false 24476 6 Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's <I>Shout at the Devil.</I> The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock -- his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet -- but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.<P> 1596506 2001 Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota total:2194|5:466|4:838|3:694|2:167|1:29| 2194 8127 3098 239 2 7 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 11:57:12 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 12:03:14 -0700 2008
The section on sexis...more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 17:59:41 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 21:13:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 4 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 18:50:36 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 18:52:58 -0700 2007 Chuck Klosterman. I’ve read all his books (I left this one till last, because it’s about heavy metal and that’s not a subject I’m desperately interested in) and I think he’s frequently incredibly funny and often very insightful. But man, does h...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Dec 31 14:24:59 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 14:28:51 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 19 08:08:13 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 09:08:20 -0700 2008 I think what made me like it more is that I can somewhat re...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 27 04:41:16 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 05:04:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 12:37:26 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 12:44:22 -0700 2007
The premise is ambitious, and therefore admirable: An entire book about heavy metal from 1980-1990. Essenti...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 11:44:37 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 10:32:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 07 13:03:45 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 03:42:44 -0700 2008
This book is great to the degree that it is personal, artful and passionate about its subject, just as Elie Faure's treatment of the history of...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 06:28:15 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 06:30:39 -0700 2007
"Eddie (Van Halen) and Eric (Clapton) are certainly among the greatest rock guita...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 18:13:04 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 18:39:10 -0700 2009 Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, I decided to give the Klosterman canon a go until it wasn't worth it anymore. Fargo Rock City, my second Klosterman book (and his debut work) did not disappoint. Klosterman is a few years older than I am but we both claim...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Oct 09 05:31:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 05:32:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:45:26 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 06:45:40 -0700 2009
Exhibit 1:

It's also fun to get drunk and cry during "Open Arms," and maybe even call your ex-girlfriend...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:30:20 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 09:02:38 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 23:59:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 12:11:55 -0700 2009 1 Chuck Klosterman wraps a treatise on the cultural merits of heavy metal in a quasi-autobiographical story about coming of age during the 1980s and early 1990s. Klosterman laments that hard rock is underserved when it comes to critical reflection, and suggests that the bands he grew up listening to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 19:22:24 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 19:31:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 20 21:39:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 14:02:02 -0800 2009
Revisiting my misguided youth of rawkin' out to Motley Crue and Judas Priest at backwoods keggers is not something I like to do too often (it stirs up too ma...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 04 09:36:32 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 08:16:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 03 08:08:58 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 08:08:58 -0800 2009 b) so when i was little my mom worked in downtown fargo which was connected to the main library via skyway. the hotel that all th...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 31 11:43:19 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:43:46 -0700 2009 more...]]>