, the shock i had about him not only dying but taking his own life...was that I thought his music and lyrics and even his sad persona was a kind of knowledge. I thought he "got it" in a good way. Not in a serious depression. I thought his work meant he had come out the other side.<br /><br />X, it is interesting to compare all the notes you had abut Anne Sexton to the life of Cobain and interviews he gave. Like Sexton, I think there will be generations of people studying him as well. Thanks so much for your memory and the images it stirred in me about you teaching..the students and discussion.<br /><br /><br />You know earlier Cobain had o'd in Italy. And he had survived. I remember that week SNL "news" had a joke...."This week Kurt Cobain tried to reach nirvana". I always wondered if they felt crummy about that joke later.Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-12011670948345631012011-09-23T23:25:23.756-04:002011-09-23T23:25:23.756-04:00I was teaching a popular music class at the Univer...I was teaching a popular music class at the University. One feature of the university was that it allowed senior citizens to take classes and even matriculate free.<br /><br />I had this one couple. They were both eighty-five if they were a day. And very old-fashioned. The wife would never speak out loud in the class. The husband would raise his hand, they'd then whisper a few seconds to each other, and then the gentleman would preface his remarks with the words "My wife and I think.... "<br /><br />So, I showed the "Smells Like Teen Spirit video" in class a day or two after its debut on MTV (which used to actually show videos back then). I then threw it out to the class for impressions.<br /><br />Well, the old man raised his hand. After conferencing with his wife, he said, "My wife and I think that's the most depressing thing we've ever seen."<br /><br />I thought they might have been referring to the yellow-tinted darkness of the video, the modal melancholy of the vocals--not that any of us at that time could understand the lyrics. So I asked them if that opinion was due to the fact that the video had looked like it was shot through snot.<br /><br />The wife shook her head. The old man said, "It's that kid, singing. He looks depressed. He looks like he oughta be in the hospital."<br /><br />The rest of the class then engaged the couple in a very amicable, but spirited debate. The kids were trying to inform the elders on stles, posing, ethos, and so on, and how the video fit into all of this.<br /><br />That only drew more concern from the elderly couple about the mental health of the lead singer.<br /><br />Of course, talking to some of the students later that semester or the following year, they would sometimes recall that discussion, wondering how the old people could be so clueless.<br /><br />I wonder if they still recalled the discussion the day Cobain took his life.X. Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561609651507566271noreply@blogger.com