"and did you see the villain clear?"

(also i was at school with tim booth of james but it was a big school and we never interracted and he's not really a villain per se, but a bit uninteresting)

My sister was in the same class in primary school as Fred "The Shred" Goodwin, or wee Freddie as he was known then. He went on to Paisley Grammar School though, I think selection in local schools was abolished the next year - something like that anyway.

i was at uni with T0m W4ts0n. he's a perfectly nice guy apart from every political opinion he has.

I grew up with and went to school with the Republic Of Ireland's first non-political serial killer: " N4sh is believed to be the first person in the history of the State to kill two people in two separate incidents, outside of those involved in terrorist offences." and has been banged up in Dublin prison since '97. My mum still sees his mum occasionally and makes comments to me about the apple not falling too far from the tree etc! He was more of a joke figure than someone who was feared, after he saw Pulp Fiction he started wearing gangster suits and doing his hair like Sam L Jackson.

I was a co-worker and not esp close friend of one K3n Kurs0n in the mid '90s, an ex-indie-rock dude who went on to ghostwrite a Rudolph Giuliani bestseller, help run Rudy's hilarious 2008 campaign for president, and become an editor/associate of Jared Kushner.

Julia Hartl3y-Br3wer sometime around 2000, when I worked in a media library. She was rude and the only user I ever snapped at, as a result.

a student worker I used to supervise went on to co-script an Adam Sandler film, does that count?

Oh, I also did some freelance work for J3rEmy Huntz's educational listings publishing company, in their London office, but as far as I know I never met him. It wasn't an especially nice company to work for tho.

I like that the OP has a refrain. should be set to music

^^^villains i have seen clear :)

is he married to or brother of vanessa dao?

was married to i think!

(hence "wife vanessa" in the o/p, tho tbf i may have misremembered this): the later widely mocked sexytiems releases which i have not actually heard also strongly suggest wife (and then she left him)

yeah their names arne't even linked on wiki though they were both in "the daou"

pitchfork says wife here: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-secret-house-music-career-of-peter-daou-verrit-clinton/

also she grew up in the us virgin islands and massachussetts whereas he grew up in lebanon (and claims to have fought in a christian militia group there)