Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The First 3 Hole Albums Vs. Ti West's 'X' Trilogy
Wrote this back in February, just gonna publish it now: The other day I was staring at some yellow flowers in Southern California. A bee was languidly resting on a petal when suddenly as I sipped coffee, out of the blue I theorized that the recent X horror trilogy about the perils of fame and ambition coincide strikingly well with the arc of the first three classic Hole albums. "In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star." That quote, attributed to screen legend Bette Davis, opens the third film in Ti West's X trilogy. Sometimes in entertainment, no matter what you do, some people will think you're an angel and some a devil. You can start out a baby doll, end up with fractured doll parts or celebrity skin, but whatever you do you are damned if you do or don't. Courtney in ' Straight To Hell' (1987) I have heard people say Courtney is an angel. Others say she is a trainwreck and a monster or stole money from a door g...
