E6: The Kurt Cobain Tragical History Tour, Pt. 2

Jen explores the life of rock star Kurt Cobain by taking a psychogeographical journey into the heart of Washington State. Part 2 continues on to Olympia, WA and (after a detour to Los Angeles) ends where we began, in Seattle.

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Baker, Brian. (2003). Maps of the London Underground: Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock’s psychogeography of the city. Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, 1(1). https://www.literarylondon.org/the-literary-london-journal/archive-of-the-literary-london-journal/issue-1-1/maps-of-the-london-underground-iain-sinclair-and-michael-moorcocks-psychogeography-of-the-city/

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Currin, G. H. (2017, October 27). Visiting Kurt Cobain’s childhood home, a place no one wanted. Pitchfork. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/visiting-kurt-cobains-childhood-home-a-place-no-one-wanted/

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