"sos" - rihanna

"you on my mind has got me losing it"



kurt cobain would have been 40 today. i really wanted a suitable nirvana earworm to celebrate it and give me an excuse to write about him, but i've been getting tiny bits or fleeting visits from about 50 different nirvana songs and thus none of them count.

instead i got this. i couldn't even remember where this line was from for ages until it clicked with this song. somewhere in the murky grey area between sample, mashup and cover - a pretty enough girl with a mediocre voice and a riff everyone's sick of by now even though it comes from a classic song.

maybe there's a connection

probably not

"down in a hole" - alice in chains

"don't understand who they thought i was supposed to be. look at me now a man who won't let himself be"



it's a common misconception that there's no such thing as the truth. the trouble is that everyone has a different truth and they can be incompatible. like extreme said - the three sides to every story are yours, mine and the truth. in reality its more like that fable of the blind men and the elephant. there is an absolute truth but for the most part we don't have the ability to perceive enough of it at once to understand it. concentrating too hard on the bit of the truth you can see will stop you understanding that the bit someone else can see can still be the truth.

i think this is even more true about roles. nobody else's idea of who and what you should be is right, but in all honestly yours probably isn't either.