I know: I'm a med student with a strange fascination for rock music, particularly metal.
Chuck Klosterman writes in "Fargo Rock City," copyright 2001, that "it is time for all
us to embrace our heavy metal past. It is time to admit that we used to rock like
hurricanes. It is time to run to the hills and go round and round. It is time for us to
shout at the devil. We've got the right to choose it, there ain't no way we'll lose it,
and we're not gonna take it anymore. Quite simply, that's why I wrote this book:
to recognize that all the poofy, sexist, shallow glam rock *was* important (at least to
the kids who loved it). I'm not necessarily claiming that the metal genre was
intellectually underrated, but I feel compelled to insist that it's been unjustifyable ignored....
Whenever social pundits try to explain why glam metal died, they usually
insist that 'It wasn't real' or that 'It didn't say anything.' Well, it was certainly real to me
and my friends. And more importantly, it *did* say something. It said something about us."
He says it better than I could! Glam metal will always be a part of me. It was my
first true passion. I'm sure that anyone who knew me as a kid is very surprised
that I didn't grow up to be a musician. Somewhere I really messed up, because now
I'm in med school. However, I don't think I'll be any less satisfied being a physician
than I would have being a musician. Turns out that I'm lucky enough to have medicine
as a passion as well.
So, naturally, I made a website about both!
