Indulgence

Yeah, I know I've posted about HOLE a lot in the past, but Courtney just came out with a new album (growing on me) and since I missed her on the Jimmy Kimmel show today (we were SIX SPOTS behind in line when they cut it off), I thought I'd allow myself this one INDULGENCE and post my favorite video of theirs ("Violet", off LIVE THROUGH THIS). Shit, it's not like anyone reads this fucking thing anyway.



Witness the rats and pickled eggs, the kiddie beauty queens and dirty old men, the women wrapping their legs around stripper poles like preying mantises. Most of all, it's got Courtney, in all her rage-filled glory, and this video caters in the aesthetics that for better or worse define her persona. I can't fucking help it, in her heyday she blew all these other bitches out of the water. She played ROCK MUSIC, not Sheryl Crow Top 40 "lite" b.s., not Madonna contrivance, but ROCK MUSIC. And she was crucified for it.

Whatever happened to chicks like her? Karen O. (who I love) is the closest modern-day, semi-mainstream artist I can think of that comes close. I'm sure there are others. Would a stage-diving hellion, howling from her very gut while playing a guitar and sporting smeared lipstick and ripped nylons (sorry for the platitudes, but still), ever make it on the neutered radiowaves of today? Yeah, I know they were neutered long ago, but the prospects now are more abysmal than ever.