But I still feel like I lost. We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in the sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet. probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there's still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. And context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're often just the person you happen to meet first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.

He also appeared in the first three episodes of the Adult Swim Web Feature "Carl's Lock of the Century of the Week" discussing the year's football games as an animated version of himself and trying (unsuccesfully) to plug his book as Carl cuts him off each time. Books
Klosterman is the author of seven books and a set of cards:


Non-fiction
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta (2001) a humorous memoir/history on the phenomenon of glam metal
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005) a road narrative focused on the relationship between rock music mortality and romantic love
HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations (2010) a set of 50 cards featuring hypothetical questions


Essay collections
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (2003) a best-selling collection of pop culture essays
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006) a collection of articles previously publiChuck Klostermand columns and a semi-autobiographical novella
Eating the Dinosaur (2009) a collection of previously unpubliChuck Klostermand essays
I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) (2013)


Novels
Downtown Owl: A Novel (2008) a novel describing life in the fictional town of Owl North Dakota
The Visible Man (2011) a novel about a man who utilizes invisibilty to observe others. Life and career
Klosterman was born in Breckenridge Minnesota the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman.

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5 1972) is an American author and essayist who has written for The New York Times Magazine The Believer and The Washington Post and has written books focusing on American popular culture.