Guilty pleasures, Thanks, and Building out a library

Posted by Daniel Stout on Tue 18 Dec 2007 at 9:16 PM

They played The Henry Rollins Show back in June. It was definitely not what I was expecting. Indeed, I was pleasantly surprised. I guess I had pretty much always ignored them. “They’re metal,” I would have said to the interviewer who asked me about them. “And I don’t really listen to metal. Atonal literal metal-scraping-metal? Yes, I’m still a fan of Einstürzende Neubauten. But, Metal? Not so much.”

I’ve totally been in the closet about being a fan, but here it is live and in-person on my blog: I like Queens of the Stone Age. They’re good. Really. I guess I should have realized that they weren’t knuckle-dragging metalheads by the name: Queens. Clearly this band is not whatever image I had in my mind about them. It’s amazing what a little exposure will do you.

And what image was that? Probably stereotypical long hair, nu-metal stylings, etc. They are anything but. So if you feel like checking out something that you haven’t heard, pop a QOTSA disc on the turntable and rock the fuck out.

In other news, thanks to Faust for sending along a copy of Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers by Michael A Banks. It looks to be a good read. I had a good laugh at the subtitle: “…the World’s Top Bloggers.” They all appear to be American or perhaps Canadian. I don’t know how cosmopolitan it’ll be, but at least of American bloggers, it appears to be a good sample. I appreciate the sentiment, el-Faust, and a Merry Christmas to you!

Oh, the other thing I was going to mention is this social networking site for book lovers called LibraryThing.com. It’s not quite as slick and polished as some sites, but the dude who runs it really built in some fantastic search functionality. You can build up a library of your books. It’s super, super easy to do – you just put in the 10-digit ISBN number from the back of a book. Lightning fast, the search function finds all the details about the book even including cover art. What the site lacks in polish, it makes up for in sheer technological prowess. It’s free up to a library of 200 books, and $10 a year after that. I’ll have to do a fuller write-up once I get a little more into the site.

Tags: blogging heroes · librarything · michael a banks · queens of the stone age

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