Fargo Rock City

"It's easy for me to recall the morning I was absorbed into the cult of heavy meta. As is so oftem the case with this sort of thing, it was all my brother's fault.
As a painfully typical fifth-grader living in the rural Midwest, my life was boring, just like it was supposed to be. I lived five miles south of a tiny town called Wyndmere, where I spent a lot of time drinking Pepsi in the basement and watching syndicated episodes of Laverne & Shirley and Diff'rent Strokes. I killed the rest of my free time listening to Y-94, the lone Top-40 radio station transmitted out of Fargo, sixty-five miles to the north (in the horizontal wasteland of North Dakota, radio wanes travel forever). This was 1983, which-at least in Fargo-was the era of mainstream "new wave" pop (although it seems the phrase "new wave" was only used by people who never actually listened to that kind of music). The artists who appear exclusively on today's "Best of the '80's" compilations were the dominant attractions: Madness, Culture Club, Falco, the Stray Cats, German songstress Nena, and-of course- Duran Duran )the economic backbone of Friday Night Videos' cultureal economy). The most popular song in my elementary school was Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue," but that was destined to be replaced by Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" (which would subsequently be replaced by "Raspberry Beret")(7)."

This is the only book I haven't read by Chuck Klosterman and I think the best lesson I've learned about writing from him is to just relax. I always seem too formal when I write. But as it turns out great writing can "informal". Writing has very slim guidelines just so long as you follow gramatical rules. I contemplated blogging about the conclusion again but I figure the best way place to start writing better conclusions is to analyze introductions and work my way to the end of the essays (or chapters). The first thing I noticed from the inroduction (excluding the introductory first sentense) is how Klosterman lists all of the information he is going to talk about throughout the chapter. Of course every english teacher I've had tells me to use this method but seeing it used in a successful and entertaining book is sort of a slap in the face; organizing my essays will help me write a better essay.