I hate Chuck Klosterman.
I’ve hated him ever since I picked up “Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” the summer I graduated high school. Here was this guy, this dude, with the gall to write about the dumbest things possible and make them seem important. The very same topics that consumed my life up until that point: popular music, blockbuster movies, sports, and terribly vapid reality shows like MTV’s Real World.
Klosterman took arguments from the lunch hall and writes about them as if they’re fundamental building blocks of our society. Does youth soccer promote kids to be outcasts and weirdos? Are Guns N Roses cover bands just as valid as whatever touring group Axl Rose is shambling around the country with? Why does everybody suddenly hate the Eagles after watching The Big Lebowski? Is it true that literally everything that will or will not happen in the universe is subject to a 50/50 roll of the dice?
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I hate Chuck Klosterman because there is no way I could possibly have a career in writing now. This guy has wormed his way into my brain and written about my dumb flights of fancy in a way that I could never even hope to achieve.
I hate Chuck Klosterman, but will read everything he writes. X is a collection of the best of his past ten year’s worth of work. It’s awesome.
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