Coolfer is currently reading Steve Almond's collection of short stories titled My Life In Heavy Metal. Funny and engaging writing, regardless of the genre of music used as a backdrop. Fortunately, heavy metal makes for a funny backdrop.

In the first short story, Steve talks of being a music critic for a newspaper in El Paso, Texas.

"Because we were a morning paper, I had to bang out my copy by midnight. I operated on a template involving an initial bad pun, a lengthy playlist--adjective, adjective, song title--and a description of the lead singer's hair. The rest was your standard catalog of puking yayas, flying undies, poignant duets with the rhythm guitarist back from rehab. I loved the velocity of the process: an event witnessed and recorded overnight."

See also Chuck Kolsterman's Fargo Rock City.

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