Courtney Love has begun getting exposed to media for finally getting off crack and having her second solo album Nobody’s Daughter ready to be released. As far as I read around and piecing things together, she finally got back in the shape due to her new discovery of  SGI practice.  I reckon this to be what US crack scene is epitomised: I know a lot of people who finally got off, got clean and sober for a year or more because of it. The funny thing about it was that it finally reached her. Let’s just hope she is sober enough or not too damaged by the long term use to know what she is at.

In the current issue of Heeb, on which she is the cover, she touches upon so many interesting things, if all too fleeting, such as if women can’t play music as guys do, it is because they are conditioned socially not be able to endure and focus time alone practicing and/or living in an unglamour life too long. Or too many distractions are there and they are wired, rather socially than biologically, just unlike people want to think.

I also find her practical and deliberate choice of stop taking antidepressant meds so interesting in the creative process of the album so that she would get ANGRY perpetually. So guess what they do when she is on them.

Coincidentally this reminds me of Evelyn Lau, who made a remark of  the same nature: she chose not to take those no matter how she got depressed because she was fundamentally afraid that she would not get to write, particularly poems, if she were on meds that ultimately are to soften her views of the world. Ditto.