Cries From the Heart
Further proof that there are very few depths to which both the news media and Courtney Love will not stoop to make money out of Cobain’s misery.
They’ve released the diaries of which he said: “Within the months between October 1991 through December 92, I have had four notebooks filled with two years worth of poetry and personal writing … The most violating thing I’ve felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catty gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts. Ripped out of pages from my stay in hospitals and airplane rides, hotel stays etc. I feel compelled to say f— you F— you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you’ll ever know.”
Pornography of the lowest order.
It’s Nirvana’s moment again with a ‘new’ hit—and a raw, revealing book of the late Kurt Cobain’s diaries. An exclusive excerpt.
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Tuning in to digital radio
A couple of things here:
1) Can nobody else see that if it has moving pictures, if you can read webpages on it, if it has a datacasting feature, if it requires a satellite dish, or if you can listen on demand… I don’t know what the hell to call it, but stop calling it radio.
2) Somehow, someone, somewhere along the line decided that analogue = bad and digital = good. Sound is analogue in nature. It’s made of soundwaves. Digital technology, no matter how clever, will always be an approximation. The use of digital audio is a way to get around the fact that we don’t yet have the technology to store and transmit analogue information properly. Analogue isn’t bad – it’s too complex for us to be able to replicate electronically. It contains infinite information. Digital encoding gives us an approximate idea of what the reality is, in a form that we can actually work with.
Digital technology is a placeholder for analogue computing.
The future of radio–one of the last analog holdouts in an increasingly digital world–is coming into view in the United Kingdom. The British Broadcasting Corp. has been busy rolling out new digital radio channels under a standard known as Eureka 147. It’s already possible to retrieve Web pages using some of these services, although download speeds can leave users frustrated.
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