Accidental Encounters With The Rich and Famous?

me?

courtney love
bobby gillespie
kevin shields
gowan
sandy from big brother (strangely the one i got most excited about and shouted 'hey it's sandy from big brother' in the middle of selfridges, where he works....)
j mascus
liam gallagher and his roadies (who both tried to pick up sophie and sophie, underneath ultra violet lights, pointed out the cocaine which was glowing under their noses)
tony viscounti
liv tyler
chris sheppard
richard ashcroft (don't know if that counts...just stared whilst my friend tony rolled him a joint)
jason spaceman and kate radley (scored pot off of my friend tony)
kevin spacey (he asked my friend tony for a special favour)
eric's trip (showed off my neil young records that i bought, and tutted them having to pay loads more for their neil yougn albums (which i got for much cheaper) and then went to the gig and yelled out, look look, someone bought julie doiron a gift, a big gift, as she placed a box of merchandise on their table. saw bob dylan walk by very frightened, a load of third rate indie bands, hmmm....hmmmm....who else? kate moss. *arched eyebrow* hmmm...hmmm....sophie mentions loads of celebs but they are english celebs so i have no clue - though i did call someone out for budding in line at budgens, i think it was a well known television presenter in crouch end.

the end!

when i was a baby, we used to live in a housing project in toronto, and next door, lived aretha franklin's third cousin, who was my mother's best friend and i had my photograph taken with aretha holding me.

j mascis was the most boringness...

luckily i don't remember him AT ALL

i partied with sloan, got drunk and told them all to fuck off because i hated their band. i was going through issues at the time.

same thing happened with my friend tony and k_v_n s_____Y only i think he wanted chatted wtih him aurually. he never did. though i told him it would be glamorous if he did. and i think i was as well, SHOCK, smoking cigarettes.

alex from blur once told tony that he was beautiful and looked like a young syd barrett and tried to get him to come to the aftershow party at blur...!!

and this weekend, i was chatting wtih bill scienkeiwics of new mutants,/electra art fame. though he tried to deny it - it was obvious it was him.

note to reader - she never slept with any of them.

i once shouted 'feel my rage' at trent reznor.

and the oddest story was about the ramones, my friend dustin jumped off a bridge, in a dare, smashed his knee to hell, was at the hospital, he was high on drugs that he had given him, he went out to buy a soda on crutches, when a limo pulled up (the ramones played london, ontario that night) and it was joey, he gave a ride back to the hospital and gave him 50.00.

He wishes, he just has the knack and the charm for bringing out the gay in stars.

I saw that guy from Auteurs in an old man pub having a drink with the guy from Jesus and Mary Chain.

hahahaha!

dustin bought ron jeremy a beer. i emailed the guy who wrote 'don't go in the woods'

i like the stories in this thread.

(Thinks: shameless namedroppers, the lot of them!)

of course, i told ch____di, she should sleep with leonard, as it would be glamorous...!!!

(* Not true, but I get the feeling he'd like to.)

5-5, 7-7: their beautiful symmetry.

I left this goofy airport security bomber jacket of mine over Rufus Wainwright's house after a drunken party one night. I saw him wearing it at a bar a couple of weeks later and he was really disappointed that I wanted it back. "Oh, sure, Goofus, take it, it's yours, whatever you want, baby."

I guess the second one wasn't really accidental. But it involved a coat.

they were wearing big furry hats.

they looked alien. it was here in rotterdam, holland.

I was getting lunch.

She never even said sorry, yo. It really pissed me off.

The hotel is a great place though for this sort of thing. John Stamos stayed there a few weeks ago when he did Caberet and hit on me when I was talking to one of the girls at the front desk. All I could think was, "Isn't his wife like hot or something? I'M AS OLD AS KIMMY GIBBLER!" Timbaland is there all the time, I always see him and get to go, "Hey, what up?" which is glamorous because then everyone thinks I'm good friends with Timbaland.

Y'know, Uncle Jesse always seemed like he was on the verge of macking on Kimmy. He just struck me as a sleazy perv.

I have also shoved Noel Gallagher in the street but I told a few people that story at the last ILX meet up so it's stale now.

Oh, and Liam Neeson and wife live by my house, I see them sometimes, Liam once called up to question his rent bill. I found that amusing. Arguing over the CAM, these bloody cheap rich people. They like to eat dinner sometimes at Santa Fe, which is on 67th St so if you are looking for Liam Neeson you should go there.

Haven't seen Bobby in a few weeks, unfortunately. Though I did run into Jarvis Cocker shopping on Upper Street. It really was strange the way I so nearly went up and said hello, thinking "Oh, I know you" before realising, no, I don't know him, that's the REAL Jarvis Cocker.

Had my first taste of it at a show about a week ago or so. This girl kept STARING at me, until I was concerned I had spinach in my teeth or something. Then she came up to me and started asking if I'd been in Paris recently, and things like that, clearly trying to figure out where she knew me from. I was too polite to say that I was 90% sure I'd seen her at a Lollies gig. But it was very funny in a "gosh, now I know how it feels sort of way."

But, obviously, it's not enough of a concern to make me STOP flipping out and shooting my mouth off online.

Also at the same gig, Paul Thomas Anderson was lurking around somewhere. Only caught a small glimpse of him.

I've met a number of "famous" people, including David Byrne*, but it was never accidental. Well, I did come home one night to find Bill Bailey in my living room, but that's about as unexpected as it gets.

* Keith and I went and harassed him backstage after his recent Melbourne show. He was hoity and disinterested, so we forced him to sign Keith's copy of Remain In Light. Ha!

My sister and I were shopping in London and we were walking down this narrow street when we had to stop because some people getting in a taxi. It was raining and sister-o-mine had an umbrella but I didn't. These people got into the taxi and the door started to close and my sister who was in front of me passed through the now emergent gap and then I tried to follow her but then the taxi door swung open and banged my elbow causing me to shout a big fat "Twunt" into the taxi. When I caught up with my sister she said "Did you see that was Roger Moore?". Sans umbrella, the rain was a bit to persistant to see who anyone was let alone Roger Moore.

If I had realised that it *was* him then I would have said "I'm very disappointed with you 007", of course.

There's a 'the snack you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite' gag in there somewhere...

I saw Janeane Garafalo at the grocery store with some bloke I also recognized, but whose name I can't remember - also Mary Tyler Moore. Nearly ran over Teri Hatcher who darted out in front of my car (I had the green light, silly cow), and sat at a table behind Gabriel Byrne and his children at the Hamburger Hamlet on Sunset - he was charming and winked at me when I said hello.

Kicked Sebastian Bach in the knee one night at a club when I was 18 (and anyone still knew who he was) accidentally; Tone Loc stopped to talk to me for a moment outside the building I work in (didn't realize who he was until just as he left); and I see Angelyne ALL the time (though she's more of a pseudo-celeb, isn't she?) Also, am currently being stalked by Dave Matthews (operating under friend Gina's theory that if you see them more than three times, they're obviously stalking you).

There are more, though I can't think of them - but my main claim to fame (um, er, yeah) was that I used to babysit for David Soul's daughter frequently, and he was a cunt. Still is, I imagine.