A colleague of mine took me to a death metal concert the other day. Maybe I shouldn't say death metal, but it was heavy, and the lead singer seemed to be channeling some combination of Satan and a gorilla (funny, cause in this picture I snapped, he's channeling a bit of Jesus). As I sipped my expensive plastic cup of Scotch on the outside of the mosh pit, well, quite on the outside, in fact, not even close and way back by the roped-off disabled seating-- well, I pondered the band's name, Dir En Grey. I figured it had to be a literary reference to Dorian Gray, but the band was Japanese and seemed to only be grunting like simians. But I liked the idea of a bunch of Satan worshipping rockers quietly reading the classics of literature on their tour bus. I could picture a sign outside the bus that saying, "Hot Naked Groupies
Not Allowed- This is a Quiet Place for Reading."
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