Celebrity Encounters

Originally posted by DriveWay:

Jerry Springer at a bar in Athens, Ohio

I believe that would have been Pawpurr's he was at and 1994. I was across the street at the C.I. :)

MindCage
Mindless Faith
Deep6 Productions

Sen. Phil Gramm and his wife at 930 club

Strom Thurmond at some lobbyist event I attended

Mario Lemieux on the corner of Connecticut Ave and L- he was looking for the Men's Wearhouse

Bob Mould at Liberty Lunch in Austin- Magnapop was playing

Robert Patrick on the set of "Ladder 49"

that's all i can remember off the top of my head.

Met Michael Stipe at a bar in Philly.
Jammed with Dave Grohl in a friends basement.
Kid Congo Powers…hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.
Curley from the Harlem Globetrotters on the ferry to the statue of liberty.
Used to see Sam Donaldson all the time when I worked on 17th street.
Met Sonny Jourgenson and Joe Theisman.

My friend went on a date or hung out with Bob Mould about a year ago and I was having a secret man crush through him….

All I can think of now. My brain is mush.

Kid Congo Powers…hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.

I think he opened for the Apes at the black cat a couple months ago.

too many to name. but i've basically met/run into half of hollywood and so on, and we all seem to go to the same Ralph's in LA.
and then there's the whole fashion week in new york deal…

Originally posted by azaghal1981:

Kid Congo Powers…hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.

I think he opened for the Apes at the black cat a couple months ago.

Yeah one of my best friends, Arthur, was playing bass with him that night.

I've seen quite a few in my day, but I'll post some of my favorites…

Robert Plant in Nashville a few months ago
Elvis Costello on my flight to NYC recently (we had a quick convo)
Bob Weir and Mickey Hart - met them a few times
Mark Messier - right after his 94 Stanley Cup win
Isaac Hayes

I got mashed against the bar at the Continental Club in South Austin by Colin Farrell once. Dale Watson was playing. Colin offered to buy me a cocktail by way of apology, but I had just gotten one. So I said no thanks. He was quickly surrounded by plenty of other people who wanted him to buy them drinks though. He was very polite to them too, considering how rude and demanding they were. I'm not a Colin Farrell fan at all. Why couldn't it have been Viggo?

Drew Barrymore, Union Square

yesterday i saw stat-boy walking down 14th street near R … it was pretty amazing

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Met Willie Nelson on a golf course. When I was a kid, we'd collect lost golf balls and re-sell them to the golfers. He was in the bar/restaurant and he was the nicest guy ever. Gave us 100 bucks for a sack of crappy golf balls and signed autographs for us.
I'm guessing after-show chats with artists don't count, so I'll stop at this one.

My favorite is David Byrne at Club Charles in Baltimore a few years back.

I also got into a verbal altercation with John Water's props person once (over a mushroom chair), and dressed all the people in Cecil B. Demented (but the only person I remember was Maggie Gyllenhall) for their first scene. (I was working in the vintage store next door to the filming at the time…)

Could there be any more () in that sentence?

Speaking of John Waters, I just remembered some more:

John Waters
Mink Stole
Selma Blair
Chris Isaak
Ahmet Zappa
Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame)
Rob Lowe

What is the Dave Thomas/John Waters connection?

I also saw John Waters a few times when I lived in Baltimore in the 90's.

Originally posted by bearman:
Speaking of John Waters, I just remembered some more:

John Waters
Mink Stole
Selma Blair
Chris Isaak
Ahmet Zappa
Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame)
Rob Lowe

I'm pretty sure if you're from Baltimore (or have lived there), you've seen John Waters. ;)

No connection…I just remembered that I met them, different times. I did go to the cast wrap party for a Dirty Shame and met Waters, Mink Stole, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, and her then-boyfriend Ahmet Zappa. I wonder if they're still together.

Kid Congo Powers…hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.

Just saw him at Comet. Truly great. He could use a sound man though

Celebrity encounters are kind of dime a dozen for someone from LA/OC, so I'll list more than just bumping into them or seeing them some place.

I was at Taos in Vegas with Chase Crawford and his sister who was in the Miss America Pageant a few weeks ago. After the Venetian, he got us a limo and we went to a gentlemans club.

Zach De La Rocha and Vince Vaughn used to be in my fantasy football league.

Gwen Stefani and my sister were good friends growing up and I still see her on occasion.

The Sports Guy and I Are still supposed to watch a United/Tottenham match someday, but I doubt that ever happens.

Scotty Gomez still owes me a drink after a night of partying in NY.

I'm pretty sure I posted this here once before but I once asked Shannen Doherty that if I called her Brenda if would should call me a dick? She said no, so I called her Brenda and she promptly called me a dick.

Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel used to be regulars at a poker game I used to play in with guys from KROQ in LA.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
After a few seconds of thinking, I realized the old guy was Bob Dole.

I used to work with him (well when he was actually IN the office.) It was a little strange to know that the head honcho of the office and my direct supervisor were on viagara…and that there was an air mattress in the closet.

One of my favorite recent ones has to be Ron Jeremy at the Roxy.

Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.