In 1994, everything was cool. Music, movies, TV'the cultural output felt alive. People were also very cool, or they were achieving cool by trying not to be. Anyway, 30 years ago I was not cool and didn't have much to do on Friday nights. That's why, on April 8, 1994, I was home, watching as Kurt Loder took over MTV to inform me, and everyone, that Kurt Cobain was gone. Reminiscing on the passing of Nirvana's frontman might be a maudlin way to go about it, but it's a wild reminder of just how many culture-shifting events took place in 1994. Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction. Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral a month before Cobain committed suicide. Tori Amos dropped Under the Pink a few weeks before that. Above the Rim hit theaters that spring, and lived in car speakers through the summer since Warren G and Nate Dogg's 'Regulate' was on the soundtrack. Aaliyah released 'Back & Forth'; Brandy wanted to be down; TLC chased 'Waterfalls.' My So-Called Life premiered...
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