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You can actually watch it online. Still, you're much better off buying it and having it for keeps. It's a really great doc\interview... thing! lol!
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^ Dailymotion UK. I would link you to it but it might prompt the count to be deleted so I wont. If you want a link PM me and I will send it to you xx
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^ You should have bought them, Imelanie. What great things to have.
Here's a full version of About a Son, for anyone who's looking:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2048110477753327933
I hope it doesn't get deleted. It's such an amazing documentary. Going to order a copy for my own. The ending really makes me cry, I have to admit. It's just so f*cking sad and unfair that, for WHATEVER reason, he felt he should take his life.
Honestly though, I've never bought the murder stuff. Watching this documentary just makes me believe it less. I mean the amount of times he brings up killing himself and blowing his head off in interviews and in this one he even says, " if I was going to blow my head off with a gun..." at one point.
Kurt was an amazing person, as an artist and as just a normal guy who was using his life to actually create something new and real for us all. Who's really trying to do that nowadays, musically?
Nirvana were really one of the last great rock bands. At least it went out on a high, rather than if it had died out with Guns n' Roses or whatever. Kurt gave it life and strength and meaning again, if only for a little while. Then the candle burned out...
Here's a full version of About a Son, for anyone who's looking:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2048110477753327933
I hope it doesn't get deleted. It's such an amazing documentary. Going to order a copy for my own. The ending really makes me cry, I have to admit. It's just so f*cking sad and unfair that, for WHATEVER reason, he felt he should take his life.
Honestly though, I've never bought the murder stuff. Watching this documentary just makes me believe it less. I mean the amount of times he brings up killing himself and blowing his head off in interviews and in this one he even says, " if I was going to blow my head off with a gun..." at one point.
Kurt was an amazing person, as an artist and as just a normal guy who was using his life to actually create something new and real for us all. Who's really trying to do that nowadays, musically?
Nirvana were really one of the last great rock bands. At least it went out on a high, rather than if it had died out with Guns n' Roses or whatever. Kurt gave it life and strength and meaning again, if only for a little while. Then the candle burned out...
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He did give meaning to it agian. He was such a fu-king geniune guy, that's what I love about him. Does anyone think he had a tortured soul? I see this happy, childish soul that just wants men to be right to each other, but then, you could tell he was unhappy at periods in his life and could beat himself up.
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I would never called him a " tortured soul" simply because that phrase is just so... you know? I do understand what you mean though.
When I was a kid and Nirvana were everywhere, I thought of him like how my older sister and my cousins etc thought of him - kind of like Sid Vicious!
Then when I was a teenager and Nirvana were gone and the world full of conspiracy theories, I did have the image of Kurt as this tortured rocker who was f*cked around by his evil wife, who had him killed.
Now that I've actually taken the time to read about Kurt though and form my own opinion ( the ones above were influenced strongly by siblings and the media) I've come to think of him as more of a real person. He wasn't depressed all the time, but he was battling a lot of demons and that's tiring. He had an AMAZING sense of humor, he was unbelievably creative, and he was very in love with his family.
However, he lived his life in constant physical pain ( not "artistic" pain), from his scoliosis to his stomach problems to his eventual drug addictions, and the Cobain men have a long history of suicide.
He's life wasn't a sad story. That's what I think we learn from ' About a Son'. It just had a sad ending. But, I mean, it's what he chose and I think his fans should respect that rather than not even allowing him the dignity of killing himself, you know? Oh well.
What do you guys think?
When I was a kid and Nirvana were everywhere, I thought of him like how my older sister and my cousins etc thought of him - kind of like Sid Vicious!
Then when I was a teenager and Nirvana were gone and the world full of conspiracy theories, I did have the image of Kurt as this tortured rocker who was f*cked around by his evil wife, who had him killed.
Now that I've actually taken the time to read about Kurt though and form my own opinion ( the ones above were influenced strongly by siblings and the media) I've come to think of him as more of a real person. He wasn't depressed all the time, but he was battling a lot of demons and that's tiring. He had an AMAZING sense of humor, he was unbelievably creative, and he was very in love with his family.
However, he lived his life in constant physical pain ( not "artistic" pain), from his scoliosis to his stomach problems to his eventual drug addictions, and the Cobain men have a long history of suicide.
He's life wasn't a sad story. That's what I think we learn from ' About a Son'. It just had a sad ending. But, I mean, it's what he chose and I think his fans should respect that rather than not even allowing him the dignity of killing himself, you know? Oh well.
What do you guys think?
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Cool video of the band fooling around ( John Peel session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXL5_Z2hWM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXL5_Z2hWM&feature=player_embedded
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i really understand why i loved them so much once! hahaStamoholic
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that's awesome. i love their sense of humor 
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i'm reading "heavier than heaven" right now and it so amazing to see how nirvana started...i get so much flack from people who are like "they are so overrated"..just because they happened to get famous doesn't discount their musical ability.
have you read his diaries? or watch the documentary "about a son"?
highly recommended!!!
Trailer of "about a son"(its all about tapes of him speaking about his life...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0iAXUatdY
"No matter what we do how clean we a live our lives we are not gonna survive this"
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At this present moment (and not related AT ALL to the previous post who im glad you have seen the movie and all) I couldn't agree more to this Kurt expression related to this website (I bet he would agree with meeee) ... i hope being kick out soon just to not follow the Shepard standards on fashion rules. If not i will leave by myself , don't worry staff....your community will still being a "vitual junkie" place braindead copy of people who really have some ideas.
PUNKROCKWILLBEKICKINGYOURBOOORINGMINDSFOREVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4lrHJgYdM
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Another funny video. Nirvana f*cking around backstage with Sonic Youth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTRqwTqqKxs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTRqwTqqKxs&feature=related
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He was never a sell-out. People in Portland and Seattle and Tacoma and little cities in between began to latch onto Kurt in the late 80's and then by Nevermind in 1991 he was huge, but not because he envisioned it that way. I never was a Nirvana 'freak', and I was about 10, 11 when they were really huge in Seattle, where I was born/raised. I do have the studio albums, the box set, but I love Unplugged the most, and since Stamoholic and I were discussing Kurt a bit in River Phoenix's thread I'd like to post the Unplugged version of "Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam"...at 00:50-:53 when he looks down...I just die.
And these feelings are only recent. Maybe because I've been so stuck on Courtney for the 15 years and 1 year before he was gone, I never really watched them live except for the live CD on the box set...anyhow he is like a Greek statue with his facial expression in those few seconds, I really see Frances there, I hope his features come out more and more with time in her face.
And these feelings are only recent. Maybe because I've been so stuck on Courtney for the 15 years and 1 year before he was gone, I never really watched them live except for the live CD on the box set...anyhow he is like a Greek statue with his facial expression in those few seconds, I really see Frances there, I hope his features come out more and more with time in her face.
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