Smells like Teen Spirit
I see that Smells like Teen Spirit is Wikipedia’s featured article today. Cool! I was a huge fan at the time, although these days the only Nirvana album I listen to much is Bleach.
Nirvana were such a phenomenon that when my year at high school were deciding what slogan to put on our Year 12 jerseys, the most popular choice was “Oh well, whatever, nevermind”. I can’t think of any slogan less appropriate for us- in general my year was smart, motivated and would do anything for a few more marks in an assessment task. But that’s what we went with.
The photo shows the lyrics embroidered on the right pocket of my jersey. Another piece of clothing that I never wear but can’t throw away.
(On Jun 1st, 2007 at 9:50 am)
Aww, that’s so sweet! And what an excellent collectors item! Reminds of this anecdote…. *flashback*
…I remember being in year 12 when Kurt died. That day our school footy (AFL) team had an inter-school match. I brought along a bunch of black electrical tape, and we all put on arm bands for the game.
We were doing our warm up exercises or what-not, and our coach noticed the arm bands. He went ballistic at us - as if a dead Kurt wasn’t a good enough reason to wear arm bands! So we had to take them off.
When the game started I went to my position on the field, and my opponent said “Were you wearing those arm bands for Kurt?”. I said yes. He said “We wanted to do that, but our coach wouldn’t let us.”
Oh, the shared pain!
(On Jun 1st, 2007 at 10:23 am)
That is a damn cool story