Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman

"To me, rock was everything. As a skinny kid on a family farm in North Dakota, it seemed to be the answer to all the problems I thought I had. I couldn't sing and I played no intruments, but I knew I had the potential to rock. All night long I slapped Montley Crue and Ratt cassettes into my boom box (which we called a "ghetto blaster," which I suppose would not be considered rasist) and rocked out in my bedroom while I read Hit Parader and played one-on-none Nerf hoop basketball. Clearly, I was always ready to rock-but I needed the hair. I didn't care if it was blond and severe like Vince Neil's or black and explosive like Nikki Sixx's-I just needed more of it. It would have been my singular conduit to greatness, and it was the only part of my life that had a hope of mirroring the world of the Crue: They lived in L.A., they banged porn stars, they drank Jack Daniel's for breakfast, and they could spit on their kitchen floor with no repercussions whatsoever. They were like gods on Mount Olympus, and it's all because they understood the awe-inspiring majesty of rock. Compared to Nikki and Vince, Zeus was a total poseur(1-2)."

First off, this paragraph has a good introductory sentense, "To me, rock was everything," even though it has a 'be' verb. Klosterman has a constancy of using complex sentenses in the beginning of the paragraph, when he is describing himself and how great rock was to him as a child. He does a good job of connecting the his writing. Meaning, he connects all of his paragraphs by adding just a little bit of old information into a new paragraph without feeling redundent. "I was always ready to rock I just needed the hair." The paragraph before this is all about how he needed long hair although for his whole life he has had short hair. When he tries to convince his mother that he needs long hair he spits on the floor in frustration, he again add this cleverly "..and they could spit on their kitchen floor with no repercussions whatsoever." Klostermans diction stays constant with his rock-theme. I noticed he used Crue instead of crew, and by saying that Nikki and Vince understood the awe-inspiring 'majesty' of rock he is enriching the comparison to Zues.