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KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE
August 18, 2005
By Chuck Klosterman
Spin contributor Klosterman embarks on a cross-country tour of rock and roll death sites, starting with the Chelsea Hotel, home of punk rock's most famous murder. Or, as he put it, "This is a story about love, death, driving, narcissism, America, the ill-advised glamorization of recreational drug use, not having sex, eating breadsticks at Olive Garden, talking to strangers, feeling nostalgic for the extremely recent past, movies you've never seen, KISS, Radiohead, Rod Stewart, and—to a lesser extent—prehistoric elephants of the Midwestern plains," which oddly, minus the elephants, sounds like my summer vacation in '92. Good times… (SC)