who's in your hood these days?
― ken taylrr, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)
HAHA, x-post! Everyone in Chicago has an "I-saw-Billy-Corgan" story except for me.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)
And my Dad ran into Steven Wright on his lunch today. Not quite a rock star, though.
― gunfighter, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)
Well, okay, I run into Kelly Stoltz a lot but that's just because his practice space is in the same building as my band's space.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― pauls00, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I'll take 90s Indie Guitar Gods Seen In & Around San Francisco for $800 Alex."
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
and my gf spotted Willie Nelson a couple months ago. She said she recognized him, made eye contact, and then he had this "please don't fucking approach me" look on his face, so she let him be.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)
I DID vote for him tho, btw.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)
the wife saw andy griffith .. . and he does have gospel cds... although he's comedy albums are still gold.m.
― msp, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― msp, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Shep, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)
We sat at the table next to Moby at a restaraunt once, and Julian Casablancas came in on a bike and ordered some food to go. Wasn't even a trendy ass place, really...strange coincidence?
I saw Jack Lauria (the dad from The Wonder Years) on the street once - that was awesome. I love that guy.
My girlfriend knows everybody but that's more embarrassing than impressive. We're talkin' Grammy winners, Emmy winners, etc...
All the years in New York (my whole life), I have never seen Richard Hell, Lou Reed or Paul Simon, tho I have heard they are all around. I've spent some time in Michigan but not seen either White Stripe (tho I met The Go and Slumber Party, if that means anything to any of you grim fucks), but I know people that go to their parties and shit.
My friend Deborah is a makeup artist and has done The Rock and some other wrestlers. Not Mick Foley tho, unfortunately...
This would make a good-ass scavanger hunt, guys, especially all you Windy City and Cali folks. Would that qualify as starfucking? No friends allowed, only celebrity strangers you've never talked to or met ("hey man, great set" doesn't count tho) - in honor of The Simple Life, be lame!
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)
Sat next to Kim Salmon on the back bar at the Price, but I dunno if gigs count really.
John Safran (who only Aussies would really know) lives down the road from me - I see the jammy sod riding his bike and shopping in Coles all the damn time.
I was penfriends with the singer from the Mavises/Junkatique. Apparently she remembers me too, heh.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Unless, of course, you count seeing him out of Disinformation washing up in my kitchen. ;-)
(Julian Casablancas can ride a bike? Whoa!)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)
No rockstar, but Jenaanne Garafallo (sp?) seems to live in my neighborhood, as I'm constantly spotting her in my supermarket and in the windows of at least two or three different Starbucks's (an establishment I'm quasi-surprised she gives her money too, given her oft-cited lefty leanings).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)
The last flat we lived in, we had Colin the bass player from the Porcupine Tree upstairs, an ex-Blue Aeroplane next door, and the guitar player from Cockney Rebel just along the street. That was the street Genesis P. Orridge used to live in too.
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)
it was better in the early 90's: k. hersch, kim deal, frank black, mark sandman, lou barlow, evan dando, j. mascis, galaxie500, all the time. yeah, boston(cambridge really) is a small city
― kephm, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― ArfArf, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)
No. He doesn't. At least he wasn't on his bicycle. When I lived in Islington then Hoxton, I saw Bobby G at least once a week. Geez, doesn't he know I've moved?
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)
What a wanker.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)
that was awesome
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)
my bf was also invited to willie nelson's ranch when he lived in austin. some girl brought him along, don't know how she was invited, but they all made a movie that day, and the guests were extras - including my bf who played somebody in a saloon. the movie had a western theme. apparently willie likes to make his own films like this out at his compound. they also smoked lots.
― skizaor, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Magic City (ano ano), Thursday, 11 December 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)
there's a lot of session and touring musicians in town... and song writers... lot's of the folks with money in that town, got their money from the industry... every knows somebody who knows somebody. i know a guy who knows the judds through some girl at work. i know another guy who has played bass for a lot of motown people. etc etc. so many of the big names were small names at one point too. didn't garth brooks work at target or walmart?
so it goes... that town is kinda small and ultimately packed because of the business there.m.
― msp, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― bangor, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)
what lauren said
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)
I've met her.
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
A friend of mine used to work in the green room for the Jenny Jones Show and about a week into her job, the CCM were on the show and ordering her around to get them tea.
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)
lint/tim from rancid used to serve me pizza at blondies. but that was before anyone knew who he was. once he sat with me and told me all about his childhood friend who died at Jonestown. Fucked up!
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)
That's him on the far right....looking much younger and fresher.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)
Does anyone see, like, Thom Yorke at the SAfeway or anything? When I lived in London, I saw Bjork shopping in Belsize Park, at the cheapest of cheap-ass grocery stores (for Belsize Park, anyway).
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)
Hmmm... he lives two houses away from the woman who works next to me (this in Oakland, California). She's actually in Minnesota right now but I will ask her when she returns tomorrow.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 12 December 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)
I used to see eddie vedder out in the water surfing (he's a kook) pretty often. I also have been out in the water with Ben Harper (kook) and Jack Johnson (not a kook...too bad his music sux)
also, I see Shock G from time to time hanging out at this crap local club my brother has a (hip hop) dj residency at.
― tylero, Friday, 12 December 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)
(All my celeb experiences are sports or Pantera related. Yikes.)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 12 December 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 12 December 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris O., Friday, 12 December 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 December 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― hector (hector), Friday, 12 December 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 December 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)
I saw Ian Svevonius at DC's "Social" (Georgetown) Safeway a couple months ago. I live a few blocks from Dischord House (and used to live up the street from it), but I don't see anyone particularly well-known in my immediate neighborhood anymore.
― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 12 December 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Friday, 12 December 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)
Technically speaking, he lives in Hove.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)
Darren?
― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)