She knew she could never be normal. The only place for a girl like her was Hollywood. This is a true story of the social ascent (and eventual decline) of a girl in the Sunset Strip music scene of the early 1990's.

True story of Author Amy Asbury in the 90s! Fresh from the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Amy and her friends were at a crossroads. The grunge scene took over and left their hair band crowd in the dust. Where to go? What to do?

Two girls from different families grow from ages six to sixteen in the 1980s.

If you have Read Amy Asbury's other books, you will know she tells it like it is, no matter how embarrassing or bizarre.

But the truth was, they were lost. SMELLS LIKE is a true story about a girl who came from a typical eighties middle-class family and what happened after her home life was shattered.

Among these lively essays are the questions of 1980's pop culture: Why did Simon LeBon's sexy stare work straight through the TV? Why did Cabbage Patch Kids start to run out of good names like Jennifer and start coming out with names like ...

... Amy Asbury: Excerpts from The Sunset Strip Diaries. Reprinted by permission of the author. Eve Babitz: Excerpt from Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz. Reprinted by permission of New York Review of Books. Lester Bangs: Excerpt(s) from LET IT ...

... Amy Asbury: Excerpts from The Sunset Strip Diaries. Reprinted by permission of the author. Brendan Behan: Excerpts from a letter by Brendan Behan displayed in the Dublin Writers Museum. Reprinted courtesy of Failte Ireland/the Dublin ...

... Amy Asbury, The Sunset Strip Diaries “Everyone is born with some special talent, and Eliza Sommers discovered early on that she had two: a good sense of smell and a good memory.” —Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune: A Novel Afterward ...

Presents a history of American hair metal music, looking at such groups as Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Dokken, Poison, and Guns n' Roses.