On Hollywood:
I’d like to get into movies. That would be fun. It’s not too easy for a musician to become an actor. I don’t want to be like Rick Springfield. I like movies. Paris, Texas, Rear Window, the Hitchcock movie. I used to like them a lot better when I was young. I can’t think of any more movies that I like. I’m usually disappointed by them. I can’t wait to see Naked Lunch. Yeah there’s a lot of TV I like, too. Not now, not new TV, except for the A&E channel and documentaries and stuff. Oh, The Simpsons are good. I didn’t really get into Twin Peaks. I can’t think of anything new, but old, dorky sitcoms like The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. I like Andy Griffith, Leave It to Beaver. Leave It to Beaver is probably the most classic TV show ever. There’s just something so wholesome about it.
On kids today:
I think that teenagers have evolved a bit. I think the average 15-year-old is more intelligent than a 15-year-old 10 years ago. It just seems like it. I don’t have any proof, and I don’t really have any reason for that. I just sense it. I guess if I could say something really clichéd and punk-rock to kids, I’d say start a band. Especially girls — they should start bands. There aren’t enough girl musicians.
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In his newly published The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll , Phoenix contributor Brett Milano explores the evolution of the local music scene.
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“Mary Lou Lord has been almost written out of the Kurt Cobain story,” writes True. “Yet I have a strong memory from around this time of meeting a besotted Kurt going on about how in love with her he was, and how he was going to move to Boston to be with her.”
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True’s book coincides with a bit of Nirvana’s Phoenix lore, and this week we’re publishing an excerpt from the book alongside several related articles from our archives.
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They were, by definition, misfits.
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Halloween has become a pleasant excuse for local rockers to don alter egos, transforming themselves in order to rock out as other bands.
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7 Down: "In ___" (Nirvana album, five letters)
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Evel Knievel certainly wasn’t the first person to become a superstar by risking life and limb to entertain the masses.
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Tax reform is the Evel Knievel of political issues. It gives us the most pleasure when it crashes and burns.
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- Crossword: 'Boardin' boredom'
Note the starred entries; I wrote this in an airport.
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On the cover of her fifth CD, Naté looks to-die-for in midnight-blue opera gloves and strapless gown .
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