Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Kurt Cobain entry #5

Chapter 7 mainly discusses Kurt Cobain's and Courtney Love's relationship. It was said that they looked and acted like 'Sid and Nancy', after the Sex Pistol's Sid Vicious and his his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

Chapter 7 also gives some insight as to Courtney's childhood, as far as moving around. She was born in San Francisco, moved to Oregon, New Zealand, England, back to Oregon, and within Oregon. This was during the first 15 years of her life. This chapter also looks into her personality. It was said that she was 'Loud', 'opinionated', and other wild adjectives. She had a VERY bad reputation.

Love and Cobain had gotten married on February 26, In Waikiki. (it does not specify what year). Both Love and Cobain were still heavily into smack (the street name for Heroin). Love had found out she was pregnant, and had stopped using. They had consulted a counselor; and the concensus was that if withdrawal is not too bad, a woman can keep using smack during her first trimester without serious harm to the baby. This, of course, did not get looked upon in a good manner. And an article had been published about Love, but it ended up being misunderstandings. When Frances Bean Cobain was born, Cobain and Love were legally prohibited from being alone with their own baby (at least for the first month). This was a heartbreaking period, and they even seriously contemplated suicide, but did not act on it.

Do you think that it was right for Love to use during her pregnancy? Do you think it was right for them to to be prohibited from Frances for a month?

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