Tonight, I went to an advanced screening of "The Rocker," starring Rainn Wilson, best known as Dwight Schrute on "The Office."

It's kind of funny, the way I ended up at the screening. Here's the brief version: I check my MySpace page yesterday, and I had a bulletin from Teddy Geiger, calling attention to all his Fort Lauderdale fans. (That would include me.) Anyway, print out a page, show up a movie theater, free T-shirt, free movie, free Q&A with Teddy .... yadda, yadda, yadda .... well, you get my gist.

The movie was perfectly silly for a Tuesday evening. I'd say the audience was about half teenagers, half the rest of us. In fact, the couple next to me brought three out of their four children (all under age 10), a sister and a mother. The 3-year-old got a little restless at times, but there was plenty of room for her to get up and do her thing. She wasn't really loud, but the movie was, so no one could tell.

As part of the MySpace deal, I got a T-shirt that had "I Only Drum Naked" on the front, with a sketch of a skinny male drummer doing his thing in the buff. I gave that to my neighbor because, really, what was I going to do with it? He seemed grateful. His kids all got "The Rocker" bandannas, so I think he made out the best.

When the movie ended, Teddy Geiger was standing off to the side in the dark theater. It took awhile for them to get the lights up, but once they did, he walked to the front of the theater and answered whatever questions were thrown at him -- from "What are you doing for dinner?" (he had already eaten) to "How were you discovered?" (on "In Search of the Partridge Family"). After about 10 minutes, people were invited to come down to meet him, and he was happily posing for pictures and signing autographs when I left.

I may have stayed if I was 10 years younger, but it was a work night and I was still 20 miles from home. So, I took my leave and let the young'ns have some fun.