SNAPPING ON THE EDGE OF GRUNGE: If you find yourself in Norfolk, Virginia before May this year, make a detour to hte Chrysler Museum of Art, who have an exhibition of Charles Peterson's grunge photos titled, naturally, Touch Me, I'm Sick. The collection stretches from the popular face of grunge music (Mr. Kurt) through the likes of Mudhoney to the perpetual disappointments (pearl jam). Peterson is excited by being exhibited:

“I always imagined that someday my photography could reside in a museum—to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, it's not only rock and roll....Touch Me I'm Sick was made for both the fanatic and the uninitiated, with the latter being the more exciting to reach. Good documentary photography can intimate an experience of our world without needing any previous personal knowledge by the viewer. Here are the sights, sounds and smells of American underground rock and roll as I lived it.”

If you can't make it Norfolk, 2003's book of the same name is still available.

Also buyable: Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew - Excellent Mudhoney 7-track CD
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