Claim to fame
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- pango1
Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal hugged me
- YakuZoku0
I bused Uma Thurmans table around the time she filmed Pulp Fiction, she left a big fat mess.
- wckd1
- Told Massimo Vignelli I thought his conservatism with fonts might not be the greatest idea.
- Got Grooverider's personal number just before he got jailed. We've lost touch since.
- YakuZoku1
Had a back n forth FB message with Henry Rollins like 10 years ago.
- uan3
I called Albert Hofmann at his home in 1995 and asked about LSD and if I could visit him. It was right before Xmas and he told me to ask again in spring, which I didn't.
- MrT4
I was an extra in Memphis Belle (in the hangar dance scene at the end).
I interviewed George Lucas (via phone) in the early '90s for my uni dissertation.
I was on Jim'll Fix It, not as the fixee but because I played clarinet in the school orchestra with the kid that got to be Mayor of Bridlington for the day. I was not fingered.
MrsT was at school with Tim Minchin and he came to our do when we left London for Sydney.
These are for late on at the pub when everyone's a bit pissed all the good stories have been rinsed...
- Morning_star3
On a family trip to Brighton we parked in an underground car park and got all confused about the most appropriate exit for The Lanes.
I stopped a nearby older gentleman and enquired. He pointed to the nearest exit and said "That's your best bet, hope you have a wonderful day". We thanked him and headed to the door.
Well readers, that helpful gent was none other than Ken Barlow (actor William Roache) of Coronation Street fame.
Wanting to seem all cool, we never acknowledge who he was but i got the vibe that he was a little disappointed because we didn't.- this would have been even better had the gent been sethans_glib
- mrAtor1
Magnus Magnusson gave me my degree
- trooperbill0
as a kid i was on stage with cannon and ball and little and large (pantos)
my wife went to school with loads of kids who endced up as soap actors.
- trooperbill0
oh and i lived across from the mother of colt sievers stunt double - he drove a corvette which was some sight in rural yorkshire.
- hans_glib0
i was a contestant on "you bet". that model who was in the vw ad was one of the guest "celebrities". our sleb was alan titchmarsh... sadly not so glamorous
- shapesalad3
I was an extra in a Gaspar Noé movie.
- scruffics2
i was an extra in a Lucozade advert once. Top THAT
- Ianbolton3
I met Darth Vadar at some special shop opening event when i was 5. He was so terrifying and massive I cried, so my mum had to take me home
- Don't feel bad. When we saw ANH in the cinemas when I was 4 in '77, the opening scene with the Star Destroyer terrified me so much, I freaked out, and mum hadContinuity
- ... to take me to the toilets to calm down.Continuity
- Continuity0
I have two.
Claim to Fame 1:
When I was living in Halifax (Canada, not England) at the beginning of my career in the early '00s, I freelanced for then-Ellen Page's dad, Dennis, who owned an ad and design agency in the city. I met teenaged then-Ellen once as a consequence.Claim to Fame 2:
Some months later (still in Halifax. Canada, not England), I went to a KMFDM concert with a couple of friends, and ended up smoking weed with Sascha Konietzko on the pavement in front of the venue. He then — after all of us were good and baked — gave me the rest of his stash, because the band were going to the US next (that night, in fact), and he didn't want to get in shit at the border.Of the two, I remember the weed smoking with Sascha much more fondly. And I'm not even much of a weed-smoker.
- Oh yes, and I also interviewed him and his now-wife Lucia Cifarelli for an online metal 'zine earlier that evening.Continuity
- Morning_star2
Smoking weed with rock stars #2
--------------------------------...I was in a band in the mid nineties and we supported Agnostic Front at a show in Birmingham. It was attended mostly by uber-judgemental straight edge hard-core kids from the West Midlands being all puritanical about drink and drugs.
It was a fucking riot of a show and after it was over we hung out with Vinnie Stigma and Roger Miret and smoked olympic quantities of some really nice resin. They both regaled epic stories of NYHC in the early days, mostly featuring Harley Flanagan.
Post Script: I asked them about the straight edge no drink, no drugs attitude lots of the fans had and Roger replied "Fuck all of them. We get wasted".
- Beardy2
I had a poo in the cubicle next to the one Jarvis Cocker went in. Didn’t really need one but thought it’d be my best chance of a claim to fame story.
- _me_0
I had a lovely evening with Sarah Stockbridge back in the early '90s
- sted0
Extra in the series Family Circle, got some unexpected cash for the random talking :)
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After 5th grade I was asked every year to recite something at a school event and i played sick, dumb, and incapable to memorize just to get away.
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For years I fucked over my teachers to reduce the drama about how to use cassette players and setup tv-sets to show movies and documentaries in the classrooms. They just started talking how many types and brands of electronics we have at home and I had to repeat a year as a result. (I got a lot of honesty few years later why and how... :)
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I was the kid who knows computers and electronics in our old post soviet 12-storey house.
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In high-school for two years I was the guy who could get the latest music whatever the fuck that would be.
(thanks to the dial-up modem and mp3)—
Got hit twice in my life for burping the first two lines of a poem in front of a lot of people. 99% found it funny :\
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