Nirvana's "Nevermind": 20th Anniversary

Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's landmark second album Nevermind, and I have just come back from the store with my copy of the 40-track 2CD deluxe edition. Even though I missed out on getting the worldwide limited edition with all those extra things, this version, with the full remastered album, studio demos, B-sides and live tracks, is still a worthy purchase. Rest assured that I cranked the album up to full volume when I got home! And it hasn't lost one bit of punch after 20 years – it was and still is my favourite album of all time.

UPDATE – Oct. 13: I just noticed something.


Seen above are the two ultra-deluxe versions of the 20th anniversary edition I found yesterday (and no, I didn't get to buy them). On the right is the vinyl release, comprising four LPs, and on the left is the ultrasupermega-deluxe-not even Butch Vig himself could get a copy of this-version, with outer slipcase, glass (?) cover and photo book ($165). Both have the same music content, but the cover of the vinyl version has something that the ultrasupermegadeluxe version, the double CD version and the remastered single CD version don't have.

Take a look at the cover below. See it yet?

It's kind of hard to see with that lens flare, but I got a close-up. The one-dollar bill in the original photo has been changed to a $20!

Geeks In Space #28

Ah, the twenty-eighth Geeks strip; a board game of sorts. If you can't be bothered printing it out and playing it for real, at least test your knowledge of '90s/'00s pop-cultural obscurities. If you can get them all, you win a prize!*

*The prize is: my eternal thanks**.

**That's a line from an '80s kids' TV show. Well?

Geeks In Space #27

Let's keep up posting these strips, I've got several more before we finally catch up to the present day, and then whoever's reading can sigh with relief that I'm done posting old stuff from two years ago. I actually thought hardly anyone was reading this blog, but then I remembered that the view count was in the high 3000s just before I went to Hong Kong, and is now in the high 4000s! So someone out there must be reading this, because I haven't been visiting my own page to up the view count – that sort of tomfoolery is reserved specifically for devoArt.

Anyway, this 'Geeks In Face' strip caused a sensation when it was posted on my old website a couple of years ago. There was rioting in the streets of London and whatnot. Okay, it didn't and there wasn't, but some pedant did pick me up on the "65 million users" thing at the time. I just plucked that number out of thin air; that's how many Fa(r)cebook users I thought there were. It turns out that it's closer to 300 trillion. Yet there aren't that many people in existence, so how is this possible. Well not too many people know this, but thousands of FB profiles are for people who don't exist. Perhaps someone should examine this in more detail?

Yes, maybe they should!

Geeks In Space #26

Did I mention Youtube is useless?

Geeks In Space #25