Last Days is, loosely, about Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the rock group Nirvana. I had a house in the middle of the woods, ... I stayed alone the whole time, and I tried always to be battling with the things I thought the character was battling with - seclusion, drug addiction, severe chronic depression and suicidal tendencies.
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