catastrophe

Back in 1990, Kurt Cobain and Bikini Kill leader Kathleen Hanna 
spent an afternoon together, drinking 40s and harassing a right-
wing pregnancy center. That night, Hanna wrote the words "Kurt 
smells like Teen Spirit" on Cobain's apartment wall, and Cobain 
turned that message into a song you may have heard.


As TwentyFourBit points out, a couple of nights ago, Hanna 
performed at the New York venue Joe's Pub, taking part in the 
concert series Our Hit Parade. In the video below, Hanna tells the 
crowd how the phrase she drunkenly wrote took on a life of its 
own, and how the song Cobain wrote haunted her afterward. We also 
get to see Hanna sing pieces of the song a couple of times, as 
well as Bikini Kill's own classic "Rebel Girl".

via pitchforkmedia.


waking up to 10 minutes of awesome, with a cigarette, and finding out the most famous 
nirvana song title came from a drunk feminist. kathleen hanna is my favourite riot grrrrrl.