Classic or Dud: Chuck Klosterman

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i read this at my mom's book store.

in a small footnote in his new book he calls Killdozer a "shitty Communist grindcore band". i don't even like Killdozer much and that pissed me off.

i don't hate everything he's written, but any charm his writing schtick might've originally had is non-existent now.

― how much, latebloomer? (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Klosterman in German actually MEANS men who cluster nervously. in the dark. with no dogs around.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I knew I could depend on ILM to find 18 ways to shred even a frivolous little FOB piece like that : )

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU KNEW WE WOULD LEAVE A TREAT FOR YOU!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"Yeah, but Klosterman has never been banned from here, so he's got one on you there..."

touche, mister wheelie, touche...

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

which is as cool as being drunk at Barnes & Noble.

Totally underrated.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Klusterf#$k things RadioHead is great? Then I really do think he's a wank...

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll defer to your expertise in the field.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

SPEAKING OF WANK IT"S YOU AGAIN PEW PEW

Also--WTF with reading in bars? who cares?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.angelfire.com/wi2/animepics/images/kings/zoi07.jpg

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Paul Edward Wagemann: where do you live (and why do they let you)?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone should start a thread w/that title but then maybe it'd encourage him.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

he'd just give a link to his "blog" (i.e. myspace page)

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I still haven't seen that.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess he's not been working hard enough with promo then

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wherever I lay my hat is my home...and no one 'lets Wagemann live' Wagemann lets them live...

Mr. Que, you are welcome to read my blog and post any comments there. I'm always interested in feedback.

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I think my favorite bars each violate at least a couple of those rules.

And, from someone who has walked across a parking lot from a brew pub to a Barnes and Noble many times, I would have to say that drunken magazine browsing and bookbuying is seriously underrated.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr. Que, you are welcome to read my blog

Oh fuck it, PappaWheelie OTM

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And, from someone who has walked across a parking lot from a brew pub to a Barnes and Noble many times, I would have to say that drunken magazine browsing and bookbuying is seriously underrated.

you got that right, Amigo...eating tacos when you are drunk is pretty underrated too...IMO.

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's Bill Maher interviewing Klosterman on his show. Maher is a typical douchebag.

http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-Rock-City-Odyssey-Dakota/dp/0743406567/sr=8-1/qid=1159547518/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1444821-4239222?ie=UTF8&s=books

― darin (darin), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://69.93.254.120/G/storage/site1/files/24/66/59/246659_410329b8e9d154xunst206.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, and he and ultragrrl got 3 of the same results. Terrifying.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

he looks like elton john after a horrifying car wreck

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

can't see why corey feldman didn't come up as a result, that's like 97% right there

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Quick, someone run Wagemann's pic through that thing.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm on it

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it just me, or does Chuck Klosterman look kinda like a toasted teacake?

http://www.uga.edu/union/Pics/I&I%20pics/klosterman.jpg
Toasted teacake

http://www.mrsomalleys.co.uk/images/large/110056l_LRG.jpg
Chuck Klosterman

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://69.93.254.120/G/storage/site1/files/24/70/69/247069_105418a32ad154rkhaf804.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF?!

Whole E Shit

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

BONO HOLY SHIT

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

who the hell is Arnold Bax?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm in awe of the George Clooney/matt LeBlanc/Gregory Peck connection on someone that is obv slimey/nerdy/buzz aldriny

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm disappointed that Klosterman got so much charles bronson

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.uga.edu/union/Pics/I&I%20pics/klosterman.jpg http://pages.prodigy.net/pizzabagel/_images/Anne_Robinson.jpg http://pages.prodigy.net/pizzabagel/_images/Harry_Potter.jpg

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder why Janet Reno didn't pop up...

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

he looks more like a gen-x Truman Capote. Which he may well be...

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

no way. capote 10000x cooler looking than klosterman

I've seen Klosterman up close and personal, and he sure don't look like this:

http://www.aldeaeducativa.com/IMAGES/capote.jpg
http://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0679643109.jpg

And so far as I know, he never wandered around the Spin offices wearing a velvet cape. But I could be wrong.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.newyorknetguide.com/Zim/Dir/SALLYJESSEE.JPG

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

klosterman fits perfectly into my theory about radiohead, wilco and the impotence of modern bourgeois liberalism.

gypsy mothra did you ever lay out this theory of yours? I remember you mentioning it before in a thread about Dave Eggers ages ago.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Saturday, 30 September 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

not here i don't think. i went into it on another messageboard once, but i realized i'd have to write 5,000 words to really figure out what i meant. and probably nobody would read it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 30 September 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Nabisco: mildly defending Chuck Klosterman from ILM's pitchforks and torches since 2003.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

I'm a little surprised that the dude doesn't post here.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

is this guy like still a thing? i had him written off like neal pollack or something

― adam, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

dud

― cryfok, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Chucky gives Chinese Democracy an A-

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews

― oscar, Thursday, 20 November 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh, weird. He's all beardo now but still wearing the conspicuous thick-rimmed indie specs of his "toasted teacake" period. What's the cultural significance of this?! Also, A-minus would have been the grade I'd have guessed Klosterman would have given Chinese Democracy, without having a) read a word he's written, or b) heard a note of the album in question. Does that mean a) I'm spooky clued-in, b) I'm a troll, or c) dud?

― staggerlee, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Now I have read a word Klosterman has written. I read the piece linked to above. The Chinese Democracy one. And I liked it very much. (Despite my having hated nearly every note Guns & Roses has produced since Appetite For Destruction, or, briefly, embarrassingly, Gn'R Lies, it almost makes me want to hear the album. And I know how Klosterman feels about wanting to divine Axl's inscrutable motives; I have felt this about treasured artists' work on failed projects produced under intense scrutiny, and sadly I'm too drunk to remember what they were.) I'm sorry I was so foolish in my previous post and I repent. Classic?

― staggerlee, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link

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