I check the mail recently and there is a key in the box. I haven't ordered anything big in a while so I go around to the other side of the post office and open the locker. There is a package in it from J-Diz ... who recently asked me to verify my address to send me something ...
I open the package and find myself holding All Known Metal Bands by Dan Nelson. Dumbfounded would be the word for the day if I did a word for the day. I take a glance through it and decide I need to peruse it during SSR the next day.
The next day I begin reading the lists (and have to keep a 6th period student from absconding with it). Here's the thing, it's lists. Nothing but lists in alphabetical order of Heavy Metal bands. Some band names are listed more than once in order to show that several bands have used the same name. Many of the names are not in English. Some of the names are downright disgusting or silly. There are omissions. The book is beautiful in its simplicity and yet tells us so much about the author and the subject matter.
I show the book to my bro. Here is another opportunity to see the difference between myself and the one person on Planet Earth with the closest DNA to mine. "It's just a bunch of lists," he says. I let it go. Lists in silver ink on black paper. Lists that are simply ... you get my point.
