Jonathan Davis from Korn is grand marshal for the Vegas Cup race

When I was in middle school my public favorite band was Limp Bizkit. That was the one I thought projected the way I wanted to be seen. My secret favorite band, though, was Korn. That was the music that actually spoke to my soul, which I did not want anyone to see or hear from.

Nowadays, I am pursuing things — very publicly, too — that I definitely would have thought were cool in middle school but could never have admitted. I never allowed myself to explore, for example, NASCAR because it would have been deeply uncool. At our school, we made fun of NASCAR and people who liked NASCAR.

Well, now I know better, and now Jonathan Davis will wave the green flag at the Cup race in Vegas this weekend, and I will be smiling.