The Call of the Weird Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner

by Theroux, Louis

• ISBN13: 9780306815676
• ISBN10: 0306815672
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-27
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

No, it doesn't get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (A.K.A. Prussian Blue, a white-power folk group for kids) and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade, Louis Theroux has been making acclaimed television programs about offbeat characters on the fringes of U.S. society. Now he revisits the people who have intrigued him the most to try to discover what motivates them-and why they hold their bizarre beliefs. Reflecting on these assorted dreamers, schemers, and outlaws, Theroux entertainingly and unforgettably creates "a moving, funny, and frightening expose of America and its often elusive dream" (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC).

Author Biography

Louis Theroux has written for Spy, worked on Michael Moore’s Emmy-winning TV Nation, and hosted his own award-winning television series Weird Weekends and When Louis Met.... This is his first book He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the American Edition	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
Thor Templar	p. 9
JJ Michaels	p. 37
Ike Turner	p. 65
Mike Cain	p. 81
Hayley	p. 107
Jerry Gruidl	p. 133
Mello T	p. 161
Oscody	p. 187
Marshall Sylver	p. 203
April, Lamb, and Lynx	p. 231
Epilogue	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 265
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