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Should You Watch It? HBO’s Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

May 8, 2015 by Travis J. Cook 3 Comments

On Monday, May 4th, HBO unveiled a new documentary about the life and demise of tortured Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, directed by Brett Morgen. A quick trip to Wikipedia will tell you that this is the first documentary about the singer/guitarist to be made with the cooperation of the Cobain family. It’s currently streaming on HBO Go after debuting at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

So, you’re probably wondering: should I watch this documentary?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Here’s why.

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Voices of a Generation: From the Green Light to All Apologies

July 6, 2012 by Travis J. Cook Leave a Comment

“You are all part of a Lost Generation” – Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway

“Teenage angst has paid off well,
Now I’m bored and old.
Self-appointed judges judge
More than they have sold”

– Serve the Servants, – K. Cobain

Note: This article is best read while listening to Loud Music.

The idea of a generation of young people living and breathing and sharing the same cultural experience is not a new thing. It’s only in the 20^th Century that Americans have, in an effervescent need to create a label for anything and everything under the sun, labeled themselves as belonging to part of a generation in an effort to unite and identify their own personal experience so as to make sense of the whole thing. Or something like that.

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