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...after this Jockerdammerung, who's left for young guys to worship? Performers like Knoxville seem to be staking out an alternative jockdom, a macho loserhood. Getting knocked out by a pro boxer, showing off his scrawny, bruised and welted body, Knoxville shows us he's man enough to get his butt kicked. Witness too the fad among teenage boys who, in Fight Club fashion, stage their own real-life amateur-wrestling contests in their backyards, complete with deliberate cuts and chair smashing, in which the point is how much abuse you can take, not mete out. MTV, however, announces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rude Boys | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...requests for the same four or five songs every set he plays. Although it must be a huge responsibility to be credited as one of the fathers of alternative rock, Mascis manages to keep churning out the high decibel hits while maintaining the slackjawed public image that made indie loserhood marketable in the first place...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Imitations of Grunge Immortaility | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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