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Lester Bangs and the Nature and Purpose of Rock 'n' Roll: A Eulogy for My Imaginary Deadbeat Boyfriend Who Willl Never Love Me
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32PM
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Lester Bangs by far my favorite rock writer. I wrote most of this about ten months ago. Last week I saw "I'm Not There," and was so insanely inspired by it that I came home and finally finished this crazy thing.
It's severely insane.

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