Celebrity Name Dropping

Hey! If you're disqualifying us, you have to disqualify, erm... Mark S and Suzy and... HUMPH!!!

Wait, didn't we already do this here? [/nick]

Yes you probably did but I wasn't around then. I can't really add much though as the most exciting celbrities I've ever met are Robin Cook and Ken Livingston. So DG nix this thread at will.

Unless you count having my pool playing laughed at by Autechre.

ed, i count that.

Oh alright then may be I was. I just have and extrodinarily short memory

You were there, gareth, but probably listening to music at said mini music festival not dicking around playing pool

Well, in my professional capacity I have EVEN MET THE DIRECTOR OF SUPERMAN!! (+ once talked to JAMES BROWN on the telephone — he is mad as mad). But surely this = not what you are talking abt? I know many music-writers, and am good frendz with a small number: these = not celebs surely?? "Met" = socially: hardly any. Tho at release party for GODS&MONSTERS my pal PS and I were closeasthis to MONICA LEWINSKY fr c.1 minute. We said nothing to her and vice versa. I had a life-damaging KRUSH on [xXx] who was in Narcotics Anonymous with Will Self (tho with hindsight I believe [xXx] bigged this incident up majorly, as was in many ways Sorry Starfucker).

But I HAVE MET A MAN WHO WALKED ON THE MOON nay DROVE A LITTLE CAR ON THE MOON. He (Pete Conrad = dead now) was a tosser, at least to me: but mark s = pore journalist was NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE DUE TO CRETINOUS MIX-UP BY Association of Sapce Explorers incompetent PR...

You were there, gareth

was i? what festival? oh, was this at the warp thing on brick lane circa 99? i don't remember any pool games though

I once interviewed Moloko. Roisin certainly seems to count as a celeb now. When seeing the Durer show at the Royal Academy with my mother some years back we turned around and nearly tripped over the Queen Mum with attendant security blokes. That may be it... Most of the people I'm over-awed to meet wouldn't really count as celebrities in the real world eg: 'I was once introduced to Rodolphe Gasche.'

I'd be more impressed by a man who walked on the moon than by any puny pop star. I mean... HONESTLY!!! He's been ON THE FUCKING MOON!!! And I don't mean, like Laim Gallagher takes too many drugs and walks on the fucking moon, I mean, HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON!!!!!

I think you were there, at the grapes in Sheffield, before you moved down from Leeds. I could just be projecting your intention to be there or the fact that you should have been there.

no, i wasn't at that one in sheffield. i was going to go, but didn't for some reason i now forget.

Roisin from Moloko is definitely a sleb since she got done on Stars in their Eyes on Saturday. Talking of which, do SITE contestants count as Impressionists cos if so I will go back to that thread to point out what a classic show this is.

Funnily, Roisin was certainly acting like a celeb even at that point (this must be many years ago now). But I guess having been on the cover of Vogue, or whatever her claim to fame was must help with that. Is being a celeb all about attitude?

I'm not counting anything work-related or soiree-related, and my Meeting the Smiths story is elsewhere.

Unfortunately, to do this I have to go back to when I was a student. Paul Newman was cool, he was our graduation speaker (Joanne Woodward was graduating in my class as a FE student, she was okay). Also, Spalding Gray dealt very well with people, albeit in a neurotic New England kinda way. I couldn't keep a straight face when I met Martin Amis after a reading because he's two feet tall, and it's never a good idea for such people to wear khaki safari jumpsuits. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis used to shop at my local record shop and were giggly and lovely. Isaac Bashevitz Singer was so old-person translucent and frail when I met him at a school fete, I thought he would break.

But for me, hands-down winner of the OHMYGOD! stakes is one Peter O'Toole. The only time I have ever been starstruck in my whole life.

Was this not Jools Holland's finest moment: "One should never name-drop. Mick Jagger told me that."

I have a photo of me w/ Mecha-Christina!!

I have a photo of me w/ Mecha-Christina!!

You CAN'T not post it somewhere!!! We need our mecha-christina fix!

Someone get AP to a scanner NOW!

Sorry, wasn't paying attention...

I know who Christina is (eeeew, dee snider's had the op) but what's 'Mecha'?

As in Mecha Godzilla i.e Mechanic (or is it Mechanized?) Godzilla. D'you see?

Thanks Emma.

I will not sleep in class. I will not sleep in class. I will not sleep in class.

Suzy, the only reason I was jumping up and down yelling 'Miss, Miss, ask me Miss' in answer to your question was because I myself only figured out what it actually meant 2 weekends ago when I was very drunkenly watching Mecha Godzilla vs Godzilla. Similarly I only 'got' Max Headroom quite recently. Perhaps I am an idiot savant? Or perhaps Ally is right and I have the IQ of a coffee flavoured Revel.

Coffee flavoured Revels... mmmmmmmmmm...

Consuming Emma's brains in sweetie-form will prolong the BSE disaster, surely? A joke about Mad Cows is looking which I intend to have nothing to do with. Ally?

looking = looming

No, as 1) I am not a cow and 2) I do not have nv-CJD. I am trusting that the good citizens of ILE are above making tedious jokes re-girls being cows.

And since you have indirectly called me a cow, Mark, I feel forced to take you to task and ask whether you meant 'looming' rather than 'looking'?

Shit, he beat me to it.

I know who Christina is (eeeew, dee snider's had the op)

BwAhAhAHaHa this = awesome

does this mecha-n thing not refer to the giant robot...aaargh, whassername....barbra streisand in "south park" (one of the lamer episodes IMO)?

xoxo

I didn't say I was going to eat Emma's brain in faggots. I just like coffee revels. Dang! What a perverted bunch! Talk about candy, and you get accused of being a brain-eating zombie cannibal! Hey, at least I don't have a triangle shaped potato producing brane, thank you.

Excuse me Norman Fay — at risk of getting the SACK for being on the net AGANE!! instead of proof reading material abt the Festival of Britain — no it was NOT one of the lamer SPs it was the GRATEST EPISODE MADE!!

Because in part of highly brilliant and effective allusions/refs to Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla via concept of MECHA- STREISAND terrorising landscape, saved by FAT BOB BECOME A BUTTERFLY as hymned by comical karaoke gentleman.

What Mark S said. Robert Smith saving the universe = A Sign of Goodness and Rightness. The fact that he recorded the episode well before the series reached critical mass in terms of popularity is also pretty cool, if you ask me.

Met: Noel Gallagher and all of 2000-era Oasis (talked the most with Andy Bell, friendly guy), Patrick Stewart. Had Ric Ocasek dance past me on the street once, rode on a bus with Bowie.

Had Ric Ocasek dance past me on the street once, rode on a bus with Bowie.

Ric Ocasek danced past you? What was he doing, The Robot?

I played hockey with Dennis Leary and Tim Robbins, worked on a movie with Harold Ramis and Monica Potter and JULIE CHRISTIE(!)

If we go six degrees of separation, I know the Queen.

I have no other way to describe it. He and this other guy with a Super-8 camera half-ran half-bopped their way past me on a corner on Melrose in LA. Then they took off across the street.

I'd rather discuss eating cow brains (or monkey brains, big ups to Indy Jones yo) than discuss meeting celebrities again, for fuck's sake. Nothing against the subject but I'm sick of talking about all the celebrities I've met. Ramon did a running count and counting the Spice Girls as one person (which they are) the total is just too fucking unbelievable at this point. Howard Stern asked me out once. Have at that you mad cows.

I'm listening to What's My Name, you know.

I saw Billy Corgan's buttcrack before they were famous. He was performing in the round with a sorta friend of mine and his pants were too tight - 6Ts hip-huggers. He was working in a record store then, so I guess he couldn't afford good pants like he can now.

I went to college with Urge Overkill, and Nate Kato got upset when I ran into him later and reminded him that I saw them when they were a psychedelic thrash band with paisley shirts. It's true: they came to Northwestern and painted their logo all over campus before they even had a gig. He denied it all the way.

I had many encounters with David Schwimmer because of my ex-roommates' theater ties. I used to volunteer at the theater before he was famous. I danced with him to Frank Sinatra at a party and we talked about the fact that we were both part Italian and therefore grew up listening to Frank. Sorry, I don't have a lot of dirt - he seemed perfectly nice.

Oh, and I passed Oprah in the street on a cold morning when we were the only two people on Michigan Avenue. I left her alone, but she looked terrified of me. So I guess Oprah does go for walks when she thinks no one will be around.

My mom kissed Jimmy Carter. A president. It was the mid-70s and she was doing Democrat stuff at that time. And we went to Plains and met his mom and (I think) Billy Carter and some other Carters, but Jimmah wasn't there.

The Urge Overkill story is, of course, genius. Were they all wearing matching tie-dyes?

I used to work with Andy Green (world land speed record holder - Thrust 2). Very nice, very normal, steely determination though. Oh on one occasion he was dressed as a german fraulein - false bosoms and all.