- Dirty Blonde
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name = Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
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author =Courtney Love
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Diary
publisher =Faber & Faber
release_date = 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
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followed_by ="Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love" is a
memoir by rock musician and actressCourtney Love . The book, published byFaber & Faber and released inOctober 2006 , contains journal entries, letters, poetry, handwritten song lyrics, collages, school and juvenile hall entries, show fliers, photographies and notes.Some highlights include a suicide-note-like apology letter addressed to deceased husband
Kurt Cobain and daughter Frances Bean written on aLos Angeles ' Sunset Marquis Hotel letterhead, saying that "I love you. Please forgive me. ... You are both too beautiful for me. I love you forever"; a bitter note, realizing that she is "a public figure unhappy with my share of the American dream. There can only be one reason for this. I am on drugs, and have the morals and mentality of a cartoon character. What did I want after all??", next to a 1976 rejection letter from theNew Mickey Mouse Club for "Coco Rodriguez", a name she adopted while living with stepfather Frank Rodriguez. The show was looking for "youngsters who have exceptional singing, dancing, or musical ability, with a marked degree of performance experience," and, as a consolation prize for not qualifying, a picture ofMickey Mouse was sent to her.Between the gems, there are also a 1979 report from Hillcrest School which documents Love as screaming and swearing about bugs "("Refused to be reasonable, [...] She became louder and more insistent")" and heartbreaking texts about her late husband's suicide, like an April 17, 1994 journal entry "("Exactly one month ago today was the last time I made love with my husband. I cooked him dinner. We spent four hours in the playroom with Frances. We saw 'Schindler's List.' It made us frightened for life and we saw the value of life. Our convictions we defined until 4 a.m. and we fell asleep in each other's arms and woke up that way in the morning")", plus one note admiting that " [Kurt's 1994 alcohol and
Rohypnol overdose in] Rome was a huge cover-up", meaning that it was actually a suicide attempt.The material is so up-to-date that it contains an e-mail exchange with
Lindsay Lohan about negative press coverage, comments about theJT LeRoy 's hoax (she exchanged e-mails with "him" for years), lyrics of songs that will figure on her forthcoming album, "Nobody's Daughter ", and photos from the recording sessions. In a pre-release interview, Love declared that, on the book, she "scrubbed clean the mud and rags of 2000-01-02-03-04 & 05. Five years of hell. Everything runs in seven-year cycles. Well I'm definitely out of my darkness now." [http://www.aolmusicnewsblog.com/2006/10/19/courtney-loves-diaries-get-exposed/] The memoir contains a foreword byCarrie Fisher and afterwords by Manifesta's Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards.External links
* [http://www.moonwashedrose.com/dirtyblonde.html Sample pages from "Dirty Blonde"]
* [http://www.moonwashedrose.com/media/teenvogue06.html Teen Vogue article about Courtney Love, with "Dirty Blonde"'s previews]
* [http://holefotos.sites.uol.com.br/dirty/dirty.html More sample pages from the book; Brazilian page]
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