April 08, 2004

• yeah i was gonna say - maybe i didn't give it enough of a chance but i wasn't impressed and unconvinced she wanted music for anything but it's cachet and (as a side effect) a vehicle to stardom. Can I make the inevitable comparison to Yoko now, or would I be Godwining it before it gets started?
• I didn't think Mono sucked, I just think it's no real progress from Celebrity Skin era Hole. Now, what sucked is that Ms "Web, MP3 good! Recording Insustry Bad!" has released the album on a "copy protected" CD. If I can't play it in my car or rip it to my server at home, I ain't buying it.
• I've never been much of a Courtney Love fan (or Nirvana for that matter), but it was great to read an article that rises above the "look at Courtney, she's so fucked up! lets all laugh" style that is so common. I get so tired of the condescending and sexist stuff about her in the usual headlines. As a side note, did anybody else read this little sidebar link? Though I think the author reads too much into men playing women in games, it is an interesting topic. (sorry, don't mean to derail.)
• As a side note, did anybody else read this little sidebar link? Gay marriage is quickly becoming mainstream.
• I love this story about Courtney Love at Joe Strummmer's funeral.

  After initially being denied entry, she worked her way into the private ceremony and allegedly threw herself on the coffin of the singer and paraded outside of the funeral in, what witnesses describe as a blatant attempt to get attention

• wait wait wait - a blatant attempt to get attention from Courtney Love??? Did I read that right? Everything's cuckoo!
• I think Courtney Love needs help, rather than more attention and publicity, don't you?
• I think she's gonna get it one way or another. Lately she seems to be vying for some time at Chez Pen. I just hope no one else gets hurt while she flails about in her quest for whatever it is.
• Dng, are you telling me that you don't reenact the graveyard scene from Hamlet ever time you go to a funeral.
• banana, Sullivan!
• She can behave as badly as she wants to, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm pretty sad that she's done things like OD in front of her daughter. Not a great example to set for your kid.
• Before Courtney Love became obsessed with appearing in bad movie (People Vs Larry Flynt being the exception), Live Through This was considered a good album. I listened to some of the songs off that album online after reading the Slate article. Stuff like Violet (windows media) still sounds intense. What's interesting is how serious she comes off in the video and she doesn't play goofy Courtney like she did in the Mono video. What hurt Live Through This (besides Courtney) was Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville and Sleater-Kinney. Courtney Love can not write shocking lyrics better than Phair and her banshee howl sounds tame compared to Corin Tucker's. Those two women are bigger rock goddesses than the Love muffin ever will be. That said, take away the baggage and LTT is a strong album.
• PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, and 4-Track Demo's also out do anything Hole were doing at a similar time. But then those two albums sound like little else. (I've no idea if PJ Harvey was famous in America at the time, but she certainly should have been)
• I've no idea if PJ Harvey was famous in America at the time, but she certainly should have been Strangely enough, I remember Dress (dance remix mp3) breaking on MTV around the same time as the Liz Phair song Never Said. I also heard a story of Woody Harrelson, during the shoot for People Vs Larry Flynt, telling Courtney to turn off that PJ Harvey shit so he could listen to Alanis Morissette.
• *yawn* (NSFW)
• Judge orders Courtney Love back in court 24 hours after leaving hospital via Malasia Online. For . . some reason.
• Courtney Love escapes! . . err, having to have a custodian.
• RIBALD rock chick Courtney Love (above) has signed on to play "Deep Throat" star Linda Lovelace. Producer Jason Blum (Gwyneth Paltrow's ex) and Love's manager, Jason Weinberg, are producing the biopic, reports cinematical.com. Brian Grazer originally planned to make the Lovelace story but instead made the recently released documentary "Inside Deep Throat" because Lovelace's story was "too depressing." Lovelace, after claiming she'd been forced to become a porn star by her boyfriend, died in 2002 after a car crash. Love already proved she could play a stripper as porn king Larry Flynt's wife in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" (1996). From "Page Six" of the NY Post
• clean? No.
• I think Courtney Love needs help Well, looks like the judge agrees: Courtney ordered to rehab.
• Apparently she was pretty blotto at the Pamela Anderson roast on Comedy Central. I saw a few clips (Daily Show?) but wondered if anything else was out there. She's definitely a character. As the old folks say. she's 41?? Crap.
• and pregnant
• Uh oh.
• You know, with only a few letter changes, the title of this post would be more accurate.
• nice pic.
• Ah Haaaaa! Which kid's gonna be cooler? The one who's daddy is Kurt, or the one who's daddy is Alan Partridge?
• Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
• No Love for forclosure
• The whole 'duck lips' thing- it's just not a good look for Courtney. Nor any human. Also, I find it kind of alarming that her kid is *13*, just as an index of how old I am and how rapidly I'm losing track of time...
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• CNN article loves Love. "Waahh" says Love
• Open "Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love" to almost any glossy page and you will see a picture of Love, or some simulacrum of her: a smear of lipstick, a doodled self-portrait, a poem, ephemera of her band, Hole, scrawled lyrics, a Polaroid, an artifact of her very productive and self-absorbed imagination. Calling the book a diary is a ploy to prey on the desire for access to Love's private thoughts. It's actually closer to a yearbook for a school with only one graduate; or maybe Love, albeit in the coolest, most punk-rock way, has succumbed to that most Martha Stewart of pastimes: scrapbooking.
• Courtney Sued over $180,000 Rehab Bill Quitting's too expensive!
• Courtney to have a Christie's auction to sell all of Kurt's belongings. "My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant ... bag full of flannel ... shirts." "I still wear his pajamas to bed. How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?" Must be some heavy-duty jammies, circa 90's Washington flannel?
• GAHh! Frances grew up?! I thought she was still, like, five?! *checks watch* Holy s--- I've got a buncha things to do! Novel! Uh, Great American Novel! Uh . .um . . get past the banana level on Ms. Pac Man! Who killed JFK (okay, skip that - we'll come back) Uh, umm . . ooh fix the car! Get a new mailbox! The perfect PB&J! Where's the @#$%! time?!?
• all in all is all we are...
• "We'll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity." Ah, selflessness.
• Y'know I was gonna mention that charity thing too, but hey, maybe she's all recovery and wanting to give it away. Weirder things have happened.
• Courtney gets colonic, "finally get(s) an Italian Vogue cover", authorizes action figure, drops names. And that's the way it is.