Every now and then, Courtney Love likes to post rambly stuff on her MySpace blog. (Who uses MySpace anymore? Courtney, we guess.) To wit: posted sometime yesterday, this brilliant call for someone "super super crafty" to make high-end lacy something-or-others for Courtney's "apparel." Oh, and Court needs a backup singer in the studio, too...

(Current mood: determined)
i need a brilliant macrame or knitter for creation de beaute

anyone out there super super crafty or if not have an amazing lace collection i could buy? im looking for someone who can knit lace, now this is a very very very lost art, i think there may be two old czech ladies in hollywood who did beading for Bob Mackie who do it but i noted a Victorian Knitting Blog and i saw some really beauitiful designs, i dont want to spill too much but we have to create a sample because people have ZERO imagination and the people who are financing my apparrel certainly dont when i said body suits/tights and meant very very high end they sent me a brochure of like leg avenue wannabe pam andersons, NO NO NO, if you or anyone you know possesses this skill let me know at once - u shall be compensated and we in preproduction so HURRY ill also need the lightest most amazing tulle i think Mood just opened in la cos the tulle at isw is stiff and vile i mean strimpet and pink light as a cloud imagine a pair of tights youd sell for 600 dollars? you CANT? well leave that to me - i just dont want to cut up wedding dressings for something made of polyurethane in the end and id rather pay for the labor -= okay i have to order my vintage fix and chant! do well go to us search and pick rhode island hawaii any state and just stick in the cobains, i think were at 4500 properties now! genius! i wish i knew how to use craigs list or id just blog this in there but hey f*** it

also lissie is still in the running to sing on the record as adele got famous after i told perez after "homecoming": and now shes a;l huge -= i wonder if she has any clue how it occurred - i mean i hear this girl and me and jason put it on jukebox i tell perez who has great ears and he blogs twice and bam shes insta star! cool! if youve got a booootoful voice i wanna hear it i mean like melissa type higher than mine and you understand rock n roll - rollit on over to me girl were recording very very soon and would need you at rehearsal asap.

cmon my little otis hosiery obsessed child! come out come out! ill need apliques of cherry blossoms and cabbage roses and ivy and wisteria too, and vv reloux flowers too.........hmmmm..........and shreddd chiffon with distressed beading we can make in my sewing room soon there wont be a sewing room so hurry bebe.

love court

MTV News producer and local legend Daniel “Monty” Montalto passed along this little gem of reportage, about a woman who wrote her master’s thesis in women’s studies/public policy at George Washington University on “street harassment.” To learn more, she conducted an anonymous email survey of 225 women, and found that 98% were occasionally harassed on the street while a whopping 30% were regularly harassed.

CNN decided to dig deeper, and came up with women who argued both sides of the “catcalling” debate: some called it “street abuse,” while others shrugged it off as an awkward kind of compliment. Take this Los Angeleno who said, "Yeah, it's objectifying and all, but you know, if I walked down the street and didn't have men looking me up and down and catcalling, I'd think, 'Boy, I must really be getting old and dumpy.’”

Hmm…Is that healthy?

Pretty soon, Monty, Choose or Lose wonkette Michelle Rabinowitz, and I started with the emails:

DM: What I want to know is, why do they call it “catcalling”?

AM: Um...pussycat-calling?

DM: Does it really have something to do with the P word? Ew. They should give it a classy name, then it would be OK.

AM: Something classy like "street-complimenting"...

MR: “Vagina-praising.”

DM: “Verbal Confidence Vitamins.”

DM: This is the best part, though: “Often, Kearl says, an assertive, clear response can illicit a kinder reaction than one expects. ‘A lot of the time, I find guys will just say, Oh, OK, I didn't realize it made you feel that way. Thanks.’”

MR: I like to turn around and take their picture. It freaks them out.

So what do you think? Is it all right for men to call out the girls on the street? Is it unbelievably irritating -- and even serious disrespectful? Or do women sometimes overreact?

LA’s No Age are one of the most exciting bands around -- for evidence, look no further than their newly released album Nouns. I’m also happy to say they are committed, resolute vegans, and have been so for years -- Dean Spunt since he was 15, with Randy Randall jumping on board a few years after that.

As a vegan myself, I often tell people that the move from meat-eating to vegetarian is much easier than the one from vegetarian to vegan. If you’re willing to make a steady diet out of pasta and pizza, no matter where you are, you can pretty much avoid meat. Avoiding pasta, cheese, eggs, and all animal products is another matter. It ain’t easy -- especially if you spend much time, oh, say, anywhere between NY’s East Village and Berkeley, CA.

No Age spend much of their time on the road, where dining options often range from McDonald’s to KFC, and somehow manage to stick to a vegan diet all the time. When I spoke to them a few weeks back, they were having none of the bitching about how “difficult” that choice is. Said Dean, “People always ask us, ‘Isn’t it hard to be vegan on the road?’ and we’re always like, ‘No, not at all.’ I mean, sometimes you have to go to a grocery store and buy some fruits and vegetables, but other than that….no.”

As for “cheating” with the occasional bite of cheese, Randy doesn’t stand for it. “I mean, who am I cheating?” he asked. “It’s a choice I made, and it’s something that I enjoy doing and I find value in it.”

It’s the “enjoy doing” part that meat eaters have a huge problem wrapping their heads around. I constantly encounter the assumption that I must be miserable not eating meat, since I am “denying myself” so much gastronomic pleasure. “Right,” Randy agreed, “like you’re depriving yourself of something. And it’s like, ‘No, I’m actually enjoying the best parts of food...’”

And honestly, Dean said, often it’s non-animal consumers who are more adventurous. “When I decided to go vegan, food opened up a whole new world,” he told me. “It was like, Thai food, Ethiopian food, Indian food -- I didn’t even know about those things before, you know?”

“The choices in food being vegan are so much more infinite than being a close-minded, suburban meat eater,” Randy chimed in. “Leaving fast food behind and exploring new cultures in food was a lot more interesting.”

Two British teens accused of murdering a 20-year-old British woman because she was a goth were given life sentences this week.

On a very early August morning last year, Sophie Lancaster was walking through a park in Bacup, Lancashire, with her boyfriend Robert Maltby, 21, when they were attacked by a group of five teenage boys, ranging in age from 15 to 17. According to reports, the couple had been targeted in the past because they were goth. Both were so brutally assaulted that they were left comatose. Robert recovered, but Sophie died two weeks later from her serious head injuries.

Brendan Harris, 15, and Ryan Herbert, 16, were sentenced to life, while the other three teens involved will serve 4 to 6 years each.

In delivering his sentence, Judge Anthony Russell stated that "your behavior on that night degrades humanity itself...This was a hate crime against these completely harmless people targeted because their appearance was different to yours."

During the sentencing, a statement by Sophie's boyfriend Robert was read to the court in which he wrote, "I'm finding the whole world a terrifying place."

Judge Russell went on to defend the goth community, calling goths "perfectly peaceful, law-abiding people who pose no threat to anybody."

Blame it on increasing alienation due to IM's, eHarmony, and your Facebook profile (whatever), but Americans are apparently becoming more and more public about a little something called "cuddle parties."

A cuddle party is different from, say, when a guy tells you "he just wants to cuddle," etc. They're not sexual. And they're catching on like wildfire! At least according to this one CBS Philly-area report. (Wow, the video will make you go blind -- in that hands-off-the-privates kind of way.)

But see, we here at MTV News are totally ahead of the cultural curve. For reals. Last year we reported on the growing online "asexual" community -- many of whom are healthy 20-somethings who claim they simply have no desire for sexual intercourse. And plenty of them throw down at cuddle parties all the time! There's even such a thing, we were told, as a "cuddle slut."

Check out the clip above, and tell us what you think...