Last week someone died trying to convince a stone age tribe to believe in iron age mythology. Today we landed a spaceship on another planet.

“Whenever each child, each sibling, is in the Red Room, something in the fantasy is red. And it’ll be a very, very small thing. When Luke gets taken to the hotel room, he’s worn Converse throughout the show, and all of a sudden his Converse are red. And it’s so slight you can barely even see it. And I think Steven is wearing a red jumper in his fantasy.  And so there’s something at the end, Kate Siegel, who plays Theo, kind of pointed it out to me — with Luke’s sobriety cake… She went, ‘The cake is red.’”  - Oliver Jackson-Cohen on TheWrap

Ringo Starr on George Harrison (via thateventuality)

Haven’t heard somebody saying YOLO for a while. I guess everyone who used it is dead by now.

90′s Rock Vocalists Cheat Sheet

If the words are slurred and the lyrics you can make out often don’t make sense, it’s Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam).

If the words are slightly less slurred and it sounds like he’s trying to sing through a hangover and a mouth full of jagged marbles, it’s Kurt Cobain (Nirvana).

If it’s somehow monotone and soulful at the same time and the backup vocals sound like six of the same guy singing at once, it’s Layne Staley (Alice in Chains).

If it sounds kinda like a dark and spooky Disney villain but also kinda like the guy at the biker bar who might kill you, it’s Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society).

If it goes from melodic singing to throat-murdering screaming in the span of one word and sounds like he’s gonna kick the world’s ass, it’s Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters).

If it goes from melodic singing to throat-murdering screaming in the span of one word and sounds like the world has kicked his ass, it’s Chris Cornell (Soundgarden/Audioslave).

If it has the deep grittiness of Zakk Wylde, the slurring of Eddie Vedder, and lyrics that make you wonder if it’s about sex or murder or both, it’s Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots). 

BONUS: If it sounds like an alien trying to mimic the patterns of human singing while sacrificing all semblance of lyrical meaning in favor of nonsensical rhyming, it’s Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and he doesn’t really belong on this list because no one mixes him up with anything.

………Ouch 😢

Chris

2017

30 x 20 cm ( 11.8 x 7.9 in )

oil on canvas

Private collection

Me every 5 minutes: “Fuck, I can’t believe Cornell’s gone.”

We’re not a party band and we’re not all gloom and hate,“ explains Cornell. "We have angry lyrics, we have political lyrics, cerebral lyrics, and poetry.

Faces, December 1989

This Is Your Life

Chris Cornell is gone physically. I’ll never get a chance to watch him in concert. If you’d please listen to me right now.

His music got me through school. His music still gets me through life today.

I wanted to share with you a favorite song of mine by him via youtube. The song is I called I Am The Highway. https://youtu.be/QAfpuiDZV_c

My favorite lyrics of the song are and I can relate….

“I am not your blowing wind I am the lightning I am not your autumn moon I am the night The night”

Thank you Chris for all you did for me. Rest In Peace brother.

Sometimes, we know artists more than we know people in our lives. Especially musicians. Where do you think those lyrics come from? The words of musicians, poets & writers, share things from within their heart and soul that most people don’t have the ability to do. All of those feelings are sent to their brains, then transformed on paper, for the world to see. They choose to share their guts with us. So people can empathize and connect. That is special and generous.

So, yeah, when an artist that we have connected with dies, especially tragically like this, it fucking hurts. We feel helpless. We beat ourselves up with questions that cannot be answered. We go through the stages of mourning just like anyone else who knew them personally, and it is justified.

And I’m lost, behind The words I’ll never find And I’m left behind As seasons roll on by

Sleeping with a full moon blanket Sand and feathers for my head Dreams have never been the answer Dreams have never made my bed Dreams have never made my bed

Safe outside my gilded cage With an ounce of pain I wield a ton of rage

Let’s never forget what we know about Chris. He showed us all who he was, and we’ve all had experiences with him or his music, his lyrics, that have impacted us in some way. We’re lucky that we were here for that. People are likely to talk about him differently now that he’s gone, especially because of the circumstances. We’ve seen that happen before. Don’t let your memories of him get tainted or distorted. I’ll continue to remember him the way I knew him, the way that he/his music impacted me.

NAME A MORE ICONIC DUO THAN CHRIS CORNELL AND EDDIE VEDDER, I’LL FUCKING WAIT.

R.I.P. Chris Cornell 😢