On Chris Cornell killing himself, and generation X

[Dorian Gray]

27. We had similar experiences....

I was a "faux" hippie when I went to college in 89/90. I wore a flowing skirt and smoked pot. I never partook in the 80s cocaine fueled era. But pot, of course. I went to Dead shows (until I realized I really didn't like the jam band thing), and I listened to squeeze, the smiths and the violent femmes in high school. The hair bands weren't my thing, and despite being from NJ, I dismissed Bon Jovi as being a hair band guy. I was a Bruce girl. Bruce, Violent Femmes, and the Dead. Kind of a weird mixture of music.

Nirvana was HUGE my junior year at college, which led the way for all the other music. (Though I moved out of the country to hong kong after college, and I was subject to more Brit music than American grunge at that point. And I completely missed the hip hop culture from 1994-2000.)