Is this strange or what? According to the Contra Costa Times, Metallica's James Hetfield was seen conversing by the curb Sunday (April 29) before a public talk by Tibetan leader-in-exile the Dalai Lama at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

If you have read the book "Metallica and Philosophy" which I wrote a review about there, you may recall that the author actually predicted that Hetfield would turn towards Buddhism.