March 2012
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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via blackmarksonpaper)
Mar 1st
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February 2012
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Feb 29th
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“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately...”
– ― Chuck Klosterman (via dylanlenz)
Feb 28th
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“In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via hgrahamcracker)
Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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NYZD: Klosterman's intro to a fun piece about the... →
“I started to wonder if maybe I’d spent more time worrying about Van Halen than any reasonable man should, and if maybe I’d written more sentences about Van Halen than any member of society could possibly need. I thought to myself, Maybe I should just quietly enjoy this music. Maybe this should…
Feb 25th
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“There are two ways to look at life. Actually, that’s not accurate; I suppose...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (via maiziyada)
Feb 24th
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“For all Reed’s insistence that he didn’t care what the critics...”
– Huffington Post on how Klosterman’s critique on Lulu might be more influential than the record itself.
Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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“If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur (via orasunset)
Feb 22nd
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“I hate punk rock. Actually, that’s not true; I kind of like punk rock,...”
– Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (via thechocolatebrigade)
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Klosterman on Klosterman: Just the Way You Are →
klostermanonklosterman: CK: “He has no intrinsic coolness, and he has no extrinsic coolness. Yet Billy Joel is great… unlike 99 percent of pop artists, there is absolutely no relationship between Joel’s greatness and Joel’s coolness (or lack thereof)… Every one of Joel’s important songs—including the happy…
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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“It’s all too easy to get attention by making yourself dead. I was trying to get...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via emptygirl)
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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A Girl and a Bear: Coldplay →
girlandabear: “Fake love is a very powerful thing. That girl who adored John Cusack once had the opportunity to spend the weekend with me in New York at the Waldorf-Astoria, but she elected to fly to Portland instead to see the first U.S. appearance by Coldplay, a British pop group whose success derives from…
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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“I hate punk rock. Actually, that’s not true; I kind of like punk rock,...”
– Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (via thechocolatebrigade)
Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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I’m also upping the frequency of the posts. If there’s something you want to be on this blog or you think other Klosterman fans should know about (such as your Klosterman-esque project or something) then feel free to submit. Have a nice day, ya’ll.
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“Luck features two major 20th-century actors (Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte), a...”
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Feb 16th
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Wait, what? Chuck Klosterman on Chip Kelly's... →
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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the unbearable lightness of being steady: Unfunny... →
theelectricwindshield: A little boy is humiliated at the circus. A clown makes a sport of him, and the audience laughs. As a result, the boy spends his entire adult life trying the invent the funniest, cleverest comebacks for every kind of social embarrasment. The boy even travels to Tibet(?) to study the ancient art of…
Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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“At the time I wrote this story, Jade Nielson was perceived as the hippest person...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Chuck Klosterman IV (via grandforksnorthdakota)
Feb 11th
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stream of consciousness: hypertheticals →
vivalakellixo: You die from natural causes. You ascend toward a warm, white light. You immediately realize you have entered the afterlife…and (much to your surprise) it is exactly like the cliched, kindergarten version of Christian Heaven. The ground is covered by white, cloud-like fog. Angels fly around you and…
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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“What I came to realize is that people need their actions to be scrutinized and...”
– Excerpt from ‘A Visible Man’, pg 144 (via allsique)
Feb 8th
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The Pitfalls of Indie Fame  →
jennlevo: On tUnE-yArDs and the perils of critical adoration
Feb 7th
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“I actually liked that Dr Pepper commercial, Rembert. At first, I was like, “In...”
– Chuck Klosterman. (via technicallycanadian)
Feb 6th
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Wait, what? Chuck Klosterman on Chip Kelly's... →
Feb 5th
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“Art and love are the same thing: it’s the process of seeing yourself in things...”
– Chuck Klosterman  (via amateurhourarts)
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Chuck Klosterman | Roman from Party Down | Social... →
Jan 30th
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“If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The...”
– - Chuck Klosterman, Eating The Dinosaur If you’re liberal (or a conservative who won’t get too offended with Klosterman’s comments), this book will make you laugh. Read it.  (via lindseydulla)
Jan 29th
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dreamslow: I will never forget the 1985 arrest of... →
I will never forget the 1985 arrest of Richard Ramirez, the infamous California “Night Stalker.” At one point in his court hearing, Ramirez held up his hand with a pentagram scrawled on the palm and hissed the word “Evil!” My cousin Greg and I were twelve when this happened, and we saw this…
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 24th
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