Meeting Jared

Originally written on, Friday 18th December 2009

So, as I wait for my plane back to England, I'm listening to what I class as the greatest musical breakthrough in existence, and I can think of nothing but the incredible moment I had on Tuesday December 15th of 2009, so...

Here it goes,

The date was two days before I finished my semester of study abroad in Oregon, America, I wanted to end my time there with a bang, so me and Travis found tickets to go see 30 Seconds to Mars and Muse in Seattle

After the 3 and a half hour train journey, we arrived in Seattle Washington, it was a relatively clear night, the city looked beautiful against the sky, and as we stepped out of the train station the WAMU theater was towering over us.

We walked in, straight to the crowd, and waited for MARS.

I lost Travis straight away, it was a very big crowd, I got to the second row back for Mars, which was annoying, but the best I could do as we were late because of the long train ride.

After the set, Jared Leto announced that directly after they finish, they are going to do a signing of every CD that anyone buys.

So I gave up a front row center position for Muse to go and buy a second album and have it signed.

I waited in line, and when I got to the band, I calmly spoke to Shannon Leto, Then Tomo, and Finally my my idol, my messiah, the man who gave me something to believe in, something to hold on to, something to live for, was right in front of me, I'm rather proud of how calm I was, and I immediately told him, "Jared, I am beyond your biggest fan, and Mars' biggest fan." he looked right at me as I said this, generally interested in what I had to say, he then asked where I was from and we spoke about England for a brief moment as I told him I have tickets to see them at Wembley Arena, and as I passed him my album for him to sign, he then noticed the Tattoo on my right wrist. He stopped moving entirely and his eyes widened, "Oh wow.." he grabbed my wrist and looked at the tattoo in depth his mouth as wide as his eyes, "Look at this." He then turned to somebody on his right, "have you seen this? Look at this!" He then looked back at me, stared into my eyes for a brief moment, and thanked me, and excitedly said he’d see me at Wembley, I then left and went to get a drink of water, after A while I realized that I had not gotten a picture of Jared at the Signing booth, so I went back to take a picture and as I looked at my camera to see if the picture had taken I saw this pic,

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It was Jared looking right at me, I lowered my camera and he began walking up to me, when he reached me he said, “come with me” So I did, I walked with him attempting to keep calm about the fact that my idol was walking next to me, “what’s your name?” he said, I answered, “Jareth...” he then said “Oh, like the original way of spelling Jared.” this I had heard before but was never sure, but this is just another divine way that linked me to Mars.

We then spoke casually as we walked, I said how much I enjoyed the set, because he had played Capricorn my favorite song in acoustic, we discussed the set, and what songs were played, I then asked him what his favorite song from the new album was and he said, “you know, It’s impossible to say, I both love and hate them all the same”

We then arrived backstage and Shannon and Tomo were there hanging out, Jared shouted to get Shannon’s attention, “Shannon! Hey Shannon! Come look at this!”

He showed Shannon my Tattoo who also said, “wow”

Jared then said we should get a picture of all of our tattoo’s so we did, Shannon took the picture on my camera and this is the pic,

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Then Jared said, lets get a group photo, (all of this was being filmed by a cameraman) so Shannon gave my camera to some guy who took this picture,

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Then Me and Jared left Shannon and Tomo and went to the side of the stage, he introduced me to two twins, who were super nice (and hot, but that’s another story!) as he attended to someone who wanted him for a short interview, he did this interview for a couple minutes and then, walked over to me, “wanna come watch Muse?” Obviously I said yes and we went to the front side of the stage in front of the barrier and I then watched Muse.
At the front.
Stood next to Jared Leto.

I then asked him between songs If he liked muse, “No” He immediately replied which I thought was funny, “I admire them as a band, but I never listen to their CD’s”

We then continued to watch Muse for a while, then he had to go, so we went back to where we were earlier and said bye, I then asked him one final question that I had wanted to ask for a while, my Mum probably knows what I asked, though I already knew the answer, and I got the exact answer I expected, he pondered the question, then said, “the answer, is.. Too long for a gig”

He then took one more picture of us both using my camera,

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He then grabbed my hand and said, “see you at Wembley!” and walked off.

Anyone who knows me well will realize how tranquil and soul lifting that entire experience was for me. My idol, Jared Leto, chose to walk up to me, and invite me backstage with him.

My life I know has changed since then, it was a huge moment for me and one that I will remember for the rest of my days.

-J

Provehito In Altum