So, yes, Nirvana's Nevermind, 20 years old as of September 24, which was also Jim Henson's birthday. Which makes this post a few days tardy. Oh, well. Whatever. It was an important album to me in college. And Henson was an important man to me from the cradle on. Plus, the cinetrix can finally watch 1991: The Year Punk Broke again and thrill anew to the spectacle of gangling Thurston Moore wandering a European city he's never been to before, confident of finding the indie record store. Flimsy excuses one and all to post the following:
Ken Cancelosi and Matt Zoller Seitz celebrate the enduring comedic partnership of Jim Henson and Frank Oz.
And longtime Boston radio fixture Oedipus has been working on an ongoing project, which includes this bad-ass Afro-Cuban cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Twenty-year-old photos of Kurt originally posted by Mary Lou Lord last week on Facebook, who wrote "Found a camera in a black cab an hour before the London show. Snap I took. I love the hands. Anyway, I have more pics coming on Sunday. A friend of mine found them. I am the most disorganized person in the world and I had lost the pics. It's nice to know someone took care of them...xo"
