Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City : A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A.
Title:
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City : A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A.
Author:
Soffee, Anne Thomas.
ISBN:
9781556526381
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: "That Girl Has a Ring in Her Nose" - Hipster Backlash and Metal Without Irony -- "I'm Left,You're Right, She's Gone" - King-Sized Beds and the King Himself on the Road to L.A. -- Confessions of a Reluctant Danzig Bimbo - "Sorry, Kid,We Don't Speak Irony" -- Strippers, Clown Rooms,and Danzig Among the Mangoes - Day Jobs and Night Moves on Hollywood and Vine -- Payola Means Never Having to Say "You Suck" - Where Everybody Knows Your Name Except for the Girl in the Leather Bra -- Idle Worship - Getting Punk'd Ten Years Before Ashton Kutcher -- I, Industry Weasel - Gabba Gabba, We Accept You, We Accept You, One of Us -- There Goes the Neighborhood - The Smell of Hairspray Gives Way to Teen Spirit -- Last Call - L.A. Throws Me the Least Festive Farewell Party Imaginable -- Epilogue: Tattoo Me - What the World Needs Now Is Olallaberry Pie.
Abstract:
This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Graila backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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