Ever met a celebrity?

[A Revolutionary Tool]

The other day my friend and I were discussing liking this one song by Wiz Khalifa and the guy who lives with my friend said he smoked weed with him! He is a security guard(which is ironic considering his fuck the police tattoo) with some company and they were hired as security at one of his shows and he said Wiz invited him to smoke some blunts with him. He didn't even know of him and didn't understand how famous he was until we told him!

So have any of you ever ran into someone famous before?

When I went to Oakland for May Day I saw Boots Riley there and approached him and told him how much I loved his music and that it inspires me, shook his hand, and then walked away.

[Comrade Trollface]

I try to avoid them as much as I can. Sometimes I have to cross the street when I see one coming:blushing:

[Ostrinski]

Mike Rowe and Conan O'Brien.

[Zav]

Fuck celebrities. Most have ever done anything positive worth talking about.
I have met Chomsky, though. He counts I think.

[Agent Ducky]

I met David Hayter, the guy who voices Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid and wrote a bunch of movies. :D

[Ostrinski]

I have to say that what you see is what you get when you watch Dirty Jobs. Mike has exactly the same demeanor off camera as on. All around great guy.

[piet11111]

Frits Wester a political commentator on the news is someone who regularly comes where i live to get absolutely shitfaced drunk.

Hilarious to see someone who is normally all SRS BUSINESS on tv turn out to be a party animal.

[Rocky Rococo]

Well, yes, I had lunch with one, although I had no idea at the time. And it goes back to my earliest radical left involvements.

In the summer of 1977 I attended the ISO's summer conference in Ohio. I'm not sure why the other members of my local group weren't around for lunch on Saturday, but I ended up taking a table by myself off in the corner. I was eventually joined by a bit of a dumpy looking woman with bad teeth and a soft accent I couldn't quite place. We had a very nice conversation about the conference, the speakers, and more general events around the nation and the world. When lunch was over we went our separate ways and I didn't think twice about the fact that I hadn't caught her name.

That night we were to hear from the featured speaker of the conference, speaking at a bonfire at the center of the retreat grounds. And when the main speaker was introduced, there she was, the woman I'd had lunch with earlier that day--Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey). (How she managed to avoid the clutches of the ISO's top-level schmoozers at lunch, who would normally have been hanging all over her, I'll never know.)

[#FF0000]

Atsuo from Boris jumped on my head.

I met Bruce Campbell at Comic Con once.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Plenty of underground punk/metal/hardcore bands.

For the nerds:
Brian Kibler, Gabriel Nassif, Ben Zoz, Raphael Levy, Conley Woods

[Tim Finnegan]

I sort of met Billy Connolly when I was a kid. It was more like my mum met him, and I was there, but whatever, close enough.

[ed miliband]

lil b, twice. nice lad.

david tibet of current 93, again twice.

i recently met a fella vice magazine made a spoof documentary about (http://www.vice.com/en_uk/dalston-superstars/dalston-superstars). again, nice guy.

hmm, these are the most recent ones i can think of. none are really 'celebrities' per se.

[Sasha]

I'm security co-ordinator at a big concert venue, so i meet celleberities on a daily basis, by the time lady gaga askes you to hand her a towel you already got used to it... :lol:

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I don't really buy into celebrity culture and tbh I probably wouldn't recognize many Hollywood/media celebs if I bumped into them.I have met a couple of famous people whom I admire and briefly chatted with them.

Ursula Leguin at a book talk once. I met Noam Chomsky a couple times.I spoke with Bernie Sanders a bunch of times.I met the German filmaker Werner Herzog once. That's it.

[Sasha]

its really funny though when strangers start to treat you as a celebrity, i was press-spokeman for a bunch of prominent squat and antifa actions/campaings for a while and then you have these strangers who know they have seen you on tv (but often do not remember in what context) so they start to tread you really ackward..

[MustCrushCapitalism]

I met Karl Marx once when I was stoned.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Met Alexei Sayle once (did a one day writing course with him, was pleasant enough)

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I met Karl Marx once when I was stoned.

I dreamt I saw Joe Hill last night.

[Tim Finnegan]

Was he stoned too?

[Comrade Trollface]

No- tarred and feathered.

[Deicide]

You've all met a celebrity... me.

[Susurrus]

Raul Castro and Elian Gonzalez I met once in Havana at a private event commemorating the 10th anniversary of Elian's return that I managed to get into because I was at the hostel right next to the cathedral where it was held.

Then Tim O'Brien, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates at various book events.

[Bronco]

I've met quite a few cricketers, most of them just county players so it's not like they're that well known but a couple of internationals as well. I've sort of met the Newcastle football team too, they were staying in the same hotel and they all came down to the lobby when we were checking in

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I've also met some professional basketball players when I went to basketball camp. I have no idea how famous they are because I don't follow that on tv, I just love the sport. I can't even remember their names but I got my shirt signed by them all.

[Welshy]

I've met Cleeve Jones and I knew one of the football coaches for the Steelers back when he was a coach for the Detroit Lions.

[Althusser]

Immortal Technique on Day 1 of Occupy Wall Street.

[Yuppie Grinder]

The other day my friend and I were discussing liking this one song by Wiz Khalifa and the guy who lives with my friend said he smoked weed with him! He is a security guard(which is ironic considering his fuck the police tattoo) with some company and they were hired as security at one of his shows and he said Wiz invited him to smoke some blunts with him. He didn't even know of him and didn't understand how famous he was until we told him!



Bullshit. Wiz only smokes joints.

I met Survivor at an airport once.
I met Les Claypool outside a venue after seeing primus live.

lil b, twice. nice lad.

david tibet of current 93, again twice.

i recently met a fella vice magazine made a spoof documentary about (http://www.vice.com/en_uk/dalston-superstars/dalston-superstars). again, nice guy.

hmm, these are the most recent ones i can think of. none are really 'celebrities' per se.

God damnit I am jealous. Lil B is my favorite musician, David Tibet is top 5.

[Prometeo liberado]

My Friend Gaspar and I met Leonardo DiCaprio on the silk road hiking one day, as we had no money to fly. He was lost and said he would pay anyone $100,000 if they could direct him to the nearest village. Idiot, I told him, you dont need to pay someone just keep going west about a mile and you'll find it. He's so stupid I told Gaspar.

[Comrade Samuel]

I listened to Michel Moore talking about occupy last December...

And I thought I was the lamest guy in the book store.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Bullshit. Wiz only smokes joints.

I met Survivor at an airport once.
I met Les Claypool outside a venue after seeing primus live.


God damnit I am jealous. Lil B is my favorite musician, David Tibet is top 5.

Lol same difference. And I can't tell if you're being serious or not about Lil B. As The Game put it, wackest rapper out there right now.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

My Friend Gaspar and I met Leonardo DiCaprio on the silk road hiking one day, as we had no money to fly. He was lost and said he would pay anyone $100,000 if they could direct him to the nearest village. Idiot, I told him, you dont need to pay someone just keep going west about a mile and you'll find it. He's so stupid I told Gaspar.

The silk road? Like the one in China?

[Prometeo liberado]

The silk road? Like the one in China?
Is there another?

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

we drove past michael gambon once, at least we think it was him. also saw gary oldman's sister in sainsbury's in south london, the one who plays moe in eastenders. my brother and dad saw george takei once too when he was in our home town playing in some shitty play. got some obscure, semi-famous comedians on facebook too but never met them as well as a few actors and shit

[ed miliband]

Lol same difference. And I can't tell if you're being serious or not about Lil B. As The Game put it, wackest rapper out there right now.

lol, the game.

lil b is doing things some people just can't comprehend. it's a shame...

[The Young Pioneer]

I've met quite a few important politicians and celebrities, but my weirdest instance of meeting someone famous was running into Sir Alex Ferguson. In the Moscow Kremlin, no less. :blink:

[Prometeo liberado]

I was in a barber shop quartet with Kevin Spacey once when I lived in Skokie Ill. Used to get mani/pedi's from Michael Madsen too.:(

[Yuppie Grinder]

Lol same difference. And I can't tell if you're being serious or not about Lil B. As The Game put it, wackest rapper out there right now.

If there are two things I don't like, they're Stalinism and people who hate on Lil B.

[Art Vandelay]

I was in a barber shop quartet with Kevin Spacey once when I lived in Skokie Ill. Used to get mani/pedi's from Michael Madsen too.:(

Kobayashi

[Permanent Revolutionary]

I've met three prime ministers, does that count?

[Os Cangaceiros]

I saw Hugh Grant one time when I was walking in London. I past him on the street, and was like, hmm, that was Hugh Grant. And kept walking.

[Art Vandelay]

I saw Hugh Grant one time when I was walking in London. I past him on the street, and was like, hmm, that was Hugh Grant. And kept walking.

You should of punched him in the face for polluting the world with his shitty movies.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

lol, the game.

lil b is doing things some people just can't comprehend. it's a shame...

Yeah I can't comprehend how anybody can like Lil B. I've listened to a few of his songs and they all seem to say the same thing, *****es on his dick because he looks like someone, I'm a pretty *****, whatever fucking garbage he has to say. He was better with The Pack, and even then they were weak IMO.

Another celebrity I've met is Young L from The Pack because his brother lives in the same city as I do(think he even graduated from the same school) and I kicked it with him a few times. Yeah, fuck that guy.

[Nox]

I met RONNIE O FUCKING SULLIVAN

[Os Cangaceiros]

You should of punched him in the face for polluting the world with his shitty movies.

That seems like it would've taken too much effort.

I don't know if this person counts as a "celebrity", but I also met Ted Stevens, possibly the most powerful figure in the US Senate ever, and exalted senior statesman from my state, most famous for declaring that the internet was nothing but "a series of tubes". Oh, and I met Sarah Palin as well during a victory lap speech she gave in my home town after her initial bid for governor.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Yeah I can't comprehend how anybody can like Lil B. I've listened to a few of his songs and they all seem to say the same thing, *****es on his dick because he looks like someone, I'm a pretty *****, whatever fucking garbage he has to say. He was better with The Pack, and even then they were weak IMO.

Another celebrity I've met is Young L from The Pack because his brother lives in the same city as I do(think he even graduated from the same school) and I kicked it with him a few times. Yeah, fuck that guy.

Maybe this song will make you a convert. It's far and away the best piece of music I've heard.
ZG6zsHUCum4

[Art Vandelay]

Maybe this song will make you a convert. It's far and away the best piece of music I've heard.
ZG6zsHUCum4

I hope you're kidding.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Nope.

[ed miliband]

i could write a lot about why lil b is great but it's late and i have work tomorrow. but people really underestimate the guy's intelligence, and he's having the last laugh. lil b is completely contradictory, which is what most interests me about him: he seems impossibly stupid at one point, the next he is musing about his love of john coltrane and bob dylan (yes, he actually does this); he'll rap about being a princess, a *****, and so on (itself a pretty radical act in a genre so laden with homophobia and macho stereotypes), and then he'll rap about the effects of technology in changing human behaviour - and have that shit played in uc berkeley. and then even some of his dumbest songs have incredible imagery: in 'hugh hefner' he raps about how hugh "represents the struggle out of africa", and depicts a party at playboy mansion complete with bill o'reilly taking ecstasy and hillary clinton stripping or something. he knows exactly what he's doing, and to imagine he's just some dumb kid... well, it's you whose getting played, and he's getting payed for it.

and he's a really nice person as well. he'll wait for hours before and after shows to meet fans, he gives all his music away for free and he's basically chill as fuck.

e: and how many rappers have released "ambient hip hop" albums, featured as a cover feature on ultra-serious music magazine the wire or given a guest lecture at nyu?

[Prometeo liberado]

I used to school Matt MacConaughey in Insanity workouts back when I was at the New Actors School.

[Agent Ducky]

I used to school Matt MacConaughey in Insanity workouts back when I was at the New Actors School.

Man, what is it with you and Matthew MacConaughey? :laugh:

[Prometeo liberado]

Man, what is it with you and Matthew MacConaughey? :laugh:

I know, right?
When he stops "acting" I'll let it go.(and give me my abs back matty)

[Magón]

I met Michelle Morgan once, at a release screening for George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead. She's the lead actress in that film. Got a picture with her, and autograph. Pretty chill from the two sentences I got out of her.

[Prometeo liberado]

Seriously though, once met Gavin from BUSH at a wedding and asked him what that damn song Green to Red, or Machine Head, whatever its called was all about and he WOULD NOT SHUT UP about it. The worst 4 minutes of my life!

[A Revolutionary Tool]

i could write a lot about why lil b is great but it's late and i have work tomorrow. but people really underestimate the guy's intelligence, and he's having the last laugh. lil b is completely contradictory, which is what most interests me about him: he seems impossibly stupid at one point, the next he is musing about his love of john coltrane and bob dylan (yes, he actually does this); he'll rap about being a princess, a *****, and so on (itself a pretty radical act in a genre so laden with homophobia and macho stereotypes), and then he'll rap about the effects of technology in changing human behaviour - and have that shit played in uc berkeley. and then even some of his dumbest songs have incredible imagery: in 'hugh hefner' he raps about how hugh "represents the struggle out of africa", and depicts a party at playboy mansion complete with bill o'reilly taking ecstasy and hillary clinton stripping or something. he knows exactly what he's doing, and to imagine he's just some dumb kid... well, it's you whose getting played, and he's getting payed for it.

and he's a really nice person as well. he'll wait for hours before and after shows to meet fans, he gives all his music away for free and he's basically chill as fuck.

e: and how many rappers have released "ambient hip hop" albums, featured as a cover feature on ultra-serious music magazine the wire or given a guest lecture at nyu?
Oh you got me there, he can be so deep with his shitty flow. I don't care if you are rapping about a beautiful May Day(and no I don't see Hillary stripping as beautiful imagery), if your rapping sucks as much as Lil B you could be the nicest motherfucker and it wouldn't matter.

I'm not saying Lil B sucks because he's dumb, I'm saying he sucks because his rapping just sucks.

[shinjuku dori]

I force fed shit on a silver spoon to Kardashian hogwash nightmare creator:thumbup1:

[ed miliband]

Oh you got me there, he can be so deep with his shitty flow. I don't care if you are rapping about a beautiful May Day(and no I don't see Hillary stripping as beautiful imagery), if your rapping sucks as much as Lil B you could be the nicest motherfucker and it wouldn't matter.

I'm not saying Lil B sucks because he's dumb, I'm saying he sucks because his rapping just sucks.

and there you just miss the point, yet again. you're trying to listen to him like you would any other rapper, and as such you imagine that his flow is a result of being shit. this goes hand-in-hand with you thinking he's stupid, whatever you say, because you assume he just doesn't notice that he's off-beat like 80% of the time. you don't have to like it, but at least acknowledge it's a concious artistic decision.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

and there you just miss the point, yet again. you're trying to listen to him like you would any other rapper, and as such you imagine that his flow is a result of being shit. this goes hand-in-hand with you thinking he's stupid, whatever you say, because you assume he just doesn't notice that he's off-beat like 80% of the time. you don't have to like it, but at least acknowledge it's a concious artistic decision.

Oh he's shitty on purpose! That is so edgy and totally makes me want to buy into his shit. It's like he's deconstructing the most basic things I thought about music. Very profound!

[ed miliband]

Oh he's shitty on purpose! That is so edgy and totally makes me want to buy into his shit. It's like he's deconstructing the most basic things I thought about music. Very profound!

are you familiar with outsider art or music at all? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_music

it's great that lil b makes you so uncomfortable. what do you like? immortal technique?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Oh, I also met the man who sold the world...he'd never lost control, apparently

[Susurrus]

Is there another?

Yup. Would not be too surprised to learn Leo Di Cap goes there.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

[Jimmie Higgins]

When I lived in LA I saw:

Jamie Lee Curtis twice.

Frodo (the actor who played him obviously, though I was doing a lot of LSD in those days) smoking a cigarette outside the EL Rey, saw Weird 'Al' at the same concert (he directed a music video for the band).

Met Don Cheadle and the guy who was the principle that got killed on "Buffy" and played an alien on Star Trek.

Not in LA:
Got an autograph from Muhammad Ali when I was a kid.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I've met Cleeve JonesI met him and then told the story to someone and he said, yeah I slept with him in the 1970s. That's the ultimate celeb-meeting story buzz-kill. "We exchanged mutual respect and pleasantries" can't top "Oh yeah, we had a passionate one-night stand".

So from now on I embellish my stories and just say that I slept with Jamie Lee Curtis twice and once with Weird Al.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

are you familiar with outsider art or music at all? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_music

it's great that lil b makes you so uncomfortable. what do you like? immortal technique?

Sorry I can't comprehend the genius of making music crappy and then selling it. I bet you I could make some pretty crappy music too, all off beat, no flow, same monotone voice through out the whole song, but I would hope few people actually consider it good. Maybe I would have a fan in you though and it might be played in UC Berkley! I'm intelligent, I'm a nice guy who would like to talk to my fans and everything.

Technique is alright, I like a few of his songs, but I would rather listen to all of his songs on repeat for a week than listen to one of Lil B's songs.

[Manic Impressive]

Lots: Spike Milligan, Macy Gray, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Teddy Sheringham, a load of chelsea and charlton players (when charlton were still in the premier league), Vanessa Feltz and the woman who played Dorian in Birds of a Feather, I met the King of Saudi Arabia's first wife and Sheik Mohammed Al Sabah (I used to call him Mo), I saw Kerry Packer from a distance once but he didn't talk to me thank fuck. can't remember anymore right now

oh yeah I forgot I met Dr John coming out of a toilet I was queuing for he'd left shit all over the bowl. I met Alabama 3, Wilko Johnson, the English Beat and spilled a pint over Jules Holland

[Jimmie Higgins]

Oh shit, I almost forgot, but when I was a kid I saw Michael Jackson at Disneyland. It was right before Captain Eon or whatever that thing he did at Disneyland was so either they were filming it or maybe a lifetime pass to Disneyland was part of his payment.

Anyway, I was with my family and we were in line for the Pinocchio ride (which is one of the lame kiddie-rides because I was pretty young). We went through the gate and then some men in suits came and closed the line right after us and we boarded the little boat/car thing for the ride while my parents wondered aloud about why the ride was shut down so suddenly like that. There's a lot of space between the fake boats on the ride and the next boat or next couple were empty. Then the next boat after that had two tough men in suits and one small man in a big hat and a medical mask. When we got off the ride we stuck around and tried to wait for him, but they must have de-boarded before coming back to the public part. There were some family friends who had also come to Disneyland with us and when they met up with us my parents breathlessly told them the whole story (we took photos, but this was back you know before digital so it would have taken a day or two to show them) and they were like: "Why the hell would Michael Jackson be on one of these kiddie rides with some bodyguards? You're full of shit." But then a little while later that day we were walking around when we suddenly heard this crazy screaming and all these tweens (or "kids" as they were called back then :D) started running and kind of mobbed up around something. The kids were saying, "Oh my god it was Michael Jackson, did you see!".

Ahh, our family honor was vindicated.

So fucking serious about this one - no joke.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I wanna meet John Waters. I hear he hitch-hikes and he has a house in San Francisco that he stays at for part of the year. So it could happen. I need to buy a car so I can go around finding hitch-hikers.*



*Is that last line something that a serial killer might write in his "to do" list?

3PM - go to the dealership and buy car.
4:30-5PM - instal child safty locks in new car and paint the back and side-windows out with black paint.
5PM - clean up, shower, sharpen machete.
6PM - Dinner at TGIF with Todd from work.
8PM - American Idol Finale!
11PM - Drive around looking for hitch-hikers.

[ВАЛТЕР]

I've spoken to Hasim Rahman he's a really nice guy. I've met "Quick" Tillis a few times. One of my friends is Carson Jones, he's fighting Kel Brook this weekend and I wish him all the best.

Oh! And last night I saw Milos Krasic the footballer at a restaurant here.

[Art Vandelay]

When I lived in LA I saw:

Jamie Lee Curtis twice.

Frodo (the actor who played him obviously, though I was doing a lot of LSD in those days) smoking a cigarette outside the EL Rey, saw Weird 'Al' at the same concert (he directed a music video for the band).

Met Don Cheadle and the guy who was the principle that got killed on "Buffy" and played an alien on Star Trek.

Not in LA:
Got an autograph from Muhammad Ali when I was a kid.

Didn't peg you as the lsd type to tell you the truth.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

I met Vermin Supreme.

[Metacomet]

Christopher Hitchens when he came to my college to speak/answer questions. He was drunk as a skunk though.


Immortal Technique was in a club/venue I went to in college in Northampton Mass once. I didn't meet him but one of my friends talked to him for a bit.

[Firebrand]

My dad is mates with Paul Cook from the sex pistols. He's actually really sweet.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I've met Jhonen Vasquez, Clive Barker, George Romero, Tom Savini (who is a prick, btdubz), Sid Haig, Ken Foree, and Orlando Jones before.

[Agent Ducky]

I've met Jhonen Vasquez

I'm so jealous; I love his work! Was he cool? Because he seems like one of those people who is either really cool or really a dick.

Oh, I've met Matthew Morrison, one of the stars from Glee.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

My Friend Gaspar and I met Leonardo DiCaprio on the silk road hiking one day, as we had no money to fly. He was lost and said he would pay anyone $100,000 if they could direct him to the nearest village. Idiot, I told him, you dont need to pay someone just keep going west about a mile and you'll find it. He's so stupid I told Gaspar.

Are you sure you weren't loking for White Castle?

[El Chuncho]

Lets see if you young'us know of any of the people I have met; Ingrid Pitt, Kathryn Leigh Scott and Colin Baker. I also met Ken Ford, the violinist.

[Ocean Seal]

I've met and debated Chomsky at MIT's No6 club.

[#FF0000]

Sorry I can't comprehend the genius of making music crappy and then selling it. I bet you I could make some pretty crappy music too, all off beat, no flow, same monotone voice through out the whole song, but I would hope few people actually consider it good. Maybe I would have a fan in you though and it might be played in UC Berkley! I'm intelligent, I'm a nice guy who would like to talk to my fans and everything.

Technique is alright, I like a few of his songs, but I would rather listen to all of his songs on repeat for a week than listen to one of Lil B's songs.

could be that

perhaps

you haven't given lil b a fair shake and are just writing him off?

[Prometeo liberado]

Are you sure you weren't loking for White Castle?

On that road I may have been lookin for white, and a castle of it, but it wasn't burgers.:D

[A Revolutionary Tool]

could be that

perhaps

you haven't given lil b a fair shake and are just writing him off?

Well from like the ten songs I've heard by him and the one referred to in this thread I don't like a single one of them. Why should I keep listening to this stuff when people say "this song is good" and not a single one is good. That's called insanity man.

[homegrown terror]

i met anti-flag at ANSWER 2004. buncha arrogant toolbags.

met ozzy osbourne when i was seven. my dad was a JAG lawyer who was going over some shit with him for an on base show for the troops and called my mom down to his office and i met him there. don't remember it, but my parents did for me.

and i met plenty of representatives and senators, and the odd embassador from wherever while working a coffee shop in DC. they're all the same, self-righteous assholes who expect special treatment from everyone around them, front-of-the-line service etc.

knew a lot of people who've met john waters up in baltimore.

talked to john flansberg and john linnell from they might be giants back in 2003.

[Sasha]

i met anti-flag at ANSWER 2004. buncha arrogant toolbags.


oh yeah, lets do a how are celeberities irl list.

(i'm just doing some that pop into my head)

nice as expected;
nofx
propaghandi
arch enenemy
immortal technique
aggrolites
lamb of god
cypresshill
cocksparrer
sick of it all
dropkick murphies
lost fastidios

unexpectedly nice;
robbie williams
lady gaga
jimmie jasta (hatebreed)
paparoach
prince
d12
redman & methodman
garbage

unexpected (arogant) assholes;
wutangclan (minus method)
social distortion (these where really the biggest assholes i met in a long time, coke sniffing, groupy abusing pieces of shit)
public enemy
AFI

sure i'll come up later with more..

[maskerade]

I met Linkin Park before a concert once. All of them were nice apart from Chester (think that's the name of the main singer), he was a tool. I asked for an autograph - which was the entire point of the whole fan-meet-band setup - and he just looked at me like he didn't understand what I was saying. The others were all up for having a conversation, but he just stared as if though he really just wanted to shoot everyone who was there

When I was a kid I used to know John Guidetti, man city/feyenoord footballer.

[ed miliband]

Sorry I can't comprehend the genius of making music crappy and then selling it. I bet you I could make some pretty crappy music too, all off beat, no flow, same monotone voice through out the whole song, but I would hope few people actually consider it good. Maybe I would have a fan in you though and it might be played in UC Berkley! I'm intelligent, I'm a nice guy who would like to talk to my fans and everything.

Technique is alright, I like a few of his songs, but I would rather listen to all of his songs on repeat for a week than listen to one of Lil B's songs.

you aren't engaging with why he does it though, you're just saying he does x, y and z badly: the point is why he chooses to rap off-beat, without flow, and so on. the fact you're still criticising him on those grounds just further reinforces the point that you don't get what he's doing, which is fine and all, but it makes your criticism pretty empty.

the 'anyone can do it' argument is meaningless, and once again the sign of someone who doesn't understand a piece of art or music or whatever. whenever someone makes the argument irl i always say 'well why don't you do it then?' no answer.

music history is full of examples of artists attempting to tear apart formal rules about how music should be created. free jazz, improv, stockhausen, musique concrete, etc. etc. etc. you don't have to like that stuff, but if you listen to ornette coleman and go 'oh he's playing his instrument all wrong' the problem isn't with coleman's music, but the way you are listening to it. it's the same with lil b.

much as i love lil b, really he's just a great joke; once you get it, everything he does makes sense, if you never get it it's all absurd.

[ed miliband]

great analysis of ma boy:

http://destructural.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/thank-you-based-god-on-the-importance-of-lil-b/

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Whatever dude, I don't care anymore, throw as much stuff about how he's a genius doing this or that. The fact is I can't stand his shit.

[homegrown terror]

since we're having heated debates about the merit of a pointless topic, i'll toss my hat in the ring and say that hip hop in general is shit.

[Tim Finnegan]

Name a genre that isn't mostly shit. You have to judge these things by their peaks, not their mediocrities.

[Yuppie Grinder]

since we're having heated debates about the merit of a pointless topic, i'll toss my hat in the ring and say that hip hop in general is shit.

Please don't tell me you're one of those "They're not even playing real instruments! There is no melody!" people.

[human strike]

Met David Graeber a couple of times, though I doubt he recognised me the second time due to my face mask. He counts, right? Oh, and Billy Bragg. He was really annoying and disappointing... and patronising.

[Magón]

I forgot I met Steve Buscemi once. Asked me where the men's room was, and if I had the time.

[homegrown terror]

Please don't tell me you're one of those "They're not even playing real instruments! There is no melody!" people.

nah, i just see it as the uneducated bastard child of beat poetry.

[Yuppie Grinder]

nah, i just see it as the uneducated bastard child of beat poetry.

That makes literally no sense. Hip hop is descended from ghetto disco, Jamaican dancehall music, and '70s black power spoken word acts like Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets. Its origins have little to do with beat poetry.

[Le Libérer]

oh yeah, lets do a how are celeberities irl list.

(i'm just doing some that pop into my head)



jimmie jasta (hatebreed)




I'm friends with Jimmie. He is in a side band with my ex, Kingdom of Sorrow. Met lots too, worked for a few, interview many for the film trade magazine I write for now and music mag from the past.



Recently, I hung out with Darryl Jones, bassist for the Rolling Stones and Miles Davis, but Ive met
Marilyn Manson
Peter Steele (I have a pic of me sitting in his lap) same with Dimebag Darryl
Worked for Poison, Pantera, Acid Bath, Crowbar, and Goatwhore.
Ive dated 3 famous musicians (kinda happens when you are in that biz), all Grammy Winners, but wont say who. I dont kiss and tell.

Oh and Alex Skarsgard. We hung out at a local pub and drank beer when he was here filming Straw Dogs. Pics to prove it too.

[Prometeo liberado]

I forgot I met Steve Buscemi once. Asked me where the men's room was, and if I had the time.

Should have told him "I've got the time if you've got the time to not piss your pants."

[Le Libérer]

Psycho, you will love this pic I took at CBGB in NY, of Solient Green, Lamb of God, [burn the priest] and one of the bands I promoted, Choke.

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/385917_261581053897159_364296290_n.jpg

[Landsharks eat metal]

I very briefly met a few pro ice hockey players, some of whom went on to play for the Washington Capitals, at some fan thing years ago. (I'm not sure if they really count because most people probably don't know the names or anything or even care... I think the most recognizable name among them is Semyon Varlamov...) All I had time for (and wasn't too shy for) was to ask for autographs, and I told the one guy I'd seen playing on the minor league team in Hershey that he was awesome.

I think that's about it; my life isn't the most interesting.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I'm so jealous; I love his work! Was he cool? Because he seems like one of those people who is either really cool or really a dick.

He is a dick but he's also chill and was hilarious in person and joked around profusely. I talked to him for probably about 45 minutes to an hour before a convention because I just saw some guy walking and I asked for the time and shit and then turns out, it was him. I wrote his number on my hand but it rubbed off by the end of the day before I could save it in my phone. :(

[MarxSchmarx]

I met Mikhail Gorbachev once. I was just discovering leftism and it was just sort of the shake hands, greet kind of affair; obviously I couldn't have a meaningful conversation he was making the rounds of a huge hall, I just welcomed him to my neck of the woods and wished him a pleasant trip and he thanked me but he struck me as pretty softspoken and earnest in person.

I also met Sascha Baron Cohen when he was in character as Borat. That was pretty fun, I had him sign an autograph, said something about down with uzbekistan and said "Jinkuyi" and he seemed pretty into it.

[ed miliband]

Met David Graeber a couple of times, though I doubt he recognised me the second time due to my face mask. He counts, right? Oh, and Billy Bragg. He was really annoying and disappointing... and patronising.

lol, i was in a left-wing bookshop in london about two years ago and graeber was there (didn't know who he was), he was asking whether they were stocking his books and enquiring about how the store work with ak press or whatever. at the end he was like, 'oh, i'm working on a book about debt at the moment...'

billy bragg's an awful bastard anyway, don't be disappointed.

[Ingraham Effingham]

I saw Dee Snyder from Twisted sister at a nursery on Long island. He was buying those little metal stakes for tomato plants. I started singing "we're not gonna take it" from behind some douglas firs nearby, and he smiled and gave me a thumbs up. He then rode away on a motorcycle.

I also saw LL cool J and his wife come into an crowded IHOP that i was in, give a few handshakes/autographs, decide it was too crowded, then leave. It all happened so fast, and i was hungover, and it didnt fully process in my head what just happened until he was gone.

[X5N]

I met Alice Glass once.

But then I woke up.

[Per Levy]

tbh, i never met a celeb. i live in a dead town in nowhere, no celebs come here and the ones who do i most certanly dont want to meet.

[Zostrianos]

I've met a few authors (not really famous, no one anyone here would know), though famous in their particular fields.

[ed miliband]

I've met a few authors (not really famous, no one anyone here would know), though famous in their particular fields.

go on, try us...

[Prometeo liberado]

When I was in French Lick Ind. taking a glass blowing class I met Bob Avakian. He has such gentle hands.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

When I was in French Lick Ind. taking a glass blowing class I met Bob Avakian. He has such gentle hands.

/thread

[Yuppie Grinder]

When I was in French Lick Ind. taking a glass blowing class I met Bob Avakian. He has such gentle hands.

Did you speak with him at all? What was his personality like? Self-absorbed, egotistic, despotic?

[Prometeo liberado]

Did you speak with him at all? What was his personality like? Self-absorbed, egotistic, despotic?

He can blow a mean glass, I'll tell you that much. And all this time everyone thought he was in France. We were way off!

[Sasha]

I've met a few authors (not really famous, no one anyone here would know), though famous in their particular fields.

Oh god, writers.. like said, I meet very famous musicians almost daily without batting an eye, so apparently it was really funny when I suddenly got all giddy starstruck tongue-tied when Neil gaiman came along with Amanda palmer last time..

[ed miliband]

Whatever dude, I don't care anymore, throw as much stuff about how he's a genius doing this or that. The fact is I can't stand his shit.

yeah, no offence you weren't gonna win this one. i've had this argument many times with people i know who don't like b as much as me, though clearly more than you.

stay based.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

yeah, no offence you weren't gonna win this one. i've had this argument many times with people i know who don't like b as much as me, though clearly more than you.

stay based.

Win what argument? That Lil B is possibly the worst rapper I've ever heard? I still stand by that though, so what did you win? All you showed was that it's a conscious decision to try and be different or something. Which I don't care about, I still think he's the worst rapper I've ever heard and I would never listen to him or be a fan.

[ed miliband]

Win what argument? That Lil B is possibly the worst rapper I've ever heard? I still stand by that though, so what did you win? All you showed was that it's a conscious decision to try and be different or something. Which I don't care about, I still think he's the worst rapper I've ever heard and I would never listen to him or be a fan.

you're bustin' my balls here bro.

the moment you admit it might possibly be a concious decision is the moment you have to stop judging him as a "good" or "bad" rapper. he ain't trying to be either. whether he raps or not is debatable.

[brigadista]

angela davis

[A Revolutionary Tool]

you're bustin' my balls here bro.

the moment you admit it might possibly be a concious decision is the moment you have to stop judging him as a "good" or "bad" rapper. he ain't trying to be either. whether he raps or not is debatable.

Really? Because here's what I'm going to do: whatever the hell he does, I hate it. I don't have to stop judging shit bro, anyway you look at it I don't enjoy what he does, whether you think it's genius or not.

[Manic Impressive]

yeah, no offence you weren't gonna win this one. i've had this argument many times with people i know who don't like b as much as me, though clearly more than you.

stay based.
nah you lost the argument the moment it started you have terrible taste in music ;)

actually I think that whether it should be considered music at all is debatable

[ed miliband]

Really? Because here's what I'm going to do: whatever the hell he does, I hate it. I don't have to stop judging shit bro, anyway you look at it I don't enjoy what he does, whether you think it's genius or not.

not just me:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/lil_b/cover336.jpg

you don't have to take my opinion seriously, but the wire is unfuckable with in terms of serious music journalism.

[ed miliband]

nah you lost the argument the moment it started you have terrible taste in music ;)

actually I think that whether it should be considered music at all is debatable

yup, but i imagine you'd say the same about free jazz, musique concrete, free noise and improv., etc. and perhaps not without reason.

is this music:

2LgCqcmruGU

?

[Manic Impressive]

If it is then I'm a hella good musician it sounds just like me when I play guitar :D

[A Revolutionary Tool]

not just me:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/lil_b/cover336.jpg

you don't have to take my opinion seriously, but the wire is unfuckable with in terms of serious music journalism.

I don't think you're getting me. I, emphasis on I, think he is the worst rapper I've heard and don't really care if God himself came down and prayed to him.

[cynicles]

I saw Justin Bieber at a Futureshop and couldn't figure out whether to pick his pocket or strangle him to death.

[bcbm]

i made out with the singer from mindless self indulgence

[Rafiq]

I've had a brief, yet insightful conversation with none other than Mr. Bukharin on my visit to Moscow as I was, at the time, an NKVD cell stationed in Italy.

See, I can make things up too!

[Brosa Luxemburg]

I've had a brief, yet insightful conversation with none other than Mr. Bukharin on my visit to Moscow as I was, at the time, an NKVD cell stationed in Italy.

See, I can make things up too!

Lol, I was just thinking "why the fuck should I believe what some random motherfucker has to say on the internet?"

[bcbm]

oh i met jello biafra once too and the lead singer of gogol bordello


i meet lots of lead singers apparently

[Tim Finnegan]

Does the Gogol Bordello guy actually talk like he sings? I'd assume not, but you can never be sure...

[Leftsolidarity]

Pat the Bunny
Anti-Flag
Michelle Obama
idk im fuckin tired maybe ill do this more tomorrow if i get bored

[bcbm]

Does the Gogol Bordello guy actually talk like he sings? I'd assume not, but you can never be sure...

XDr_TuhVt90

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Dunno if it counts but I once was super, ultra close to close hedges while I was at the Feminist GA at the Occupy NatGat.

[bcbm]

close hedges?

[Fawkes]

Heather Graham comes into the restaurant I work at almost weekly. From the numerous, albeit short, encounters I've had with her, she seems to be a pretty nice person.

I was once standing on the subway humming "Day Man" to myself for a few minutes -- turned around and saw Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day get on the train and stand right behind me. Weirdest coincidence ever.

Met Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen when I was in high school. Tim was kind of a dick, Lars was really nice.



Hands down best one ever though happened last Friday (you probably won't appreciate this unless you're into electronic music):

Got to dance with Reid Speed on stage after her set as DJ Hype was playing. She's pretty much the girl of my dreams -- not only is she an amazing DJ who has been killing it since the 90s, she's also hella good looking.