Nordling here.
I'm pretty bummed not to be attending SXSW this year, but I'm happy that I'll be seeing COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK eventually. It comes on HBO in May, and rumor has it it may be hitting theaters before then. That's a good thing - I'd rather hear this movie in a theater with a great soundsystem anyway.
I loved Nirvana. I saw them live in December 1993, with Shonen Knife and the Breeders opening. This was a few days after (or maybe before, I can't remember which) they recorded their famous MTV Unplugged concert, and it's probably my favorite concert that I've ever been to. At one point, Krist Novoselic dedicated the Vaselines' "Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam" to Frank Zappa, who had died a couple of days before. Kurt himself was mostly quiet, but at one point he mockingly said to the Houston crowd, in a ridiculous Texas accent, "Hey, y'all like that there new Pearl Jam record?" to which most of the crowd yelled and screamed approvingly. Meanwhile I and a few others, who knew of Kurt's dislike for Pearl Jam, had a pretty good laugh. Towards the end of the show, Kurt took off his flannel shirt and threw it into the crowd, who devoured it like frenzied piranha. He even smiled a few times, which meant for Kurt, if you knew about him, that he was having a genuinely good time.
This was a band and a person I could relate to, and when he killed himself four months later, it devastated my friends and me. I've grown older and wiser, but my love for the band remains strong, even as my anger at Kurt "joining that stupid club," as his mom put it, has never really subsided. I've been waiting for a long time to see this story told onscreen - Gus Van Sant's LAST DAYS does a pretty good job trying to put it together in a fictional way, but I've always wanted to see a film done right, truthful and with passion. Brett Morgen's documentary, from all accounts, is Kurt's story done right. I can't wait to see this one, and if I have to wait until May, the family better watch out, because I'm pumping this movie through every speaker in the house I can find. Here's the trailer, courtesy of Yahoo:
COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK comes to HBO this May.
Nordling, out.
