Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

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). [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]