Bob Ethington
David Giffels
Scott Lowe
Jennifer Piro
Mark J. Price
Hillery Stone
Paul Tough
Michael Weinreb
I must likewise thank my supercagey agent, Daniel Greenberg, and my superfoxy lawyer, Amy Everhart. I’d also like to unleash my profound gratitude to everyone at SPIN whom I ever had lunch with (and especially to those whom I always have lunch with) and to everyone at SPIN I occasionally have drinks with (and especially to those who I always have drinks with).
Finally, I want to publicly apologize to anyone who ended up getting mentioned in this book simply because they had the misfortune of knowing me (either in the present or in the past). I’m not sure what compels me to ruin all our lives; I guess that’s just the way I am. Sorry.
Index
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
AC/DC
Ainge, Danny
Akron, Ohio
“All for Leyna” (Joel)
Allen, Tim
Allen, Woody
“Allentown” (Joel)
Ally McBeal
An Innocent Man (Joel)
Anderson, Pamela
Anderson, P.T.
Anderson, Wes
Apocalypse Now
Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’Roses)
archetypes: Harry-Met-Sally situation; Hitchcock movies; movies and; Odd Couple relationship; The Real World; sexual, television; Woody Allen
Arm, Mark
At Budokan (Cheap Trick)
Backderf, John
Banks, Tyra
baseball
basketball, life compared; Lakers-Celtics rivalry
Beatles
Being John Malkovich
Berkley, Elizabeth
Berman, David
Bettencourt, Nuno
Bible Code, The(Drosnin)
Big Brother
Bird, Larry
Black, Clint
Black Flag
Black Sabbath
Blixt, Jon
Bon Jovi
Born in the U.S.A.(Springsteen)
“Born to Run” (Springsteen)
Boston Celtics
Bowie, David
Braae, Michael
Breakfast Club, The
Bridge, The(Joel)
Bright Lights, Big City
Brownstein, Carrie
Buckingham, Lindsey
Buckley, Jeff
Buckner, Bill
Bunim, Mary-Ellis
Burke, Solomon
Cameron, Kirk
Canseco, José
Carey, Mariah
Carter, Vince
Cash, Johnny
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
celebrity; journalism
cereal, cold breakfast
Cheap Trick
Cherone, Gary
Chinese Democracy(Guns N’Roses)
Christgau, Robert
“Close to the Borderline” (Joel)
Cocoa Puffs
Coldplay
consciousness
consumerism
coolness; cold cereal; Cusack, John, movies; pop music artists
Coomes, Sam
Coppola, Francis Ford
Costello, Elvis
Cougar, John
Creel, Leanna
Cross Purposes(Black Sabbath)
Crowe, Cameron
Cruise, Tom
Cruz, Penelope
Cusack, John
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Dallas Mavericks
death
Dean, James
depression; consumerism and, lyrics and; 1980s and, 1990s and; The Sims character and
Diamond, Dustin
Diaz, Cameron
DiMaggio, Joe
Dirt, The (Mötley Crüe)
Dischner, Paul
“Divorce Song” (Phair)
Dixie Chicks
Dixon, Glenn
Donnie Darko
“Don’t Drive Drunk” (Wonder)
Dougher, Sarah
Dr. Feelgood(Mötley Crüe)
Drosnin, Michael
drugs: Celtics-Lakers; conversations, parties, and; rock bands; rock music
Dukes of Hazzard
Dylan, Bob
Earle, Steve
Easy Rider
Ebert, Roger
Eggers, Dave
Electronic Arts
Eminem
Empire Strikes Back, The
“Eruption” (Van Halen)
Estevez, Emilio
“Every Day Is a Winding Road” (Crow)
eXistenZ
Experience Music Project (EMP)
Explaining Hitler(Rosenbaum)
Extreme
Facts of Life, The
fantasy, movies and romantic
Farrar, Jay
feminism
52nd Street (Joel)
Fight Club
Five Easy Pieces
“Folsom Prison Blues” (Cash)
football (NFL)
Free, World B.
Gacy, John Wayne
Garcia, Mario
Generation Ecstasy(Reynolds)
Generation X
Ghost World
“Girlfriend” (Sweet)
Glass Houses(Joel)
Gleiberman, Owen
“Glory Days” (Springsteen)
GNR Lies(Guns N’ Roses)
Godfather, The,
Gony, Kelly
“Goodnight Saigon” (Joel)
Gosselaar, Mark-Paul
Graham, Sylvester
Grease
Guns N’ Roses; tribute band
Gyllenhaal, Jake
Hagar, Sammy
Halberstam, David
Hamill, Mark
Happiness
Happy Days
Haskins, Dennis
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A (Eggers)
“Helter Skelter” (Beatles)
Henderson, Gerald
Hitchcock, Alfred
homeless people
homosexuality
“Honesty” (Joel)
Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin)
Hurley, Elizabeth
“I Don’t Want to Be Alone Anymore” (Joel)
“I’m Goin’ Down” (Springsteen)
“Immigrant Song” (Led Zeppelin)
“Instant Pleasure” (Wainwright)
Internet; pornography
“It’s So Easy” (Guns N’ Roses)
“It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” (Joel)
Iverson, Allen
“Jack and Diane” (Cougar)
Jane’s Addiction
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jenkins, Jerry B.
Jeter, Derek
Jewel
Joel, Billy
John, Elton
Johnson, Calvin
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, “Magic”
Jones, George
Jones, K. C.
Jordan, Michael
Jung, Carl
Junod, Tom
“Just the Way You Are” (Joel)
Kaczynski, Ted
Keith, Toby
Kellogg, John and William
Kennedy, John F.
Kidman, Nicole
Kimmel, Jimmy
King, Carole
KISS
Knack
Lacey, Washington
LaHaye, Tim
Landry, Tom
“Laura” (Joel)
Led Zeppelin
Lee, Tommy
Left Behind(film)
Left Behind (Jenkins)
Linklater, Richard
Loeb, Lisa
Lopez, Dustin
Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Lakers
Love and Theft(Dylan)
“Love Is a Battlefield” (Benatar)
Lowe, Rob
Lucas, George
Lynch, David
MacKaye, Ian
Madonna
Madman Across the Water(John)
Mailer, Norman
Maines, Natalie
Malkmus, Stephen
Man Show, The,
M*A*S*H