Pop culture and authors.
This article and its byline, made me stop and pause. Couple of good points in the article itself, but there’s something on top of it, too.
The author of the article is now listed as a senior writer for SPIN. A few years ago, I read his book Fargo Rock City and I was inspired, enlightened, and most important, amused, by the style, the wit, the depth of passion, and in some respects, the subject matter itself. As I recall, shortly after reading the book, I went out and prowled around the used CD stores for various hair-metal, 80’s style rock and roll music to add to my overflowing collection of weird items.
Remember the 80’s? To be honest, I don’t recall that much. I have a narrow field of music that I’m good at, and I can pinpoint songs from that particular set of years with alarming accuracy, but then, I was in the music business running a club in Dallas at the time.
I know the book made an impact on me, I wrote about it several times, back in September, ’01. Damn, my Aries buddy still has my copy.
Until that book came out – I don’t think that it met with a lot of critical success – then the author’s star started to rise. Right after his Saturn Return, he went from being a minor music columnist in a small alternative paper to being major voice in the music scene.
Being a published author will do that, I suppose.
