Obscure Celebrities you have met... who were really cool

[kentauros]

Rev. Ivan Stang (Doug Smith) when we did an X-Day Devival in Houston in the late 80s. I picked him up from the airport and took him back. Plus, after the devival, we all met for late-night Mexican at "Jelly Science" (as one dyslexic friend calls it) or "La Jalascience". He was a lot of fun and genuinely interesting and interested in us, too.

Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories (early 80s)

Mark Hosler of negativland. He thanked me for getting a friend of mine interested in negativland to the point where she and him became a couple :)

Then there were all the comicbook creator/artist interviews I did on a friend's show on KPFT, such as Bob Burden (Flaming Carrot), Matt Howarth (Post Brothers), Phil Phoglio (XXXenophile), Donna Barr (Stinz, The Desert Peach), and others I can't remember off the top of my volatile memory ;) Basically, lots of alternative comics and none of the DC/Marvel superhero stuff. This was the late 80s, early 90s, the heyday of alternative comics :D

[Orrex]

1. Does Phil Phoglio look like he drew himself?

If not, I'll be totally disappointed.

I met Carmine Infantino at the same Con where I met Sarah Sutton and Ian Marter. Carmine was working a table, but no one was nearby at the time. He had a sketch pad, of course, and when I asked--in my 13-year-old naivete--how he starts a drawing, he began doing this sort of casual scribbling in loops and circles. It didn't look like anything until about three seconds before he finished, when suddenly it turned into a perfect rendering of Nightcrawler. I was amazed!

[kentauros]

4. Unfortunately, all the comics interviews save one were on the phone.

I met Bob Burden in person and have a rather noisy taped interview somewhere around here. I did find out he's a complete womanizer and almost as crazy as the Flaming Carrot

Although I don't recognize the people you met, I do understand about being amazed with what really great artists can do in a matter of minutes. If I put my head to it, I could learn that stuff, but I'm too impatient and just want a drawing I can recognize now, so it's the "quick clone" function in Corel Painter to trace and detail out later ;)

[Orrex]

5. Sorry--Marten and Sutton were from Dr. Who

Infantino was a comic artist for decades before I met him. I just checked his Wiki entry and was surprised to learn that he was about 60 when I met him. He seemed much younger.

[kentauros]

9. He probably did look younger.

We don't all look our real ages :D

Most of the artists, writers and publishers I talked to were all quite nice and easy to get along with. Only Robert Crumb was a complete and total asshole, but I've been told he's like that all the time.

[hibbing]

2. Craig Sager ?

Hi,
I saw him at the little local airport here and just went up and talked to him asking him what he was doing in town. He was working for CNN at the time. He certainly seemed like a down to earth guy, and he did not have on one of those obnoxious suits he wears now covering the NBA.

Also met the guy that used to do movie reviews on HBO? The guy with the big bushy mustache, can't seem to remember his name though.

My HUGE celebrity meeting was Muhammad Ali though, awesome!!

Peace

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I met these guys after a show they played...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x3sLH4G0qA

They came up to me to tell me how cool it was that I was singing along to every word.

[kentauros]

6. Well, if they all had blindfolds on, how could they tell?

:P

I like their sound. I hear some bits that remind me of Sepultura...

[jobycom]

7. I didn't meet them, but a guy at my work almost killed the Asylum Street Spankers.

Allegedly didn't tighten the lug nuts properly, and the wheel came off their van on the interstate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8

[kentauros]

11. I like their humor

as it reminds me of the Austin Lounge Lizards :D

It's a good they survived that ordeal. That had to be pretty harrowing :o

[jobycom]

13. Austin breeds an odd sense of humor.

[Nicole Lambeth]

36. now I've got the "Scrotum" song stuck in my head! n/t

[jobycom]

38. I always go straight to "Winning the war on drugs." nt

[gmoney]

8. Met John Doe of X the other night...

Had actually briefly met him before to get an autograph. This was before the show, and I asked if he'd let me take his picture, but since I had a "real camera" he said no dice. Grr...

[kentauros]

12. Haven't listened to X in ages...

That's cool you got to at least chat a little. Did you ever see that documentary on them put out back in the 80s?

[hibbing]

14. X

Hi,
Weird, what was the issue with the "real" camera instead of a phone cam?

Peace

[gmoney]

64. I guess. figured if I got a decent shot I might sell it for millions...

or maybe he just figured I'd be a pain in the ass

[abq e streeter]

22. I sure don't think of John Doe as obscure--there was a time when X was

one of the greatest bands in the country , and for all I know, may still be... Never saw them but have several of their albums on vinyl or CD; have seen performance videos; also have seen Auntie Christ ( Exene and DJ) and also saw John saunter ( the only word to properly describe it) onstage to sing Your Cheatin Heart with Los Lobos and Dave Alvin for an encore at a Los Lobos concert in Chicago . To me, everyone from X are major league rock stars.

[Tikki]

34. The Mister and I will be seeing them...

perform this July. It will be the 18th time we have
seen X...we saw them the first time in 1980.


The Tikkis

[gmoney]

65. Well, he has his followers...

He's had a respectable solo career in addition to X, but I bet you could show his photo to 1000 people off the street before someone would recognize him. Maybe 100 if you were in LA or NY.

I think he's got about the best voice in "modern rock" and think he's great. Just would say since X's glory days are probably 20 years gone, he'd probably qualify as "obscure."

[flvegan]

10. Obscure? Jason Isbell is easily one of the coolest "celebs" I've met.

Jason was with Drive By Truckers, ousted by the band a couple years ago. Saw him doing a gig for his solo album at a tiny club here. He sort of hung out after the show and was very cool. Down to earth and nice. Sad that DBT lost their best, most talented member.

Killing it live doing "Outfit"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHroLlrJGo&feature=related

And his anti-war song, "Dress Blues"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJb1_EGnapY

Highly recommend checking him out.

[EndersDame]

15. I had a beer with Alex Jones.

It was at some fundraiser for Air America. I have also have had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Dennis Kucinich, Rob Cordry (he used to be on The Daily Show) Greg Palast, and Commander Angel Nova of The Phenomenauts.

[kentauros]

17. "The Phenomenauts"?

I like just the name of the band :D
Any youtube videos for them?

I remember Rob Cordry. Other than his on-air goofiness, he seems like a cool guy :)

[EndersDame]

58. They are my favorite band ever!

They are a spaced themed punk band. Believe it or not they kind of have rockabilly and new wave elements and pull it off(although they are moving away from rockabilly)! NASA has used their latest "hit" Infinite Frontier to wake up Astronauts in the ISS !
Here are is the official site
http://www.phenomenauts.com/



Infinite Frontier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eaOOqd29aw
(you have to sit through a little cute video first before they get tot the song)

Mission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX65kmSAjk0

The Year 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R08cFdkkWk4

[Kali]

16. unless you are into ceramic art he would be obscure

One of the most interesting people I have ever met. He is probably functionally illiterate, at one time an illegal worker here. He taught himself to do this beautiful ceramic work and then taught others in his village and now the whole place does this fantastic pottery that you would think is some legacy of hundreds of generations. But while it is inspired by prehistoric pottery from the area it is only starting to enter the third generation. Just amazing. His name is Juan Quezada and you can google his name or the village: Mata Ortiz to see examples. A lot of the writing on the interwebs has factual errors (duh) but the pottery speaks for itself. Thin as an eggshell and painted with natural mineral paints using a brush made of 6 hairs from a child (super fine!) fired individually with dung or cottonwood bark.

He is such an amazing person. And he is connected to another amazing man Spencer MacCallum, who I also know. His story of finding 3 of Juan's pots in a junk shop in Demming, New Mexico and then searching for the artist is a real life legend. Just a magical place altogether down there. Sedona is a fucking fake disneyland compared to the area around Mata Oriz.

[kentauros]

19. If I could stand the dry air, I'd take a roadtrip out there

I love good pottery and I see what you mean about his artistry. Wow! I love the complex patterns :D
http://www.mataortiz.com/mata/mata1.htm

Does he ever get "experimental" like trying different techniques with the glazes? I can't remember the technique right now, but I think it's a Korean technique of using dead leaves to cause the glaze to crackle and then the carbon fills the gaps. It wouldn't work with the detailed patterns he uses now, but it's something to play with :)

[Kali]

21. he experiments with all kinds of stuff

but none of this pottery is glazed - it is painted and polished kind of like Pueblo pottery. He is pretty well known now and artists from all over the world are drawn to the area so yeah there has been raku and various other things practiced there. And now electric kilns have shown up in the villiage which has caused controversy. Plus commercial paints. Most serious buyers refuse that stuff, but there is all range of work available. I actually don't know that much - I have a friend who is a potter and we traveled there about 15 years ago for the first time. He and I talk cows and I think he gets a kick out of somebody actually NOT being all about the pottery.
Best story about how he was discovered is probably Walter Parks' book "The Miracle of Mata Ortiz"

Hey it's monsoon, the humidity should be up! If you ever want to go let me know - I can tell you all kinds of good stuff. Been going for 15 years.

[Forkboy]

18. All bands, pretty much.

And I doubt any are "celebrities" in any way, unless the guys in Ed Hall are better known than I think.

I met Richard Bishop last week, and he was totally cool, but no one knows him either. :)

[kentauros]

20. Can't say I do either, but it fits the "obscure" label

:D

Ever heard of Caspar Brotzmann?

[Forkboy]

23. Actually, yes. But not from his own work.

He did something with Page Hamilton of Helmet back in the mid 90's. I think. :)

[kentauros]

26. He also did at least one CD with FM Einheit of Einsturzende Neubauten.

Brotzmann came to Houston back in the 90s and as I was volunteer programmer at KPFT, I did an interview with him. He was interesting, though his English was a bit rough, and I only know enough Deutsch to say "hello" :P

[GReedDiamond]

24. 1) John Lazar...the "Z-Man" in "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls"

Screen credit "John LaZar."

I met John, maybe around eight or nine years ago, when Becky, a mutual friend of ours, invited me to attend a special screening of "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" in Hollywood CA. Becky drove to my house and picked me up, and her other passenger was the "Z-Man"!

They explained to me that the showing of the film we were about to attend was a "meet and greet" kinda, question and answer session between the audience and the key people involved in the production of the film, which would occur after the screening.

When we arrived at the theater, and the "Z-Man" checked in, as an invited guest/speaker/actor in the film, we were all denied entry when he argued with the venue management when they refused to grant free entry to myself and Becky. AND, unless we left the property immediately, they threatened to have all of us arrested for trespassing.

So, we left. I have never seen or heard of the Z-Man, ever again.

It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen/experienced, and an example of how the "obscure" artist/actor/musician/writer etc can be used and further abused if a certain threshold of popular exposure is not realized. Even if they are an "invited celebrity guest."

And after that, in no particular order, except for the last item on the list:

1) Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist, evolutionary biologist)

2) Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo, Stan Ridgway, Hecate's Angels)

3) (Don) Ed Hardy (tattoo god/fine artist, and t-shirt brand)

5) Mark Ryden (fine artist)

6) The Bangles (I think of them as "obscure")

7) Arturo Schwarz (Marcel Duchamp's biographer)

8) Teeny Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp's wife)

9) George Barris (custom car designer)

10) The Minutemen (the great band from Pedro)

11) Aron Kay, "The YIPPIE! Pieman"

12) Dewey Martin (drummer, Buffalo Springfield, The Dillards, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison)

13) Don Preston (keyboards/moog Zappa's Mothers of Invention)

14) Jim Fielder (bass, Blood Sweat & Tears, The Mothers, Buffalo Springfield; musical director, Neil Sedaka)

15) Lorenzo Lamas (?)

16) and last, and least significantly, Al Cowlings (the driver in the infamous "OJ Simpson Slow Speed Chase," and, yes, I met him *right* after the "chase," he was "cool" for about thirty seconds, and I never saw him again.)

On Edit - On another level of obscurity I almost forgot about (until I saw the above references to X) add to the list:

17) Top Jimmy (Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs)

18) El Duce (Mentors)

19) Don Bolles (germs)

Except they all come in above Al Cowlings. Sorry.

[kentauros]

27. Wow, that's quite the list :)

I like the story about the Z-Man. You never know what to expect with some actors, eh? ;)

I actually recognize a few of these (Minutemen, Rhythm Pigs, Germs) though I never saw them. Didn't "Repo Man" feature some of The Minutemen's music?

How did you end up meeting Duchamp's wife and biographer?

[GReedDiamond]

31. I met Teeny Duchamp in 1987...

...at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has a very large amount (almost all of it) of Duchamp's work in their collection. The event was a three day long symposium featuring lectures, performances, etc., on the occasion of the Centenary of Duchamp's birth.

I did not recall The Minutemen being involved with the "Repo Man" movie, but a quick IMDB.com search turned up: The Circle Jerks (as a "nightclub band"), The Untouchables (as "scooter guys"), Rodney Bingenheimer (as himself, of course), and original music by Tito Larriva (of the East L.A. punk band, The Plugz).

The Minutemen played at an outdoor "Rock Against Reagan" show at the Federal Building in Los Angeles back in '83. I hosted the RAR crew and the band Stick Against Stone, who drove from New York in a school bus and a box truck loaded with a PA system, and stayed at my art studio in Pasadena for a week. (That was an interesting week.) My band (The Hundredth Monkey) also performed, but the highlight for me, as a drummer, was standing about six feet behind George Hurley as The Minutemen played.

In early 1980, Top Jimmy (originally known as "Top Taco Jimmy") was present at the first ever rehearsal of my band, Benedict Arnold & The Traitors. Jimmy was pals with our guitarist, "Bad Brad," so he came out to hear us and eat tacos. The next day he appeared as an in-studio guest, with John Doe and Exene of X, on the Rodney Bingenheimer radio show on KROQ, and spontaneously promoted us over the air. When we showed up at the back door of KROQ a few months later and handed Rodney our first record, he played it that same night, and continued playing us periodically for the next couple of years we were around as a band. (Rodney is a really good guy and true friend to struggling musicians.)

Most, but not all, of the names on my list were people that I had some kind of professional or artistic association with, such as, performing live with Dewey Martin (whose Buffalo Springfield Camco drums I purchased and still use); I recorded music with Jim Fielder and Don Preston (Don is on one of my records from 1982); Stephen Jay Gould, who founded the Art Science Research Laboratory with his wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer - for them, I built a web site for a Duchamp symposium they organized at Harvard in 1999, to which I was also an invited guest, and which is where I met Arturo Schwarz, with whom I rode around Cambridge in a taxi cab; Aron the Pieman, a fellow Yippie! and long time supporter of my band, Benedict Arnold & The Traitors; The Bangles - I painted four large backdrops for them when they toured in support of their first album release; Stan Ridgway is a close friend of the Traitors' original bass player "Sir Cash Cobra," (and Stan's a big Traitors' fan); Ed Hardy - for Don, I have printed limited edition giclees and a serigraph; Lorenzo Lamas - I did some costume graphics for a movie he was in called "Body Rock." And so on...

BTW, I released a new Traitors' record last August, you can see it and hear some mp3s here if you're interested:
http://www.benedictarnoldandthetraitors.com/audio/ny/

[Tikki]

44. Rodney is amazing...Sunday nights..

I spent many years of sleepy Mondays at work after listening to Rodney...Late, late night.


Tikki

[GReedDiamond]

49. Yes, he's been relegated to a lonely time slot...

Back in 1980, he was on every Saturday and Sunday from 8pm - 12am.

Rodney deserves better outta KROQ...

[Tikki]

39. We hung out a while Carlos "Guitarlos"..

for a bit, once. Dude sure knows his music and music history..

Amazing to talk too.


The Tikkis

[GReedDiamond]

40. Carlos is one guy I've never met....

...but I just met a friend of his at an art opening in L.A. about two weeks ago.

Carlos is still playing, so if I get the chance, I'll have to go see him!

[ZombieNixon]

25. A couple of band members, only briefly, and from fairly obscure bands

Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity was up for hugs after a show. Grutle Kjellson of Enslaved was cool, in a very silent, stoic way.

[sakabatou]

28. Not really obscure

but Mellisa Joan Heart.

[Richard Steele]

29. Incredibly obscure and incredibly cool: Steve Yeager.

If you don't know who he is, then please don't ask.

Because if you don't already know who he is,
then you will NEVER be "cool" enough to truly understand the ANSWER
to the question, "Who is Steve Yeager?".

[cemaphonic]

30. I used to run into Dan Savage on a somewhat regular basis.

He was always pretty friendly.

William Bolcomb complimented me on a guitar duet that I wrote.

[Tikki]

32. Well, he shouldn't be obscure...too bad he isn't a household..

name.


Steve Berlin...sax player (with Los Lobos), musician, composer, producer...and cute to boot.

Also, very kind when I met him.

Tikki

[LynneSin]

33. I met Sen Ted Kaufman two Sunday's ago - what a funny and nice guy!

He's pretty obscure - he'll be always known as the Senator that served 2 years in Joe Biden's old seat. When I asked for a picture with him he just laughed and said "You even know who I am - you're waiting for the other guy aren't you?" (Joe Biden was behind him about 100 feet or so. When I said "Yes I wanted a picture" he smiled and said "Oh thank you for the compliment"

But not only did I pose with him, he grabbed Tom Carper and Mike Castle and I have a picture with my whole DC representation. I have one with Biden but my neighbor took that picture and I need to go track it down.

[begin_within]

35. Steve Lundquist

If you don't know who he is, then that proves he's obscure.

[Left Is Write]

37. Isn't "obscure celebrity" an oxymoron?

[kentauros]

41. No, not really.

A person can be a celebrity within a small community of whatever, like say particle physics, where the majority of the celebrity-knowledgeable public would be entirely unaware. They are still a celebrity to those that know of their work and how important it is as a whole, yet they go almost unnoticed by the media.

If you asked your average Top-40 fanatic if they'd ever heard of Esquivel, what kind of answer do you think you'd get? ;)

[Gonzo Gardener]

42. Ah, you like the comic books!

I've not only met, but was a good pal of Andrew Pepoy in high school and after moving to Chicago for my senior year, befriended Art Baltazar. Art is truly one of the most kind, fun loving, and goofiest people you could ever imagine. I had a mad crush on him back when I was seventeen. BTW, they've both been nominated for Eisner's this year!!!

I once spent an afternoon/evening w/ Orville Redenbacher and the family of his original business partner before Hunt Wesson bought the company and his (Orville's) name. I must have been around 6 or 7 at the time and was more interested in grabbing handfuls of popcorn and doing cannonballs into Charlie's backyard pool. I do remember that he was not so cool... more discombobulated in person than on his later commercials, but we had fun doing blind taste tests of different kinds of popcorns.

Others.. tons of very cool musicians and artists, some very famous now, some famous in smaller circles, some not. Jello Biafra stands out in my mind as a cool and obscure kind of fella.

As a volunteer, I've also had the chance to meet many well known and some not well known people involved with the Traverse City Film Fest in the last few years. That's Michael Moore's 'Up North' baby. He is exceptionally cool to work with and I just adore his wife, Kathleen who is very smart and talented, too!

[Mr. Ected]

43. Tom Rhodes, Comedian.

My wife and I lived in the Netherlands for 5 years. While we were there, one of our favorite TV shows was "The Kevin Masters Show featuring Tom Rhodes", which ran...in English...every night on Dutch television. It was a lot like the Tonight Show.

After we returned stateside, we took in a comedy show at the Punchline in Atlanta. The comedian was SO familiar, and then he told the audience that he had lived in Holland and hosted a TV show.

After the show, we spoke with Tom and how we had loved his show overseas. It totally freaked him out that we knew and enjoyed his schtick in Holland. He asked us out for dinner and drinks, and we spent a lot of time reminiscing and cutting up.

He told me I should have been a comedian.

I will remember that for the rest of my life.

[derby378]

45. Ogre (Skinny Puppy)

Wound up backstage with him during the Too Dark Park tour, and after an awkward first question from me that brought the answer "What makes you think I'd rather be in Vancouver?", we actually had a nice little conversation where he talked with me about what a great time he was having during the tour, some of his feelings about future projects he was contemplating, and a couple of words about his relationship with his fellow Puppies. It was pretty cool.

[SoxFan]

46. Obsure and semi-obscure

Charlie Chesterman (Scruffy the Cat, Harmony Rockets)
Dave Minehan (The Neighborhoods)
Assorted members of Winter Hours, Smash Palace, Rubyhorse
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell had a beer with me at my friend's bar
Jim Bohanon (I set up an interview with a cat. Long story for another time)
Former Red Sox outfielder (and '75 World Series hero) Bernie Carbo
legendary Celtics player/coach/announcer Tommy Heinsohn

[Rhythm]

48. OMG! I love the 'Hoods!

Saw Dave and the 'Hoods play in Atlanta, Columbia, and Charlotte probably a dozen times in the late '80s/early 90's.

[Rhythm]

47. I had an opportunity to talk to David Prowse once

He was the guy in the suit in the original "Star Wars" films.

Huge man... soft-spoken voice. Great experience.

[Mopar151]

50. Richie Evans

Tim Flock, John Buffum, Tim O'Neil, Bill Alsup

[Mr. Ected]

51. Christy Canyon, Pornstar From the 80's

Bounced a check to her fan club once, and she called me up personally to bitch me out. We ended up talking for nearly an hour, and when she came to Atlanta for a pubic appearance, we shared drinks and laughs until the club closed.

That was, unfortunately, the end of it.

[MagickMuffin]

52. Here's my list

Timothy Leary at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth (of all places) after a lecture. He signed his autobiography, a friend barrowed it and never returned it :(

Robert Anton Wilson, a couple of times in Dallas, once at a book signing, the other time at a theater where he gave a presentation-lecture, where Rev. Ivan Stang was also there.

Genesis P Orridge of Psychic TV in Dallas at the Video Festival. He was the juror and we entered a video, we won, although Genesis didn't like a winner take all so we had to split the award with another person. We met him again in San Francisco.

Howard Jones a couple of times after concerts in Dallas. He signed some CD's.

Laurie Anderson once after a concert at SMU McFarland, she signed one of her books in which I asked her to sign it to Artists of the Invisible College (our band's name) the book had sold out but there was one on display and I asked if I could buy it and they let me :)

Andrei Zvyagintsev a Russian film director at the Lone Star International Film Festival. He directed a film tilted "The Bansihment" he answered questions after the movie.

Robert Pappas writer, director, and editor of "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" in Dallas. He answered questions after the viewing and also in the lobby.

J. Mitchell Johnson: Producer of "The Red Files" a PBS documentary series on Russia. Also "World Without Waves" in which he wrote and directed.

Tommy Pallotta: Producer; Cinematographer; Writer; Actor "A Waking Life", A Scanner Darkly", "High Road"

Michael Moore at some festival in Austin. He singed my book.

Molly Ivins and Joe Conason at a Texas Observer event in Austin.

Jim Moore at an event during the SXSW convention in Austin. We spoke for a long time.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga at the same event where I met Jim Moore. Markos gave a speech and had a Q&A. I also gave him a DVD of a video I did "Smoking Guns Mushroom Clouds"

Al Franken at the HardRock Cafe in Dallas. He broadcast his show there. I had my picture taken with him by a woman who had a camera and promised to email the pic, but she never sent it to me.

Cindy Sheenan at a Fort Worth AntiWar Protest.

Speaker of the House Jim Wright at the Obama Inauguration Ball.


And the Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile. I got to sit inside :rofl:


Okay my head hurts from trying to pull out all these memories :banghead:

[Sky Masterson]

53. a few

Dave Foley was the shit. (edited because I was hammered and looked it)
I met several of the cast members of the Office and they were nice as hell as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIvVrsYSki0 (not my video)
I met the guy in the video above too. Scott Shriner (from Weezer)
He was so friggen nice

[Ohio Joe]

54. 2 of them

My next door neighbor growing up was Richard Hunt:

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Hunt

I also went to high school for two years with Gioia Bruno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Bruno

Her, I and two others were a group during freshman year in foods class. We would go off school grounds, get high and then go to class and make something to eat :D She is a wicked cool girl. I actually only found out about a year or so ago that she had even become famous.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

55. Lt. Dan Choi

[Rambis]

56. Henny Youngman and The Everly Brothers

Henny at the Holiday Inn in Nevada- The Everly Brothers in my living room since my parents taught both of them in small town Iowa. They still call the house it is strange to talk to rock and roll Icons.

[BurtWorm]

57. I wrote an article about Bebe Buell

Mother of Liv Tyler, among other accomplishments. She was a Ford model--gorgeous girl--who schmoozed with the Warhol crowd at Max's Kansas City in the 1970s, became romantically involved with Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, and some other rock stars (besides Liv's father Steven) I can't remember. And she started her own bands in the late 1970s and mid-1980s. She was very cool. I liked the way she tossed around the word "Egyptian" to mean hip.

I also met Allard Lowenstein, the guy who got Bobby Kennedy to run as a lefty, about a month before he was assassinated by one of his protegees. He was recruiting people to work for Teddy in 1980. Good man.

[Tikki]

60. Stiv Bators....Bebe lived with him.....

He was singer and guitarist with The Dead Boys and later Lords of the New Church...Stiv and Bebe
were an item for quite a while.

Bators died in Paris, France at age 40 after being hit by a vehicle.

Bebe was very pretty...


Tikki

[BurtWorm]

62. I didn't know that.

She didn't want to talk about her personal life, and that was fine with me. She was very pretty.

:hi:

[enigmatic]

59. I got drunk w/ Richard Edson many moons ago

Incredibly nice guy and very, very funny:

[mrbill]

61. Lorenzo Milam

the guy behind the "petition against god" which got 7 million letters to the FCC.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

63. I've met some very cool Florida legislators.

Not household names to anyone unless they follow Florida politics, but I've gotten to know a few on a first name basis.