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YES, I am a nocturnal creature, YES, the past weekend involved some less-than-ideal food choices and not great sleep, but sleeping until almost 1pm for three days in a row is not a usual thing for me. And this isn't sleeping because yay sleep, but because I can't force myself to wake up. (I apparently slept through being kissed on the nose, which is when the Stroppy Once knew there was no waking me up for a while.)
Also the exhaustion plus aches is making me less than productive (really, not productive at all), which of course is making the Brain Raccoons louder. In short, ugh. C'mon brain and body! I've got GCS posts to write and clothing projects to work on.
In other news, there's an exhibit at MoPop (or is about to open at MoPop) that has a huge display for Mother Love Bone, and I need to go see it so I can be nostalgic and possibly cry. For those who are not familiar with the Seattle music scene of the early 90s: there were no real boundaries between alternative subcultures. If you were hanging out with the goth folks, you knew the punk and metal folks, and you knew the bands that became grunge. In addition, because I was in college for audio engineering, I knew a LOT of folks in bands. I saw a lot of basement or dive bar shows with bands that went on to superstardom. I have Opinions about who the best bands of that era were.
Mother Love Bone were poised to break big. They had a funk edge to the wall of fuzz grunge sound, and the lead singer, Andy Wood, was charismatic as hell. He also was a drug user and OD'd.
Pearl Jam was founded, with some corporate record label nudging, from the ashes of Mother Love Bone. Pearl Jam are sweet guys, and deserve the success they achieved, but I'll always be sad about it.
(For the record, the trinity of Good Grunge Bands for me: Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone. I went to high school with two or the original members of Alice n' Chains and did everyone's makeup for shows when they were going to be the next Poison, which means I can't take their grunge sound seriously. Also, Layne was an asshole no matter what drugs he was on.)
Hello, I am a Seattle Grunge Hipster in a velvet dress.
Also the exhaustion plus aches is making me less than productive (really, not productive at all), which of course is making the Brain Raccoons louder. In short, ugh. C'mon brain and body! I've got GCS posts to write and clothing projects to work on.
In other news, there's an exhibit at MoPop (or is about to open at MoPop) that has a huge display for Mother Love Bone, and I need to go see it so I can be nostalgic and possibly cry. For those who are not familiar with the Seattle music scene of the early 90s: there were no real boundaries between alternative subcultures. If you were hanging out with the goth folks, you knew the punk and metal folks, and you knew the bands that became grunge. In addition, because I was in college for audio engineering, I knew a LOT of folks in bands. I saw a lot of basement or dive bar shows with bands that went on to superstardom. I have Opinions about who the best bands of that era were.
Mother Love Bone were poised to break big. They had a funk edge to the wall of fuzz grunge sound, and the lead singer, Andy Wood, was charismatic as hell. He also was a drug user and OD'd.
Pearl Jam was founded, with some corporate record label nudging, from the ashes of Mother Love Bone. Pearl Jam are sweet guys, and deserve the success they achieved, but I'll always be sad about it.
(For the record, the trinity of Good Grunge Bands for me: Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone. I went to high school with two or the original members of Alice n' Chains and did everyone's makeup for shows when they were going to be the next Poison, which means I can't take their grunge sound seriously. Also, Layne was an asshole no matter what drugs he was on.)
Hello, I am a Seattle Grunge Hipster in a velvet dress.
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On the night of my 21st birthday, friends took me to that night's show: Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, and Jane's Addiction. I've been to some amazing concerts in my life, but that show is in the top 5.
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Dayumn. $5 wasn’t bad even then. I’d been in Seattle two months by then.
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Soundgarden is on my super list. (and Spoonman gives me so MUCH nostalgia for ALL the reasons and hits me in that "you are a Market child" place super hard).
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