New material added to Cobain's 'Journals'

By JONATHAN COHEN Billboard.com

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

New York - The paperback edition of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's "Journals" has been bolstered with 14 pages of new material, including an extended narrative about a semi-fictional serial killer.

Riverhead released the volume Nov. 10, with a front cover reproduction of Cobain's red Mead notebook bearing his hand-written caveat, "if you read, you'll judge."

"Frankly, we had this the first time around, but we chose not to include it, because it's disturbing and bizarre," Riverhead co- editorial director Julie Grau said of the serial killer-themed pages.

"Journals" also features lyrics to an unrecorded song titled "Travelin' White Trash Couple," a cookie recipe and a previously unpublished list of Cobain's favorite albums, one of the artist's favorite topics for doodling in his notebooks.

On the latter page, which features albums by the Stooges, the Pixies, Rites of Spring, Butthole Surfers and Sonic Youth, Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, had written a sarcastic note back to him on the other side in dark black ink.

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