We're Talking Fuckin' Lee

Who of you is into Tenacious D? That's kind of a rhetorical question I guess, since I know not very many people read this (yet) but if you've a mind to answer in a more literal way, that would be acceptable.



I love the old Tenacious D special they had on Showtime or HBO or whatever channel it was. I have never really had cable so I just purchased the Complete Masterworks, of which there is apparently a part deux now.

There is one episode that frequently pops into my mind about when The D discovers they have an actual fan. They think the guy is a weirdo at first, but when they get home they look him up on the internet and kind of get obsessed. They are stoked to find that Lee knows a lot about them as people and as a band and they start learning all they can about Lee and actually start kind of stalking him.

I am reminded of that episode often when we come across new and particularly awesome Craig's Brother fan. I'll look the person (almost always male) up in facebook and try to get any info on them that I can - and it's in those moments that I feel like The D and Lee... *chuckle* I always wonder what they think when I approach them.

Some people I've gotten to know through the old message board, and those relationships have been pretty long-lasting. We have met many of the boardies. A number of them have even come to stay with us and we have done fun stuff like hikes and trips to San Francisco, tours of Santa Cruz and jamming with Craig's Brother.

Yes, because we have crossed the fan-band relationship and have become friends (obviously they were never my fans, some were quite the opposite) we've gotten a unique opportunity to meet some pretty awesome people. I think it's partly because CB members soak up the attention they get in places like FB and the old message board, and because they are accessible to and relate to their fans. I think the internet kind of does away with "fans" in a certain sense. I think a lot of band people go on their own message boards and that makes them more like the people you and I are and less like the unknowable beings they seem to be when viewed from an audience, tv or heard on the radio.

So that's it, I guess. I don't have to post all of my blogs, but they're more fun to write when I'm writing them to someone. So, if you have gotten an email from me, if I have posted on your blog or contacted you on facebook for the sake of or because of Craig's Brother, you are not alone or singled out, but you are totally rad.... unless my email to you indicated otherwise.