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[wickedflea]

Did you ever see Kurt and Courtney? It's a rotten movie, but worth watching just for some of the freaks they interview, like Courtney Love's scary father and the infamous El Duce of the Mentors. El Duce was funny as hell. Too bad he got hit by a train. (Check out that last link; I particularly like the sentence that reads, "His death was the result of being hit by a train in a state of alcoholic intoxication.")

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[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

the train was drunk when it hit him?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yup, it was WRECKED. You gotta watch out for those alcoholic locomotives.

[goatsupreme.livejournal.com]

Courtney Love is such trailer trash. She has a really ugly head too....not just an ugly face, an ugly head.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yup, she's very scary. I saw some footage of her getting naked at some big concert -- maybe Woodstock '99 -- and I thought, come on, those people don't deserve that abuse... ;)

Well...

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

It is quite obvious to me that Courtney Love seduced the train and plied it with alcohol to kill El Duce, to cover her tracks for the assassination of her husband, the patron saint of grunge and horse, Kurt Cobain.

It is so plain... how else could the train be in a state of alcoholic intoxication? Look on the travelling manifest, and there will be HOLE!

(LOL)

I love Hollywood conspiracy theories. El Duce sorta looked like Fatty Arbuckle on a tear. Loved that story in the dedications about him losing control of his bladder in a bar and slinging his urine soaked trousers against the wall. Real class there (heh)

Re: Well...

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

El Duce -- Renaissance Man. ;-)

El Duce, the Gentle Giant

[rampart-one.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I have my own El Duce and the Mentors story--exactly 14 years ago, I had a birthday party (that means today is my birthday). My birthday, way back when, coincided with an appearance by the aforementioned combo at our beloved and now defunct music venue called The Metroplex. A friend of mine, who was heavy into the hardcore/punk scene, befriended the Mentors and convinced them to follow him to the party. Although the detail of my memory is hazy (afterall, I was the birthday boy) but I remember El Duce as a kind, shirtless man who would attempt to crush the bones in your hand when you greeted him and who also warmed our hearts with his funny stories of torture and bodily functions. What I remember most is the constancy of his mantra to pass him the tequila bottle once again. Oh yeah, he also spit on the floor a lot--but we had hardwood floors and made no attempts to ask him to stop--I guess we felt it would be inhospitable (sorry about the pun)

Re: El Duce, the Gentle Giant

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Great story! That's a serious brush with greatness. :)

and happy birthday!

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I find it downright hilarious that Il Duce sent Mentors albums to the PMRC to become famous overnight.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I know, especially because it worked! Nobody would have ever heard of them if it hadn't been for the PMRC! (Until this Courtney Love thing, anyway.)

I have an El Duce story

[tupelo.livejournal.com]

Actually I have two but I will only tell one now. The whole way he got sucked into the Cobain thing was that he and the Reverend Bud Green, an LA pot activist guy, used to sell outlandish stories to the tabloids for money -- and that's one they sold that got out of hand, from what I understand.

Reverend Green was one of the first people I met when I moved to LA. He invited me to "worship with him" behind Raji's. I declined.

Re: I have an El Duce story

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

That's great! Hehehe -- it only took me about twenty minutes to figure out the significance of "Bud Green." ;)

I wonder if the tabloids would buy any of my outlandish stories...