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lady, we've put up with a lot from you, but this needless beer bashing is the final straw

Courtney Love: "ive done LOADS of things with LOADS OF STADIUM ROCKERS"

AP080224065211.jpgLike many of us, Courtney Love wonders about certain choices Village Voice Media has made over the last few years. Twelve hours ago she was specifically irate over Voice music editor's Rob Harvilla's recent piece on the Foo Fighters, where Harvilla praised frontman Dave Grohl for his likeability by claiming that "in arena rock, as in politics, we vote for the candidate we'd most enjoy having a beer with" and that Grohl was the arena-rocker in whose company he'd most enjoy popping the top on a tall cold one. Courtney then attacked Harvilla's offhand dismissal of informed voting until her caps lock squealed like someone in Boy George's basement, comparing Harvilla's lede to a "Fox [News, presumably] talking point" and referring to the Foo Fighters as a "mediocre" band. Incensed that the general public perceives arena rockers as beer fans—"Beer isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY."—Courtney went on to list all the things she's done with arena rockers instead of drinking beer, maddeningly teasing us by not including the names of the arena rockers in question.



HAVING SEX

LOANING SUNSCREEN

HAVING THEM GIVE ME A PACK OF SILK CUTS

DOING A LINE

PLAYING TRIVIal PURSUIT

VISITING THEM AT HoME IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE'

GOING TO THE LOUVRE WITH

CUTTING UP FRUIT FOR A FRUIT SALAD

'MAKING PASTA

LISTENING TO PUCCINI IN MATCHING KIMONOS DRINKING PETRUS READING THE NEW YORK TIMES'

SHARING MAKEUP AND CLOTHES( BOTH SEXES)

SNUBBING

NOT SHARING DRUGS WITH

KIckING THE ASSES OF ( SONICALLY)

hitchiking from sardina with

Obviously some of these were one-off experiences and obviously some were frequent go-to's for a bored Courtney. (Once you find a good Trivial Pursuit partner you don't give them up easily.) But with who did she listen "TO PUCCINI IN MATCHING KIMONOS DRINKING PETRUS READING THE NEW YORK TIMES'"? Perhaps we'll never know. Or perhaps maybe you know. (I'm guessing David Coverdale.)

have a beer with? [Courtney Love/Photo: AP]

12:20 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Jess Harvell
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  • I'll bite

    HAVING SEX - Billy Coragan

    LOANING SUNSCREEN -- Guns & Roses

    HAVING THEM GIVE ME A PACK OF SILK CUTS - James Iha

    DOING A LINE -- Ghost of Courtney Love

    PLAYING TRIVIal PURSUIT -- Moby

    VISITING THEM AT HoME IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE' - Chirs Cornell

    GOING TO THE LOUVRE WITH - Da Brat

    CUTTING UP FRUIT FOR A FRUIT SALAD - Jermaine Dupri

    'MAKING PASTA - The Screaming Trees

    LISTENING TO PUCCINI IN MATCHING KIMONOS DRINKING PETRUS READING THE NEW YORK TIMES' - All the members of Alice in Chains, except the drummer. She hates that guy

    SHARING MAKEUP AND CLOTHES( BOTH SEXES) - Perry Ferrell

    SNUBBING - Alanis Morrissette

    NOT SHARING DRUGS WITH - Britney Spears

    KIckING THE ASSES OF ( SONICALLY) - Belle & Sebastian

    hitchiking from sardina with -- Madonna and Lourdes

  • I like how blogging has removed any distance that might've, were she limited to press soundbites, allowed us to think of Courtney Love as a reasonable, intelligent, literate human being.

    Also, fuck anyone who takes an anti-beer stance. A few extra beer callories might help fill in those scorched flesh canyons on her face. (Apparently, she thinks that taking so much blow that you crank out this kind of bullshit counts as a makeover.)

  • She forgot:

    CHALLENGED TO A NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CONTEST: Stephen Malkmus.

  • Ditto on the anti-beer stance. If I prefer a nice Schlafly Coffee Stout to a Coors Light, that doesn't take me up a notch? It surely beats eroding my nasal cartilage.

  • I'd rather be addicted to beer than bad plastic surgery.

  • "LISTENING TO PUCCINI IN MATCHING KIMONOS DRINKING PETRUS READING THE NEW YORK TIMES".

    She was really high when she wrote that post...

  • I'm not reading all of that. Why does Kathy Griffin hate beer?

  • Isn't the Puccini obvs Danzig?

  • HAVING SEX: ZZ Top
    LOANING SUNSCREEN: The Cure
    VISITING THEM AT HoME IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE: Rolling Stones
    GOING TO THE LOUVRE WITH: Ted Nugent
    LISTENING TO PUCCINI IN MATCHING KIMONOS DRINKING PETRUS READING THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Beach Boys (Mike Love version)
    SHARING MAKEUP AND CLOTHES( BOTH SEXES): Bob Dylan
    SNUBBING: Genesis
    KIckING THE ASSES OF ( SONICALLY): Hannah Montana AND Miley Cyrus
    hitchiking from sardina with: Jimmy Buffett









  • Oooh, formatting is the suxck.

  • Love once again attacks arch-enemy Dave Grohl, calling his band "mediocre"--which only means by comparison that Love's music must be "god-awful."

  • Honestly, after all these years, I STILL fail to understand the appeal of Courtney Love both as some kind of sex symbol, and as a musician.

  • @How do I say this ... THROWDINI!: Soooo close....except I take issue with your inclusion of Belle & Sebastian in the category of "arena rockers".

  • @bbernardini: If she was fifteen years younger and you were a scruffy, deeply depressed, self-loatihng heroin addict who was oblivious to the level and value of his own talent, you might understand. (Or, at least, I assume I might.)

  • @bbernardini: i couldn't agree more. so many more interesting women to fawn over and this is what writers waste their time on. i mean for christs sake, we could still be talking about and interviewing Toni Halliday, but no... everyone ignored her over here and now we got this, thing, instead to hear about over and over.

  • @Jasonbob7: Well, I did see them play the main stage at Coachella and at the Hollywood Bowl, but maybe you're right. Can I change my answer to the Jonas Brothers?

  • Mmm... Toni Halliday...

    I like Garbage, but they pretty much torpedoed Curve's career. Curve got accused of ripping off someone who had ripped them off. Funny how Shirley Manson stopped mentioning Curve as an influence when Garbage really took off.

  • Her c**t is like the grungy parking garage in the Financial District--only beaters park there, shady characters are the only ones you see hanging around on a regular basis, and there's shit on the walls and the floors that you dont know what it is...

  • "You've got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers... You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies' man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk, and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured, and driven.

    "You will be so 'frail you may break at a mere wisp of wind'. He will be alienated and aggressive. You will be greedy and a control freak too, but mostly you will be 'primal', 'primitive' and 'instinctive'. If not, then you will be 'contrived'. He will be in command, a cocksman, big-dicked, a genius reinventing his instrument with superhuman technique soul magic. He will be natural and a perfectionist, he will rarely, if ever, be 'primal' in the way that you, the female, will always be 'primitive'."

    When's the last time Gwen Stefani came out with a comment like this? Or any of the 'concept blondes'? Why can't you see how utterly lucid she is? She has never had any illusions. There has always been a point to Courtney Love. I think she's wonderful.

    So there.

  • @jetblackturd: Here's the issue: Having something of value to say is only an asset when you're not saying it while puking Red Bull and Vicodin in the alley behind LAX.

  • "Hole isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY."
    Fix'd.

  • i read the article in question and got curious, googled the Foo Fighters and found at some Pheonix college paper maybe the STUPIDEST trope of a piece of poo of rock writing ever- it was a "Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury i present David Eric Grohl vs .." it was beyond dumb. Look Courts always been , always gonna be a lady of the Canyon in her heart and soul, in Blenders list of "Great Songs about California" she had TWO and then again wierdly i was driving to work and there was a "greatest songs about California"( 9th largest economy on earth) and "Malibu was #3, History ( wich i happen to major in at Yale) ( American and in my second year i switched to Japanese, they're faaar more racist and scary than anyone can possibly guess) It boil down to this , the lady is a shite speller on My Space, ive seen perfectly spelled impeccable emails from her passed around, perhaps its some sort of narcissitic pathology that 17-23 year olds arent going to care if she slobs all over her Lanvin, spelling wise, but her point is on target , it DID feel like a Fox Talking Point.
    i think she got that right on the nose and for any of you who read the Huffington Post youll know that Comparing Corky to Hillary has become tres chic,
    HISTORY will frankly put the Foo Fighters in with Creed and Insane Clown Pissy and Nickelback with Cobains fairy dust on the sixth salaried and already fired drummer of Nirvana, who spends his glumpy gooey graceless hours upon the stage not strutting but begging us to "like" him while living out some Freudian fantasy involving Tayior Hawkins as Kurt, the subservient, its all strikes me as so bloody obvious and whilst , not using a spellcheck, impinges on her credibility (HUGELY)with white nice educated folks like us, the message was loud and clear- a Fox talking point made it into the Village Voice and it pissed her off,. REALLY , can you think of any other Rockstar
    good or evil,
    pretty or ugly,
    male or female whod would even sniff that out, we certainly do NOT pick our presidents ,nor our stadium rockers on the basis of who we'd like to "have a beer with" , that is just sexist dross and anti Hillary bashing, " Hey so Obama how is that corrupt police department in the Windy City? still worse than the LAPD?"
    in forty years lets have a look at this, Courtney who has been titled the most "quotable woman alive" and is on record with a ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT,No , not something SHE said , something a former social worker who administered the test said,
    Courtney with her lack of prolific work , yet batting a good battle, she knows like any rock n roll nigger she had better be TEN times better than Grohl . Stapp , Weiland, et al ad nauseaum, Paul Bloody STanley. amd Americas Sweetheart horrific two songs and terrible , truly fouul cover art , wich she denies having fuck all to do with, ( ahhh she cant deny the songs) how much FILLER has this girl put out( icount 3 songs total opuvre) whilst lets com,pare Grohl; hes given us a a DOUB;E BLOODY ALBUM!
    What is he? Roger Waters? thi sisnt even a pissing contest.
    Courtney simply WINS .....classisms or not ( i do enjpy a nice Rolling Rock in New Haven occasionally
    )This is far longer than my average post ,but REALLY, if this were something FAIR,
    impactful person to impactful person, eg Beck!
    not my fave but ive got good arguments FOR. itd be interesting but comparing Grohl wholl be gone when hes dead to Courtney Michelle Harrison Love Cobain ( i checked I tunes. How many SONGS are entitled "Courtney Love" ? 9 ! Ho wmany BANDS call thermselves BEFORE she was famous Courtney Love? ONE. ) the thing so many of you sometimes forget and the high end the legitimate media NEVER forgets is that Courtney Love matters in a way very few humans will and her and only her, could get pissed up and whingy about an anti Hillary Fox talking point jibe making its way into the Voice, i mean REALLY can you imagine anyone else even noticing?
    Having heard her demos shes about to dance on her haters graves and thats going to be a joy for many of us, since we all love a comeback and since we know that shes gonna have a million points against her... i also have a sly and suspicious feeling that once her My Space and HTML goes "pro" her spelling will vastly VASTLY improve she is, after all Rogers and Cowans teachers pet , they LOVE her, and because they do, it doesnt matter if you do not.You will be led to learn. "Most quotable woman of the century ( Neil Strauss) " Best fuck in the world" ( Kurt Cobain) " Best poet ive ever read ( Russell Crowe) "Best secret writer in Hollywood"(Cameron Crowe)"the disconnect between who she really is and how she is perceived is a complete mystery to all of us who love her "( Gwyneth Paltrow Martin) "Best sex i ever had" ( Alex James) i dunno she just seem......coollly complex and i like her older and more worn in, and i expect nothing less than miracles andstardust from her . sonically and visually when the next cd comes to town , i am pretty sure from the sounds of these songs i will not be anywhere near let down.
    She went a little Chomsky on your asses and you all got hot under the collar,
    when Kids . death and taxes are concerned and marital law vs the sound of spotty adolescent boys whining "shes sucha cunt" i can imagine one grows skin thick as rawhide.
    But remove the dada spelling and remember theres a 158 iq there and thats a tempting vortex for all of us.
    The woman is a legend and shes not done with us yet, i get the feeling from knowing others with exceptional cognition/iq that she sees far far ahead- and though she can be reckless and even hysterical on occasion- she is Gretskylike in her ability to see the puck and where its about to be.
    wonder what her bedroom is like
    dont wonder what Grohls bedroom is like.
    Courtney if you read Idolator, if you google yourself and we knpw you do i hop eyou know MOST of us get you loud and clear, most of us know or have heard how charnming and feminine you are and how tormented,
    ignore the beer drinkers you will never have them, but Box Wine drinkers bloody love you.

  • uh, hi courtney!

  • @cherryforever: by comparison to diamanda galas, a true diva and someone who should be a proper legend if little boys weren't so menaced by her, courtney is not a legend, she is merely a footnote to real women who actually truly challenge the establishment.

  • @cherryforever: Adderall?

  • All of this in an effort to maintain her profile as a star-f**ker

  • You guys realize that probably 90 percent of those things she mentioned she did with Michael Stipe, who's been her BFF for about 12 years or so. In fact, I would guess it was everything except "having sex" and "doing a line," both of which would be Billy Corgan. Courtney's social circle ain't that big anymore.

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