Welcome to a wrap-up of Gen X news over the last week followed by some music we once bought cassettes of. This diary is very cutty-pasty, so forgive me for being lazy, but with most of these items any commentary by me is less-than-necessary.
It looks like Rolling Stone has finally given Nirvana's Nevermind album a 5 Star rating. If I'm not mistaken, when it orginally came out they only gave it 3 Stars.
When Nevermind exploded into earshot in the autumn of 1991, it was startling: a grenade detonating in your car radio. It sounded like the end of something (the 1980s? hair metal?), or maybe the beginning of something ("alternative rock"? "Generation X"?). Today, the album has become so encrusted with myth, that it's hard to wrap your ears around it, to really hear it. In 2005, the Library of Congress added Nevermind to its roll call of the world's most significant recordings. It's a museum piece, a record that merits a display in the Smithsonian. And, of course, a doorstopper 20th-anniversary box set.
Gen X women have lots of pressure to remain youthful looking, so says the LA Times(considering I drag a razor over the hair I find on my chest I'll be a hypocrite if I criticize).
Makeup artist Gucci Westman has worked on a number of this generation's beautiful faces, including Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow.
She advocates women aging gracefully. "You want to look [like] someone who others aspire to be rather than a show pony," says Westman, who is 40. "You want to look like yourself, but more enhanced."
Let's hope he stays retired and doesn't pull a Brett Favre.
DALLAS — Mike Modano walked away from the NHL on Friday with tears, signing an honorary one-day contract so he could retire after 21 seasons as a member of the Dallas Stars.
The 41-year-old native of Livonia, Mich., broke down in tears several times during his final news conference in Dallas. He retires as the NHL’s all-time leading scorer among American-born players in goals (561) and points (1,374).
I don't know why, but his seems more genius to me now than it did when it came out?
One of the more underrated Metal bands at the time.