Chuck Klosterman talks to Salon about leaving Esquire.

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by Daba
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hopped up out my bed. turn my swag on.
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1 year, 2 months ago

 

 

He's quitting his Esquire gig, by the way.

 

"AC/DC did the same album over and over again," he says at one point, "and I love AC/DC, but I don't want to be Angus Young. I want to be Jeff Tweedy." As every 30-something nerd-disguised-as-hipster knows, Jeff Tweedy is the much-adored frontman for Wilco, a gifted singer-songwriter who could have spent a (lucrative) career crafting perfect three-minute pop songs but decided to dissect them instead, upending (if only temporarily) his own career with the controversial and brilliant 2002 album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."

 

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/24/klosterman/

 

Via: http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/

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