Friday, July 9, 2010

Picasso at the Met


"I spend hour after hour while I draw," Picasso recounted, "observing my creatures and thinking about the mad things they're up to; basically it's my way of writing fiction."

[Exhibition wall text]

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

What "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Could Have Said



"[Kurt] was changing the lyrics to all his songs during this period, and 'Teen Spirit' had about a dozen drafts. One of the first drafts featured the chorus: 'A denial and from strangers / A revival and from favors / Here we are now, we're so famous / We're so stupid and from Vegas.'"

Charles R. Cross [Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, 2001]