Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Finally, I want to publicly apologize to anyone who ended up getting mentioned in this book simply because they had the misfortune of knowing me (either in the present or in the past). I’m not sure what compels me to ruin all our lives; I guess that’s just the way I am. Sorry.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

AC/DC

Ainge, Danny

Akron, Ohio

“All for Leyna” (Joel)

Allen, Tim

Allen, Woody

“Allentown” (Joel)

Ally McBeal

An Innocent Man (Joel)

Anderson, Pamela

Anderson, P.T.

Anderson, Wes

Apocalypse Now

Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’Roses)

archetypes: Harry-Met-Sally situation; Hitchcock movies; movies and; Odd Couple relationship; The Real World ; sexual, television; Woody Allen

Arm, Mark

At Budokan (Cheap Trick)

Backderf, John

Banks, Tyra

baseball

basketball, life compared; Lakers-Celtics rivalry

Beatles

Being John Malkovich

Berkley, Elizabeth

Berman, David

Bettencourt, Nuno

Bible Code, The(Drosnin)

Big Brother

Bird, Larry

Black, Clint

Black Flag

Black Sabbath

Blixt, Jon

Bon Jovi

Born in the U.S.A. (Springsteen)

“Born to Run” (Springsteen)

Boston Celtics

Bowie, David

Braae, Michael

Breakfast Club, The

Bridge, The (Joel)

Bright Lights, Big City

Brownstein, Carrie

Buckingham, Lindsey

Buckley, Jeff

Buckner, Bill

Bunim, Mary-Ellis

Burke, Solomon

Cameron, Kirk

Canseco, José

Carey, Mariah

Carter, Vince

Cash, Johnny

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

celebrity; journalism

cereal, cold breakfast

Cheap Trick

Cherone, Gary

Chinese Democracy (Guns N’Roses)

Christgau, Robert

“Close to the Borderline” (Joel)

Cocoa Puffs

Coldplay

consciousness

consumerism

coolness; cold cereal; Cusack, John, movies; pop music artists

Coomes, Sam

Coppola, Francis Ford

Costello, Elvis

Cougar, John

Creel, Leanna

Cross Purposes (Black Sabbath)

Crowe, Cameron

Cruise, Tom

Cruz, Penelope

Cusack, John

Dahmer, Jeffrey

Dallas Mavericks

death

Dean, James

depression; consumerism and, lyrics and; 1980s and, 1990s and; The Sims character and

Diamond, Dustin

Diaz, Cameron

DiMaggio, Joe

Dirt, The (Mötley Crüe)

Dischner, Paul

“Divorce Song” (Phair)

Dixie Chicks

Dixon, Glenn

Donnie Darko

“Don’t Drive Drunk” (Wonder)

Dougher, Sarah

Dr. Feelgood (Mötley Crüe)

Drosnin, Michael

drugs: Celtics-Lakers; conversations, parties, and; rock bands; rock music

Dukes of Hazzard

Dylan, Bob

Earle, Steve

Easy Rider

Ebert, Roger

Eggers, Dave

Electronic Arts

Eminem

Empire Strikes Back, The

“Eruption” (Van Halen)

Estevez, Emilio

“Every Day Is a Winding Road” (Crow)

eXistenZ

Experience Music Project (EMP)

Explaining Hitler (Rosenbaum)

Extreme

Facts of Life, The

fantasy, movies and romantic

Farrar, Jay

feminism

52nd Street (Joel)

Fight Club

Five Easy Pieces

“Folsom Prison Blues” (Cash)

football (NFL)

Free, World B.

Gacy, John Wayne

Garcia, Mario

Generation Ecstasy (Reynolds)

Generation X

Ghost World

“Girlfriend” (Sweet)

Glass Houses (Joel)

Gleiberman, Owen

“Glory Days” (Springsteen)

GNR Lies (Guns N’ Roses)

Godfather, The,

Gony, Kelly

“Goodnight Saigon” (Joel)

Gosselaar, Mark-Paul

Graham, Sylvester

Grease

Guns N’ Roses; tribute band

Gyllenhaal, Jake

Hagar, Sammy

Halberstam, David

Hamill, Mark

Happiness

Happy Days

Haskins, Dennis

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A (Eggers)

“Helter Skelter” (Beatles)

Henderson, Gerald

Hitchcock, Alfred

homeless people

homosexuality

“Honesty” (Joel)

Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin)

Hurley, Elizabeth

“I Don’t Want to Be Alone Anymore” (Joel)

“I’m Goin’ Down” (Springsteen)

“Immigrant Song” (Led Zeppelin)

“Instant Pleasure” (Wainwright)

Internet; pornography

“It’s So Easy” (Guns N’ Roses)

“It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” (Joel)

Iverson, Allen

“Jack and Diane” (Cougar)

Jane’s Addiction

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Jenkins, Jerry B.

Jeter, Derek

Jewel

Joel, Billy

John, Elton

Johnson, Calvin

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, “Magic”

Jones, George

Jones, K. C.

Jordan, Michael

Jung, Carl

Junod, Tom

“Just the Way You Are” (Joel)

Kaczynski, Ted

Keith, Toby

Kellogg, John and William

Kennedy, John F.

Kidman, Nicole

Kimmel, Jimmy

King, Carole

KISS

Knack

Lacey, Washington

LaHaye, Tim

Landry, Tom

“Laura” (Joel)

Led Zeppelin

Lee, Tommy

Left Behind (film)

Left Behind (Jenkins)

Linklater, Richard

Loeb, Lisa

Lopez, Dustin

Los Angeles Clippers

Los Angeles Lakers

Love and Theft (Dylan)

“Love Is a Battlefield” (Benatar)

Lowe, Rob

Lucas, George

Lynch, David

MacKaye, Ian

Madonna

Madman Across the Water (John)

Mailer, Norman

Maines, Natalie

Malkmus, Stephen

Man Show, The,

M*A*S*H

Maslow, Abraham

math

Mathis, Clint

Matrix, The

Maxwell, Cedric “Cornbread,”

“Maybe I’m Amazed” (McCartney)

McCarthy, Andrew

McCarthy, Jenny

McCartney, Paul

McHale, Kevin

McVeigh, Timothy

Meat Loaf

media (print); anger at; awards; bias; celebrity journalism; editorial page; objectivity; page designers; reporters, effect of job; sports reporters; tabloids

Media Virus (Rushkoff)

Memento

Metallica

Miami Heat

Miller, Arthur

Minority Report

Monroe, Marilyn

Moody Blues

Moore, Demi

Morris, Desmond

Morrissey

Mötley Crüe

movies; author’s picks; criticism; cultural impact of; minor films; purpose; reality, explored in; reviews, value of; romantic expectations and; teen cultures, 1980s and; war with machines as theme

MTV: McCarthy, Jenny, The Real World

Mulholland Drive

Murray, Jon

Musburger, Brent

music: bluegrass; CD burning and; coolness greatness, pop artists; country; cultural impact of; drugs and; emotional manipulation and; Experience Music Project(EMP); grunge; lyrics; punk rock; rap; Real World, The use of; stereotypical feelings in; tribute bands; TV shows and groups; See also specific artists; groups

Mussolini, Benito

My So-Called Life

Nader, Ralph

Nash, Steve

Neis, Eric

Nelson, Judd

Nevermind (Nirvana)

New England Patriots

New Orleans Jazz

Newman, Randy

Nicholson, Jack

Nicks, Stevie

“Night Prowler” (AC/DC)

“Night Train” (Guns N’ Roses)

Night Without Armor, A (Jewel)