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The Heavy Metal Librarian Loves Library Heavy Metal
Almost as if the gods know my birthday is fast approaching, they have recently seen fit to grace the world with ever-increasing amounts of metal. As if the return to action of Tool and killer debut albums from Wolfmother and The Sword weren’t enough, we’ve even been treated to the resurrection of the mighty Celtic Frost. One of the original death metal bands reunites after fifteen years apart and releases an album every bit as good as their classics from 20 years ago? What are the odds?
This torrent of metally goodness will reach a crescendo on Saturday night, when this librarian will catch a show by The World’s Most Literate Metal Band, Seattle’s very own BlöödHag. The originators of “edu-core” (their motto is “The faster you go deaf, the more time you have to read”) write songs about science fiction authors and pelt their audiences with classic scifi novels. (The last time I saw them, my friend Jay nearly had his eye knocked out by a flying copy of Robert A. Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”)
They have been known to actually play concerts at libraries, but my fleeting thoughts of approaching them at the show and asking them to play at the school library fizzled when I realized that K-5 kids probably wouldn’t appreciate their style of music. You see, you’ve got these kids today, and they don’t like the metal, because they’ve got the brain damage. They’re all about the hippin’ and the hoppin.’ Damn whippersnappers. Git offa my lawn!
PS. Also, today is my mother’s birthday. Happy birthday, Mom.
