Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

this week:

parker posey at an opening
gilbert gottfried on 22nd street
david byrne at a dance performance

Saturday: classy young British actress Rosamund Pike, sitting next to us at a Dexter Sinister event at the ICA.

i think i saw angela from the office today, but that almost doesn't count because office sightings are pretty common.

Emily the Indie Racist from Big Brother buying bread in the Christian Bread Store in Bristol at the weekend.

eric balfour (b-list, i know) walking down vermont ave with some chunky gal

elvis costello wearing a purple hat which was more interesting as guy-in-purple-hat than elvis costello (to me)

i think i saw angela from the office today, but that almost doesn't count because office sightings are pretty common.

Yeah. Kate Flannery lives in our neighborhood so we see her all the time at the grocery store, etc.

Greg Germann (obscure name, but recognizable from the hundreds of TV shows he's been in) next to me at the to-go line at Sunnin in Westwood.

Is John Sinclair a celebrity? Well, he is to me, so there. Saw him last night at a Marshall Allen gig, he even spoke to me but I couldn't make it what he said, pretty sure it wasn't "Kick out the jams, motherfucker" though.

What was the gig like though?

Amazing, he played for 4 hours! He's 85 you know!

For a second there I thought you meant John Gordon Sinclair and I was puzzled why you'd find him hard to understand :/

i saw old-school character actor clu gulager for the second time this past weekend, at a screening of the hurt locker.

Amazing, he played for 4 hours! He's 85 you know!

I bet it was too.

I saw Gok Wan near Oxford Circus on my lunch break today. He dined in the dim sun place on Eastcastle Street.

Is John Sinclair a celebrity? - He used to regularly play at a jazz club I worked at. Truthfully, he always came off as kind of a prick, but at least his ant-capitalist values held out enough to sell me a brand new, signed first edition of Guitar Army for like $15. He'll always be A+++ in my book b/c of that.

Last week on the train to London I sat with Justin Lee Collins on the way up and Dick Strawbridge on the way back.

Eddie Izzard - wandering around Soho
Dr. Liam Fox - on train to Glasgow
Phil Tufnell - on train from Glasgow

Stephen Tobolowsky at the Ikea in Costa Mesa
(probably don't know him by name, but he's been in damn near every TV show ever and a bunch of movies)

i just looked him up and he should totally play dr morbius in the ilx movie

cable host and reactionary prick LOU DOBBS in a doctors office friday AM. unfortunately it wasn't the urologist (where some karma would be delivered).

he looked up and smiled at me w/that self-satisfied "you know who i am doncha" expression and i was in the elevator before I realized who he was.

Jack McBrayer and Charlyne Yi at Home in Los Feliz a couple nights ago.

Also, Toby Maguire and his wife motorcycling down 6th in front of our apartment last night.

Rick Witter at a bus stop in York.

Jesus at Taco Bell, in my gordita.

Nick Cave on the beach at Hove in his swimming trunks.

*Murray Melvin! In Soho yesterday! This excited me no end.

*(Younger ILXors are advised to ask and older friend or relative)

I saw Keith Chegwin in Soho on Tuesday. Wasn't all that excited tbh.

Was he naked?

Younger ILXors who like the Smiths might recognize Murray Melvin!

Two weeks ago, I ate sushi at Katsuya on Ventura not 10 feet away from both Matt Parkman from Heroes, and B-Real from Cypress Hill.

Give it up for Valley sushi spot bringing the celeb love.

Murray Melvin lives? I can't imagine how big those ears must look now... I'd recog him primarily from his Barry Lyndon clergyman.

Mike Leigh in Waitrose. An old lady, who he seemed vaguely acquainted with, said to him 'you still making your films then?', in the same way your grandmother might ask you about one of your little hobbies.

Mike Leigh lives locally, I see him walking around near my house all the time.

Four Poofs, minus their Piano, in Edinburgh.

(note for Americans, yes, the UK has an unfathomably popular cabaret troupe called Four Poofs and a Piano. lol Britishes, etc)

its cute that they hang out together as a group

yeah 4 realz that's always heartening to know!

jesse bradford (the guy kirsten dunst likes in bring it on) in los feliz

Jack McBrayer and Charlyne Yi at Home in Los Feliz a couple nights ago.

haha just saw this after my last post

I saw Amir Khan at Blackpool Pleasure Beach a few weeks ago.

TIMMY MALLETT at the football, Maidenhead Utd vs Newport County.

Steven K Amos at the Edinburgh Fringe getting his photo taken with a procession of fans of bad comedy. Also Marcus Brigstocke being totally ignored.

Timmy Mallett lives in a house called Mallett Mansions, you know.

Does he? Must follow him home next time.

Noel Edmonds, driving a vintage Ferrari (at about 40 mph) on the M4 yesterday.

Currently sitting with Katie Hopkins on the train. She is charming but I don't like her boots.

Ask her if she's really only 34.

I can tell from here she isn't. She is currently smirking at Private Eye.

Noel Edmonds, driving a vintage Ferrari (at about 40 mph) on the M4 yesterday.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:26 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bad driver signifiers

I nearly forgot to share one: Mila Kunis, Jack McBrayer, and a Culkin, chatting outside nearby venue. Or really mostly McBrayer cracking up a fourth party, Kunis looking cool, and a Culkin standing somewhat to the side looking left-out and extremely, extremely Culkiny. Like we live in a fantasy world populated by humans, elves, dwarves, hobbits, and then Culkins.

several times recently on sidewalks near our apartment, this dude from house:

http://www.fox.com/house/images/bios/peter.jpg

(is he off the show now?)