Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

by Chuck Klosterman

But what was so intriguing about this guy was that he intended to turn his pastime into a full-time job; he hoped to make a living by looking like Morrissey’s clone. However, he didn’t have much of a strategy for making this a reality. I remember asking him, “How will you earn money by looking like Morrissey, considering that you don’t do anything else?” He said, “Oh, I don’t know. I’m sure I could do in-store appearances around Los Angeles and San Francisco whenever a new Morrissey album is released.” This seemed like a dangerous career move, particularly since Morrissey once went eight years without releasing an album. “That’s a good point,” he said when I mentioned that fact. “Maybe I’ll have to do in-store appearances for Johnny Marr solo albums, too.”