My new bible

Chuck Klosterman is my savior. Seriously.

Who knew such a man would have such a huge impact on my life.



I just started reading his book, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, over the weekend. Fucking genius. The first chapter alone basically describes the past couple weeks of my life.



An excerpt to enjoy:

"It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. For upwardly mobile women in their twenties and thirties, John Cusack is the neo-Elvis. But here's what none of these upwardly mobile women seem to realize: They don't love John Cusack. They love Lloyd Dobler. When they see Mr. Cusack, they are still seeing the optimistic, charmingly loquacious teenager he played in Say Anything, a movie that came out more than a decade ago. That's the guy they think he is; when Cusack played Eddie Thomas in America's Sweethearts or the sensitive hit man in Grosse Pointe Blank, all his female fans knew he was only acting...but they assume when the camera stopped rolling, he went back to his genuine self...which was someone like Lloyd Dobler...which was, in fact, someone who is Lloyd Dobler, and someone who continues to have a storybook romance with Diane Court (or with Ione Skye, depending on how you look at it). And these upwardly mobile women are not alone. We all convince ourselves of things like this -- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time. This is why I will never be completely satisfied by a woman, and this is why the kind of woman I tend to find attractive will never be satisfied by me. We will both measure our relationship against the prospect of fake love."

I swear...I'm pretty sure this guy can do no wrong. In my eyes, he totally walks on water. I'll be done reading this book in a couple days, that's for certain.

I actually read another book of his, a novel called Downtown Owl, which was pretty darn awesome as well. Definitely had a twisted ending that I wasn't expecting, but I won't give that away to you folks.


Anyway, I would recommend either of the aforementioned books to anybody. Specifically the first one...AMAZING so far.

Song of the day: "Heart Like Mine" Miranda Lambert ("cause I heard Jesus, he drank wine, and I bet we'd get along just fine...")