Introduction: Through the looking glass

Act I: Magic. Dreamscape #1: Even the good girls will cry ; Dreamy frontline feminist ; The saint and the wall ; The city, she raised me ; Late bloomer, music lover ; Moving in new directions ; A couch to crash on, a beer bottle, and the apology ; 1991: the song that changed everything ; Dreamscape #2: 3D sound ; Grounding the fairy ; Vermont and the satin minidress ; Sunburst precision ; Death rears its head ; One-way ticket to Seattle ; Nick Auf der Maur column interlude #1: "Bass guitar indulgence turned out to be a great investment"

Act II: Music. Melissa's dream of the '90's playlist ; The self-destruct tour: Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson ; Live through this tour: 1994-1995 ; Warrior goddess ; Sensory overload ; Nick Auf der Maur column interlude #2: "On tour with my daughter, the rock star from Ca-na-da" ; Down under ; Hole goes to therapy and gets unplugged ; Engaging with Hole ; The abscess and the French hospital ; Funny shit and the smoking vagina ; Hole is a band; Courtney Love is a soap opera ; The Arctic Circle, Madonna, and MTV ; The witch of New Orleans ; For love and honor ; Rhythm-section sisters

Act III: Death. Sick Nick and music on the rise ; Nick Auf der Maur column interlude #3: "Kurt Cobain had a shotgun, and I had cigarettes" ; Making Celebrity Skin ; My bass and the rise of the digital soul-sucking machine ; Romantic-comedy interlude: A play in three acts, starring Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Ben Stiller, and Owen Wilson (with a cameo by Jim Carrey) ; The Hollywood Hills and my father's halo ; Introducing: death ; Montreal's daughter in mourning ; Dance with death ; Dreamscape #3: Your emptiness is calling me ; The drummer and the bass player ; High-fashion interlude: Milano Fashion Week, Fall 1998 ; My drug? Crushes ; First loves save the day ; Courtney says goodbye ; Out of a Hole, into a Pumpkin ; Trapped in mythological webs and shadows ; Dear Billy ; End of an era ; It's the end of the world as we know it

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