“ALEXANDRE LEVY”
KURT COBAIN
the ’27 club’ consists of an elite group of artists who knew how to quit while they were ahead. according to a stoner i once knew, their corpses were all found with white lighters in their possession.
members include:
robert johnson
brian jones
jimi hendrix
janis joplin
jim morrison
ron “pigpen” mckernan
peter ham
(c’mon ladies n’ fellas, i’ll require your help to get the ranks to 12!)
so far, we’ve got a black blues pioneer who can handle all intricate acoustic patterns and heartfelt high-pitched vocals, a lovable brit rascal with a keen fashion sense who brilliantly dabbles in all sorts of exotic instruments, an enigmatic electric guitar firestorm whose erection alone would eradicate all teenybopper wannabe stars from the premises (got that from bill hicks), a white female soul singer with a heart of gold (and a habit to match), a slightly skewed flamboyant white frontman who probably would’ve started serial killing had ray manzarek not pulled him aside on that fateful summer day @ USC film school.
so with the ‘quint’ guitar threat of robert johnson (acoustic), jimi hendrix (electric lead), the twin suicides cobain and ham on respective electric rhythm power pop parts (ham plays the major chords + cobain plays the minor chords), and brian jones on whichever stringed instrument happens to catch his stoned fancy at the moment, i’d say we’d have a pretty formidable stringed army on our hands.
jim morrison and janis joplin can do their nihilist duets onstage before a drunken jim finally forces himself on her and she whacks him over the head with her ever-present southern comfort bottle. pigpen can tickle the ivories and pretend like nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
this band just needs a rhythm section. i nominate roger lee durham (of bloodstone) to man the drums (’cause he can also sing). would provide the band with a funky rhythmic edge. and dave alexander of the stooges could dumb things down on bass guitar. ’cause he’d fit in with the rest of the alcoholics in the bunch.
i also noted today that mother + father were both 28 years old when they got married. the date was the 28th of september 1982. with this particular year, a single rotational flip yields 1″28″9. the pattern seems to make sense in the decimal system (first two numbers followed by last two numbers in cycle). i reason that the ‘9’ represents the month of september and the ‘1’ indicates that it is the first marriage for both.
am i better than nostrodamus or what?
i’m already too old to be in the “27 club”…
(and i’m not even famous)
(bummer)
(what a bizarre benchmark for a modern musician!)