Nirvana blowing up the way they did really confused label executives at the time so you get like major label deals for Boredoms and Daniel Johnston off the backs of Cobain just mentioning liking them off handedly in an interview
I went to a party at NYU in 2008ish and HJO showed up with an iPod, speaker, 30 beers and HUGE bag of weed and turned what had been a relatively chill hang into an absolute rager. He also would not stop talking about how good Stereolab was. The absolute man.
First thing I learned: Xi was ruthlessly bullied during the Cultural Revolution and even before, after his father, a revolutionary hero, was denounced
He did several years as a farm worker living in a literal cave in Liangjiahe, often spotted reading Lenin and Marx