Happy 41st Birthday, Kurt Cobain!

All Apologies, 1992, Reading Festival

About a Son: the trailer


Frances: Mama's girl

Happy Birthday, Kurt. Perhaps you've heard: plans for a Universal Studios biopic based on Charles Cross's definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven continue to unfold, apparently without Scarlett Johannsen as the young Courtney Love.

In the meantime, About a Son, the film cobbled together from our old friend Michael Azerrad's interviews with you, is out today on DVD. Sorry, dude: you're still fucking famous.

On the upside, we think Frances Bean is gonna be OK: 15, on the cover of Harpers Bazaar this month, loves Sex and the City, pierced her nose, has "the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine," describes herself as "an attention whore" and a "shoe junkie" (hey, given the genes, there are worse kinds of whores and junkies she could be, yes?), has performed in about 20 high school musicals, and is BFF with Tallulah Willis (yep, Bruce and Demi's kid).

We'd drag out some more Nirvana stuff, but . . . we think we emptied the vault the last time. Here's a few tidbits:

• About a girl: When Mary Lou Lord met Kurt Cobain. An exclusive excerpt from Everett True's Nirvana: The Biography. By Everett True.
• Henry Santoro interviews Everett True (mp3). From WFNX.
• Praise the Lord: Mary Lou's star rises from the Red Line Platform. By Brett Milano.
• Just the Fax: Kurt Cobain to the Phoenix: 'F--- off!' By Brett Milano.
• State of Nirvana: A conversation with Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic . By Kurt St. Thomas.
• Kurt speaks: The driving force behind Nirvana on fame, youth, and Leave It to Beaver. By Kurt St. Thomas.

Oh, by the way, any chance you could maybe ghost some new tunes for Dave? He's been rewriting the same three songs for like four albums.