Not much to say but let me tell you, reading this is nothing compared to what it felt like in person.  I think the D are alright, but my brother totally idolizes them. My friend asked me to go with him to a Weezer concert and I agree--again, I think Weezer are alright, seeing them in concert sounded like fun. Tenacious D was opening for Weezer, and so I asked my brother, Ron, if he would like me to try to get their autograph for him. He said ok and gave me his Tenacious D CD. I thought it wouldn't be very likely that I could get their autograph, but I would try.

So during the concert I kept thinking, how the hell am I going to do this, I didn't even have a backstage pass. During the intermission I found the backstage area and thought I would give the CD to some guys who did have backstage passes, to get it signed, and if worst came to worst, I would lose the CD and buy my brother a new one. Anyway, nobody got to go backstage.

I tried about two other times during the night, with no success, and got kind of depressed about the whole thing--not b/c the D mean that much to me but b/c I really did try--and missed a couple of Weezer songs in the effort, including Buddy Holly, which I think is a cute song.

But anyway.

So at the end of the concert my friend Dan was kind enough to try to see if we could somehow manage to find D somewhere, so we look around and totally randomly, these high school girls tell us that the D was signing autographs by some buses in the parking lot. So I got totally excited and we raced to find them. Now, I would like to mention that I have never seen them up close and I just remember that htey're a couple of naked fat guys, I didn't even remember their names. Turns out only one of them was still there and luckily it was the one my brother likes better (Kyle). But unfortunatley I didn't really recognize him up close b/c he looks less fat in person, and I thought, is this him or is this just some fat bald guy? And I was so excited about teh whole thing that when I came up to him the first thing out of my mouth was

"What's your name?!"

Oh god. What the hell was I saying?!

And he looks at me like "what the fuck?!" and he goes on about what kind of thing to say is that and blah blah blah and then I felt really stupid and I didn't know what to say, it all happened so fast, that I said something even better--

"nonono! You don't understand! I'm not even the one who likes you!"

Ugh! Well this was just going from bad to worse. Anyway, so I give him the CD and he signs it and then I realize that he didn't sign it "To Ron" like I wanted, so while the poor guy is trying to sign autographs for other fans, I get in front of him again and go

"can you sign it 'To Ron'?"

And he signs it again and then I leaned over and hugged him with one arm and he hugged me back.

And then Dan and I walked away and suddenly I realized exactly how stupid I had been and I was dying of embarassment! Oh god, this cool fat guy from this really funny band personally think I'm this huge idiot!

Well, the lesson to learn from this: when I do finally see a band I really do like (ie Radiohead) I better be very careful about what I say. God knows, if I hadn't learned my lesson with the D, I might have gone up to Thom and said

"Who the hell are you!" followed by "Do you have any idea how much I want to fuck you!" followed by "but you'd have to cover that creepy eye!"

The End