in february 2108 the new zealand rediscovery expedition reaches california at last it is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors the expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet ape and essence is huxleys vision of the ruin of humanity told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius the lyrics notebook and personal journals of kurt cobain iconic singer of the band nirvanakurt cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics drawings and writings about his plans for nirvana and his thoughts about fame the state of music and the people who bought and sold him and his music his journals reveal an artist who loved music who knew the history of rock and who was determined to define his place in that history here is a mesmerizing incomparable portrait of the most influential musician of his time