Okay, so about a month back, Courtney Love was sprawling all over the tabloids again (like she does), this time denouncing and threatening to “sue the **** out of Activision” for including Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5. Kurt Cobain, for those of you lucky enough to have skipped 1993 and all those baggy flannel shirts somehow, was the guitarist and vocalist for Seattle trash rockers, Nirvana. He shot himself sometime in 1994, presumably after taking a listen to his band’s catalogue while not junked out of his mind on crack and heroin, or perhaps when he suddenly realised he’d married Courtney Love while junked out of his mind on crack and heroin.

“and you wonder about Guitar Hero 5 disgusted? welcome to my NIGHTMARE. yeah well sue activision this is disgusting, but theres alot MORE”

Courtney’s learned to Twitter, although she’s evidently still working hard at stuff like functional literacy.

“ucking nmegafraud and youve got to show for it Kurt LUNCHBOXES< CONVERESE SNEAKERS AND ACTIVISION SMUGLY BOASTING OF RAPE”

Anyway, Allied codebreakers over at Bletchley Park managed to figure out that, according to Ms Love, she’d never agreed to Activision including her ex-hubby’s likeness in the game, and was thoroughly scandalised that this avatar could be manipulated into performing renditions of Nickelback songs or something. I get the Nickelback thing, I suppose, although it does do something rather clever with the old aphorism, “Death before dishonour”.

Activision promptly riposted with all the proper documentation, and all the indisputable legal authority of stuff like Courtney Love’s own signature on the permission applications, and it looked like the woman was going to have to extort her crack cash from some other sucker instead.

But now the whole thing’s turned up again, with Activision suddenly pulling big red Cease & Desist cards on some YouTube guy’s posted videos of Cobain doing a bunch of Bon Jovi stuff in Guitar Hero 5. No less suspicious because they’re seemingly not bothered at all by the zillion other not-with-Cobain Guitar Hero 5 videos posted on the site.  Uh-oh, looks rather like a precursor to a content patch, doesn’t it? Which kinda proves that, even if you’re an outrageous, vile, irrepressibly stupid and egregious waste of carbon, you can still get your own way if you’re loud enough. Perhaps it’s time I invested in a megaphone.

Pffft, what the hell was Kurt Cobain doing in Guitar Hero, anyway? His entire repertoire consisted of, like, three power chords. I vote they chuck him for Alexi Laiho instead. WHO’S WITH ME?

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