look this is going to get awfully heavy awfully fast just to warn you and just to steal myself so let's

drag our feet on the awful heaviness just for a second here shall we i'm pretty sure she's

going to have the last word whenever it's time for last words in terms of like society's last words.

But here anyway, I want her to have the first word as well.

I think she's earned that.

So this is Courtney Love, singer, guitarist,

lyricist, world historical provocateur,

and not especially benevolent ringleader

of the Los Angeles rock band.

Hole.

Hole, as you might have guessed, that's a literary reference,

an ancient literary reference, Greek tragedy the play medea written by euripides euripides lived in the four hundreds bc approximately

kids from today should defend themselves against the four hundreds bc whole the band as the legend

goes whole is named in part after a line in Medea.

The line goes,

there is a hole that pierces right through me.

Fuck them up, Euripides.

So this is Courtney Love,

singing the second verse of Hull's second best song,

which is called Gutless.

Gutless is the second to last song on Hull's second album,

Live Through This, released in 1994. April, 1994, April 12th,

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