JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

It’s an appropriate time to think of Courtney Love: tomorrow marks the ten year anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. An article in today’s Seattle Times Kurt Cobain: a life 10 years gone describes how he painted: In 1992, at the height of his fame, he moved to Los Angeles, a time less is known about. […]

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On Friday Dave Winer posted “Courtney Love’s incredible story about the math of music that came public in the middle of the Napster heyday. It was a must-read then, and now.” So I clicked. And read: (excerpts) Now artists have options. We don’t have to work with major labels anymore, because the digital economy is […]

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Gone, like yesterday is gone like history is gone, the world keeps spinnin on you’re going, going, gone, like summer break is gone, like saturday is gone, just try and prove me wrong, you pretend like you’re immortal (you’re immortal) you’re immortal (you’re immortal) ha-ah we are not infinite we are not permanent nothing’s immediate […]

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Last Sunday morning I read Richard at Just a Gwai Lo’s post Sixteen quoting Marty Beckerman I’m kind of out of it at 20. I’m culturally obsolete. Our whole culture targets the age sixteen now. Twelve-year olds want to be sixteen and fifty-year olds want to be sixteen and I think we’re idealizing a very […]

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Jorrit Wiersma wrote about writing about his daughter: Saskia and I don’t have diaries like that from our parents (at least that I’m aware of) so I can’t really imagine what it would be like. Jay McCarthy commented: I certainly don’t have a diary from that time. My mother did write about me. A few […]

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