Did you first meet Courtney, and this is Courtney Love, did you-I’ve heard-because we’re here in Canada. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. I heard a rumor, I think I might have read it in Interview Magazine, that Kurt and Courtney at a D-
Kurt- [cough] [cough] [cough]…[cough-cough, cough] [cough]
Courtney-Stop! That’s rude.

Aaa.. Did you first meet at a D.O.A. gig? In Portland, Oregon?
Kurt- Um-hmm. (Curt slyly flips off Nardwuar while holding pizza slice)
Courtney- [Laughs]

So there is really a Canadian connection then.
Kurt- Wasn’t it No Means No?… It was one of our shows!
Courtney- D.O.A.
Kurt- It was our show… It was my show. I played with D.O.A. a couple of times. I don’t remember where.

But was that-wa-was-so Canadian connection, a Canadian band has something to do with Kurt and Courtney.
Kurt- Like, yes. I don’t, honestly I don’t remember which show it was.
Courtney- I was too drunk.
Kurt- Me too.

1) http://www.nirvanaclub.com
"Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love first met in 1989 at a Nirvana gig in Portland, Oregon…the pair didn’t get together for another two years when they met again in 1991, after Dave Grohl, being a friend of Courtney, had introduced them to eachother."

2)Nirvana: The Day to Day Illustrated Journals by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna.
Page 31-"January 21, 1989: Nirvana opened for the Dharma Bums at the Satyricon club in Portland…[Courtny’s] quoted in a 1992 Sassy story that she saw them play in Portland in 1988, but the band never played that town in that year…"
Page 69-"May 29, 1991: Nirvana plays a last-minute show at the Jabberjaw in Los Angeles with I Own the Sky openeing up. In the audience was Iggy Pop and Courtney Love with her good friend Jennifer Finch, L7’s bassist and Dave Grohl’s girlfriend. Flipside writer Carlos ‘Cake’ Nunez, who’s a big collector of Nirvana bootlegs too, has a tape of the show where you can hear Courtney jokingly yelling out, ‘Jennifer loves you, Kurt!’"

3)Courtney Love: Queen of Noise by Melissa Rossi. Page 96-"Courtney had already made a point of befriending Nirvana’s handsome drummer, Dave Grohl, a former beau of her old friend Jennifer Finch. Being pals with Dave was an easy way to keep tabs on Kurt. Courtney and Dave soon became fast phone friends, talking for hours…She mentioned to him that she had a big crush on Kurt; Dave confided that, despite his seeming ambivalence, Kurt had a crush on her. Through Dave she passed a present on to Kurt [Ed. note: A heart-shaped box]…Page 97-"That May at a Butthole Surfers and L7 concert in Los Angeles…At the show that night, according to Everett True, a reporter for the popular British music paper Melody Maker, Courtney was ‘off her head…forcing whisky down my throat and rampaging wild.’…Midway through the interview Courtney even called her manager to brag that Everett was madly in love with her. But that night she had another man on her mind-Kurt-and he was there."

4) Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story by Dave Thompson. Page 110-"Courtney’s introduction to the Nirvana camp came via Jennifer Finch, who in turn was friends with Dave Grohl…"

5) Courtney Love the Real Story by Poppy Z. Brite. Page 107- "In winter 1990, Courtney started having long phone conversations with Dave Grohl, Nirvana’s drummer and one of Jennifer Finch’s boyfriends…During one of their talks, Courtney let slip that she had a crush on Kurt…Dave told Courtney that Kurt liked her too, and that Kurt was miserable after a recent breakup with his girlfriend, Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail" Page 108-"Encouraged by the breakup and by Dave’s revelation, she put together a special package for Dave to give Kurt."

1) Who Willa Cather was and why she mattered to the history of America

2) Why I had spots on my posterior. (I still remember the article headline: "I don’t mean to gross you out but why do I have zits on my butt?"

*raises glass*