https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax Charles R. Cross en-us 2022-02-02 20:13:25 UTC 2025-05-20 17:04:09 UTC hello@padlet.com blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2081991858 On the same day that Nirvana starred on Saturday Night Live, the bands first album hit No. 1. Kurt didn't find this pleasing. With his escalating drug addiction, he decided to use far more than his body could take. When his girlfriend, Courtney Love, awoke, she saw Kurt's body and somehow brought him back to life. (Page 3-4) "In the course of one day, Kurt had been born in the public eye, died in the privacy of his own darkness, and was resurrected by a force of love." (End of page 4) ]]> 2022-03-07 16:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2081991858 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2081999851 Kurt Cobain was born on February 20th in 1967, in Aberdeen Washington. (Page 5)]]> 2022-03-07 16:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2081999851 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2082011087 Kurt began seventh grade at Montesano Junior High. He began music classes in his fifth grade year. By seventh grade he was playing drums with the school band. (Page 29)]]> 2022-03-07 16:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2082011087 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2082020213 Kurt moved out of his fathers house and spent a few years bouncing around Grays Harbor. Within a span of four years he had lived in ten different houses, with ten different families. (Page 39)]]> 2022-03-07 16:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2082020213 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2082032890 Kurt spent several months living with his Uncle Chuck, where he began to take his first official guitar lessons. Chuck recalls him taking lessons for moths along with hours of practice. He finally had to end lessons when Kurt's grades started getting bad in result of the obsession with learning guitar. (Page 41)]]> 2022-03-07 16:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2082032890 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116079210 "One a rainy night in early March 1987, the band finally drove out of Aberdeen in a panel van packed with gear, headed toward their first show." (Page 84)]]> 2022-03-28 00:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116079210 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116080529 Kurt left Aberdeen, his home and where he was born, forever, to pursue music with his new band Nirvana.]]> 2022-03-28 00:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116080529 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116086129 Nirvana had finally made it. On October 20th, they arrived in London for a show. (Page 144)]]> 2022-03-28 00:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116086129 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116093410 "Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love first locked eyes on each other at eleven in the evening on Friday, January 12, 1990." Within days the two of them were inseparable. (Page 185) ]]> 2022-03-28 01:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116093410 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116099943 "When Kelly asked if the couple would consider having a baby. Kurt answered: "I just want to be situated and secure. I want to make sure we have a house, and make sure we have money saved up in the bank." He didn't know Courtney was already carrying a child." (Page 229)]]> 2022-03-28 01:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116099943 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116102928 On August 18th Frances Bean Cobain was born at 7:48 a.m in Los Angeles. (Page 243)]]> 2022-03-28 01:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116102928 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116110217 Two days after Frances was born, a social worker appeared at the hospital and accused Kurt and Courtney of now being "fit parents" due to Kurt's open abuse of drugs. Because of this they weren't allowed to take Frances home from the hospital and had to leave her there when they went home. August 24th the first court was held, and the final judge was neither of them were allowed to see Frances without supervision and drug tested 30 days prior to visiting her. ]]> 2022-03-28 01:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116110217 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116208730 Cross, Charles R., and Ángeles Leiva Morales. Heavier than Heaven. Reservoir Books, 2020. ]]> 2022-03-28 02:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116208730 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116222747 https://www.today.com/popculture/kurt-cobain-20-years-gone-still-just-click-away-2D79484681]]> 2022-03-28 02:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116222747 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116223864 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg]]> 2022-03-28 02:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116223864 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116225607 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2014/04/03/kurt-cobain-legacy]]> 2022-03-28 02:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2116225607 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117584878 https://www.wionews.com/life-fun/kurt-cobains-50th-birth-anniversary-his-impact-on-music-12525]]> 2022-03-28 16:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117584878 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117586548 https://www.theedgesusu.co.uk/records/2021/04/05/27-years-later-nirvana-and-kurt-cobains-legacy/]]> 2022-03-28 16:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117586548 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117592648 Kurt tried rehab, as it was required to see Frances even with supervision. It didn't work very well and he fell right back into his bad habits. "There were many overdoses and near-death situations, as many as a dozen in 1993 alone." Many say while he was on drugs he was happier. Without them, he was depressed, impossible to deal with, and moody. ]]> 2022-03-28 16:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117592648 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117604289 Kurt and Courtney moved into their first house together. They paid $1,130,000 for it. It was one Lake Washington, close to Seattle.]]> 2022-03-28 16:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117604289 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117688748 "At six in the morning, she awoke and found him on the floor, pale as a ghost, with blood coming out of one nostril. HE was fully dressed wearing his brown corduroy coat, and there was a wad of $1,000 in cash in his right hand. Courtney had seen Kurt close to death from heroin overdoses, but this wasn't a heroin overdose. Instead she found a three-page note clutched in the tight, clod ball of his left hand." (Page 323)]]> 2022-03-28 17:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117688748 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117697297 Kurt was brought back to life, he left the hospital on March 8th and a few days after he flew back to Seattle to continue his life. ]]> 2022-03-28 17:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117697297 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117717727 "On March 12th Seattle police were dispatched to the Lake Washington house after someone called 911 but hung up," (Page 328) Kurt claims there was a fight between Courtney and him but things were fine once the police arrived.]]> 2022-03-28 17:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117717727 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117777158 On April 7th Kurt had written three different goodbyes with a red pen and a white piece of lined paper. This time he was gone forever.]]> 2022-03-28 18:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117777158 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117786487 Kurt's mother organized the last service for her son. Frances spread his ashes in McLane creek behind Kurt's mothers house. "Five years after Kurt's suicide, on May 31, 1999, Memorial Day, Wendy organized a final service for her son" (Page 364)]]> 2022-03-28 18:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117786487 blackall000 https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117793302 Kurt lived to be 27 years old. In that 27 years he changed the world of music. His music was pure and wasn't faked for the appeal. He used his heart to write his songs as well as preform them.]]> 2022-03-28 18:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/blackall000/gwr6kpkocekr0iax/wish/2117793302