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Courtney Love at the Perez Hilton SXSW party 2010

It's a big week for Courtney Love. Tomorrow is the major-label release of her five-years-in-the-making Nobody's Daughter. There're two Hole headlining shows at this week at Terminal 5, one late-night rendevous at Union Square Best Buy tonight. There's a couch/performance slot scheduled for tomorrow on The Late Show With David Letterman and Wednesday brings a likely bonkers guest stint on The View. The primary objective of these engagements is not only to move units, but also for Love to attempt to show she's cleaned up her life since her abominable solo failure America's Sweetheart, when she flashed Letterman on-air and later ended up in rehab. So there's a lot at stake here. As she recently told the Times, "I bet the farm on this record, which is dangerous, but great in a way, because when you do that, you have nowhere else to go. There is no Plan B."

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Nice cape, dude. Photo by Araceli Cruz.

​"The first thing that struck me was the boat," said Billy Corgan, onstage Saturday at the Rubin Museum, where he was being psychoanalyzed. In front of him was an image from C. G. Jung's The Red Book. The illustration was of a vessel at sea, with a spear-clutching man perched on its bow. Beneath swam a large fish with teeth. "I think Egypt...boat...death...crisis of doubt...the confrontation of faith. I think of the myth of Orpheus," Corgan said. "Do I need to be committed?"

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