My mom won some thing in her job to go to mardi gras in new orleans and be on one of the floats in the big parade. she got back and is showing me all the beads and stuff today, and telling me all about the little details, like what she ate and everything.

no big whoop.

so we are driving around and she starts telling me about how on their float their was some musician. i asked who...

she says "his name is like, nine inch nail, or something"



"NINE INCH NAILS?" I practically scream.

"Yea, that's it" she says.

"you hung out with TRENT REZNOR?!?!?!?"

"oh, yea. that was his name. you know who he is?"

I fill her in, and remind her of "closer" which she has heard before while at the local gay clubs.

she squinches up her face when she remembers the song.

"no, he was a nice guy, that couldn't have been him. he would not have sang that song"

I am dying laughing. my mother, miss purity and god almighty is telling me trent reznor is too nice a guy to have recorded "closer."

turns out, my mother, the REVEREND, totally kicked it with trent for like 9 hours on their float.

so i pry for details. turns out she and trent and trents girlfriend were at the top of the float, which at one point beached itself in a tree. the crowd started yelling "heads up" at them, and my mother looked just in time to see a huge tree branch coming at them, and tells trent to look out, who then knocs his girlfriend (who is deaf) down on to my mother, cause he couldn't sign fast enough to let her know it was coming. MY MOM FREAKING DOGPILED WITH TENRT FREAKING REZNOR AND HIS GIRLFRIEND!!

I pry her for details.

the best part was her asking trent if he and his band are going to perform at the charity ball they are going to after. trent laughed and said no. i almost laughed my ass off at the image of my mother thinking they are the kind of band that would play a black tie event, and at the image of her in a gown waltzing to "head like a hole"

trent also asked if she knew who he is, and she said no, but her son probably would. he asked if she wanted his autograph to take home to her son, and she said sure, but they couldn't find a pen. and when they got off the float, he asked again, but she said she was too tired to look for a pen.

life is just too freaking wierd.

my mom, the celebrity clueless:

That is so fucking awesome!
It sounds like Trent LOVED your mom too! Did she get any pics?

I met him once in Germany at a club.
Die Krupps was playing and he was the next act.
He was just sitting at the bar watching the band play, and nobody noticed him.
I walked up to him and introduced myself. We had maybe a 3 minute conversation.
I found him polite, smaller than I expected, and a little bit boring.

But on stage, I wanted to rip off all my clothes and offer up my anus to him.

applekisses said:

we were on the way to walgreens to pick up the rolls she took, and as soon as they came through the window i about tore them up trying to find a pic of trent, but she didn't take any...

three rolls of where they ate, but no pics of a massive celebrity...



my mom is so clueless

cborgman said:

That makes it even funnier...

applekisses said:

she is reading these responses now. she made me pull up pics of trent, and she was like "oh, yeah... that's him." in a really casual way.

EYELoveSatanAndSoShoulYOU said:

she was just saying how small he was...

cborgman said:

Maybe that's why she had such a good time hanging out with him...because she wasn't all nervous like one of us would have been

(oh, and sorry about dropping the "f-bomb" Mom )
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applekisses said:

Haha!!! I cought you!!!!

Heavenly said:

OK...that time I DID swear But, the other times I didn't! I swear!

What I find interesting is that he would date a deaf lady.

Even Jerry Seinfeld wouldn't date a girl who never laughs.

Ok, that is fucking HILARIOUS! Every little bit of it!



He probably LOVED that she was clueless about his celebrity and wasn't too excited about his autograph.

I'm also amused that his girlfriend is deaf. I mean, she'd have to be. . .

tackam said:

2 times!

CalhounSq said:

3x Great story.

tackam said:

I take it you don't like NIN....

tackam said:

TRENTS MUSIC IS AMAZING! Whada ya mean she would have to be deaf??

Bad Melissa! Bad Melissa!
[Edited 2/12/05 19:41pm]

"C-Borg's Mom has got it goin on!"

cborgman said:

Aww... big hugs and kisses to your mom. Meeting celebrities is exciting but only mom's know how to take it in stride. Your mom rocks. Well, so does Trent, but you know what I mean. Damn. Trent Reznor, that's pretty fucking cool.

EYELoveSatanAndSoShoulYOU said:

cborgman said:

Power to your mom!

mrdespues said:

I totally missed that the first time around

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Meh. . .ok. Tell me which songs to listen to and I'll give him another try.

cborgman said:

i think it's cool your mom even knows the song... and the fact that even after finding out who he is she is still unimpressed!

great story... too bad about no pictures!

tackam said:

"March of the Pigs"

"A Warm Place"

"Hurt" (which THE MAN Johnny Cash covered!)

"Terrible Lie"

(Just some good ones )

tackam said:

I would go straight to The Fragile

Where Is Everybody
Even Deeper

applekisses said:

s'ok, i swear in front of her all the time

origmnd said:

mom said she was a really pretty black woman

OK....now why didn't she give you the ticket!? Mardi Gras is no place for Ms. Purity

That's a total trip. Small world idn't it?

tackam said:

i thought that as well. she was so not impressed.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

"Chris's got a gun... whole world's come undone... chris's got a gun"