She turns 19 tomorrow. The birth child of Grunge.
And NO. Whatever. I'm not some obsessed lunatic or frantic Nirvana fan trying to hold onto something ... ANYTHING. No. I'm not. I'M NOT. I actually prefer Foo Fighters. (GASP!)
In fact — I haven't thought about Frances Bean or her parents, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, in a very very long time. It was the New York Times Style Section that so gracefully reminded me ... As I gulped my coffee down in an effort to suppress the memories of the day that Kurt took his own life. NOT a laughing matter, but one that makes me cry from giggling too hard. Thinking about my then-on but usually off boyfriend, driving around with his headlights on in some sort of funeralistic recognition, before the days when car manufacturers suggested leaving them on all the time. Like if he hadn't been driving he would have been standing somewhere, silent and holding up one of his many lighters in some twisted early 20s grunge angst ... while passers by would have been all — "Dude, this isn't The Breakfast Club" ... Instead everyone was all "Why are your headlights on, the sun is shining." And I explained, in all seriousness, CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S IN MOURNING, as we hugged and cried together. Friends that weren't fans looked at us like we were alien ... which we TOTALLY WERE. WHY KURT, WHY?! Our CD collections became shrines to what could have been and no one else existed. It was all very Say Anything. The New York Times, by the way, owes me some serious bank on the number of times I've linked to their website ... But isn't it fun that I can find humor in even the darkest of caves!
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But now Frances is here ... and gorgeous. Talented, apparently already an accomplished artist under another name, and I happily suspect — beyond cool in her own right. She looks like Kurt, but has the same kick-ass beat as her lovely mother, Courtney. I'd throw her a giant Facebook "HB!", but really? She's never even glanced at Facebook and I fear any response would include a giant "FY!". We can only hope that a life of twisted fame combined with admirable secrecy will see her through to a future filled with smiles and love... We can only hope.
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