I prepare for morning golf. I'm a bit tired, but not remotely hungover. My wife thought she broke her foot yesterday evening, so I had to cut-off my beer drinking to take her to the hospital for x-rays. She didn't break it, but the drinking hiatus killed my evening. That was bad news last night but good news today.
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Public service announcement: The SpeedTrap Exchange.
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Intelligent words about Kurt Cobain and Smells Like Teen Spirit. Excerpt:
Smells Like Teen Spirit is generally conceded to be one of the most epochal songs in the history of rock'n'roll. This is because it constitutes the fault line separating the "alternative", grunge era of the early Nineties from the "hair-band" era of the Eighties. As has been noted before, Nirvana was both the kiss of death and the death of Kiss. Grunge had been around for quite some time before Kurt Cobain showed up, but Smells Like Teen Spirit was more catchy and sophisticated than the average grunge song. It was both primitive and complex, both cerebral and coarse. From the moment MTV began playing the grainy, bizarre Teen Spirit video on a late-night program devoted to music it didn't really expect its audience to enjoy, the inane, interchangeably pointless hair bands that had dominated the previous decade understood that their time had passed.
