The place -- which looks like Bilbo Baggins and Barbie co-designed it -- hosts live music, rowdy parties, and includes one of the most gorgeous patios in the country, with a panoramic view that hammers home the reason they're not called "Pretty Good Lakes".
In Martin, they also found a kindred spirit, musically and temperamentally, a man with the musical foundation to translate their gut instincts into reality and the technical acumen to take the magic they'd honed through countless hours playing live in rowdy pubs and capture it within the sterile confines of a recording studio so the world at large could soon revel in it.
She's found feminists guilty of inflicting upon readers a generation of flaccid male novelists too cowed and politically correct to live up to their rowdy predecessors.
And when they're not terrifying, they're often silly: Big Trouble in Little China is intentionally cheesy, and They Live cast the wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper to say things like, "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum".
For the American filmmakers, living in a rowdy democracy, no such grand synthesis was possible, or even imaginable.
The above review of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning said the book's main character, Arthur, lives in the rowdy bosom of his extended Leicestershire family.
"He doesn't usually play an active role," explains Bobby Friedman, the author of Bercow, Mr Speaker: Rowdy Living in the Tory Party, "but is still nominally in charge of the commission producing the report, which could be the tool for ousting him as an MP and Speaker".
Here her characters are grounded in the insular ethos of a narrow-minded world where they live hard and do their rowdy best to kick up a fuss before they die.
It's Ally, the waitress who lives with her rowdy father (Andrew Dice Clay) and endures commands from her demanding boss (Jacob Schick).
