Chucks: Klosterman Versus Eddy

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So I'm wrapping up the thoroughly enjoyable Fargo Rock City, and right at the epilogue there is a comment to the effect of "I don't mean to come over all Chuck Eddy, but...." which kinda yanked the stylus out of my groove, as it were, because it's a) kind of a dig, and b) kind of apropos of nothing.

Is there some kind of long-standing beef here that I don't know about? What gives?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this a Taking Sides?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, I think Chuck Klosterman actually was a fan of my writing (and he told me that much later on, when I met him). And he also compliments me someplace else in *Fargo*, I think (at least it seemed like a compliment to me, though I forget what he said). Hey -- we are both Chucks from the Midwest who liked hair-metal! And oh yeah, he also sent me the original version of the book (then called *Appetite For Deconstruction*, which I still own, in the original blue and black binders) long before he got a book contract for it. So no, as far as I'm aware, there has never been any beef. (Though I wish my two books sold as many copies as I get the idea that his two did!)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(He also wrote a couple *Voice* reviews for me a couple years ago, though I assume *Spin* keeps him way too busy for that nowadays.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

At least he didn't say "Man, I sure want to come all over Chuck Eddy"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah. Thank you!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

mental image yowsa! where's will smith with the memory erasing pen thing from MIB?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't want to read my script Holdin' Steady then. It's about four teenage rock critics in Minnesota in the late 80's who make a bet.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

a sexy bet.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't mean to come ~~over~~ ACROSS all Chuck Eddy, but...."

FIXED.

I think.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished the book yesterday....he made me feel like a churl for ignoring Cinderella's "Long Cold Winter" all these years.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

yanked the stylus out of my groove

Bahahaha

I thoroughly enjoy the writings of both (were Mr.Eddy only as prolific as Mr.Klosterman, whose THIRD book I'm currently finishing, "Killing Yourself to Live"), but both of them harbor inexplicable love for too many mediocre-at-best 80's metal bands.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and both guys are quite cool. I only met Mr. Eddy once -- at a FAP -- and he was entirely cool and gracious to one such as I. I've accosted Klosterman on occaision (in St.Mark's books....he was looking for his own book, which I thought was kinda sad), and he was quite cool as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yanked the stylus out of my groove

Bahahaha

Two unintentional sexual innuendos for the price of one! This is why I don't write reviews!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't want to read my script Holdin' Steady then. It's about four teenage rock critics in Minnesota in the late 80's who make a bet.

hahaha...

starring:
Keith Harris
Dylan Hicks
Peter S. Scholtes

and Jim Walsh as "Knothead"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"We're all going up to Brainerd."

Slam By Me
A Rob Reiner film

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr.Klosterman, whose THIRD book I'm currently finishing, "Killing Yourself to Live

i really really enjoyed this one. turns out this chuck is a novelist. who knew?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a novel, though. more like an extended remix of the SPIN piece on rock death sites.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

IF YOOOOOOOOOOU DON'T LIKE IT
HIT THA' ROAD 'CUZ I JUS-JUS-JUS DON'T CAAAAAAAAARE!

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)
it's totally a novel. it's a fictionalized memoir of the road trip he undertook for that spin piece, and if it's "about" anything, it's about himself and a trio of girlfriends. it's not, and it's not trying to be, a piece of journalism. it's not, and it's not trying to be, a work of non-fiction. it's a novel starring a guy named chuck who has shared a lot of experiences with the guy who wrote the book.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I'd been told otherwise.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

or at least remember being told otherwise, so it's down to faulty memory

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

All I know is that Keith Harris and I are in that book, identified as "drinking guy" (me) and "not-drinking guy" (Keith). Or so I'm told...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

so it's down to faulty memory
According to some scurrilous rumors, that would put you in the Chuck E camp, Matos.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

It would have been fun to know you all in the late '80s, though in my dream scenario you'd all be living with me in D.C., not Minneapolis.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

But apparently you're already hip to that.
(xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

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