I Killed Scott Weiland?

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I Killed Scott Weiland?

I killed him?

You killed him?

We all killed him?

It’s what we do?

It’s what we think?

It’s our expectations?

It’s what you expect of me?

It’s what I expect of you?

Your expectations are killing me?

My expectations are killing you?

Self-fulfilling Prophecies?

I talk a lot about living here.

And dying here.

About how one should be expected to live.

As if I really know.

I expect that what I think matters.

That what I think becomes me

As it expands eternally.

Becomes eternally.

But what do I really know.

If what I think really does matter…

If Attraction really is a universal Law…

Then maybe I really did help to kill Scott Weiland.

My sons are musicians.

We talk a lot about music.

The other day we were talking about Nineties Music.

About how great it was and is.

And how deadly it was (and is).

Andrew Wood – Mother Love Bone 24 March 19, 1990 – Heroin

Steve Clark – Def Leppard 30 January 8, 1991 – Codeine, alcohol, valium and morphine

Johnny Thunders – New York Dolls 38 April 23, 1991 – Cocaine and methadone

Dave Rubinstein – Reagan Youth 29 July 3, 1993 – Heroin

Rob “The Bass Thing” Jones – The Wonder Stuff 29 July 31, 1993 – Heroin

Kristen Pfaff – Hole 27 June 16, 1994 – Heroin

Dwayne Goettel – Skinny Puppy 31 August 23, 1995 – Heroin

Shannon Hoon – Blind Melon 28 October 21, 1995 – Cocaine

Bradley Nowell – Sublime 28 May 25, 1996 – Heroin

Jonathan Melvoin – The Smashing Pumpkins 34 July 12, 1996 – Heroin

Billy Mackenzie – Associates 39 22 January 1997 – Paracetamol

West Arkeen – The Outpatience 36 May 30, 1997 – Opiate

Nick Traina – Link 80 19 September 20, 1997 – Heroin

John Baker Saunders – Mad Season 44 January 15, 1999 – Heroin

Bobby Sheehan – Blues Traveler 31 August 20, 1999 – A Speedball

Wes Berggren – Tripping Daisy 28 October 27, 1999 – Cocaine

And of course Kurt Cobain’s life

Was hooked on drugs

And was taken in the Nineties

(evidence now points to his drug addled wife).

And Alice and Chains

(another Nineties band)

Can claim two deaths:

Lead singer Layne Staley in 2001

And Mike Starr in 2011.

I knew there were a lot of overdose deaths in the Nineties

But I didn’t realize there were so many until this writing.

You can see the entire morbid lot of them here.

The fact that there were so many

Tragic musicians deaths of the Nineties

Of my generation

Was what I was discussing with my son

Only a few days ago.

Our conversation ended

After I proclaimed how surprised I was

That Scott Weiland was still alive.

Able to survive

When so many others like him

Were not.

Of course

In the end

No one survives life.

It supersedes us all.

No matter what we think.

#ripscott