Ebook: Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: a True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A

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.;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.