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An excerpt from an article in an issue Spin magazine, "6,557 Miles to Nowhere":

~“I’m from New York, but I moved to Portland to make music. I’m a solo artist. I used to be in a band, but my band didn’t have it in them to go all the way, and that’s where I’m going,” he says, and then looks longingly toward the sunflower. “His heart is here. My heart is here, too. I wanted to see where Kurt lived and hung out. I wanted to see where he was normal. The night before he died, I had a dream where Kurt came to me and told me that he was passing the torch on to me. Then we played some music together.”

Colella was 15 when Cobain died on April 5, 1994. Last night, he and his friends attended a Mariners game -- Ichiro Suzuki hit a grand slam to beat the BoSox -- but Colella wants to make it very clear that seeing Cobain’s house was his primary motivation for visiting Seattle. He also wants to make it very clear that (a) he hates people who wear Abercrombie & Fitch and (b) that Kurt probably didn’t kill himself.

“There are some people who assume he was completely suicide-driven, but he wasn’t like that,” Colella says. “I don’t want to stir up waves and get killed myself, but the information that indicates Kurt was murdered actually makes way more sense than the concept of him committing suicide. But I’m not here to point fingers and say Courtney Love did it. Only God knows the answer to this question. And I realize there are people who want to believe Kurt Cobain committed suicide. People are kind of broken into two factions: There are right-wingers who want to use his death to point out that this is what happens when you listen to rock’n’roll, and there are also all his crazy fans who want to glorify depression and have Kurt be their icon forever.”

When Colella first said this to me, I thought it was reductionist, simplistic, immature, and -- quite frankly -- pretty stupid. But the more I think it over, the more I suspect he’s completely right. Except for the murder part.~

I don't get what he means by "except for the murder part," cuz all the other guy was talking about was the fact that he doesn't think Cobain was murdered and...Aaah! I don't get that. I'm just dumb, I guess.

― Nowell, Saturday, 18 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

eddie vedder killed him. which right-wingers say that kurt cobain is inciting mass suicide? if he wanted to do that he should have kept releasing records. i like the bit about 'the information that indicates' but he doesn't reveal this secret information. i wish he would have said 'they say' instead.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 18 September 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is Colella?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 18 September 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

He is friends with Deef the Wonder Horse!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Please tell me this is the Colella in question.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 18 September 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The writer is an idiot. The fact that his subject thinks that Kobain conspiracy theorizing would get *him* killed is really the telling line.

Why were you reading Spin in the first place?

― Mediawhore, Saturday, 18 September 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"I’m not here to point fingers and say Courtney Love did it."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was reading the magazine cuz I saw it and picked it up.
The whole article was about the places where rock star dies.

I just don't get the "Except for the murder part."
Colella was some fan...

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd haveta read the whole article. Or just most of it.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I see why people think Nowell is me.

Kurt committed suiced. OK

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what I thought. That's what I've always thought.
So YOU'RE Aja! For real, I mean.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and who are you?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

This is like Stanley meeting Livingstone.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm Nowell, obviously.
Everybody thought I was you.
So you're really only 13 or 14 years old.

And you already sound condescending!

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Shhh, you'll scare 'em both away! (xpost)
::holds breath::

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW Nowell, I think what the writer was saying was that Colella was right about the two kinds of responses to Cobain's death.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thirteen.

I'll be 14 on the 14th of February. (I love saying that. 14 on the 14th.)

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You've got to understand - I'm VERY sensitive.
Ok, I'm gonna cry now.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm fifteen.
Today some guy I was talking to just told me he thought I was twenty-one.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's okay with you guys, in my movie version, Harvey Keitel will play Aja and James Woods will play Nowell.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ok. when I was at the Pride Parade, someone though I was my mom's girlfriend. I don't look like my mom.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Nowell, is your middle name Asia?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Everybody thinks I'm older than I really am. I thought adults would just say it to make me feel all grown up, but pretty much everybody thinks I'm, like, 18 or 19 or 21.
I actually had precocious puberty.

So, your mom is....wow!

Mr. Scott Seward...who's James Wood?

And no, my middle name is Christine, after my mom's real first name.
Why would you think that?

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Aja, I went to a Mission Of Burma show on Martha's Vineyard Island, but I didn't see you or your mom.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

James Woods is one of the most talented actors of his generation.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't watch movies. Well, I do, just not very often.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

So, your mom is....wow!

Wow, what?

And no, my middle name is Christine, after my mom's real first name.
Why would you think that?

My middle name is Noelle

Aja, I went to a Mission Of Burma show on Martha's Vineyard Island, but I didn't see you or your mom.
-- scott seward (skotro...), September 19th, 2004 2:25 PM.

Yeah. Wasn't that a benifit for something?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My name is actually spelled N-o-e-l. I just spell it N-o-w-e-l-l on ILM. Why? No reason.

I just mean that your mom is SPECIAL.
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding...

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

she's bi.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nowell, who's your favorite band?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't say that have one. I think I know quite a bit about music, but I just hardly get to hear any of it. I'm broke as shit.

But I can say that I've been listening to Jane's Addiction's second album a lot lately.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Huh.

I love Foo Fighters and Killing Joke. I was really into Nirvana, but I'm not as big of a fan as I used to be.

I've been listening to a lot of David Bowie lately! So, so much.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you even know Killing Joke? (you probably don't. I shouldn't even.)

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you mean, huh? Jane's Addiction are good!
Well, everybody has their own opinion.

I used to get my foster mother's daughter (who moved away, thank God)
to make me mix CDs. I've got some free music out of her.

I've heard of Killing Joke - I think cuz I read that they practically wrote "Come As You Are". That's them, right?

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. Apperantly, Nirvana liked Killing Joke. (Well, I know Dave does (on their last album) and Krut liked their song "Eighties" but I don't know about Krist.)

Of all the songs to rip off, Kurt chose "Eighties"! I still can't believe it!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Motorhead. I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I like the Pixies, the Electric Six...and...man! My mind is just going blank.

I like a lot of "pop" music, but most of today's stars of this music, I don't like.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I like just about everything with Dave Grohl and some other things.

I have to ask.

Are left handed?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I left-handed? Nope. Coincidentally, my mom is.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lefty right here. We rule the school.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom is totally right handed. She does everything with her right hand.

Wait, don't you live in a foster home? Is that your birth mom or foster mom?

Cool Aaron! I like you more already.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I even play a left-handed Fender Strat.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Me mum - she looks almost nothing like me.
I hate everyone at my school! Well, except for this kid with the blue hair and black boots who said he liked my shirt.

When I refer to my mom, I mean my biological mom. If I mean my foster mom, I'll say it.

I'm in a foster home against my will though, and I miss my mom a lot.
My brothers live in a separate home.

Sorry, I gotta go now. Later.

― Nowell, Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool.

Of course, so do I.

What color is yours?

xpost

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunburst

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine is better.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

heh. What color is yours? Sunburst costs extra so neener neener.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Red wine" with a black pick guard.

"Red wine" is a dark maroon

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, ok. That sounds nice actually.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Google red wine stratocaster. I think you can find a picture of one.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

lefties DO rule the school, but i play a tele, not a strat.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost bought a tele once, but it had a maple neck and I'm not into that.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the maple neck is what i love about it! different strokes, i guess.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

All I found is this righty Squier Aja, but is it similar to this?

http://www.venuemusic.com.au/ClientImages/Prod_3418.jpg

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

do you go to a catholic school, nowell?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I do not go to Catholic school. I go to your everyday average public school.

― Nowell, Monday, 20 September 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

School sucks ass.

― Nowell, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(What the hell is happening on this thread?)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Stupid bullshit is happening on this thread!

― Nowell, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been waiting for this day to come. And I wasn't let down.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Riiight...

― Nowell, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://brightworld.com/Bugs/iBugs/Best_Bug_Jar.jpg

― F5 F6 F7 F8, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The thread title makes all the sense in the world now.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.musicnotes.com/productimg/BKWBCB9912.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

All I found is this righty Squier Aja, but is it similar to this?

Yeah.

lefties DO rule the school, but i play a tele, not a strat.

I don't really like tele too much. I tested one out and I didn't really like the way it sounded.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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