Father/Daughter bonding experience

Jared Leto, of Prefontaine fame.

30 Seconds To Mars

Probably the best transition from an acting career to a rock star career. Both of their albums are solid.

But wtf is with that over the top video to their latest song?!?!?

as a 54 year old father of 3 teenagers; that is one group, too, that I had knowledge of, simply because of the actor who played Prefontaine in one of the movies on Pre. As a big Pre fan, who ran during his era, and saw him run in person in Eugene, (a wild experience), I took notice. I don't know much about the band, but aren't actors who also front bands on the side usually 'mediocore' at best and just egomanics who use their acting noteriety to get some non-deserved publicity for their bands? However, in their defense, I don't think my kids and their friends knew anything about his acting career.

that's not really his most famous acting job, though... he played jordan catelano in "my so-called life" in the mid-90s, a part more people know him from.

Jen wrote:

Jared Leto, of Prefontaine fame.

that was a LONG time ago.

he looks too emo/sissy/girly now.

He still acts. He was recently in a movie where he gained a lot of weight. I believe he has since gotten back to his skinny emo (now I know what emo is) self.

http://www.eog.com/uploadedImages/images/ENTERTAINMENT/jletoch27.jpg

One of my students played me a song by a groovy little combo called OAR. I thought it was quite good, but I forget what the actual song was called.

no offese but as a junior in college, i will die happy if i never ever have to hear anything about oar again.

Kinda of off topic, but I had a cool bonding moment with the kids this week... at age 4 and 6 they finally were ready to watch some of the Star Wars episodes, and we watched them together... their first time seeing them. Ah, the magic of Star Wars.

me too.... wrote:

...aren't actors who also front bands on the side usually 'mediocore' at best and just egomanics who use their acting noteriety to get some non-deserved publicity for their bands?

How can you say that about the likes of:

Bruce Willis

William Shatner

David Hasselhoff

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Regis Philbin

Juliette Lewis

Russell Crowe

Corey Feldman

Don Johnson

Eddie Murphy

Lindsay Lohan

Hilary Duff

Kevin Bacon

Billy Bob Thorton

John Schneider

Chuck Norris (sang the theme to Walker, Texas Ranger)

John Bult

Scott Baio

Minnie Driver

Clint Eastwood

Buddy Ebsen

Barbara Eden

Samantha "Humina, humina" Fox

Jamie Foxx

Annette "Bazoombas" Funicello

Peter Gallagher

Leif "Dude, I'm soooo wasted" Garrett

Crispin "WTF?" Glover

Lorne "Bonanza" Greene

Jasmine Guy

Natalie Imbruglia

Amy Jo "Pink Ranger" Johnson

Shirley Jones

Milla Jovovich

Ted "Baxter" Knight

Vicki Lawrence

Nicole Kidman

Traci Lords

Tina Louise

Jayne Mansfield

Maureen "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" McCormick

Kristy McNichol

Alyssa Milano

Robert Mitchum

Dudley Moore

Donny Most

Megan Mullally

Jim Nabors

Brigitte Nielsen

Leonard Nimoy

The Olsen Twins

Jack Palance

Gwyneth Paltrow

Mandy Patinkin

Joe Pesci

Tony Randall

Raven "Big Boobs" Simone

Keanu Reeves

Burt Reynolds

Esther Rolle

Telly Savalas

Steven Segal

Cybill Shepherd

Brent Spiner

Rick Springfield

Frank Stallone

Patrick Swayze

Mr. T.

John Tesh

Philip Michael Thomas

John Travolta

Jack Wagner

Jack Webb

Lisa Whelchel

Johnny "Family Affair and Annisa Jones' costar" Whitaker

Anson Williams

Barry Williams

Tom Wopat

Damn..and I thought this was going to turn into a porno thread...

does Jared Leto and '30 seconds from mars' fit into this list? Since most of the kids going to see them have no idea about him playing Pre in a movie or some of his other offbeat, adult oriented movies, he might be a 'real musician'?