Small town dudes, interested in cruising and blasting G'n'F'nR (or getting loaded and bird-doggin' chicks) was not my experience at all, and I got a little offended that this could be seen as a blanket statement on the entire experience of small town life in the 80's.
Did we read the same book? Klosterman was more or less a middle-of-the-road nerd in Fargo Rock City. I don't think he'd tell anyone it's an archetype for the ND 80s adolescence. Still, he manages a fair picture of what I saw just across the border in Minnesota. I just didn't really participate in it.
A little bit of hyperbole on my part to point out how lunk-headed I thought it was. I was excited to read a book about small town, NoDak life/rock music, and I found it only tangentially dealt with anything I had an interest in, at all. It was about a hundred miles away from any notion of punk rock that I knew. Whether he'd tell anyone the he's created an archetype or not, I think that's sorta out of his hands. When the book is out, it's out, and those things take care of themselves. I this case, all 9 of us who care will have our own specific reactions, and in my case, I reacted to stupidity of it.
