Kurt Cobain wasn't depressed

son

 

wanted to shoot his parents

grunge rock

maintained a 9-5 schedule

limited prospects, but there's always tomorrow

 

A dejected, suicidal Bill Murray found solace in Jules Breton's Song of the Lark, 1884.

caretaker

 Broke literary ground here.

heightened taste, smell

 Hemingway [1899-1961] preferred to be a foreigner in a foreign land.

"silence is so accurate"

 

“do as I say, not as I do”

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

- Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]

consoling

"Had I never really fucked up, my memoir would not have been half as interesting."
- Anthony Bourdain [1956-2018]

25% of problem gamblers kill themselves

" The Cosmopolitan experienced 2 suicides recently; it is the only Las Vegas (Strip) hotel to offer balconies."
- On The Joe Rogan Experience

quarantine

“Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is."
– David Foster Wallace [1962-2008]

tactic

"The writer's job is to tell the truth," Ernest Hemingway once said. When he was having difficulty writing he reminded himself of this, as he explained in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."

- Source here.

in the moment

“True happiness is… to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.”
- Seneca [c. 4 BCE – AD 65]

bent elbow

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
- Ernest Hemingway

on blah

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
- Gautama Buddha

how to go bankrupt

“How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Klondike

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

1st draft

"You can write drunk, but you must rewrite sober."
- Ernest Hemingway