WSJ Puts a Hurtin' On Kurt

Prissy but amusing effort by Nancy DeWolf Smith to link Kurt Kobain's antisocial angst with hardcore perversity and homicidal rage. There's some pretty lurid stuff in Kurt's diary—"I like to make incisions into the belly of infants then [expletive deleted] the incisions until the child dies," reads one entry that makes you suspect little Frances Bean may have gotten off lucky. There are also some pretty funny examples of Neil Strauss types (including Neil Strauss himself) trying to whitewash the content. But really, who's surprised? I watched the new Nirvana home video recently and what is most striking is what a completely banal, disagreeable dickhead Kobain was. It's becoming more clear every day that Dave Grohl was the real genius in that threesome.