OFF: 10 Most hated

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On fre 19 mar 1999 09.40 +0000 "Andy Gilham" <Andy.Gilham at BTINTERNET.COM>
wrote:
>> Though I reserve a hard spot in my heart for
>> Nirvana, since I can't work up any sympathy for people who whinge
>> about how miserable they are when they're that rich!
>
> Yeah, the mentally ill are a bunch of whining losers, aren't they...
Cobain
> was always suicidally depressive, if my impressions are correct, and his
> sudden global celebrity didn't exactly help.  Money was the least of his
> worries.

     Yeah, money isn't everything and is the curse of the world
besides.  Intellectually I grasp Cobain's problem, but I'll *never*
be able to _understand_ it.  It's just too alien.  So I resign
myself to being annoyed at someone who is rich enough to do whatever
they want for their whole life and their kids after, and then
tops themself.  I can understand people who ride fame and fortune
like every day were the last day of Rome (i.e. Zeppelin ;) or who
get very, very rich and then piss off to sit around and be rich
and amuse themselves and do whatever (i.e. various ex-Beatles), and
I can understand people who decide to become philanthropists (er,
can't think of anyone off hand!), but I feel .... _disappointed_
in people who are handed it all and then throw themselves away.
It's all I can do to grudgingly admit Cobain wrote catchy pop
songs :)

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/