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Author Soffee, Anne Thomas.

Title Nerd girl rocks paradise city : a true story of faking it in hair metal L.A. / Anne Thomas Soffee.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [2005]
©2005

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: "That Girl Has a Ring in Her Nose" -- Hipster Backlash and Metal Without Irony; "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" -- King-Sized Beds and the King Himself on the Road to L.A.; Confessions of a Reluctant Danzig Bimbo -- "Sorry, Kid, We Don't Speak Irony"; Strippers, Clown Rooms, and Danzig Among the Mangoes -- Day Jobs and Night Moves on Hollywood and Vine; Payola Means Never Having to Say "You Suck" -- Where Everybody Knows Your Name Except for the Girl in the Leather Bra; Idle Worship -- Getting Punk'd Ten Years Before Ashton Kutcher.
Summary This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass--as Anne Thomas Soffee journeys to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist.
Note Print version record.
Subject Soffee, Anne Thomas.
Soffee, Anne Thomas. (OCoLC)fst00473299
Groupies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Drug addicts -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.
Richmond (Va.) -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Drug addicts. (OCoLC)fst01430242
Groupies. (OCoLC)fst00948546
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
Virginia -- Richmond. (OCoLC)fst01205345
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form: Print version: Soffee, Anne Thomas. Nerd girl rocks paradise city. 1st ed. Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2005 9781556525865 (DLC) 2005008628 (OCoLC)58830005
ISBN 1556526385 (electronic bk.)
9781556526381 (electronic bk.)
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