when will i will i be famous?

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can you answer that?

do you want to be famous? why? for doing what? when will it happen? i will never be famous cos i don't wanna be.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

no. for nothing. never.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah! Famous. Simply because a) some of the people I admire are famous, b) I want to be like them, therefore: c) I want to be famous. But in actual fact I know I couldn't deal with fame. Really I'd like to have my work be well-known and influential, yet maintain personal anonymity (you don't say!)

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I was thinking the other day, it would be kind of cool to go into a posh store and choose some stuff, and then when you go to pay for your purchases the manager comes running up saying, "Oh! You're so-and-so famous person! No need to pay... No, I insist!" I bet that doesn't happen in real life though. I just want free swag, is all.

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Bros.! Holy crap.. I forgot about those guys.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought the best way to be famous would be to become a famous author or artist...that way, everyone would know your name, but very few people would know your face (like what Poppy was saying).

I don't want to be an author, though. Or an artist. Or famous, except maybe in my particular field.

― nory (nory), Saturday, 5 October 2002 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

yes famous with no face is best, then you dont have to run the media gauntlet hopefully, and can still go to the local shop without having to get your team of make-over artists to 'do their thing' first, or run the risk of being on the next cover of "womans crappy weekly mag" headlining THIS IS WHAT SHE REALLY LOOKS LIKE.
vanity aside, famous for me would have to mean serious money too, not just famous for famous'sake.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 5 October 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't fucking wait to be massive fuckoff famous. Which means that it will never happen.

I do get recognised quite a bit these days, which freaks me out. But more often it's like ... having a conversation at a gig or a pub, and someone asks me what I do and I say "Oh, I play guitar in this band, you've never heard of us..." and then when I tell them what band, they HAVE heard of us. Which is kinda nice. I get laid a lot more now. ;-)

Some money is the next objective...

― kate, Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Not mega famous but I'd like a bit yeah, for writing (ahahahahaha), well sadly that's probably not possible but I want to do some TV and Radio and who knows what else, skys the limit I suppose.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, constantly on the prowl for DDBs -- and now able to pull them all the more quickly. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Forget about pulling them -- you have to roll up the rim to win*!

*only Tim Horton fans will understand.

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

ARGH. Talk of Kraft dinner punishable by death.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"How can you bear it? To not be famous?"
I wanna be hypermediated (but not hypersexualised).

(& haha di yr mixtape has that track on it!)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

I can't fucking wait to be massive fuckoff famous.
Sometimes I feel this way too. But sometimes I just want to curl up and settle down in a nice house with all my STUFF and listen to old records and own lots of cats. Basically, if I start thinking about wanting to be famous then I get down on myself. So then I start to think, "Well, my life is really fun now and I like what I do, so why piss it all away by wishing for something I don't have???"

Today I'm in the I don't need to be famous to like myself frame of mind.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Today, I want to be more famous than ever. But for a weird reason... today I want to be massive fuckoff tastemaker famous to the point where if I even mention a band, then all of a sudden people will rush out and buy *them* because my word is law. So I can help my friends and other people I think are worthy, as well as myself. Is that even more arrogant than wanting to be famous for yourself?

Or does this mean that I've been pretending to be a music journalist for so long that I've actually turned into one?

Today I just want to shout "TODD rule your fucking world, submit to them!" and "Hilton Betelguese is an evil genius who makes music so good it will change your life" and have people believe me.

― kate, Monday, 27 January 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

...massive fuckoff tastemaker famous to the point where if I even mention a band, then all of a sudden people will rush out and buy *them*...

Kate,
When you do get massively fuckoffingly famous, please ask everyone to buy the new Times Ten album which at that point will hopefully exist.
Please and thank you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Will do, Sarah, will do!

― kate, Monday, 27 January 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

ess-kay: whatever happened to that mixtape??

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel like I'm putting off being famous (admittedly this is probably delusional).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

no way, i want to remain as anonymous as possible.

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

It used to be my only driving force, the wish to be famous and well known and able to say fuck you to people who were unkind to me who'd inevitably crawl back. Now I'm just like, whatever, I think I'd like a simple kind of life with a nice job and a husband and family. I'm not really sure.

On the other hand, every time I get a tarot card done it says I'll be massively successful and/or famous so it's IN THE STARS, kids.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

di, my brother deleted most of my mp3s inc. all of my sascha funke! woe & famine & etc! & since soulseek doesn't work, it's been uh hard graft trying to find electro/microhouse/etc on winmx. um it's being worked on (contingent on me finding a place in RotoVegas to repair my tapedeck & so on). & um I might be visiting dunedin in pre-march - bex has invited me sorta, + y'know getting my "stuff" back off M.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to be successful enough that I can just work on my stuff without the prospect of Doing Something Else For A Living; in an ideal world I want to be successful enough that either publishers will take whatever I write and like, or I'll have enough money that I can spend time writing whatever I like without worrying about publishing it. Fame usually comes along with the latter, but writer fame isn't real fame anyway.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend and I are planning to put together a manufactured girl band and be their managers. We'll swan around in shades and fancy suits and affect lisps and create this Phil Spector/Malcolm McLaren type mystique. And then when they become the biggest band in the world we'll spend all our time giving interviews about how much we hate everyone. Then we'll buy a lot of expensive crap, discover that it means nothing and get depressed and go insane like most instant celebrities. I'll let you know how it goes.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd love to be famous, but short of going on a murderous rampage, I don't think it's going to happen, sadly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Justyn, I saw this horrible horribile manufactured girl band last weekend called Broadzilla. I hope you had nothing to do with that.

That done, could you manufacture me? I wanna be famous. tHanks.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

pre-march? l;ike late-feb? ooh goody! if you come before 21st you will see me and doorag ROCKING OUT, or if you come around the 28th you will see the legendary space dust! time it to coincide w/ andrew and elisabeth! it'll be just the good old days of ned!

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I be in your manufactured girlband, too? And Di, you should be the third girl! This would be great! Think of the Bill Drummond-style ley-line triangulations we could achieve, with members in the UK, New Zealand and the US. Sarah, Di, let's do this! Let's all plan a gig on the same day and FEEL THE TRIANGULATIONS OF THE LEY-LINES, MAAAAAANNNN!!!

(OK, no more Julian Cope books for Kate...)

― kate, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Hi. Just didn't want anyone to forget that I want to be famous. I was just thinking of that last night again as I walked around window-shopping (since I don't have any money). And I was like, "What the F am I doing just walking around downtown when I should be playing guitar in a stupidly huge rock arena in some big city somewhere?" *Humph!*

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, there's always:

So, should I try out to be in Courtney Love's backing band?

Sigh. I've had my 15 minutes and I don't think I'm getting any more. I'm not sure I want to be famous any more. I think I might settle for being loved. :-/

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I like how Buckethead is totally famous and recognizable like all over the Earth, but then he takes off the bucket and he's just a random tall dude with long fingers.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Think of fame as a by-product of use value.

Here's a mneumonic: 'Fame accrues to what you use'.

Does somebody want to use you? And do you want to be used?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem with fame, they say, is that it's wasted on the famous.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

I wana be famous but it all depends on whether fame was written in your book of life, in other words if its in your destiny it will definately happen onw way or another. I just hope God answers my prayers to be one famous guy where many ppl know my name and I get filled with autographg requests :) maybe an actor or a modelling profession would be nice...

― Dean Hira, Saturday, 20 March 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I talked to the Man Upstairs and he said you should just think about going to a trade school or something. Electricians make good money, he says.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 20 March 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I be in a girl band? We can be like Girls Aloud, but more fey indie-boy.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 20 March 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Think of fame as a by-product of use value.
Here's a mneumonic: 'Fame accrues to what you use'.

Does somebody want to use you? And do you want to be used?

-- Momus

Nice, very nice.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 March 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigh. Oh the memories. Now I just embarrassed at work when people ask me what I did with that three year gap in my resume, and I have to kind of shift my feet and mutter "Well, yeah, I used to be famous once..." Sigh.

Playing music in my bedroom is far more fulfilling than playing it at the Shepherds Bush Empire. yeah, and the sex is better now too. :-P

― The River Kate (kate), Saturday, 20 March 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I never wanted to be famous, but had a bizarre dream for 20 years that I could make a living out of it some day. That is an extremely unrealistic idea to have in Australia, especially if you're not writing pop music.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 March 2004 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Alby Mangels famous in Australia? Or does he just go on American TV and say he is?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 20 March 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(I would have liked to have played Wembley, though. Just once in my life. Sigh. Even if they probably wouldn't have let us pop out of the floor hatches like Spinal Tap.)

― The River Kate (kate), Saturday, 20 March 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Wem-ber-ley!

I wish I'd been KK Downing from Judas Priest. I bet he got his share of groupies. Probably not much any more though, looking at him at a recent press conference.

My current fantasy is to write have Vanda & Young (AC/DC producers) produce my techno music. Still having absurd and unrealistic fantasies then.

oopsie, Alby Mangels was really famous here in the 70's with some rather cheesy bush adventure 'documentaries' before being undone by a 60 Minutes documentary proving he had set up most of the adventures (including the death of his faithful dog) as set camera pieces. What, is he in the States now having a second summer? Good for him!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 March 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be famous, maybe for killing someone. Nothing else is looking viable as I have not talent.

Which presupposes you don't need talent to be a murderer, which is bigoted of me isn't it? Maybe if I train hard like Barbara Streisand in the basement & get in shape like she does in all of her movies.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Saturday, 20 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Aww man that's awful to hear that about Alby. I really liked him.
A cable channel used to show his adventures in Africa, S. America, with bits of Australia here and there. Looked like they were shot in the late 80s-early 90s. (I assume the bush docs you're referring to are the 'World Safari' series? Never saw them, but that program featured him showing them to people in S. America)

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 20 March 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I think of Ned as famous.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 20 March 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

what band was kate in?

― ????, Saturday, 20 March 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume the bush docs you're referring to are the 'World Safari' series?
-- oops

Yes, that's the one!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 March 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I could have been famous tonight. Me and mr ailsa did the "Great British Quiz" in our living room on pencil and paper. I thought I'd done quite well, and was going to do it on line too with the same answers at the break but couldn't be arsed. Turns out I got more than the guy who they phoned up as the top on-line competitor. Bah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 20 March 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(like i would have wanted to speak to Anne Robinson and Philip Schofield and been outed as the kind of twat who stays in and does online quizzes rather than going to the pub and having fun on a Saturday night)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 20 March 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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