Claim to fame
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- _niko1
My son's teacher and my good friend are childhood/best friends with:
The this guy fucks guy
Yup, I know, I'll be signing autographs later.
- _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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- PonyBoy1
one of my first freelance gigs while in college was to set Meatloaf's logo on fire (Flash gig)
I once spent an hour in a tiny 3rd party "Apple certified" service store over in Scottsdale w/Randy Johnson... just he and I sitting and waiting for our machines and him shooting the shit about his love for photography (I had no idea he originally wanted to be a photojournalist and even studied it in college... some of his work: https://rj51photos.com/)
also... not me but family: my Dad went to University w/Stephen King. Mr King was a year ahead of my Dad but they did their share of hippy shit together
- 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.
- Gardener1
I have a piece of the only bomb to fall on Milton Keynes in WW2,
it was given to me by an old soldier I met when my dad did house
clearances in 1977, I've had it tucked away in a box ever since.
- scarabin1
I set up email on lou ferigno’s phone. He’s pretty deaf so we were yelling at each other a lot. He’s also terrible with technology. He has a son who at the time was a kid of jackass stoner. Met him through work
- pango1
Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal hugged me
- CyBrainX1
No me again but a close friend of mine has had a few.
Helped Mick Jagger sign papers to buy real estate in Midtown Manhattan
Got Frank Gorshin (the only real Riddler) to laugh like the Riddler outside a theater when he was doing his one man show on Broadway portraying George Burns.
Pissed next to Dizzy Gillespie in the Blue Note in Greenwich Village. He thanked him for a great show and Dizzy said, "Yeah I blew their doors off."
Had lunch next to Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead in a hotel. (I forget the circumstances but my friend was a huge Deadhead and did a lot of traveling). Phil introduces my friend to other people sitting nearby as the new member of the band for the current tour. Then he says quietly to my friend, "I just love fucking with them."
- 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
- hardhat1
I had a milkshake with Peter Jackson :|
- renderedred0
i was doing some tilling for a turkish hotel owner in london on a sunday morning for some good cash. with a few mates. in the late 80s.
i walk out to go to the corner shop shop for some smokes.
on my way back, 10 o'clock in the morning the streets are pretty empty, i see this guy walking. as we approach each other i begin to recognize him with his sunday paper under his arm, but like i really know this person. i've seen him a thousand times, i am sure, but have no memory of him. i probably made a face while we passed because he just smiled.
i continued walking totally confused. who is this man? why is he smiling at me? why do i know him "so well"? and then it came to me. michael caine!
i am not sure if i yelled his name but i did turn around and he was very far away. he probably saw that face thousands of times :)- That happened with me and Tom Hanks once. We made eye contact and even smiled but he was so normal I didn’t realize it was him until a half block later.monospaced
- Nairn0
@DaveO, re: Gallaghers
My first proper job in London was in studios in Kentish Town. We had a water-cooler near the main entrance, so one morning i went to refill, half asleep and likely stoned-over/hungover. I remember not being on top form, whatever.
As I'm filling I hear shwiff-shwiff-shwiff shwiff-shwiff-shwiff from outside so peer out the main door and see two plastic anorak-clad blokes walking around the stairs, evidently going to the photography studio on the next floor.
I slowly resolve them and upon a sneer from the one in front, finally recognise that it's Noel and Liam Gallagher.
I remember thinking at the time "aww, that's so sweet - I got negged by Oasis!".
- Amazing! I actually remember saying to Liam "how's your kid?" – like i was actually his mate!DaveO
- Nairn0
It's curious to me. I'm very wary about going down the route of my own proper claims to fame as they all basically harken to a period in my life long-past. It'd feel a little e-pill-esque to wallow in the memories of a happier, more successful era.
I will mention one though, not a lovely one - I'm pretty goshdarn sure I am in part significantly to blame for the current culture of Hippy Crack (Nitrous Oxide) usage in Britain.
We did a Glasto at the end of the shroom-selling era (2005?) and took a few big-ass tanks of nitrous to sell. I'd ordered bright yellow latex (biodegradable, i figured) balloons, thousands of which we bought. Great incidental marketing as our brand was yellow and brown. 'Just follow the trail...'.
As far as I know, we were the first to really go to town selling NOx at a festival, whereas (somewhat like shrooms) it was something always done, but quietly, on the downlow. We were not quiet.
I will never forget staring out at the end of the main avenue behind the pyramid stage at something like 3am, from the stall we had, at a sea of yellow balloons covering the entiriety of the avenue. Literally - as far as I could see. I felt sick.
I'd witnessed literally thousands of people get off their face right in front of me - quick inhalation and staggering off, blundering through the crowds, recovering, coming back again for more. I'd seen people empty out their last few quid in their wallets for more balloons. Hence 'crack'. I'd seen people I'd previously respected and an other in my employ try and get women, including young adolescents, to flash their tits for free balloons. I kicked two people out when I saw that shit going on. Fucking assholes.
After we'd sold up, we'd made a tidy penny, but I was aghast at what I'd been part of. Filthy business. I resolved there and then that I wanted no more of any of that sort of shit.
Anyway, everthereafter, NOx became a thing, quickly resulting in a change of law in selling it (I still have two tanks I can't fill up - I should probably sell them on eBay) and now the streets of London are filled with nitrous whip cartridges, befouling by fuckhead bastards.
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Because I'd resolved to leave at that point, I had no part in what came after for the company I'd founded then left. That's when the REAL money came in. Oh well. I have my principles.
*stares at not entirely wonderful bank balance
- lemmy_k1
I got to smoke a cigarette with the man himself, Lemmy. I have sat next to Peter Weller (RoboCop, Buckaroo Banzai) met Courtney Love and spent some time with the singer from Dramarama. So Cal locals might know Henry DeCarlo from KTLA. I'm sure there are a few more, but that's all that Jump out at me.
- bainbridge0
I've had people call me a rockstar designer before.
- you've not made it till someone calls you design ninja.pango
- pango1
Jesse Hughes gave me a hug once...
- bainbridge0
Is a claim to fame that you're an actor or athlete?
Or what if you designed something that became well known?
- That’s called talent and you should share. It’s all good, so let’s hear it.Morning_star
