Kurt Cobain: 10 Years Later
Kurt Cobain did himself in ten years ago. (Or maybe Yoko, I mean, Courtney did it. Whatever.) Apparently there's a lot of people waiting for him to come back. Listen up: Jesus came back in three days. Kurt's just fucking with you.
The Black Table looks back on ten years without Kurt, in which ESPN's Dan Shanoff predicts the worst for an undead Kurt:
He would have made his way on to reality TV. You'd hope it would be one of the less humiliating ones, but 10 years is a long time. Given the acceleration of the fame cycle since 1994, Kurt would be doing a guest spot on "Star Search" ... maybe hosting "TRL" with La-La and Good Charlotte. I'm not saying he'd be guest-hosting "Clean Sweep," but his sick (and inevitable) Mercer Island mansion would have made it to "Cribs."
If nothing else, he'd have a "Celebrity Playlist" on iTunes. What you wouldn't see is all the Nirvana-derivative bands; they wouldn't exist, or, at least, they would need the imprimatur of Cobain — he'd have a catch phrase of approval, like Randy Jackson's "What's up, Dawg?" Maybe he'd have even invented "What's up, Dawg?"
