All Known Metal Bands is the latest of the McSweeney's book club offerings to arrive in the mail at my door. It's got a baddass cover with shiny gold foil, and the inside is exactly what the cover says. It's a listing, silver type on black pages, of 51,000 names of metal bands. I am confused about my feelings. One, this books is cool looking, it has shiny gold foil. Two, I can't read it like a novel, which is what I want from my book club membership. Three, the names are really funny, it reads like a really hilarious poem. Four, heavy metal is kind of annoying. Can't say I was ever into it, not that is isn't awesome, but I was more into Tori Amos and TLC when I was at those formative years when I could have possibly been into heavy metal. Five, now this book is in my house taking up space, which is pretty limited - the bookshelf is already overflowing with things I love reading or have yet to dig into, so there just isn't a heck of a lot of leeway here. Six, I think I'd like it a lot more if it actually had pictures of the bands. Then I might be more entertained when comparing the 20 bands that share the name "Requium" or the 10 named "Condemmed". So, there it is.
Some of my favorite names:
Baby Stab Horror
Brainpeaches
Evicting The Testicular Squatters
Fecalbacteria
Hymen of Darkness
Lipstick Liontigers
Ninja Magic
Sexorcist
Sifilis ( I'm such a sucker for things named after STDs)
WeeDust ( I thought that was cute)
There are probably other good ones, but it's way too many for me to get thorugh. Anyway, there it is again.
1 comment:
So this is what you could do- you should have a contest and your friends have to dress up as a Rock Band and send the photo and whoever has the best photo wins the book. Pictures of your friends looking ridiculous takes up less space and leaves lasting memories.
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