Courtney Love: “ive done LOADS of things with LOADS OF STADIUM ROCKERS”
Like 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]