Friday, January 9, 2009

Love and human remains



We're talking about Courtney Love again for some reason. On Wednesday, Gothamist linked to a Q-and-A that Love did with Heeb. (In case you missed the East Village portion of the interview, I excerpted a portion of it below.) So maybe she'll move back to NYC. (Alex at Flaming Pablum has an opinion on this topic.)

All this Love talk brought me back to the tabloids and blogs recreating her magical evening in NYC on March 17, 2004, when, among other things, she hit a dude on the head with a mic stand, flashed her boobies and got arrested, though not necessarily in that order. Some flashing happened at Wendy's on 14th Street just west of Union Square. Where the photo above was snapped. The dude posing near her breast is Kofi Asare. But what I want to know: Who is the fellow on the right? Where is he today? And why is Love wearing white before Memorial Day?

So here's the end of the interview between Karen Bookatz and Love from Heeb:

Thanks.
Oh, and I have a question, totally off of the topic. In terms of real estate, like, a Williamsburg girl like you, what do you think about that West Village, um, thing that Gwyneth and Scarlett said? I mean, do you think that like, okay, this is going to sound retarded: Am I too famous to live in the West Village? Or, is it OK?

Um, the West Village is like, really awesome, and like really beautiful and quaint. Like who else lives there? Liv [Tyler] and Sarah Jessica [Parker]. . .
Kyle [Maclaughlin] lives there, Michael [Stipe] lived there. Now he lives in SoHo, but Julie, well she’s not famous. Doesn’t Drew [Barrymore] live there?

I thought she lived in the East Village. I lived in the East Village for three years, and I used to see Drew and Chloë [Sevigny]. . .
The East Village is so funny now. I mean, in the ’80s, the East Village was really scary. Now it’s like a trustafarian Disneyland.

Yeah, that’s why I sort of moved out. But for your purposes, the West Village is cool.
My purposes are to be safe. I don’t have to go out every fucking night.

5 comments:

Jeremiah Moss said...

i totally, like, oh my god, thought that you, like, totally wrote that shit, you know, at the end? for fuck's sake, like totally.

The Corsair said...

Kofi's 15 minutes. I remember he really objected to being called homeless, then he fell off the map. That was in the middle of Court Love's slow, morbid breakdown in 2004 when she appeared on the Howard Stern show and declared that Ted Nugent had sex with her at, like, 13 years of age when she was a groupie.

Anonymous said...

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the comment...I guess Kofi's T-shirt business didn't take of...?

Anonymous said...

...take OFF...Jeez.

Anonymous said...

I think more Black guys should be licking more white women's breast. But New York is still gonna be New York.... Maybe I should move to Oregon or washington state where normal white women live.