Sunday, May 21 open thread: ‘Show Me How to Live’

  Here is the open thread for Sunday, May 21st Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.

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  A couple of days ago the rock world lost a pioneering voice in the grunge movement from the early 1990’s when Chris Cornell decided to end his life after a show in Detroit. He was just 52 years old. Chris Cornell’s four octave voice could alternate between melodic and powerful and he will be missed in the rock world. The last song he ever sung was a cover of Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dying” and I cannot help but think this was not an accident.

  It is always sad when somebody comes to the conclusion that there is nothing in this life worth living for but it might be even more tragic when it is somebody who seems to have everything in this life that a person could ask for and still decides it is not enough. He, like so many others, was missing something in his life.

  I have chosen to share AudioSlave performing “Show Me How to Live” as my tribute to Chris Cornell because I think you will see in these lyrics that he knew what he was missing, I  only wish he could have found it:

Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life
Now show me how to live

 And here is a bonus video which shows his other side, Ave Maria:

frui diem