Thursday, October 07, 2010

Letters - two

Kurt Cobain wrote an angry letter to MTV, complaining about how it strangled creativity. He never sent it.

"Dear Empty TV/ the entity of all Corporate / GODS / We will survive without you/ easily - - the / oldschool is going / DOWN FAST/ my lifes Dedication/ is Now to Do Nothing/ But SLAG something / Kurdt Kobaineee professional Rock musician."
With no apparent sense of either irony or shame, it's now turned up in an auction. Rage repackaged for the highest bidder.


1 comment:

ManxStef said...

On a slight tangent, I saw a transcript of this very letter a month or so on the truly wonderful 'Letters of Note' blog:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/09/dear-empty-tv.html

I'd recommend browsing through that site for the letter from John K (creator of Ren & Stimpy) alone, it's delightful. What a way to inspire a young fan!
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/your-pal-john-k.html

To pull it back to a vaguely music-related theme, one from Morrissey and another from Henry Rollins:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/09/accept-me-for-what-i-am-completely.html
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/10/say-that-to-my-face.html

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