Tenacious D are Jack Black and Kyle Gass.

On the day of the concert I rode my Triumph motorcycle from San Francisco to my sister's apartment in Hollywood. I stopped in Kettleman for an In N' Out plain Double-Double (just meat and cheese -- and bun, of course), French (remembering Paris... ) fries and a vanilla shake.

At the Roxy all went well. Tenacious D could not have been better. The concert was really very funny and very much fun. Great comedy, great music, very fast paced. At the concert a cute little blonde waitress kept taking our drink orders. Deana and I also had a burger and fries (not bad, could have been worse) at the Roxy. Deana and Joanna had a whole bunch of these double sized cans of Miller or Bud Light. I had a Coke and a bottle of water. Or three Cokes.

Back to the waitress. Actually, that's about all the info I have on her. She was sweet and I gave her very nice tips, as I am like to do with cute waitresses.

Then we went to a bar called Water or Glass or something. It's right across the street (Sunset Blvd) from Virgin Megastore. Right next to Greenblatt's Deli. Paper. It's something like that. Anyway at the concert I started getting serious flu/cold/allergy symptoms. Then at this bar it got worse and worse.

I just wanted to get out of there and into bed. But my sister was in a bit of a "thing" with her exboyfriend -- a very nice guy by the way. I'm like trying to wipe my nose with valet parking tickets.

Finally back to my sister's apt. I was going to get my stuff and ride over to a friend's to stay the night. Let's just be real nice and say that there's no room at my sister's.

So, first I had to stop at the Ralph's on Sunset near La Brea to pick up some orange juice, Nyquil and kleenex. So I get the stuff and at 1 am there's just one cash register working. And I'm like 5th in line. Then, I guess this man was trying to sell his food stamps to some other guy in line for cash. I guess this is illegal. The cashier was like "you can't do that in here, sir."

Then the guy was like, "What?? What are you talkin' bout?"

"That is illegal sir."

"Huh? Alls I'm doin--"

"Sir, that is illegal."

"Buts alls I--"

"Would you like me to call the police and have them explain it to you?"

"Huh?" He looks at us for support. My nose is running. The guy in front of me is buying beer. The guy behind me is buying beer. "Dis ain't illegsal!"

"Would you like me to call the police?"

"But--"

"Would you like me to call the police?"

Finally we get through that. I'm out in the parking lot, and a guy who's got one eye looking to my right and one eye looking to my left and a dog with two legs is asking for change. I didn't have any. Then I'm trying to fit all this stuff into my backpack. Unfortunately I felt like cookies, but I couldn't decide which to get so I got Pepp Farms Nantuckets, some soft Archway molasses cookies, some soft, delicious Archway 'Dutch Cocoa' cookies. Anyway I was having a serious time trying to fit all this in.

Finally I get to Lisa and Scotty's, down a couple cups of Nyquil and orange juice. And a couple cookies. Then I wake up at noon, feeling like hell and ride back to SF. There isn't much worse than a 6 hour ride on a motorcycle, with your nose running non-stop and throat killing you. Plus my backpack opened up and I lost my box of kleenex. I stopped for gas and orange juice three times and returned. Alive.

But, the negative parts of the trip should in no way take away from the greatness of seeing Tenacious D live. I highly recommend it!

Meanwhile, some Tenacious D/Jack Black links:

Ritchie Hicks' new (as of December 2002) Tenacious D site -- he's even managed to get an endorsement from Lee (aka JR Reed) of the D.

MY TRIP TO SEE TENACIOUS D IN CONCERT!!

Visit Tenacious D's Unofficial Official Website Out of the Sidehatch.

The new official Tenacious D website

Other sites on JB:

Who is Jack Black?

The Jack Black Website