I will give you the strangest connection to Jane’s Addiction and how I fell in love with them. At the height of the pandemic, our little town was on lockdown. This was especially tough since we are in the middle of the Mojave Desert. We were as isolated as people can get. A bunch of us who had been a part of the Community Theater for years decided to put on two plays for the town. Come at your own risk. Even though the Community Theater had zero budget, we all chipped in and made it happen. We rehearsed and put on two different plays over the course of three months at no cost to the community. Every night was standing room only and there was never a Covid outbreak. Even the mayor showed up for a few shows. How did Jane’s Addiction fit in? With each play there is a lot of downtime while other actors are on stage. While we were off stage there was an old broken down RV out back for actors and makeup personnel can relax. The only music was a CD player left inside with a Jane’s Addiction mix CD stuck inside it. The CD couldn’t be ejected. We listen to that CD a hundred times until I memorized the lyrics to every song on the CD. Now those songs take me back to the Summer during the pandemic when six of us actors, a director, and a makeup crew entertained the town for a couple of months
Lemmy is just a legend, I'm gutted he isn't with us today, in interviews he talked nothing but sense with heart, he was rough round the edges and lived to the fullest in many moments in his life and survived to recite the tales. He was the guy we all wished we was (hendrix's roady) , none of it gave him an ego like the many lesser out there, somehow made him more genuine and likable ❤ and that to all of us on the right side humanity just makes sense. There's no set way to be, cause the world was only big enough for one of him. You'll be missed, dear friend to the world, and I genuinely believe he was.
Matt Dillon rocked in so many movies. Something about Mary and Singles come into mind first, but obviously so many other flicks he starred in, even more serious ones, were just as amazing. Or even more so.
It wasn’t Nirvana…. It was Jane’s Addiction that was trailblazing against the shit hair metal trans looking band members . They were soooo different during 86-90
When you look at the shift in films from adult to teens: Matt Dillon was the catalyst. Over the Edge, My Bodyguard, Little Darlings, the SE Hinton adaptions, all those started before the John Hughes movies, beat pack etc. In the doc “Brats” they say Timothy Hutton, but Over the Edge was a year before.
I remember a teacher shaming me infront of a whole class because i didnt turn up one day for a charity gig to play the kettle drums....the fucking kettle drums. Who even cares about them? Well....i think my first experience of real shame was the experience that teacher put me through infront of my classmates. If i seen now I'd fuckin smash him one. Dont let teachers speak down to your kids folks.
I’m 54, constant ringing in the ears, only gets worse with age. Mine was from falling asleep with headphones on listening to my favorite music at the time, shooting guns, shooting fireworks at each other.
