July 20th, 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of man allegedly landing on the moon. I say "allegedly" because I am one of many people who question whether the "moon landing" actually occured the way the public was told and shown. But the point here isn't to argue whether the 1969 moon landing actually happened the way we were told. The point is, there are people with doubts out there. So when signifficant anniversaries like this pop up, the media will often double down on popular narratives which the mainstream is biased towards. This includes new documentaries and tributes which celebrate and RE-ENFORCE the popular narrative. But almost more important is to produce a fresh dose of DEBUNKING material to invalidate theories, evidence, and individuals that are not preferred by the mainstream. It is IMPORTANT to the establishment that you BELIEVE certain things, and not others. And usually the bigger the lie, the more effort is put into re-renforcing it.
[Screenshot taken from hachettebooks.com, who published Lanegan's book]
Although nobody seems to know the exact date Kurt Cobain died [the wiki entry is supposedly based upon the medical examiner's alleged estimate], we know that it was early April of 1994.
Kurt's friend Mark Lanegan recently wrote a memoir "Sing Backwards and Weep," which was released by Hachette books on April 27th of 2021. April of 2021 marked the 27th anniversary month since Kurt Cobain passed away. He was 27 years old when he died. Are these dates just a coincidence or was the release of the book timed to specifically acknowledge the 27th anniversary of Kurt's passing?
In part 1, I included an exclusive interview with Tom Grant, the investigator Courtney Love hired to "find Kurt" when he "went missing" just days before his body was found. I believe Tom Grant to be the most credible source of information regarding Kurt Cobain's death out there. Given that fact, much of what is discussed here is based upon the reliability of Grant's research. I encourage anyone reading this who hasn't, to look into his work over the years at cobaincase.com and decide for yourself if you take his assessments to be credible. Interestingly, one of Tom Grant's biggest critics is Courtney Love's father, Hank Harrison. A man known to be a pathological liar.
One of the first questions I asked Grant had to do with Lanegan's statement in his book that he accompanied Grant and Dylan Carlson to Cobain's house to look for him. While Grant stated he hadn't read the book, I gave him a direct quote which claims “we went from room to room calling his name.” Grant's response was:
[laughing out loud] "No! He was never in that house that was ONLY Dylan and I inside that house."
One can make excuses for Lanegan, but the level of detail given in the book recounting his supposed presence at the Cobain house in this context is far too specific to be an accident or some sort of mistake in recollecting events. Let's review the quotes from Lanegan's book to illustrate what I mean:
“The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capital Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them…Tom Grant picked us up...we went from place to place, buying drugs and looking for Kurt to no avail…Grant drove us to Kurt’s house near lake Washington. We went from room to room calling his name…I went outside to smoke a cigarette and stood at the bottom of a flight of stairs that led to a small room above his garage...I thought about going up and taking a look. Just then Dylan and Grant walked out, ready to leave…A day or 2 later, Rosemary called me…Kurt’s body had been found…A medical examiner judged his death to have taken place the same day we were at the house looking for him.“
The parts in BOLD lettering above are completely fabricated, according to Tom Grant. Yes, he picked up Lanegan for a few short hours to buy some dope just to see if they could locate Kurt or information about his whereabouts. But Lanegan DID NOT accompany Grant and Dylan to the house. So what you see above appears to be false information planted directly in the middle of what may very well be true information. To me, this shows an intent to mislead people. Why would Lanegan want to mislead people on this topic?
[Screen-shot from Grant's docu-drama "Soaked in Bleach"]
In Tom Grant's film "Soaked in Bleach," his visit to Cobain's house in the middle of a rainy night with Dylan Carlson is one of the first scenes dramatized by actors. Clearly, it is only the 2 of them in the scene, no sign of Mark Lanegan or anyone else anywhere. Grant and Dylan went to the house twice before Kurt's body was found. Both times were at NIGHT and both times it was raining.
Before they try and enter the house, Grant has Dylan go up to the door first, pretending to be alone so that if Kurt answers, he won't be alarmed by Tom Grant's presence - which would remain secret if possible. Dylan takes around 5 minutes or more before reporting back to Grant that nobody is home. At cobaincase.com, Grant remarks that he wondered why Dylan was gone so long, only to come back and say nobody was home. Grant told me that he suspects the reason Dylan was gone so long, is that he checked the greenhouse [room above the garage] and found Kurt's body. Kurt was Dylan's heroin source. And as Lanegan demonstrates in very PAINFUL detail in his book - a junkie's main goal every hour of the day is to make sure they got their junk. And so, Dylan probably panicked and remained silent about finding Kurt's body since Courtney Love was now his main hope for a steady supply of dope, and that abruptly became his main concern.
"Dylan didn't tell me about the room above the garage, and since it was dark and raining, I hadn't noticed it." - Tom Grant, cobaincase.com
Now think about what you just read, in reference to Lanegan's statement in his book. Here is the completely fabricated part of the story Lanegan told again:
"I went outside to smoke a cigarette and stood at the bottom of a flight of stairs that led to a small room above his garage...I thought about going up and taking a look. Just then Dylan and Grant walked out, ready to leave."
Lanegan's brief fabrication here provides an absurd scenario in which both Dylan and Grant overlook the greenhouse in broad daylight, WHILE he stands directly in front of it smoking a cigarette contemplating going in himself. The only purpose of this story as far as I can tell, is to specifically confuse the narrative surrounding the greenhouse - and why Dylan never told Tom Grant to check it. Lanegan even avoids using the word "greenhouse," instead choosing the words "small room above his garage."
Lanegan admits in his book that he lied to the press about whether he'd heard from Kurt or not just before the body was found.
"I'd lied to a Rolling Stone reporter, saying I'd not heard from him for weeks previous to his death..."
So was he really lying when he told Rolling Stone that he hadn't heard from Kurt, or was he telling the truth back then and is changing his story now?
He goes on to state how guilty he felt, that he was some sort of "enabler" of Kurt's drug habit. Even suggesting that his, at the time recently released album "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost," may have encouraged Kurt to feel more suicidal [Lanegan states that Courtney told him Kurt was listening to the album constantly before he died]. While that all may be true, it all happens to enforce the Kurt suicide narrative as well. Does Lanegan's book support the suicide narrative 100% of the time because that's just how things happened? Or was there a specific WILL to lean Lanegan's story in that direction?
"Mark Lanegan, I can tell you for a fact told me that Kurt was NOT suicidal just like Dylan did." - Tom Grant
It's interesting to consider the idea that Lanegan told Tom Grant he did not think that Kurt was suicidal, but then years later writes a book which does nothing but SUPPORT the idea that Kurt was suicidal - albeit somewhat subtly, and with seemingly great care to make it all sound very plausible and honest.
"The crackpot theories that insinuated Courtney and Dylan had conspired to murder Kurt were complete horseshit." - Mark Lanegan
Lanegan doesn't specify where these "crackpot theories" are coming from, but Tom Grant is obviously the loudest, most credible voice out there contributing to the idea that Kurt was murdered. But Grant NEVER claimed or insinuated that Dylan Carlson was involved with Kurt's murder. He has insinuated that Dylan likely discovered Kurt's body days before it was "official" without saying anything - but that's not the same as accusing him of being directly involved. In his book, Lanegan seems to be conflating the "Courtney had Kurt murdered" theory with some alleged "Courtney and Dylan conspired to murder Kurt" theory - in order to render any considerations along these lines absurd.
In Lanegan's book he credits Courtney Love for paying the cost to put him in the M.A.P. rehab facility, which he seems to think saved his life. That may be 100% true. But given Courtney's manipulative reputation, I asked Tom Grant if he thought there may have been an alterior motive for her doing that. Here is his response:
"There’s always an alterior motive for everything that Courtney does. I never even heard that she did that. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s true because I think Courtney needs a team of people around her…that will help support her in the fact that Kurt was suicidal...Courtney may have started telling him, “I want you to say this I want you to say that, I want you to plant this story in the press, say this in your book” whatever…"
According to Tom Grant, Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff "wanted to get away from Courtney. I know that for a fact because I know her family pretty well." She ended up dead within a couple months of Kurt dying. It was officially ruled an overdose. Lanegan tells a short tale about planning a date with Pfaff just before she ended up dead. A tragic tale with seemingly no purpose. Unless that purpose was merely to innoculate any conspiracy theories regarding her death? Again, anything to do with Courtney in his book always leans TOWARDS her innocence of any possible wrong-doing. If Lanegan didn't think Pfaff's death was fishy, why should we?
Whether Lanegan deliberately intended to mislead people regarding Kurt Cobain's death in his book, I cannot say for certain. But the intent behind certain specific lies in it seems self-evident to me. Or maybe it was not necessarily HIS intent, but the financiers he was beholden to?
[L: Josh Homme R: Jesse Hughes - founders of the band The Eagles of Death Metal]
LANEGAN - HATCHETTE - LEGARDERE - LE BATACLAN - JOSH HOMME
Back in 2017 I published a blog on the 2015 Le Bataclan massacre.These terrorist attacks in Paris have been attributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). About 90 rock fans were slaughtered at the famous Le Bataclan, the most ever killed at a rock concert to my knowledge. The band playing on stage when the attacks began was The Eagles of Death Metal, who were founded by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. Josh Homme was a friend and former bandmate of Mark Lanegan.
According to a New York times interview, Homme had planned to be onstage at that show but changed his plans. “I wasn’t there by a stroke of fate,” he said. In that article, there is no particular explanation as to what this "stroke of fate" was. Now to be fair, Homme didn't always perform with EODM - but one would think he'd want to very clearly explain why he wasn't present for this particular show, just to assure the more "conspiracy minded" people that he didn't have some kind of "heads up" as to what would occur there. People like his own band mate, Jesse Hughes.
"Hughes said he felt something was amiss when he first arrived at the venue and noted the security guard for the backstage area didn't look at him. "I immediately went to the promoter and said, 'Who's that guy? I want to put another dude on,'" Hughes claimed. "And he goes, 'Well some of the other guards aren’t here yet,' and eventually I found out that six or so wouldn't show up at all...It seems rather obvious that they had a reason not to show up." - Rolling Stone
Joel and Pascal Laloux owned Bataclan since 1976. They sold it on Sept 11th 2015, 2 months before the terrorist attacks...Lagardère Sports and Entertainment bought 70% of the Bataclan company from its owners...The Largest shareholder to the Lagardere group is the Qatar, a known financier of the Muslim brotherhood, and has long been suspected of funding ISIS/ISIL...This was exposed towards the end of 2016 [wikileakes] and reads in part that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”
"Because of our position in the music industry, we have direct ties to what has happened in France: Eagles of Death Metal are one of our own artists; Bataclan is owned by one of our shareholders, Lagardère group; one of our own family members, who is also an artist manager, has worked with victim Nick Alexander on tour" By Bandsintown - Nov 16, 2015
I've gathered this information here, mostly just to keep public record of it out in the open - for possible further use in connecting dots in the future. For now, I am not claiming that these financial connections [by way of Lagardère] between the publisher of Mark Lanegan's book, Le Bataclan, and The Eagles of Death Metal means anything in particular - other than the fact that those funding terrorist organizations appear to also be funding our American media to a large degree. But while we are discussing connections, let's take a closer look at what Lanegan said about Josh Homme in his book.
Mark Lanegan met Josh Homme when he briefly joined the Screaming Trees on guitar. Homme would later invite Lanegan to tour with his band, Queens of the Stoneage.
In his book, Lanegan describes how the two of them connected - which seems a bit odd considering he was a full blown heroin junky while Homme was straight. Nevertheless, Homme decides to join Lanegan in one of his late night searches for heroin in the worst neighborhood they can find in whatever town they happened to be touring that particular night. But Lanegan fails to "score" because the drug dealers they meet are convinced Homme is an undercover cop during 2 different encounters. I found that detail very interesting because in my blog on the Bataclan massacre I observed, perhaps incorrectly, that the EODM seemed to be some sort of corporate sponsored propaganda vehicle. I also hinted at my suspicion that Homme himself might be some sort of agent provocateur. I am not claiming that Lanegan's book is any sort of vindication of my suspicions, but that it seems to directly address any suspicions his fans may have along those lines - and ever so subtly debunks them. We're supposed to think, "Lanegan trusted Homme enough to take him on a score! People thought he was an undercover - but Lanegan didn't, so you shouldn't either because you love and trust Lanegan, RIGHT?"
[Tuesday Cross (Marina Cardenas) and Jesse Hughes (singer in EODM)]
[Lanegan, while being interviewed at his home residence in 2019]
[Tuesday Cross has a crucifix tattoo'd on both middle fingers, and has an upside-down cross motif tatoo'd directly at the top/center of her chest. Mark Lanegan had a similar tattoo on the back of his hand.]
"The front cover's a picture of the doorknocker on my studio...we got it from some place and the guy said "I have to tell you that this thing supposedly is cursed..." So we bought it immediately [laughter] Cursed? Fuck yeah!..if anything's cursed, we're definately in the market for it..." - Mark Lanegan, 2019 interview
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