Credit where due
Along with the annotations to the Nirvana lyrics below, I really should have given a shout out to Tony Pierce, from whom I shamelessly swiped the format. After all, Tony just got back from a month in hell with Kurt. At least I didn’t try to make it a photo essay (though I was tempted).
Oh [...]
Parallel lives
I was sitting in my office one day last week when someone stopped by to ask the way to Building 4. This isn’t uncommon, as our buildings are a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. But something about this guy seemed familiar. I could see he had a contractor badge but not his name. [...]
Pennyroyal Tea
Nirvana
In Utero
Geffen, 1993
Pennyroyal Tea
(Kurt Cobain)
I’m on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that’s inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea
I’m anemic royalty
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
I’m so tired I can’t sleep
I’m a liar and a thief
Sit and drink pennyroyal Tea
I’m anemic royalty
I’m [...]
Knowing the Dog
I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently exploring the Black Dog, on the theory that (a) one should know one’s enemy and (b) familiarity breeds contempt. It’s been especially helpful to reconstruct my emotional history, knowing what I know now about the Dog. Even during my first years out of school, when in naïve [...]
