{"id":64,"date":"2002-11-14T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-14T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"dead-mans-diaries-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/dead-mans-diaries-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Man's Diaries Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bookshop, I spy the Kurt Cobain diaries and take a quick look. The book falls open at a late entry that refers to Calvin Johnson of the band Beat Happening and legendary indie label K Records:<\/p>\n

<i>"Last year I made five million dollars. And I'm not given a red cent of it to that elitist fuck Calvin Johnson."<\/i><\/p>\n

Later on he talks about how selling out feels good. I'm paraphrasing from memory here (feel free to correct me if you have the diaries to hand):<\/p>\n

<i>"I exploited Riot Grrl. But then, the girl who invented it is exploiting the fact that she fucked me, so she's exploiting me too. Everything is exploitation of a kind."<\/i><\/p>\n

I presume he means her out of Bikini Kill, now in Le Tigre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bookshop, I spy the Kurt Cobain diaries and take a quick look. The book falls open at a late entry that refers to Calvin Johnson of the band Beat Happening and legendary indie label K Records: <i>"Last year I made five million dollars. And I'm not given a red cent of it to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}