[Trash-talk] [NGR] More on Courtney @ that JT reading in NYCin Sept (from SPIN)

[Alan Hoppe]

'she keeps lookin' at meeeeeee! she keeps lookin' at meeeeeeeeeeee!' *haha*
that is what i always think of ...

well thanks for the further details into a memorable event. i think it would
make for a great little cartoon. like the ones in the back of SPIN.

-alan-

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefanie Schwartz" <skull at spastica.net>

> oh courtney...
>
> not only is that the exact same night, it's the exact same time period...
> while she was stumbling off to what was supposedly her car she snapped at
me
> and vitalie.  priceless.  it took all my energy not to friendster message
> her the next day like 'hey liza!'
>
> i bet if she'd taken a swing at me i would have gotten custody of her kid!
>
> your faithful rock-star feuding correspondent,
> stefanie
> x
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Hoppe" <achoppe at earthlink.net>

> > the december '03 issue of SPIN (with the strokes on the cover - yep,
> > thasssright, five collectible covers with each member, how exciting) has
a
> > little ditty cover-blurb that says 'courtney love wild in new york'
> >
> > ... which is, of course, referring to the evening that she met TT's
> beloved
> > 'menace' (aka stefanie) -- am i right? i think so. so i typed it up. the
> > story is in the 'noise' section and has 2 photos.
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > TROUBLE LOVES ME
> > by Marc Spitz
> >
> > Most gossip columnists try to maintain a healthy objectivity when
dealing
> > with celebrities and their seductive ways. We are not most gossip
> > columnists. We didn't intend to do an item on Courtney Love, but she
> > happened to be the most famous person in the VIP area during a September
> > fete / reading for flamboyant novelist JT LeRoy at Manhattan's Coral
Room.
> > And she happened to pay attention to us. So here we go. First, we should
> > explain that Love - along with Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins (we
knew
> it
> > was him because he loudly told the doorman, "I'm Stephan Jenkins!") and
> Yeah
> > Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner - was there to hear readings from LeRoy's work
and
> > check out his pet band, Thistle. While LeRoy worked the room, we worked
> > Courtney. "What the hell is going on with your album?" we asked, having
> > heard that her solo debut, America's Sweetheart, had been pushed back to
> > February 2004. Love insisted the delay was strictly business. "People
are
> > stealing from me. Kurt's credit card is still active," she said.
> > "Apparently, he bought some shoes last week." Love claims that she is
not
> > creatively blocked. "I want this to be my Blonde on Blonde," she said.
She
> > also wants it to be a hit. "Bigger than Eminem," she joked. (She's even
> > meeting with platinum-ballad queen Diane Warren.) "Do you have a CD
player
> > in your car?" she asked, when we requested a preview. "This is New
York -
> we
> > don't have cars," we explained. "We'll borrow one," she replied. We
> followed
> > her outside to a black, chauffer-driven van. "Can we use your CD
player?"
> > she asked the driver. "This is Damon Dash's," the chauffer stammered.
> "He's
> > not here. I can't let you in." "Oh, no, it's okay," Love reassured him.
> > "Damon Dash. DMX. I know them. Let me in!" Then a giant security guard
and
> > 700 paparazzi appeared, and we gave up. "You just turned the whole
hip-hop
> > community against me!" she screamed at us as we fled. Memo to the
hip-hop
> > community: It wasn't her fault. We egged her on.