Courtney Love on Her New Memoir, Designing Her “Fantasy Clothes,” and Staging Late-Night Pinterest Attacks

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Courtney Love ha explicado a Vanity Fair su intención de publicar sus memorias que llevará por título “The Girl With The Most Cake” en referencia al tema de Hole, “Doll Parts”.

Traté de escribirlas yo misma, al estilo Patti Smith y no pude. Así que contraté a un escritor. Ha hecho cosas para Tommy Lee, Slash, AC/DC. Sabes, no será como “Just Kids” (las memorias de Patti Smith). Cuando me haga mayor mayor y con más canas y podré sentarme y reflexionar y quizá tener una pequeña casita de campo en el Támesis en Oxfordshire, podré sacar una vieja máquina de escribir y empezar a despotricar. No se trata de eso. Esto es más un libro que aspiro a, que he tenido en mi mesita de noche, que es My Booky Wook de Russell Brand – que es el nombre más estúpido que se le pueda ocurrir.

También ha explicado alguna de las cosas que contará:

Cuando Milos Forman (el director de “The People vs. Larry Flint”), me vino corriendo Jim Brooks. Me vino corriendo Cameron Crowe. La razón por la que dije que no es una larga historia y saco un libro en Navidades. Explicaré detalladamente porqué no salí en “Girl, Interrupted”, porqué no salí en “The Matrix”, porqué no hice el biopic de (Janis) Joplin y todo eso. Todo es por una buena razón. Sabes, aún soy bastante mona. Para una tía de 49 años, soy bastante mona.

Cuenta también que, si bien no ha tenido ofertas para películas, si ha recibido proposiciones de todo tipo.

Había llegado al punto en que “Dancing with the Stars” me pedía por vigésima vez si quería participar. Incluso me pidieron si quería hacer un programa de entrevistas, ¡un programa de entrevistas! ¿Te imaginas? Un programa de entrevistas suena como el trabajo más odioso del planeta. Sé que Chelsea Handler hizo mucho dinero haciéndolo pero también lo hacen las Kardashians.

IN ENGLISH

As both fans and critics have learned over the last 20 years, there is no way of containing Courtney Love—the Hole front woman and grunge poster girl whose creative highs and destructive lows are public record thanks, in part, to her own unfiltered commentary. So we weren’t particularly surprised (or displeased) when Love phoned us earlier this week from Manhattan, at the tail end of her current U.S. tour, and spent 30 minutes longer on the line than originally planned.

During the conversation, the loquacious Grammy winner described her upcoming singles, her new memoir for Harper-Collins, and the acting comeback she’s now planning, 17 years after her Golden Globe–nominated turn in The People vs. Larry Flynt. Because this was not an interview with your typical musician/actress/author/fashion designer, Love also treated us to digressions about her former six-figure Etsy addiction, the state of modern music, and the Freudian psychology behind pointy-toed shoes.

Julie Miller: How are you feeling as the tour winds down?

Courtney Love: Well, it’s a little tour and it was really fun, but there’s no new single upending it. We came together as a band, but not everything sold out. It was a lot of gay guys and a lot of girls. Some women. I think the one straight man [in the audience] was a woman’s husband. . . I couldn’t quite tell. Without a single and without marketing, I’m not drawing on hetero males as a core audience. But thank god for the gays! My homos—they stick by me through thick and thin.

I could think of a lot of worse things to do on my Saturday nights, though, like watch every episode of Orange Is the New Black or go so low as to watch 30 Rock.

You have a few new songs coming out around Christmas. How would you say your music is evolving at this stage in your career?

I listened to one last night for the first time in a month, and it is so fucking good. I was listening to this incredible new band—it’s mostly girls, out of England—called the Savages. They are amazing. There is a song called “Shut Up.” It’s kind of very Siouxsie Sioux. The beginning is all spoken word and it’s brilliant, about disciplining yourself and not being distracted. And they’re gorgeous! Shaved heads.

Anyway, I would love to tour with them. I just wrote them a gushy girl fan letter because I had been listening to their stuff all day and I get so excited whenever I see a new female artist that’s good and doesn’t have fireworks coming out of her tits.

You seem impressed by their lyrics. Do you have a lyric you’ve written that you consider your favorite?

Yes. [From “Jennifer’s Body,” off Hole’s Live Through This album], “I’m purity, hit me again.” I don’t know why, I just like that one a lot. And I like this one, from the new song. It goes: “Have you ever seen a cripple dance? You paid your money, baby, now’s your chance. All of the things that you’ll never hear. My dumb mouth to your deaf ear. Get out, get out, get out of my bed. One, break my neck on my wedding day. Two, it’s a divorce from reality. Three, daddy, daddy, don’t you fuck with me. Four, now you’re naked, now you’re burning.“

It’s good. That one is very much alternative rock. It’s dark. The other one is still dark but has really good crossover potential.

I read that you have a new agent and are getting back into acting.

Yeah, I’m really, really excited to have that happen. It’s kind of disgraceful on a certain level the way certain agents and agencies have treated me. People get really comfortable with having legacy artists like George Clooney or Brad Pitt, and they don’t want to have any rejection whatsoever, so they don’t push you. Somebody found me who is a game changer and major. He has become the most important man in my life. You know, you can’t do it yourself with acting. With rock ’n’ roll, you can kind of do it. But with acting, you not only need the community but you need someone within the community who is a leader to be on your side.

It’s like in fashion—you get one maverick, and all of a sudden everyone comes running. With [director] Milos Forman [on The People vs. Larry Flynt], I had Jim Brooks come running. I had Cameron Crowe come running. The reason I said no is a long story, and I have a book coming out at Christmas. I will explain in detail why I wasn’t in Girl, Interrupted, why I wasn’t in The Matrix, why I didn’t do [the Janis] Joplin biopic and all of that stuff. It’s all for a really good reason. You know, I’m still fairly cute, though. For a 49-year-old broad, I’m pretty cute.

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