Accidental Encounters With The Rich and Famous?

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.

Today I had to send some mail to 1rvin@ W@lsh. He is teaching in the same college & building where I work. I got this notice that he needed some books for his class and I thought there must be some mistake.

I could've sworn I locked eyes with Allison Janney here, right around the time this was originally posted.

Keith Richards - middle school, while waiting on 4th b/w Bway and Lafayette, in line to meet Megadeth (hey, it was middle school) - he comes out of the building and gets into a cab

Ben Affleck - in college, circa Chasing Amy, he (and, apparently, Matt Damon, tho I never saw him) is at his brother's society (co-ed frat-like-but-less-so)'s party, which has run out of champagne. I'm in a tiny doorway upstairs with him, waiting for the last of the hush-hush alcohol and have a short conversation. Pretty nice and unpretentious.

Dave Matthews - Not completely accidental, I talked to him briefly at a Tim Reynolds show at Fez in 95 (the rest of the band was there too). He drew me a self-portrait (apparently he does this a lot). He talked to a guy I knew for 30+ minutes about songwriting. Later, I shared a urinal next to him.

Jeff Buckley - also at Fez, as it happens. i was seeing a random singer there (another friend of Dave Matthews). She said a friend was going to perform. The place goes black. The voice comes out of nowhere. 30 seconds later, the blue light comes up on him at the mic.

Bass player from the Spin Doctors - two times, once on his bike in Battery Park City, once at a Phish show

(whose face melts off in the first indiana jones)

i didn't recognise him!! :(

her art wz about aliens and mermaids, it wz nice

My father has met a number of celebs, though, notably Celine Dion (in 1993) and Gloria Estefan (in 1995). Celine was lovely to him, but Gloria was a bit difficult.

Does Dan Rostenkowski count? If so, sure, I caught ol' Dan looking way tired and pissed off on Lake Street near the Thompson Center about a year or two ago.

Does Chris Zorich (da Bears) count? If so, I found myself eating lunch next to his table at the Aon Center a few months ago.

Does Michael Moore count? If so, I watched the screening of Bowling for Columbine at the Music Box in '02, sitting about 5 feet from him.

I have more (Teenage Fanclub at the Rainbo in '91? You bet! Mike Mills at Marie's Riptide Lounge in the early '90s? Check!), but they're equally as stupid as these....

do i qualify for the biggest name-dropper thread yet?