i was flying from mexico city to phoenix and the strokes were on my flight. i was in 1st class (i worked for the airline) and they were all in coach. they were the nicest people ever. they even put me and my mom on the guest list for their show later that day.

I talked with Ron Paul and he DOES NOT considers himself a libertarian - especially on immigration - but rather a “constitutionalist Republican”.

In reality it is Rudy Giuliani that is a closet libertarian on that issue. Remember his promotion of an open border policy that actually ENCOURAGED the 9/11 hijackers to be on expired visas and use NYC as their launching pad.

Ron Paul is no flipper - shares the first name of the Gipper !

I met John Legend in San Antonio, TX during his first headlining show, he did such a wonderful job. He was so down to earth and respectful. I wonder if he is still like that?

i used to see ryan adams all the time…
one time he was on his cell phone in the union square virgin megastore talking on his cell and he sounded mad. he was also buying occult books. i stopped snooping when i thought he caught on.
again, i saw him on the street with parker posey. they were hailing a cab and looked angry with one another.
a final time i saw him in his shaggy bearded phase, walking down 3rd ave in the village.

THE ONLY THING MISSING FROM BAD BOY’S OF ROCK TOUR (HINDER) IS GIRLS.

they are called emily

there is a band from ireland and they are good

This will be the band of the summer: you MUST check them out.

They are called The Canon Logic, and just released their debut EP.

www.myspace.com/thecanonlogi c
www.purevolume.com/thecanonl ogic

So this might be big…

I just heard that a local hip hop group just signed an option deal with Epic Records.

The band is called Jersey Bound Trunk Crew, and supposedly just got the option deal in the mail.

O.K….HERE YA GO!…FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING ‘PARDONING’ THE LATE JIM MORRISON FOR HIS 1970 CONVICTION IN MIAMI FOR “INDECENT EXPOSURE AND PROFANITY.”
YOU MAY RECALL, THE ‘LIZARD KING’ WAS APPEALING THE CONVICTION WHEN HE WAS FOUND DEAD IN A PARIS BATH TUB.
oh, yea, i saw his grave in Lachasse.

I saw Lindsay Lohan wearing a Bob Dylan t-shirt and thought about shooting myself.

led zeppelin is touring this summer

THE LIBERTINES ARE TOGETHER!!!!
Or at least Carl Barat and Pete Doherty are!
Doherty introduced an audience to “Mr. Carlos Barat” mid Babyshambles gig, and Carl ran onstage, and they performed Libs songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAY!

I love this new band Vantucky Champs. You have to hear their stuff. Absolute brilliance.

www.myspace.com /vantuckychamps

I saw Vin Deisel on the highway going to Nashville.. There was a line of cars with people hanging out of windows waving and screaming… he was in a white jeep with his top down, I’ll never forget it.

k-fed offered my mom a cigarette when she saw him a few years back in New Orleans during spring break.

Runaway Diamonds first album is awsome. Unbelievably, all 10 songs on this album are potential runaway hits. View video at www.runawaydiamonds.com. Best thing I have ever heard. they are original, and great to listen to.

I stumbled upon this band on My Space and they rock. They are called Motion Picture.

www.myspace.com/mo tionpictureband

so during green day’s kerplunk days they played in a the basement of a office building. outside the drummer got high with us, he than offered to give my friend head if he would give him a sack of weed. hehe i suppose he can afford his own now and doesn’t have to sell out his services…

I do not know the rolling stones!

i saw the cast of mr. show at a comedy/music show during the day on friday at sxsw.

Atlanta’s Black Lips steal show at SXSW and are poised to become the next big thing. Also, from Atlanta’s musical renaissance are the great Deerhunter and The Selmanaires!

I was in Hawaii for my sister’s wedding in summer 04; we went to a luau and saw Britney Spears with then-new hubby, K-Fed, on their honeymoon. I was within 20 feet of her at one point; she just looked to her side. They ate and watched the performance briefly, then left. The crowd reaction was a slow ripple-realization. Some ppl tried to take pics. Later that weekend, it was on the news that “Britney” was on her honeymoon in Hawaii.

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada a Trader Vic’s….and his hair was perfect

i saw Lou Reed at a new york airport, i forget which one
but he was in the line to collect tickets to get on the plane and his assiant was looking for him so my dad looked at her and said “you lookin’ for lou?” and she was like “YES” and we pointed him out
it was funny

I saw Don King in Disney World at the Yaught and Beach Club in 1992. The bell boy dude was “cool with him”. Don is taller than you think with his hair standing up he’s 8 feet tall! - Kooking with Kwimby (BBC 2 1/2’s “Out Chef of the Year” and “The Real Nude Chef”

I make the food yer Mummy loves!

P.W. Kwimby

i’ve shaken hands with elvis perkins he’s cool and nice
of course i was kind of drunk and told him that his set was pretty amazing

Around the time Country Grammar came out I sat in the row behind Nelly (Coach) on a flight to Minneapolis.

In February ‘06 I was in Singapore with a couple of friends to catch Oasis’ gig because they weren’t playing my town (Jakarta, Indonesia). Since we’d travelled all the way to see them, I was determined I wasn’t just going to see them play but actually meet them somehow, being a long-time fan, so I concocted some half-assed plan of tracking down their hotel and stalking them the afternoon of the concert.

That didn’t happen, so we just decided to hang around Orchard Road (S’pore’s shopping district) and grab some lunch at a roadside McDonald’s. Just as we were about to leave and resume shopping, my friend saw this guy walking down the sidewalk and said, “Hey, that looks like Liam.”

The way he said it sounded like he was joking, and I believed he was joking. We were in Singapore, after all, where Caucasians aren’t in short supply and it wouldn’t be surprising if a number of Liam Gallagher-wannabes were walking about before the gig.

But I turned to look anyway, and my first thought was, “Yeah, he does look like Liam.” He even dressed like Liam, with his hat and sports jacket. Then I gave him a more thorough look, before realizing, “Holy shit, it IS Liam!” The clinchers: his sideburns and the big, tattooed bodyguard walking a foot in front.

Upon realization, I instantly blurted out, “Liam!” I didn’t think he’d notice, but he did, and we rushed over to him. He was rather monosyllabic, but he was nice enough to sign my Don’t Believe The Truth CD and take a picture with us before heading off.

Now after walking away, one of my friends decided that she wanted to take another picture. Me and my other friend were hesitant, thinking that we should quit while we were ahead. But our fandom got the better of us, and so we were promptly on Liam’s heels.

As we crossed the road to get to where he was, he had stopped to chat to another guy who’d just done some shopping. And as we got closer, it dawned on us just who that other guy was: Gem Archer, Oasis guitarist. So we got a photo and autographs from him, too - and I managed to get him to confirm where the band’s hotel was.

After all that, I felt that it wouldn’t matter if the actual gig itself was shit. It wasn’t, and we managed to meet the whole band at the hotel afterwards. But I think the Liam/Gem encounter is the best part of my entire trip.

i saw rodney dangerfieled in the lobby of a vegas hotel about 20 years ago.

I saw Larry Holmes shopping for a stero once, he tried to pay with a credit card, but he was over his limit and they refused to sell it to him. This was while he was the Heavyweight Champ!

At a music festival once, Tom Meighan from the band Kasabian was randomly there in the crowd, and we got to talking. Ended with him slapping my ass.

Also, so I’m walking around the streets of London kind of lost and just looking at the sites, then I think I see Liam Gallagher right near me. My hero. It really was him, so I get all nervous and a little crazy, and I walk closer toward him and end up tripping, and falling like head first into his crotch. He just laughed and helped me up, asked if I was ok, kissed my hand, then walked away. I’ll never ever forget that moment.

I rode an elevator with MC Hammer and his posse back in 1990 at the Royalton in NYC. Can’t touch that.

I work at a Starbucks in downtown San Francisco. We are right by a lot of the big hotels so every once in a while we get a good celebrity sighting.

Bjork came by once (I didn’t realize it was her) and she ordered a Soy Chai Latte.

Vivica A. Fox came by and ordred the same thing. She was very, very nice but seemed like she was in a hurry.

For the past week and a half, Dave Chappelle would stop by and order tall (what we call small) coffees. He didn’t speak to any of us until the last time he stopped by (and that was because it was a downpour of rain outside. He was nice and funny. He doesn’t tip, though. I’m broke, bitch!

I’m pretty sure I me James Woods over there too, but I couldn’t tell if it was him or not. Jamie Lee Curtis came by too. I wasn’t there to meet here but everyone told me that she was very nice, sat in our store and talked to anyone who wanted to talk to her.

I saw Blake Schwartzenbach in RiteAid in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I was holding a huge pack of toilet paper, and too afraid to say anything. I did, however, follow him several blocks down 7th Avenue. Saw him again 2 years later leaving La Bagel Delight across from the same RiteAid. I’m guessing he just hangs out at these two places, and a sighting is really never that far away.

A close friend of my dads knows that Eddie Van Halen is currently in an alcohol recovery program, hence why they have no clue as to how they are going to manage to pull off something at the Rock and Roll Hall of fame and another reason why the Van Halen tour has been permanently closed down

earlier this year during my first ever trip to new york city i saw amy pohler from SNL and ryan seacrest. i was kinda excited to meet ms. pohler but i told mr. seacrest that he was, “american idols bitch” to his face….needless to say it was a good time.

Once I saw the Governator in a supermarket when my family lived in Potomac MD. He was buying ice cream.

I remember every detail of this because the day this happened was the last time I ever saw New York before 9/11. My old Nanny (I was ten, long time ago) and I went into a restaurant and it was not too crowded. We saw this surly looking guy with a unibrow and for some reason my nanny got this very excited look on her face. We sat at a table about three tables away from him. He looked over, saw us, scowled, and moved two more tables away. Then I recognized him and said to my nanny “Isn’t that that funny-looking guy from that poster you have on your wall? He sings with the british accent and has that brother who looks even funnier and plays guitar? He’s not very nice.” Keep in mind when I was ten, I did not know how to speak softly. He heard and scowled. My nanny was all “Yeah, that’s definitely him. His name is Liam Gallagher.” Then the dude walked out.

Fast forward a few million years:

I was at warped tour 05 and was watching MCR. And Gerard Way did his little speech to the ladies (don’t show your tits for backstage passes and so on) I got my shirt ripped off when they started playing give ‘em hell kid. Then I decided it was finally time to get out at that point when my shirt flew into my face. As I came over the rail, my bra got caught on the wire and whoops! Hello Lefty. I look up, MORTIFIED, especially considering what Gerard had said before playing and he was looking STRAIGHT AT ME. At least he was for the second I saw before being flip over onto the ground. Anyways, they finished the song as I was walking away and Gerard went, “Just so you know, Ladies, if you ACCIDENTALLY show me your tits, it’s okay.” (cue a million girls “accidentally” lifting up their shirts)Later on, I got the shirt signed by Frank Iero and told him what happened and he was all “Oh No! I’m sorry!” And then he gave me a hug (by this point I had a new shirt on)Totally sweet.

i live in vegas, and one day last year me and a couple friends went to The Orleans (it’s off the strip) and we saw Vince Neil eating at a restaurant, sitting right smack in the front near the walkway. my friend is a huge motley crue fan and it took a lot of persuasion to get her to even approach him. he was nice, signed her scrap of paper with MY pen and gave her hug by her request. hahaha. he also had the biggest blingy-est watch i’ve seen.

I work at Target and one time I waited on Meg White. She bought Panteen Pro-V and Aquafresh and a few other basic items. She was so sweet unlike most of the assholes I deal with on a daily basis.

I met Krist Novoselic and Bud Gaugh (origianl drummer from Sublime) after an Eyes Adrift Show in Raleigh. Krist was so tall and Bud was shirtless with black leather pants ala’ Jim Morrison. Both very cool and very talkative with us in our group. I wont tell the details of our meeting.Krist’s big comment was I’m paying for my legal bills.

I saw Jonny Greenwood pick his nose at the BART station in Berkeley after a Teenage Fanclub instore. I was totally snubbed by Evan Dando over an autograph in Denver.

Shared a lift with Robert Plant at Blackpool tower years ago. He was filming a solo video in the tower ballroom. He’s INCREDIBLY tall.

Like, I had sex with MrRoper from 3s Company.

i saw chris issac being chased by a bunch of screaming girls at BAM magazine’s bammies many years back - and i saw eddie money at another bammies in the VIP section; he was behind a tray full of chili and i said “hey eddie! get me some chili!” and he said “no!” - i saw hammer at another bammies right before you can’t touch this broke - i saw sheila E surrounded by ten huge bodyguards - i once pissed in a stall right next to john fogerty and made the mistake of trying to strike up a conversation - i told gregg rollie how great journey’s album ‘look into the future’ is - i talked to green day’s bass player once - i walked right by and/or talked to gregg allman, neil shone, james hetfield, jason newsted, wavy gravy etc etc etc …

When Prince came to town in 2004, I went to 2 0f his 3 concerts in Florida then after the Tampa concert, I waited 3 hours outside club Prana on 7th Avenue in Ybor to meet him. Well his keyboardist of that tour, Chance came out to wait for him too and my dad and I got the opportunity to talk with him. Well, after a pleasant conversation with one of Prince’s musicians, the legend himself finally showed. While walking by, we managed to get his attention and Prince waved at us. Though I think it was in part he was surprised to see a fourteen year old in downtown at 3 in the morning.

The tim leary meeting is the best one yet. I’ll bet that was a nice cup of tea.

singer from the counting crows, at a broadway production of ‘Little Women’
saw tom petty at a tom petty concert once….hehehehe

Got to hang with Tim Leary for a half hour over a nice cup of tea…

When I was 18 I skipped school to go buy a new amp and ended up meeting Dime Bag from Pantera at the local Guitar Center in Dallas. He was very nice and gave us tickets to see them play that weekend, but my girl friend at the time didn’t like Pantera, so I stayed with her and got laid instead…. I think dime Bag would have understood.

I’ve had numerous athlete/celebrity run-ins over the years, but none was better than waiting for a connecting flight in St Louie in the late 90s when a buddy pointed out MC Hammer. Being of wise musical taste and talent, I never listened to Hammer when he was popular, but my buddy did. (Honestly, had it not been for that friend, I probably wouldn’t of recognized him.) Anyway, my friend got up when he approached the area we were at and kindly asked him for an autograph. Hammer snipped ‘No man!’ to which my buddy, without hesitation, replied, ‘You still broke dude?’ MC wisely kept walking, since that buddy of mine is big, burley Navy officer.

I seem to have some wierd celebrity magnet attached to me:

Bono (twice!) - in Vancouver and Dublin

Joni Mitchell - when I was in high school I met her at a press conference

Robin Williams - in line for popcorn in a vancouver theater. He was short - he was seeing Brothers grimm and was super nice.

Samuel L. Jackson - in a grocery store in Vancouver, then he bought a frapuccino - my wife and son and I followed him for awhile. When I asked him for his autograph, he told me to say PLEASE. He is as cool in real life as in the movies.

Keanu reeves - Calgary airport - I almopst ran him down w. my baggage trolley. We chatted a bit in the airport - nice guy - all in black, w. the most colourful, wierdest looking briefcase I have ever seen.

“cancer” man from the x files - talking to someone on a street corner - wasn’t smoking.

Will sasso - tossing a football on Kits beach in Vancouver - super super nice

Anthony kiedis - I was eating a pizza on a deck in Vancouver and he walked by - looking all rock and roll and stuff.

Jon Lovitz - in NYC, talking on a cel, carrying a bag from a jewellery store - wearing an UGLY shirt w. pineapples on it

Amy Grant and tony bennet - filming a Christmas special in Banff. amy grant is really pretty for being like 50 or whatever - Tony bennet is shorter then my 2 yr. old.

Ryan Reynolds - tried to bud in line at my local grocery store - didn’t really mean to, just didn’t know the wierd system we have.

I met Manute Bol at the airport in Memphis a couple years ago. The guy is insanely tall 7′6′’.

i was with my parents at the baseball HOF in cooperstown, and i saw paul simon with one of his kid walking out. really short guy, like 5foot2inches

jon bon jovi pissed in a neighboring stall to me at the Borgatta in Atlantic City

i was at a Bic Runga concert (who no-one in america has probably heard of) and i was sitting there and i saw this guy and i thought, “whoa, that looks like serj tankian from system of a down” but being that i live in new zealand and he was wearing shorts and a tshirt i thought no-way, but then in the paper i few days later i saw that it was him. - only mildly interesting. but then i AM from new zealand

saw Robin Williams at the SF Fillmore at a My Morning Jacket show.

I saw Steven Tyler of Aerosmith at the “Downtown Disney” area of Disney World. He was really short.

Decemeber 2006 I was in New York just trying to keep up with my group and i walked into Elvis Costello.Just like collided into him. I didn’t even realize it was him until it was to late, but yeah still pretty cool.

About six or seven years ago I ran into Jackie Mason in downtown Pittsburgh while I was taking a break from work. He introduced himself and I showed a good place to get coffee. Just last year I met him again in NYC when he appeared on a TV show I was working on. He didn’t seem to remember me.

I was in Milwaukee and my wife and I were walking through the lobby of the Holiday Inn and she was blocked from getting out of the front door by Deryck Whibley. He tried to get out of her way, but they did one of those “she goes to the left, he goes to the left, she goes to the right, he goes to the right” things, until she said kind of rudely “Excuse me”. She had no idea who he was. He was very polite and I proceeded to laugh my ass off her. We saw him play at Summerfest that night.

Once in an airport I saw the famous wrestler Ric Flair. While wandering around waiting for his flight he was either eating or combing his hair. When I scored a first class seat I was elated but quick horrified when Ric Flair sat down beside me. He refused to talk to me for the duration of the flight.

Richard Jobson from the Skids, sitting opposite me on the train from Luton to London last week

Will Ferrell, in CT with his wife and another couple (who were all really ugly but rich looking). I saw him devour a corn on the cob at a small hot dog place I was at and at the end he didn’t even pay. That cheap bastard. haha. I did get his autograph though and told him I liked his aviator sunglasses but hated his Red Sox hat.

Lebron James showed up to one of my brothers high school basketball games because he was friends with a couple guys on my bros team.

when I was on leave from the army, my friends picked me up from chicago O’hare and as we pulled off we saw the Rev Jesse Jackson getting into a limo. My friend rolled down the window and yelled hey JeSSSAYY!!! He looked at us with a scowl. It was fuckin rich. I then started a 2-week marijuana binge.

PS Brettsky- That is the coolest story I’ve ever heard, I think I’d faint dead away if I ever met Robbie Robertson, and I’m 23.

No one believes me still to this day, i get a lot of “yeah rights”!
My family and i were in Greenport at an ice cream parlor. On the way out some guy in a scraggly getup with baggy pants and a young daughter held the door for us. My dad said “Thanks” and then told us that was Billy Joel. I was like who? I was young then, so i didn’t understand.

When I was having lunch at Serendipity in NYC Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Bijoux Phillips came in and sat at the table next to me. The whole resturant was silent. On the way out, Sean held the door for me and they got in to a black Rolls. It was fantastic.

I recently saw future Senator Al Franken at a Barnes & Noble in Edina, MN. I was too busy getting a coffee to say, “Hi!” but he was wearing tapered stone-wash jeans, a blue sweater (this was on a hot day in May) and he was really short, slightly robust and had a orange glow to his face (I think he was wearing make-up). He also kept yelling “Dan!” to some guy going up an escalator. It was awesome.

My lady and I were at the aiport in Vegas a couple of years back and we saw Kevin Dubrow from Quiet Riot. I kept my distance out of respect and out of the fear of a Heavy Metal thrashing.

I live in Ohio and no one cool ever comes here but Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a house in my neighborhood somewhere.
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My friends and I ran into Krist Novoselic from Nirvana one summer during college in Pullman, Washington. It was one of my best friend’s 21 Run and we obviously went out to the bars. At first, we were at Rancho Viejo, the mexican bar in town and I looked over at the door to see Krist Novoselic step inside with what looked like his mom. He turned around and left. Convinced that I saw Krist, I told my friends and they didn’t believe me. Later, we were at My Office (it’s a bar) and we saw him sitting down to eat dinner. When he was returning from the restroom I introduced myself and sure enough it was Krist in town for a Washington State Grange Convention. What a weird unexpected sighting.

Celebrities sightings are a dime a dozen here in the Nashville area (Actresses like Nicole Kidman, Ashley Judd and Jennifer O’Neil; Michael McDonald and various other retired rockers; scads of country music stars too numerous to name, etc.) We generally leave them in peace to eat their lunch, or pick out their lettuce at the grocer. We wish the tourist would do the same.

Me and my buddies ran into Robbie Robertson in New Orleans while he was shooting a video. We were so star-struck and began plotting. We handed him a self-addressed blank postcard with a note that asked for an autograph. Weeks later, we got the postcard back from Robbie. Scribbled on the back it read:

“It was great running into you guys down in the French Quarter. Right now I’m putting the finishing touches on my new video. It’s pretty hot. It’s reeking of voodoo sensuality.”

How rad is that?

So i was at track practice in highschool near downtown Dallas and next to our field they were shooting a scene from Walker Texas Ranger. I honest to God saw Chuck Norris round house kick a guy in the chest and then smack the hood of this truck. This was way before all the chuck norris humor but still thinking back on it pretty funny

I weighed John popper backstage in a womens locker room in 1998 before a concert in Kansas. I told him the scale must be broken and he proceeded to call me a fucking liar and then went and took a dump.

I was in Vegas on March 8th and saw Vince Neil at some crappy casino talking with some guys. Later that night I saw John Elway playing craps at the Monte Carlo. I didn’t say anything to either, cause, really, what the hell am I going to say?

Ran into Kenny Loggins at Lindbergh Field in San Diego about 15 years ago. He is TALL

If you want to see some famous people - go to an AA meeting in Los Angeles. Hallelujah Hollaback.

I… I’m friends with Merlin Olsen, too. He comes over on occasion.

I was waiting in line at the Arclight theatre in LA with my girlfriend and her sister. Suddenly my girlfriend’s sister yelled really loud “Oh my God! it’s Jason Schwartzman!”. he turned around and had this look of horror on his face and quickly ran into the theatre with his girlfriend Zoe Deschanele.
it was hilarious!

Robert Duvall was in Hagerstown, MD for the filming of ‘Gods and Generals’, and he showed up at the movie theater where I worked and saw ‘Original Sin.’ What a perv.

I saw Jesus last Saturday at Hooters. He was sooooooo embarrassed!

ate at this one great restaurant in DC. some famous steak house. anyways, the guy sitting next to me was john athis. i couldn’t believe it was him. he was the first guy to goto college in my town AND date the head cheerleader. a legend from my old neighborhood.

I sat in first class in front of the Black Eyed Peas from Toronto to LA two or three summers ago. Fergie had a sprained ankle but that problem was nothing compared to her face at 730 in the morning without make-up. Moral of the story even celebs look shitty for early morning flights. Though the rest of the crew was wearing several variations of Louis Vuiton overalls …classy

I saw Robert Downey Jr. in Pittsburgh in 1999 when he was in town filming “Wonder Boys.” He was outside a club where Smashing Pumpkins had just played, and just like you’d expect from him back then, he looked strung out and it did look like he was trying to score something off of a roadie or something.

I ate dinner at The El Coyote in LA right beside DAVID LEE ROTH. He must have been doing an interview because he talked at length about his entire career. Everyone had finished eating and he had only taken one bite because he was too busy talking Sh*t. That is no act, he really is that out there!!

My boyfriend and I were sitting outside at a restaurant on the Venice boardwalk when a few people came up and asked if we minded if they shared our table. One of them turned out to be Quentin Tarantino. He sat down right next to me, but I was too shy to say anything. But some other guy came up to him and told him he was one “twisted motherf$%#er!”

I was standing in line for a movie once in Santa Monica when i thought i heard a familiar voice. It turned out to be Tom Waits standing right in front of me in line!

talked with brian wilson on the phone where he had that thing where if you donated 100$ to hurricane relief he’d call you.

I saw John Elway in a restaurant once. But then it turned out to not be John Elway, just another dude with big teeth.