Written by Haley on 01 September 2010
It’s often been posited that the people who make the
best music aren’t necessarily the most likable. I figured that one out at 14, when I realized that although Appetite for Destruction was the ultimate record in my high-haired universe, Axl Rose was the kind of guy who could break more than a girl’s heart. That he’d go home and write “Sweet Child o’ Mine” for her didn’t make it any better.
If you’re an original Seattleite or been here long enough, you’ve heard or have your own juicy Courtney Love story. The Green River Killer has a better Northwest reputation. And maybe she has been: a jerk, a bad parent (a trait male rockers are rarely called to task for), an addict, completely Fruit Loops, and the maker of a record so bad it may be the most successful at sucking ever. But she’s also made two good albums—including her latest, Nobody’s Daughter—one great one, and another as next to perfect as it can be.
For me, Hole’s Live Through This was a life-changer. The rallying cry that inspired me to get out of my 800-person town in North Dakota. And for all you shouting that “She didn’t write that record!”, I say prove it and/or fuck it. I don’t really care. I, and a lot of other girls, needed to hear those words come out of that mouth at that time in our lives. And I’m grateful enough to forgive her crimes, the worst of which is being a self-saboteur, and learn from them. Lesson one: While reveling in addiction, do not, under any circumstances, let someone near your face with a scalpel.
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Written by Haley on 12 August 2010
Fair News Spears: Seattle trustee quits effort to unseal private, intimate Frances Bean Cobain guardianship records:
Laird Norton Tyee, a Seattle-based wealth management and investment firm, has given up its quest for all business documents including sealed correspondence and exhibits from the Frances Bean Cobain guardianship case in Los Angeles.
Laird Norton, the governing trustee of Cobain’s trust fund filed a subpoena for the records Feb. 11, 2010 to use in their case to remove Courtney Love from her daughter’s trust fund as a trustee in Seattle.
Mary Dinius White, an attorney with Trope and Trope, and through Love’s general counsel of Pryor Cashman, responded on Love’s behalf by filing a motion to quash the subpoena in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Mar. 11. The online case file shows the Laird Norton firm never filed an argument against it.
A Los Angeles judge cancelled a hearing scheduled for June 9 after receiving a status report and notification from Laird Norton that it withdrew the action on June 4. No explanation was given in the court files, however court records in King County Superior Court in Seattle show that attorneys from the guardianship case, Geraldine Wyle and Jeryll S. Cohen, filed sealed declarations May 14. Redacted copies of those declarations were filed June 18 but reveal little: five paragraphs from Cohen’s three-page declaration were eliminated from public inspection. The number of paragraphs omitted from Wyle’s four-page declaration is unclear but substantial.
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