When I was 13 I first became aware that music was quite exciting. My very first band that I liked were Guns&Roses, not just because I giggled at all the swearing but because it had lots of energy. I got into Nivarna in a big way and decided to test my devotion to them by completely memorising the lyrics poem printed on the inside cover of their Nevermind album:<\/p>\n
Spring is here again, tender age in bloom, he knows not what it means, sell the kids for food, we can have some more * The water is so yellow, I’m a healthy student, you’re my vitamins* Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, don’t be late* And just maybe I’m to blame for all I’ve heard but I’m not sure, I’m so excited I can’t wait to meet you there but I don’t care* I don’t care if it’s old, I don’t mind if I don’t have a mind, get away from your home* Have to poison skin, give an inch take a smile* Never met a wise man if so it’s a woman, gotta find a way to find a way, I had better wait* One more special message to go, as defence I’m neutered and sprayed, what the hell am I trying to say? I got so high that I scratched until I bled* The second coming came in last and out of the closet* At the end of the rainbow and your rope* Don’t hurt yourself, I want some help to help myself, she’s just as bored as me* I’ve got this friend you see, who makes me feel, I don’t regret a thing* And the animals I’ve trapped have all become my pets* Our little group has always been and always will until the end, with the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us, I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now entertain us, a mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido, yay, yay, a denial, I’m worst at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed, I found it hard, it was hard to find, oh well, whatever, NEVERMIND*<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was 13 I first became aware that music was quite exciting. My very first band that I liked were Guns&Roses, not just because I giggled at all the swearing but because it had lots of energy. I got into Nivarna in a big way and decided to test my devotion to them by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}