Strollerderby : Courtney Love

Disaster Girl Strikes!

Kelly Mills — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:32:00 GMT

No one can look more terrifying than a kid. Demon-children make the best monsters, maybe because there's something so terrifying about looking innocent but being heartless. Like Disaster Girl. She scares me.

Okay, now Disaster Girl is actually a picture of a kid with a Mona Lisa-like smaile and sinister expression near a fire. Now folks have photoshopped her into many tragedies, documenting her reign of terror. There's a couple here, but you should totally check out the full gallery. And maybe even make one of your own. Mwah ha ha.

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Baby Penis Album only five bucks

Brett Singer — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Thanks to Mike's brilliant post linking to the NPR interview with the kid who is nekkid on the cover of Nirvana's breakthrough CD, I will forever think of 'Nevermind' as The Baby Penis Album. (Kids, "albums" were these shiny black things with a hole in the middle… oh well, whatever, never mind.)

If Mike's post made you nostalgic for the nineties (that was a really tough sentence to write), you can do it fairly cheaply: Amazon has the MP3 version of Nevermind on sale for only five dollars. (I'd say something about Amazon being the man who sold the world, but that's a different album.)

I myself did not smell the teen spirit when Kurt Cobain's magnum opus took the world by storm in 1991, but at these prices, maybe I'll check it out. Who says I'm not hip?

image: Amazon.com

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Courtney Love to Auction Off Kurt Cobain's Belongings

Alisyn — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:32:00 GMT

I smell a comeback...

First, the dramatic weight loss. Then, the increasingly frequent chats with paparazzi, and monologues on her website. Now, with the announcement of a Christie's auction of her late husband Kurt Cobain's personal possessions, and a new solo album due this summer, Courtney Love is attempting to make the most of the ~~second~~ ~~third~~ latest chance that life has given her.

Topping her to-do list as a newly svelte, sober woman and mom? Letting go of Kurt's personal things.

"[My house] is like a mausoleum... My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant Hefty bag full of flannel f---ing shirts," she says. "A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to '[Smells Like] Teen Spirit' – that's what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we'll just f---ing sell."

Out with the old, to make room for the new. No official word on what Kurt and Courtney’s daughter Frances, now 14, thinks about letting strangers bid on her dad’s legacy, but Courtney told Spinner.com that “Everyone's been positive and behind me on it… we'll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity."

It’s been more than 12 years since Kurt committed suicide at home in Seattle –so why the sudden purge of his mementos, clothing, instruments, etc.? "I still wear his pajamas to bed," Courtney admitted. "How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?"

You can't argue with that.

If this helps Courtney let go of a piece of her painful past, and reach a better place in her life, than I'm all for it. Courtney has had it rough from the get-go: an unstable childhood, drug addiction, depression, losing a husband to suicide, raising a daughter alone - and all of it under the harsh glare of the media. She seems to be taking steps to overcome her past, and that must be painful. I say good luck to her, and to her daughter, Frances. I hope their little family makes it.

Here's to second, and third, and fourth, chances. And may we all be as lucky as Courtney has been.

[via People]

Courtney Love Gets Welcomed Back Into the Fold by Celebrity Parents

Kelly Mills — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:06:00 GMT

There are very few sins that can get you kicked out of the superstar parents club: stints in rehab won't do it, dressing your kids inappropriately gets the green light, and even neglecting to properly restrain your little angels is no big thing. However, parent Courtney Love really slipped up when she committed the ultimate celebrity sin: she gained a lot of weight. Now all that sordid business is behind her, and she’s dropped almost 50 pounds. The red carpet mamas and papas wasted no time welcoming her back into the fold. Gwyneth Paltrow, a.k.a. Moses and Apple's mama, enjoyed a nice meal of maybe one raw piece of asparagus and a sprig of organic parsley with her at the restaurant Cut. They bonded over yoga, the weight loss workout of the stars. As a fitness fanatic, I have yet to see anyone shed pounds with lightening speed by doing sun salutations. Perhaps "yoga" is actually the secret celebrity code word for gastric bypass?

Even TomKat, presumably out on date night, stopped by to gush about her weight loss triumph. The Tom half squeezed Love and said, "You look like a movie star!" (Hey, wasn't his wife going to be one of those before she married him?) I assume the Kat half beamed her glassy-eyed smile and said, "I love my life, I love my child, I love my daughter, I'm not even the slightest bit unhappy or suffocated or brainwashed. Happy, happy, la la la. No need to rescue me from this golden prison, no sir..."

Does anyone know if Courtney is still sober? Is she taking good care of Frances Bean? Who cares! She's really thin now. That's all you need to know. Take this lesson to heart, Tori Spelling, there's no excuse for holding onto the baby weight.

Kurt Cobain Would Have Been 40 Today: Daughter Frances Bean is 14

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:33:00 GMT

Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994. He would have been 40 today. While Nevermind changed the musical landscape for our generation (and inspired poor wardrobe choices on the West Coast that still haunt us), he left many questions in our minds. What would have become of him had he not succumbed to drugs and depression? Would he have been a good father to Frances Bean? Would he have continued to create great music?

I've always felt terribly sorry for his daughter Frances, who not only lost her father to suicide, but has a mother whose drug abuse and outbursts and other antics are constantly written up. My thoughts go out to Frances today, who is only 14. Like all children everywhere, she is an innocent in her parent's world. Hopefully, she'll fare better than her folks did.