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Originally Posted by mallycobain
yep exactly, i do like it and it doesn't affect you guys!!!!!!!! jeez i don't make fun of musicians you like
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I have not made fun of Kurt Cobain apart from one comment about his drug use and marriage to a psychotic whore. I like his music. Analysis of it formed a small part of my degree. (Did you know a defining feature of grunge is the setting up of implied modal subversions?)
But no matter how I look at it, I just can't see him as an important cultural figure who deserves to be immortalised. I can't see him as anything more than just a rock musician.
And I also can't see why you'd consider this without considering who you, as a person, are going to be in ten years time.
As an example, let me say this.
When I was 21, I had long hair all the way down my back and I was absolutely certain within myself I'd never cut it off, ever. I had long hair and that was that.
Now I'm 23, and I have much shorter hair. Its not a buzzcut, but its a general hairstyle about Jim Morrison sort of length, maybe a lil shorter.
And the reason for that is because I realised that I didn't identify with the people who inspired me to grow my hair long anymore. I didn't think Dave Mustaine was god anymore. I didn't idolize early Hetfield or get excited about 90's Dave Grohl.
And you'd think that wouldn't matter, and for a long time it didn't. I just carried on anyway.
But eventually it dawned on me that what I was doing was representing and buying into the look of a subculture, a group of people, that I wanted less and less to do with. I started to realise how stupid a lot of metal fans and metal bands are. I started to see how elitist they could be and were being. And that just wasn't me anymore. I didn't want to see myself as contributing to that.
And so I showed a barber a picture of Jim Morrison and said "Like that", just so I wasn't showing some sort of false allegiance to a culture I was starting to hate.
And with hair, thats easy. People here have seen my old long haired pictures. People here saw me when I first cut my hair.
But you can't cut a tattoo, and if I'd found myself with a head of long hair I couldn't get rid of, I'd have hated myself after a while. I'd have just seen myself as a symbol of a thing I hated.
So believe me, I know exactly how sure of yourself you think you are. But stop thinking of yourself now and start thinking of who you'll be and how you might change. You will not be the same person in 5 years time. Nobody ever is. And you don't want to be stuck with a tattoo that says you're something or someone you don't want to be.