Courtney Love speaks on why she won’t be doing as much coke as she used to.
Now, I honestly don’t know about the ether content of cocaine, but I do know that if you are in a custody battle with the state over your child because of drug use, one thing you should NOT do is go on record stating you’ll only snort the really, really good stuff from now on.
Well, I never did think she had two brain cells to rub together anyway.
With any luck, little Francis Bean is being raised by nannies. It will be interesting to see what kind of person she becomes with a mother like that and a legacy such as the one left by her father. Poor kid never had a chance.
Look at these pictures!! Even ignoring the fact that her courtroom hairdo makes her look as if she just woke up (from a drug-induced coma inside a wind tunnel)…her eyes. The expression in her eyes is just scary.
She’s completely lost touch with reality. If she hadn’t had a band and married Cobain way back then, she’d be living in an alleyway today.
hmm, blank link (no text below the 3am girls) but I get the picture. Someone needs to lock this woman up, and now.
I havent seen a picture of Frances for a few years, but she’s got a startlingly intelligent look to her eyes, exactly like her fathers. which, I would imagine is a godsend for her seeing as Courtneys an attention crazed junkie fucking idiot. What is she now? 13?
Frances will either be the next Paris Hilton or the next Kurt Cobain. I omly hope its the latter, and her mother has nothing to do with it.
you heard it here first kids.
Um, yeh, except for that last bit of his life, right?
Here’s a link to what supposedly is Frances’ blog, although the last entry in it is dated in 2002. There’s a picture of her in the upper right corner. I found a photo of her with Courtney (looking relatively pulled together)from 2000 here. Kid looks a lot more intelligent than her mom, even at that age.
Oh, my golly. The Cobain Princess website!
Biggirl’s link didn’t work for me. What gives?
I remember right after The People Vs. Larry Flint came out, she looked cleaned up for a bit-she wore classy dresses, did her hair, looked really great.
And then…bam, once again she’s Skanky McSkank.
As for her remark, I’d like to see it in context. It sounds like an auto-“whoosh,” to me folks. I think she’s making a lame joke Coca Cola-related joke. You know, “They took the cocaine out- it’s not real Coke any more.” Easy to miss the joke because it’s not-quite-connected-up and a bit obscure.
Of course, there never was ether in cocaine. She’s talking about free-basing, I think. Used to involve ether. Now all the kids use “crack,” an ether-free, on-the-go form of freebase cocaine.
From the caption of the second, really quite scary-looking link: “Rockstar Courtney Love winks during a progress hearing on charges she illegally possessed painkillers.” Yeah, well, she is, after all, winking. H.G. Wells made an observation about winking in The New Accelorator, a fantasy story about a man who develops a drug which speeds up the nervous system to such a degree that one can walk about observing the world as if it is frozen in time:
The camera may never lie, but photo editors regularly pick and choose instants of frozen time that seem to convey a message that they think they can sell.
Wow, i thought that in the early twenty-first century people were media-savvy enough to realize that you can make someone look as bad as you want by taking an unflattering capture from a video, which is obviously what the second picture is, and probably the first as well. All you have to do is go through the clip frame by frame until you find a split second where the person looks like they’re on drugs or crazy or whatever.
Wow, what a burn!
You mean, if she hadn’t been a talented musician in a very popular (for a time) band, then she’d be in an alleyway? Firstly, you cannot know know whether or not this is true. Second, it’s as pointless as saying “If Bill Gates hadn’t been really good at computers and business and stuff, he probably wouldn’t be rich now.”
I don’t care much about Courtney Love one way or another, but your “analysis” of the situation is a little embarrassing–for you, not her.
Frances Bean looks so much like her father it breaks my heart.
Find me a photo of Courtney at her recent court appearances looking sane and I might agree. Here’s a hint to Miss Love-- going to court holding bouquets and beagles doesn’t help the image you wish to project to the judge.
You deny that money and fame serve as social insulation?
Well, I guess it’s true what they say, it’s as easy to feel sorry for a rich child as a poor one.
How does (did) freebasing involve ether?
Freebase cocaine is obtained by ammoniating cocaine in water. Ether is added to the solution and stirred. The freebase is soluble in ether, but not in water, so it moves there. Because ether is lighter than water, it’s easily separated from the water layer. The ether is evaporated and the residual freebase cocaine is smoked.
Having ethyl ether vapours hanging about is dangerous at the best of times, but often disastrous in combination with the sort of carelessness and stupidity that is often associated with cocaine binges. (Think Richard Pryor, here.)
Crack cocaine is freebase, too, but made using a safer procedure, at the cost of purity. (Made with baking soda and water, I think.)
Gah! She looks like Jim Varney in a cheap wig!
This thread has one of the funniest titles I’ve seen in ages.