Kurt Cobain Animated 'Retard Story' from Montage of Heck

The animated section from Montage of Heck where Kurt talks about his childhood.

[@fatpiemusic]

It's weird how this was taken out of context and presented as an actual anecdote. The filmmakers knew full well it was a fictional story he made up. They just omitted that detail to make it hit with more impact. The guy from the Melvins who was good friends with Kurt actually pointed this out.

[@googleisretarded7618]

They could have easily dealt with that by simply saying that it was a fictional story, but perhaps some of it was autobiographical. Then have the same segment. The fact that he would write a short story fits so well with his creative personality, too.

[@brianwilhelm3777]

isn't it more creepy if it isn't true? 🤔

[@Quagigitymire]

@@brianwilhelm3777 it's fucking creepy either damn way.

[@brianwilhelm3777]

@@Quagigitymire I wouldn't say creepy. Tards are people too man. How rude of you to insist they shouldn't know the joys of sex

[@brianwilhelm3777]

The "cousins" bit was creepy on them.

[@TiernanPlays]

"I hated everyone...for they were so phony" stuck with me a lot after I watched the Documentary for the first time

[@maxtually]

TheMysteryPigMan - KZbin Have you read catcher and the rye?

[@TiernanPlays]

Yes

[@branland7464]

Tiernan S. it's a quote from Holden caulfield in Catcher in the rye

[@TiernanPlays]

I never put two and two together, yeah I just realized it's the same

[@hammeringhank5271]

He seems super pretentious himself. He kept misusing big words, and talking about how tortured he was. That sounds like ever pseudo intellectual emo kid ever.

[@caesartheape8882]

This artwork amazes me, the houses & inside the houses look just like Aberdeen/Hoquiam area, perfect gloomy feel, the bridge they hang out under looks just like the Kurt memorial bridge underneath, whoever drew this had a perfect mental image of the area.

[@GavinMcHugh066]

they didn’t make it. the original is “and i love her animation”

[@dewilew2137]

Maybe because they had physical images of the area.

[@ckotcher1]

I think that IS the bridge from “Something in the way”… Kurt used to hang out under it why he was a teenager and of course when he was homeless

[@time4477]

It’s scary how I can relate to the “ made up girl “ part and being lonely and depressed but not manic depressed I make up the depression by watching movies and music. I tried Jesus didn’t help I tried other things didn’t help Music is the only thing that has helped

[@Meloncholymadness]

And it lines up perfectly with how I read the book Heavier Than Heaven.

[@gracegilbert761]

it’s a fictional story he wrote in one of his journals bc he was a story teller. don’t be confused. Montage of heck does not recount kurt’s life accurately.

[@MassiveMiniGaming]

I completely believed that this was an actual experience, that's crazy.

[@cgh7337]

Some of it is true. Like the part of him living w/ several relatives then his dad dropping Kurt & his belongings at his mom's house forcing her to take him in. He talked a lot about that incident.

[@MassiveMiniGaming]

@@cgh7337 well I figured that I knew his parents were divorced in real life but what originally baffled me was the "shy and quiet girl", it just sounded so out there and I thought it was 100% true.

[@southsider3542]

So he's a liar?

[@MassiveMiniGaming]

@@southsider3542 no, if anything the documentary is a lie, this is just a story he made up but the documentary makes it seem like it happened.

[@thefriendyousee4193]

This story is fictional. It’s a fictional story Kurt wrote. What’s cut out from the documentary is when he refers to himself in the first person as “fat.” Kurt isn’t fat, and he knows this. It’s a first person fictional story he wrote.

[@bobbyhall7472]

Thank you he was a known feminist supporter and I don't believe he would have done that. Montage of heck was not a good documentary and everyone knows Courtney had him murdered! Soaked in bleach is an excellent movie and is way better than this mockumentary.

[@be.A.b]

And to all the people saying it’s still gross and deplorable.. this story falls in line with the “Grotesque” literary style. Which can be described as “a written form of expression which described that which could not be controlled by reason, was unnatural, and arose in opposition to the classical imitation of ‘beautiful nature’ and the rationalism and optimism of the Enlightenment” Although, it’s highly doubtful he purposely tried to emulate this literary style. Kurt was simply an artist who pushed boundaries and had a deeply salient fascination with the human condition… get over it.

[@mols415]

Do you think he's putting on a bit of a voice too? Like an accent? Or did his accent change over the years

[@noahbeast7975]

@@bobbyhall7472 what does the character do here that makes him not a feminist?

[@jaysleezy5464]

Ya'll are idiots. This is a true story, its talked about in multiple books.

[@lemma5609]

This entire video is grossly depressing and relatable

[@shartbake1134]

But mostly just gross

[@theboisproductions4467]

Yeah don’t you just hate it when you try to fuck a fat girl but you leave cos her minge smells

[@Jakew9]

You fucked a mentally handicapped person huh?

[@ferretweasel6895]

yeah I like Kurt cobain but don’t you see a problem with hating guys that get girls, then taking advantage of someone with an mental problem, is hypocritical asffff

[@EraZinto]

@@ferretweasel6895 that part isn’t true, they’ve asked people from his town about it and they said they don’t remember any rumors about that

[@N0va6669]

it's fucking criminal that we never ever got to have Kurt voice a character in a videogame or movie

[@jamesvancam]

At least hes in GH5 lol...

[@jamesvancam]

He declined a role in some TV show or movie

[@bisclimpkit]

@@jamesvancam yeppulp fiction. he was meant to be the drug dealer, courtney being the druggie.

[@transcendcapitalism]

i didn't think this was his actual voice?

[@bisclimpkit]

it is, him reading out a story he made up@@transcendcapitalism

[@tommykincaid4823]

I'm from Aberdeen, it's crazy how accurate the animation is. The story might not be quite so accurate, however, I give em an A+ on Aberdeen geography!

[@Cooz.]

Tommy Kincaid ive been through there, my dad lives in gig harbor. Shit was always garbage

[@SjorsHoukes]

Credits to animator Hisko Hulsing. :)

[@cruzgomes5660]

What's it like being from Kurt Cobain's town?

[@wildebt]

I'm from Chehalis and agree. The overcast and rain vibes are legit

[@rexx9496]

@@cruzgomes5660 Everyone I heard that's ever been there says they understand Kurt better after visiting because the place is utterly depressing.

[@ssscout]

impact left on the world is immeasurable

[@devilishheaven7067]

HOW DOES SCOUT HAVE 2 LIKES

[@mattdestroyed]

​@@devilishheaven7067who?

[@aidanmcmillan-dx8lq]

he was a miserable person who had a following of miserable people.

[@dungusglumbus9946]

I know that this is a story that Kurt wrote, but it feels like there’s an essence of truth to it. Especially that train tracks scene. I wouldn’t be surprised if that actually happened, and we came that close to prematurely losing one of the greatest musicians of all time. PS: (I know that we DID prematurely lose Kurt. I was just saying that we would’ve lost him before he wrote all his music. He would’ve never even been discovered.)

[@MassiveMiniGaming]

WAIT THIS IS A STORY? I THOUGHT THIS WAS REAL 💀

[@LMStemmedBackingTracks]

@@MassiveMiniGaming aye same 💀

[@connoranderson7432]

Buzz Osborne of the Melvins, who knew Kurt growing up said it was a BS story cause if it was true people would have talked about it at school and that never happened. It’s probably got some truth to it though. Likely similar to the story about him living under a bridge. Kurt liked to embellish stories lol

[@tonberryking7836]

really because the train track part was right when i was like, "this is fake." cobain was nothing special, pathological liar at best

[@LMStemmedBackingTracks]

@@tonberryking7836 bruh a story isn’t lying it’s meant to be fictional. Unless it wasn’t a fictional story and it did happen to him

[@imgonnapullakurtcobain3148]

Why is this under the category of Comedy. God damn

[@hammeringhank5271]

Dark comedy?

[@existential_lamp]

Cause it's a story he made up lmao

[@virginiaandrade8981]

Sebastian Gutierrez I don't see why he would make up such a dismal and really awful story like that because the way it was being told didn't seem like it was in the vain of looking for sympathy. Rather he was sick of it.

[@virginiaandrade8981]

Evil Morty Smith jesus, for real. I knew his story had a sad beginning, but damn.

[@existential_lamp]

Virginia Andrade Kurt was known for yankin peoples chains. Buzz Osbourne from The Melvins, who was very close friends with Kurt, confirmed that this was a bullshit story and most of Montage of Heck is factually inaccurate. www.punktastic.com/radar/the-melvins-on-cobain-film-and-new-tour-dvd/

[@cosp_ride3095]

The "hated everyone, for they are so phony" line gets me every time. Shows just how much being there for others can really mean. You NEVER know when a character like this could enter your circle of influence unknowingly. Treating all with dignity and kindness is the ultimate way to change someone else's reality, it takes effort. But imagine if someone had stuck by this kid, even just ONE real friend that cared. Imagine how different the outcome can be? We're talking a human life here, bois. You may not always be able to change your world at that moment, but you always have the ability to change someone else's. Much love... learn how to share more of it, simply for the sake of people!

[@genericfilmmaker6339]

I love you citizen of earth

[@ezman001]

What’s the name of the documentary?

[@jamessouza7065]

Your right but looking at it that way will lead to bad things for starters in all of the world ..if a person is trying to be nice they get taken advantage of..then the person that was trying is now viewing others as things to be cautious around etc the facade keeps growing people should simply be themselves and people learn who they are from being challanged often and not given most of the things having to find a way and the real true confidence this affords them. If you want to understand if a person is "GOOD" then consider this? Since abortions became legal across the nation long ago?..sixty three million of them have been performed ? Think of the people that you never knew or met? The same could be asked whenever so many lives are made finished but if you sometimes think about something deep like that I think you get a really good sense of who you are doing these deep wondering thoughts I'm sure you know what I'm saying.

[@cosp_ride3095]

@@jamessouza7065 no I don't know what you're saying. You can still be a nice person and not get taken advantage of.

[@agtv_media]

@@jamessouza7065 you are the phony that JD Salinger loathes

[@RandyRhoadsRules3]

This is a pretty fucked up story.

[@hammeringhank5271]

Lol. Kinda

[@godblessbobdylan]

so fucked up

[@Catthatisblue]

@@godblessbobdylan cry more

[@mochoman743]

@@Catthatisblue you got him there 👏 he'll definitely respond after a 4 year old comment

[@Catthatisblue]

@@mochoman743 thanks

[@alsothebreadperson]

Kurt had an interesting look at life. Which I admired. Everyone thinks he was rebellious and crazy, but I believe he was the most genuine person on earth. He has taught me many things even though I have never seen him. I've never known him, but I know he was a great person.

[@Seth______]

His storytelling skills could have made for some amazing books and movies. I love the honesty he gives even though the story is fictional.

[@timboslice8559]

If he was still alive I bet he would’ve ventured into movie making, and book writing! Believe he would’ve been pretty successful at it too

[@bessallen7059]

“The mental abuse from my mother started to take over and I realized pot wasn’t helping me escape my problems anymore. In fact I started to enjoy doing rebellious things.” This hit so close to home bruh that shit made me cry I had no idea that happened to him bc same here bro same here

[@tomjazz8871]

Kurt Cobain "I hated everyone, for they were so phony" I Absolutely love this story and whether it's real or not there's a lot I can relate to.

[@privategirl9503]

Same

[@rban123]

Incel shit, nothing about this story was cool

[@generalsaurkraut3227]

I can relate except the retard sex part and the suicide part.

[@joeblondiemanco8918]

If the story is not real does that make Kurt a self-loathing phony?

[@Tornado1994]

Cobain killed himself because of Heroin.

[@deadseveredheads]

Imagine being sympathetic and having compassion for someone, not because they’re famous, not because you see you’ve seen them on your pocket computer more times than you can count, but because they’re another human. Just because they are another human.

[@livewireOrourke]

Amen. Also, we just happen to know more about them, more so than the people we see everyday, because they're famous and have spilt their heart out for others to see and hear.

[@lindboknifeandtool]

It’s the singular, only way, we have to improve our world. The people you meet might be going through unimaginable pain, try to be a positive force that they remember. A positive push in the direction of staying afloat.

[@axelpalacios9232]

🤡🤡🤡 you mean like your mom?

[@elsieoneill6181]

Most of us wouldn't have watched this if it wasn't by a famous person.

[@garcalej]

Stories like this kinda remind me why all the worst things I’ve done in my life were done before the age of twenty. Stupidity, man. Young stupidity and depression.

[@armin38822]

I'm 28 and had depression/anxiety my entire life...but high school was by far the worst.

[@rokanza2293]

How so? Could you go into details , like what exactly was causing it for you in high school etc... Genuinely curious

[@armin38822]

@@rokanza2293 It felt like running without shoes. I didn't know what was wrong with me but I still continued going on. I was depressed and really anxious but at the time I thought that was normal. I didn't even know something was really wrong with me. I had friends,I had a girlfriend,I had hobbies,I was going to parties etc. but still felt out of place and was doing all those things just to survive and fit in. Everything was a blurr and I can't say I had fun even for a day. I also didn't know how to stop,I didn't know how to take a moment for myself,I didn't know how to stand up for myself so people took adventage off me in many different sitautions. I lacked confidence and did things even when I didn't feel like it... The world around me was probably just fine but my brain took it in completly diffrently.

[@deadroses19]

how are you doing now?

[@armin38822]

@@deadroses19 Ok

[@Chalaxandler]

@@armin38822 fuck man, that really hits home with how I felt throughout my adolescence. Specifically the feeling that something was seriously fucked up inside my head but I just keep trying to invent some kind of normalcy to try and keep living. I completely relate to your experience, I wish I knew there were more people who felt like that when I was really going through it. I went through the motions as well, but the entire time was deeply hurting inside with no way to express it. Living in a shitty upper middle class town and going to school with a bunch of stuck up privileged white kids really exacerbated the feeling. It was no wonder I wasted away my youth getting stoned every minute I could. Hope life is better for you these days

[@Indomitable_Alykat]

When I was younger, I tried to keep a journal but my life was so boring and uninteresting that I started writing random stuff, invented stuff, wildly fanciful stuff, in it instead. I'd weave in little bits of truth here and there, but the majority was invented, just to keep myself from being bored with my town, my school, my home life, with everything. Sometimes the stories were dark, sometimes not, but that was how I discovered a love for writing. That seems like what Kurt felt like he was doing too. If he hadn't been taken too soon, who knows, he could've been an amazing author one day! I think he would've loved this movie tho tbh. He was a true artist in every sense and I think he would've loved that they included art as a medium to bring his stories to life

[@ericthiel4053]

Fictional story. But there was quite a bit of things mixed in that had bits of real experience. The "special ed" girl, was mentioned in Heavier than Heaven, a biography and some of his old class mates reference the same girl, as well as the vandalism and family trouble. Pretty interesting read if you get the chance.

[@Outlawgirl63]

Don’t believe Charles Cross he acts like he’s in love with Courtney Love

[@robertpattinson2065]

This is my favorite story, I watch it all the time and don't get bored of it, the best is hearing kurt talking as if in the same room as him.

[@WESSERPARAQUAT]

he recorded this when he was a nobody , going nowhere and never thought it would ever see the light of day and probably had forgotten all about it , i would say there is a strong element of truth in the story

[@ThatFilmisGnarly]

buzz osbourne (of the melvins) lived in the same town and went to school with kurt. he says its fake. he says aberdeen was such a small town that he would've heard about kurt being a "retard fucker", and wouldve avoided kurt like the plague. Also, this story wouldve come out before montage of heck, somebody in aberdeen wouldve told the press the story back in the 90s. kurt was just an edgelord who wrote fucked up stories to kill time. if he grew up in the internet era, this story wouldve been a greentext on 4chan.

[@WESSERPARAQUAT]

@@ThatFilmisGnarly Kurt had ALOT of good reasons i'm sure for wanting to exit this life

[@TheSoundwave92]

I think there are huge mixes of the truth here but it's still fictional at the end of the day. I think Kurt deep down was definitely suicidal and has real mental problems that would continue well into his adult years. It's just that the parts like his parents divorce (that Kurt admitted in many interviews effected his whole upbringing) or moving house to house he wouldn't make him up about himself. Does that effect how I view Kurt as a person? Abit but he was a 'nobody that was trying to be somebody but didn't know how to'. I don't really feel angered as much as I feel like he was lost and needed to have his voice heard.

[@CB29067]

I absolutely agree.

[@skll2081]

2:03 the violin cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit in the background is everything

[@DriverWeb]

Smells like teen spirit.. Fucking hell.

[@coop4]

Kurt was such a pure soul despite being beat down so many times in his life. I miss him despite me not even being around when he died

[@eltipodepan6373]

“I’ve done it with my cousin many times” we all just gonna ignore that?

[@august1520]

lol

[@coatedslushie1667]

Well I dunno thats on you, everyone has a mouth lol

[@avidodd26]

the thing about this movie is its really about a daughter finding out her famous parents were insufferable narcissists. it forever changed my level of respect for Kurt

[@roddydykes7053]

Yeah it probably rubbed a majority of fans the wrong way. I remember watching it in theaters around the same age as Kurt would be during the Bleach days, and it was just a major turning point for me during that scene you can see how spaced out he is around Bean. It was so obvious that this was *not* how you have a family. Rich kids raising a baby

[@extraaccount496]

I don’t understand how Kurt was a narcissist. Never did he say “look at me I’m important” or anything that made him seem better than others. He regularly rejected interviews and when he talked about himself all he said was that he was a average dude or below average.

[@Outlawgirl63]

Kurt was humble and ahead of his time

[@transcendcapitalism]

both obviously had a lot of problems, but kurt wasn't a narcissist. courtney isn't either.

[@flacobrian3754]

I mixed up this story and the eric andre one so I was expecting Kurt to do the nightmare nightmare thing from eric andre

[@Cincinnatus1869]

the one part of this that I really could relate to is ' I hated everyone, they were so phoney' . I have always been someone who would sit in a gathering of people and not engage but instead would watch and silently judge people and reach conclusions in my mind about their personalities. ' he's insecure' - ' she's a liar " he's a closet case - that one is not very bright - etc. I always felt like a spectator more than a part of the group. I fancied myself as being smarter than the others although I doubt that was true. The irony was that it was me who was often putting on an act just to fit in or really just to be accepted . I was more comfortable alone and recording things on drums and guitar. I could communicate better with instruments than speaking because I was insecure

[@yourstrength1314]

Wow man your not alone

[@Cincinnatus1869]

@@yourstrength1314 I've learned to get past being like that. I've got kids now and that tends to humble a man. I still play my instruments more than socializing but I know now that everyone has insecurities and most people are just doing the best they can.

[@penny15lolk]

You should look into ASPD. Websites will tell you it's a bad thing to have (and it is, to an extent) but it's not inherently bad. We're people like everyone else and it depends on the person with it. I'd suspect Kurt Cobain had elements of it even though this is a fictionalized story.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

@@penny15lolk They never said they lack a capacity for empathy, which is the trademark of ASPD. Lack of empathy doesn't make someone a bad person though, so you're right about the stigma being largely undeserved. Coming from a similar background to them and eventually isolating almost entirely, I strongly considered whether I might have ASPD at one point. I had a strong empathetic with my sister though, and later my S.O. after meeting her. Finally went to a professional. I have ASD, not ASPD. NPD can also hatch similar thought processes, albeit for different reasons. Being a loner doesn't automatically mean ASPD.

[@quinnrollen]

Understandably it's a fictional story. However, I think Kurt's delivery is to show how depressing and often trifling growing up as a teenager can be.

[@cloaker6626]

Never knew how good an orchestral version of smells like teen spirit sounds

[@clintburton9916]

"I could escape all day long and not have routine nervous breakdowns" really hits home for me. Damn.

[@brotherhoodofsteel5254]

This shows that even people that you think deserve hate and are disgusting have their own side to the story

[@AndrewInCanada99]

I read through that article by Kurt’s friend that’s been floating around the comments, and by the looks of it I’ll take his word over this documentary. My only question is why Kurt went through the trouble of recording all this audio and sounding so serious, it’s the only reason I didn’t fully believe that this story is fabricated. But perhaps as the story says he really just wanted some attention or was just joking around. TL;DR though, I really did enjoy the animation and story even if it was fake, and I still have a lot of respect for Kurt.

[@jonnyhollandsworth5188]

Andrew Wilton I don’t think this was him narrating. He did write this exact scene from the movie in one of his journals basically word for word, but I think someone else narrated it just for the documentary

[@lightbeamrider5565]

Kurt recorded this but the version of the audio used in the film has been edited. You can hear the full unedited audio on the Montage of Heck album.

[@suckd0g]

Kurt admitted that he'd often make up stories, mainly because his actual childhood was really boring .

[@thingwhatever]

It's called artistic expression... it's not meant to be literal, but to convey a meaning.

[@lactate8008s]

Lol it's not fake, it's FICTIONAL. He didn't intend for people to believe it was real.

[@myleswillis]

Yes it is fictional but he's also not describing a vacation the Disneyland is he? This bleak story is probably a pretty accurate view of how he felt and what was going on in his young mind.

[@JamesHenri99]

"I hated everyone... For they were so phony"

[@f1nny0]

The fact he actually died by suicide is really sad :(

[@mikerotch124]

This would be a good series or show. Dude should've kept this going.

[@sittingtube2165]

I mean this wasn't his script or story

[@PBCollects]

Story is tragic but your animations are incredible

[@cristianmichael8156]

This is from a documentary with a budget lmao

[@ThatFilmisGnarly]

@@cristianmichael8156 exactly. youtubers dont have this kind of time/skill.

[@successfulfailure5153]

this is actually shocking similar to my life experience, pretty much exact, i was in the special ed class myself due to the shitty behavior so yes i literally relate to everything in the story

[@chill1614]

oh no, too emo

[@StriveForLuck]

You got fucked by a suicidal rockstar?

[@Sick_thin]

i don’t know why u guys call every sad thing Emo like isn’t Emo a musical genre

[@MyDemon32]

@@Sick_thin emo became a lifestyle too so y'know

[@BHarveyProduction]

@@Sick_thin nah emo is more of a social club than music. most "emo" music is just rock with girly vocals. but the look is the most important thing

[@10o.-.-_-.-o010]

Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old.

[@TC-ym1vk]

Broken people make the best music. You really feel the emotions in the music.

[@parisluv5551]

I think we all have an embarrassing and I mean like bad story that would make us look like creeps if everyone knew. Even tho is crazy we might all been there. Great story kurt

[@sabss_13]

This was a lie, he made this story up, but the film makes it look real to make kurt look like a pathetic creep junky, maybe that was covineant for some people huh?

[@venividi8523]

Cause if you were ever once a pathetic creep junky you'll forever be a pathetic creep junky, is that what you're saying?

[@krushfield]

This is one of the most raw, honest, relatable and touching stories that I think I've ever heard.

[@youreokayboah2128]

Well…the story is fictional and made up by Kurt Cobain.

[@pixelpastiche]

This sounds like one of BabyCakes's diaries if you squint your ears enough

[@TheDreamer452]

Has kurt ever talked about being a novelist? He would have wrote some interesting books.

[@kingdavid7516]

cope.

[@JEFFKINGS]

Funny that his mom and sister always show up at these award events and act like they were just the most supportive people on the planet and should be lauded for simply being related to someone that accomplished so much in such a short amount of time...

[@sammiesauls8365]

The story is fake and something he made up

[@chattingesque372]

It's still his mom and sister, he loved them

[@imagewell5319]

Greatest song writer of the generation.

[@gocanuckurself1]

I hated everyone.... For they were so phony. I feel that way a lot.

[@skipclasstoeatass1339]

Johnny Canuck yup

[@tortor0782]

Fuk’n overwhelming

[@kevindean1327]

Guilty until proven innocent.

[@noneyourbusiness341]

edge lord

[@AsNodtYhwachson-cl4zn]

If I could pick one grunge singer to party and be friends with it'd be Kurt Cobain without a doubt man from what this documentary showed me and plus his magazines Kurt wasn't such a bad dude after all. RIP Kurt Donald Cobain

[@johndou423]

I might sound like a horrible person but this is so sad it's funny

[@HighGzSpace77]

Might be the point, seems he made it up to be a mix of emotion and artistic expression.

[@Cassy858]

When the train changed tracks that was divine intervention. I wish kurt had known that. He was being protected.

[@rokanza2293]

That was just a story he wrote, it didn't happen IRL

[@bobbybalogne2565]

The story wasn’t real and neither is God

[@ThatFilmisGnarly]

@@bobbybalogne2565 woah, youre gonna cut someone with all that edge.

[@basidiomycota5067]

@@ThatFilmisGnarly Can confirm. God is a concept.

[@oogway73]

God was his subconscious who led him to one set of tracks rather the other.

[@_negativexzero]

I hope everyone realizes that Kurt was totally bullshitting here.

[@imgonnapullakurtcobain3148]

Source? How do you know this

[@bryanmoonease7678]

Devin Theders maybe him having sex with the girl with the mental disorder

[@_negativexzero]

Bryan Muniz mainly that part, yes

[@lightbeamrider5565]

The source is his best friend Buzz Osborne. www.talkhouse.com/buzz-osborne-the-melvins-talks/

[@meiraelise4438]

Lol

[@roddydykes7053]

I remember watching this in the theatre with my then-girlfriend, jaw agape. We kept looking at eachother during the scenes where he was holding Bean. It was eerie, felt like how we would be raising a kid, completely irresponsible.

[@gggawd6213]

This could have been a scene from the Basketball Diaries. Very reflective of that time period.

[@TheCaptainGloves]

a lot of times mainly with her cousin

[@tylenoljunkie3231]

Alabama 100

[@deluxe_1337]

and it reeked.

[@DickmanComedy]

Gummo: The Animated Series

[@ToneSherpa]

Someone read Catcher in the Rye a lot.

[@alissanavarro7117]

Lmao exactly what I thought I was like is this kurts favorite book too 😭

[@rustyshackelford7651]

Kurt seemed to have lived and matured way beyond his years. He was like an old man when he died at 27. I've noticed that's a trend with people that die young. They seem far older, more mature and more experienced than their age would indicate.

[@crawlingamongthestars3736]

Kurt had extreme sensitivity all throughout his life, had a dysfunctional family he didn't fit into, lived in a small, conservative town he didn't fit into... He was basically already a miserable adult by the time he was 18... He had the ability, for both good and bad, to feel emotionally quite a bit more than the average person. That's a big part of the reason why he could write such powerful, resonating songs, as simple as they are.

[@whoopzitsray]

sounds like mordecai

[@ElSheepodoggo]

This was a fictional story written by Kurt. After so many pointing this out, you'd think the description would have changed by now.

[@k2bny]

I could imagine Kurt (had he not ended his life) taking a break from Nirvana and doing an independent movie. Something like this. Has that kind of feel to it.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

I went through so many emotions watching this I feel exhausted now. XD

[@lucidguru2229]

I like the indirect reference to "something in the way." At the 1min31sec mark, they were "underneath the bridge." Fun fact; Cobain use to frequent that area to chill & also stated that he briefly lived under said bridge.

[@mangy2fly604]

This is why we didn't see Twinkies for such a long time.

[@rich1051414]

Scars from childhood never leave. I am 38 and I still think about fucked up things that happened when I was a kid and the feelings are just as strong as they always were, but the frustrations of never being able to forget grows stronger and stronger every year.

[@nestaepharts3174]

Y’all out here really canceling a dead man over a fake story damn y’all are sad

[@bluebluelectricblue]

That poor young girl

[@bowieshine8336]

Basically the majority of montage of heck (the movie this is from) was proved as bullshit from an old friend of Kurt’s. This isn’t real

[@waxxine]

I've seen that house in my dreams and now I finally come across this video-

[@coatedslushie1667]

Bahahahah get over it, the film makers took this out of context. He grew and learned, judging by the later notes in his journels like "No groupies, Don't kill, Don't **pe" He was a father.

[@mikeya3170]

Lol all the 4chan, twitter, and Reddit users really calling him an incel over a fictional story. Y’all the same ones who believes he came on his paintings and had a thing for feces

[@simplenipple]

“ I have no friends because I hated everyone, there all phoney” this means leagues to me

[@playablecharacter3871]

Oh man I thought I was depressed before

[@TheChiliShow]

Currently going what he was going through except I wasn't as talented as him.

[@chesusjrist9733]

TheChiliShow Same. Emotional abuse. Constantly being tossed from home to home. Not having (many) friends. Atleast I got laid at 14 by a smokin hot black chick though, so I guess I have that on Kurt. poor dude.

[@Kevin-ge4xp]

Don't listen to him babe we love you and feel for you. Even though you are an anonymous stranger we still sympathize with you and care about what you're going through. With 8 billion people on earth you're never alone ❤

[@martyrdoomed]

R e t a r d F u c k e r

[@thepisceanlion4171]

Nicholas Walkenbach he was always talented, he just didn't always have guitar and vocal skills. Dude was better at drawing at 6 years old than I am now at 29.

[@thepisceanlion4171]

I really hate the term "retarded" because I have learning disabilities, which had a lot to do with why I was bullied my entire childhood. And that word was thrown at me a lot. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to anybody I'm just politely asking you all not to say that about a person. Any person no matter who it is.

[@thisisallthereis]

This is great. I watched the movie before but this takes me back.

[@j.m6334]

When i watched his movie i was literally speechless, this is literally art and is such a beautiful yet truly depressing movie

[@vavacadoz]

Love your pfp btw, good taste 🙌

[@j.m6334]

@@vavacadoz ayy thank u man!

[@ThatFilmisGnarly]

"i was literally speechless" do you talk during most movies?

[@roddydykes7053]

Yeah some scenes were like looking in a mirror. It was such a wake-up call to try to stop being such a loser in life (that was my takeaway anyways, even as a long time Nirvana fan)

[@dopernautzofficial1504]

before my grandmother died she told me I need to tell me story. I see how I can do it now.

[@mrsynister666]

Kurt, we miss you buddy. You shall live on in my heart until the day I die. My best memories are with my greatest friends Damon & Dustin See from Wayne to Philly we jammed Nirvana. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. If anyone knows them by reading this, you know who I am. Love you guys. Miss you.

[@bloodwrage]

Pot is a gateway drug

[@origin6229]

Damn that was awesome

[@BigScumdog]

Thank you so much for this

[@lou5368]

this makes me love the man behind the voice even more

[@rafaelreis456]

I read this story in "Journals" . I think it's true.

[@frenchabortion]

This was “verified” in Heavier Than Heaven. The reason the dad didn’t catch him is cuz the girl couldn’t name him and Cobain didn’t show up for school photos, so they couldn’t pick him outta the yearbook or whatever. That’s what I remember- Charles R. Cross pretty well verified it and it of course was published in his journals

[@namnambulu]

Little known fact this indeed is a true story and that girl grew up to be Courtney Love

[@0.UrMomIsGay.0]

The part with the train made me cry-

[@glutenfree9853]

why did u add a dash at the end of the sentence? it's so annoying when mfs do that

[@0.UrMomIsGay.0]

@@glutenfree9853 because i can?

[@glutenfree9853]

@@0.UrMomIsGay.0 that's not a reason dumbass

[@Japathic]

​@@glutenfree9853 damn bro chill you lame af for that

[@zototheo2580]

@@glutenfree9853 It's often used to express a cut off of words, either because someone interrupted them or they can't finish the words themselves

[@skll2081]

Underrated… why is this just getting recommended

[@spiritually_drunk]

I know this didn't actually happen, but given the context of the story, I'm not sure if him calling people phoney should be this relatable to people in the comments. 'Phoney' is taking advantage of a mentally challenged girl -- or watching your friends as they do it -- so you can steal shit from her house. And then proceeding to come back and try to fuck her knowing it'll be 'easier' than with most other women, all because you don't wanna die a virgin. If Kurt HAD done this, he would have 100% been guilty, so the people relating to this victim stance (while just ignoring what he had done wrong) taken in the end is so fascinating to me. I'm almost positive even Kurt knew he was saying that ironically. In my opinion the entire point of this story is that despite the shit we go through in our personal lives, if we act as inconsiderate as everyone else, we become just like everyone else. Unless you act better than the people you disdain, you have no room to talk and just sound like an idiot.

[@007nino5]

This story helped me fr

[@donaldsalkovick396]

The elevator version of "smells like teen spirit" is a nice touch

[@alanness7611]

It's by Two Cellos, and it's pretty good.

[@donaldsalkovick396]

@@alanness7611 thanks. And yes it is

[@eatsupdacheese62]

For the longest time I thought this video was a fever dream, I’m so happy the algorithm recommended it to me again

[@theslitherysylvie4010]

My biggest take away from this documentary is I just wish he could have known that life could get better. He had so much guilt over his addictions, over the hypocrisy of the media and fame, and the want to be a genuinely good father. Society was so critical in the 90's. He literally lost custody of his baby because of a interview in a magazine- that would never happen today. He was so young and when we are young, we are often very critical of ourselves. If only he could have gained some of the self-acceptance that comes with age. Most sad of all, is that Frances really deserved to have Kurt in her life.

[@FreeTritYT]

Damn this is crazy

[@seanthurman5482]

Woah

[@yamatesenpai8353]

Dj Adolla I know right...

[@timdolinger1352]

Holy shit, he sounds like Adam Friedland

[@ashsherod6321]

Sounds like Adam Friedland, behaves like Jake Flores.

[@elmerjfapp5730]

"i wouldn't go out without knowing what its like to get laid" in the business we call this foreshadowing , musta figured once he had it all banging a celebrity like courtney love was probably the last step before being bored to death literally. i know some people like that and it seems like its the modern condition

[@yveerin4372]

Its fictional

[@oogway73]

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." - Aldous Huxley