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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Book #17 of my 2005 for me was Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman. I read Klosterman's first book Fargo Rock City about a year ago, and while I found it very entertaining at times, I also felt the topic (Heavy Metal) started to get a bit tedious as the pages wore on. With SD&CP, Klosterman has fixed the formula by making each chapter an each essay on a fresh topic. The result is a hilarious collection of pop culture goodness that will keep you laughing from the first page to the last.

To give you an idea of the kinds of things Klosterman writes about, here's a quick summary of some of the topics addressed in each essay:

  • Chapter 1 - How mass media ruined our concept of a healthy relationship
  • Chapter 2 - Why The Sims is post-modern art
  • Chapter 3 - Why everyone acts like characters from MTV's The Real World
  • Chapter 4 - Why Billy Joel is great
  • Chapter 5- Why being in a Guns N' Roses cover band is a good gig
  • Chapter 6 - Why Pamela Anderson is our generation's Marilyn Monroe
  • Chapter 7 - Why soccer sucks
  • Chapter 8 - How the Celtics-Lakers rivalry in the 80's is a metaphor for everything in life
  • Chapter 9 - How porn drives technology
  • Chapter 10 - The relationship between cold cereal and sexual frustration
  • Chapter 11 - Why Saved By The Bell rules
  • Chapter 12 - Why Star Wars is overrated
  • Chapter 13 - Why Vanilla Sky didn't suck as much as everyone thought
  • Chapter 14 - Why the Dixie Chicks are the new Van Halen
  • Chapter 15 - What's it like to go to high school with a future serial killer?
  • Chapter 16 - Why there is no conspiracy in the media
  • Chapter 17 - Debunking the EMP Pop Music Studies conference
  • Chapter 18 - The rapture and why being a fundamentalist would be pretty cool.

posted by Jamie at 12:10 AM