Just read an interesting article on Courtney Love, who is recently being charged for some assault/drug possesion something-or-other. While reading I thought to myself what has happened to Courtney Love. Over th years she has gone through a couple of suicide attempts, the suicide of her husband, embarrasing events on public television (such as flashing and doing a hideous rendition of Danny Boy on Letterman), assault charges, one allegedly with a bottle of spirit and a torch her at ex-manager/boyfriend with a woman, her demise as gone into freefall. It is amazing the rampant self-destruction she has committed to herself. Misguided self direction, insecurity and self desctruction are hidden flaws in all of us which i think Love so explosively reminds you. The sadness of her situation will get you down but the enthusiasm and fervour at which lives at if uplifting and a triumph. Her history proves a fascinating and turbulant read and lends some explanation for her behaviour.
Born Courtney Michelle Harrison, she spent her ealry years with her father, Hank, a Grateful Daed acolyte who reportedly forcefed his four-year-old LSD and dragged her all over the world, from a sheep station in New Zealand to hippie commune in San Francisco.
At 12, love was sent to live with her mother in Portland, oregan, but by the time she was 16 she had disowned her parents and taken to the road.
After working as a stripper in Japan, Love turned up in liverpool in the early eighties, where she had a brief relationship with the teardrop Explodes singer Julian Cope. In 1986 she moved to LA where she met director Alex Cox and lobbied for the part of Spungen in his Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy. She ended up playing Nancy's best friend, Gretchen, though her fascination with the Sid-Nancy relationaship continued apparently forming the template for her marriage to Kurt Cobain. While not one of rock's greatest talents. Love will certainly be remembered as one of its most notorious screw-ups. she is shortlisted to star in some new vampire movies recently.
How long can someone stay on the road of destruction and anarchy that she has. It's a tremendous display of spirit and will power.
