Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

popular rock band of all time, and they’re popular in a way the Beatles and Stones cannot possibly compete with; this is because every straight man born after the year 1958 has at least one transitory period in his life when he believes Led Zeppelin is the only good band that ever existed. And there is no other rock group that generates that experi

Within the context of Heathers, suicide gave the dead qualities they never possessed in life. This is not a shocking revelation; suicide made Judas sympathetic, Sylvia Plath irrefutable, and Marilyn Monroe unfortunate. However, Cobain’s suicide was of the postmodern variety; his death changed the history of the living. Suicide gave sorority girls d

But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you’re sharing a reality that doesn’t exist.

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.

You know what’s the best part about driving by yourself? Talk radio. Talk radio offers no genuine insight about anything, but I always feel like I am learning something;

that whole idea sort of addresses the concept of art as a way to understand death, not unlike the manner in which art is often used as a prism for understanding life? That’s brilliant, I think. I think maybe Elizabeth Wurtzel is brilliant.”

Clear Lake, Iowa, is a town with a wonderfully expository name: it’s a little community next to a lake, and the water in that sumbitch is way clear.

she came to this conclusion: I’m shocked by anyone who doesn’t consider Los Angeles to be anything less than a bozo-saturated hellhole.