10:17 pm - 05/12/2012
Courtney Love has revealed that she has invited actress Lindsay Lohan to join her spiritual chanting group.
Both the Hole rocker and the Hollywood actress are renowned for courting controversy, with Love recently hitting the headlines for allegedly relinquishing control of her late husband Kurt Cobain's image as well as apologising to her teenage daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, for claiming Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl tried to seduce her.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, however, the singer said that chanting was like a "religion" to her and helped keep her out of trouble, and also claimed that Lohan would be attending her next meeting.
She said: I chant. You can tell when I'm not doing it, I get in trouble and then [when] I am doing it, I don't get in trouble. It's really, really good for me. So, that's my religion.
Discussing Lohan, meanwhile, she added: "She's coming to my house to chant. But I don't speak to her very much. We have a mutual friend."
Love also said that she was eager to make a return to acting. The singer, whose film work includes roles in 1996's The People vs. Larry Flynt and 1999's Man On The Moon alongside Jim Carrey, said she was plotting her first return to the silver screen since starring in the 2002 flick Trapped. "I really want to [act again]," she said. "I got sent three screenplays that are green lit. I have a lot great support."
Last year, Love reportedly signed a deal to pen her own memoir. It is thought that the book will "set the record straight" about her marriage to Cobain, her career as a rock star and actress, and her relationships with other celebrities.
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Courtney Love: 'I've invited Lindsay Lohan to join my spiritual chanting group'
Courtney Love has revealed that she has invited actress Lindsay Lohan to join her spiritual chanting group.
Both the Hole rocker and the Hollywood actress are renowned for courting controversy, with Love recently hitting the headlines for allegedly relinquishing control of her late husband Kurt Cobain's image as well as apologising to her teenage daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, for claiming Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl tried to seduce her.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, however, the singer said that chanting was like a "religion" to her and helped keep her out of trouble, and also claimed that Lohan would be attending her next meeting.
She said: I chant. You can tell when I'm not doing it, I get in trouble and then [when] I am doing it, I don't get in trouble. It's really, really good for me. So, that's my religion.
Discussing Lohan, meanwhile, she added: "She's coming to my house to chant. But I don't speak to her very much. We have a mutual friend."
Love also said that she was eager to make a return to acting. The singer, whose film work includes roles in 1996's The People vs. Larry Flynt and 1999's Man On The Moon alongside Jim Carrey, said she was plotting her first return to the silver screen since starring in the 2002 flick Trapped. "I really want to [act again]," she said. "I got sent three screenplays that are green lit. I have a lot great support."
Last year, Love reportedly signed a deal to pen her own memoir. It is thought that the book will "set the record straight" about her marriage to Cobain, her career as a rock star and actress, and her relationships with other celebrities.
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Edited at 2012-05-12 09:04 pm (UTC)
She does need to return to acting - she was fucking great in Larry flynt
Most of the time they are so obnoxious as people
Edited at 2012-05-12 10:41 pm (UTC)
Also, kind of OT, but everytime I listen to George Harrison's music/read about his life, I want to check out the whole Hare Krishna thing. (They use chanting, btw.) Has anyone participated in this?
Others thoughts: http://www.minormogul.com/2012/01/holly
Courtney Love does the math
The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it. I’m not talking about Napster-type software.
I’m talking about major label recording contracts.
I want to start with a story about rock bands and record companies, and do some recording-contract math:
This story is about a bidding-war band that gets a huge deal with a 20 percent royalty rate and a million-dollar advance. (No bidding-war band ever got a 20 percent royalty, but whatever.) This is my “funny” math based on some reality and I just want to qualify it by saying I’m positive it’s better math than what Edgar Bronfman Jr. [the president and CEO of Seagram, which owns Polygram] would provide.
What happens to that million dollars?
They spend half a million to record their album. That leaves the band with $500,000. They pay $100,000 to their manager for 20 percent commission. They pay $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager.
That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split. After $170,000 in taxes, there’s $180,000 left. That comes out to $45,000 per person.
That’s $45,000 to live on for a year until the record gets released.
The record is a big hit and sells a million copies. (How a bidding-war band sells a million copies of its debut record is another rant entirely, but it’s based on any basic civics-class knowledge that any of us have about cartels. Put simply, the antitrust laws in this country are basically a joke, protecting us just enough to not have to re-name our park service the Phillip Morris National Park Service.)
So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos. The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band’s royalties.
The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.
The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion. You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations — the unified broadcast system — are getting paid to play their records.
All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band.
Since the original million-dollar advance is also recoupable, the band owes $2 million to the record company.
If all of the million records are sold at full price with no discounts or record clubs, the band earns $2 million in royalties, since their 20 percent royalty works out to $2 a record.
Two million dollars in royalties minus $2 million in recoupable expenses equals … zero!
How much does the record company make?
They grossed $11 million.
(more at the link http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/