I've had more "brushes with fame" than you've had hot meals.

Ekkssvvppllott wrote:I've had more "brushes with fame" than you've had hot meals.

All your brushes with fame and five bucks will get you a hot meal.

I saw Joe DiMaggio walking out of a hotel on Michigan Av. a few years ago, shortly before he died.

Around '92 or so I was in Blackout Records on Southport, there was only one other customer in the store, an Asian guy who I didn't recognize. When I passed him in the aisle, he stopped and looked at me like he anticipated that I was going to say something to him. I nodded and kept going. He left shortly thereafter, and when I went up to the register the girl there said "Omigod omigod, that was James Iha". I said, "Oh".

In 1998 I went with my cousin and my uncle to the Music Box Theater to see the premiere of Michael Moore's "The Big One", where Moore was scheduled to appear for a Q&A after the screening. We got there early and saw this old guy in the lobby just standing there by himself. It was Studs Terkel. We talked to him for quite a while and my uncle gave him a bright green baseball hat with the sheet metal workers' union logo on it. He had it on his head later when Moore called him onstage for an award.

I once had a roommate who dated the pre-famous Lauren Graham. One night, the three of us went and saw some some band called the Gear Daddies at Lounge Ax.

Another roommate was an engineer at Chicago Trax on Halsted and worked mostly with Ministry. I met all the usual suspects in that crowd. Al Jourgensen was a worthless dick of a junkie. Paul Barker was very nice. He came to our apartment a few times and I loaned him a book about Nelson Algren.

Back in the 80's I worked downtown at a fish market where sightings of local politicians and TV reporters were common, but one semi-regular customer was Alice Cooper, who lived in Oak Park for a time. He would call up and say "Hi, this is Vince, I'd like to order blah blah."

I saw an Asian guy out at a bar once and was like, "Omigod! That's Chuck Uchida from Defoliants!!!" Then he looked at me and waved, and said, "Hey". It was... dreamy!

Back in the days of Crash Palace I was there one night with a friend from work and Al Jourgenson was hanging around, being a dick. He was wearing a cowboy hat and a Skinny Puppy t-shirt with the skeleton on it and was just walking around, fucking with random people. He said to my friend, "Hey, you wanna come home with me? I'm bisexual!" My friend said, "Dude, why don't you take your shit somewhere else, OK?"

Al walked away and a couple minutes later, the bartender came up to us and said my friend had to leave because he'd offended one of the bar employees. I told my friend that the guy he'd just told to fuck off was actually Al Jourgenson, and my friend thought it was hilarious. He started laughing and told the bartender, "Alright man, whatever you say!" And we left.

barndog wrote:

Ekkssvvppllott wrote:I've had more "brushes with fame" than you've had hot meals.

All your brushes with fame and five bucks will get you a hot meal.

As long as duck's on the menu, I'm not complaining.

I met Sean Connery outside a show at the Hardback here in Gainesville in 1994. He was shorter than I thought he would have been. We don't talk much anymore.

Jon

One time I was having lunch at Mary Mac's in Atlanta and as my family and I were walking out I was wheeling my invalid grandfather through the lobby/entrance space...a nice Escalade pulled right up front and two well dressed gentlemen got out. One of them had a burgundy suit and sunglasses and he smiled and held the door for me. It was James Brown.

I pushed my grandfather through the door and stuttered "I love your music". He smiled, patted me on the arm and said "Alright."

Colonel Panic wrote:Al walked away and a couple minutes later, the bartender came up to us and said my friend had to leave because he'd offended one of the bar employees. I told him that the guy he'd just talked to was Al Jourgenson, and he started laughing. He said, "Alright man, whatever you say!" And we left.

I don't get it, was Al an employee, or did the bartender think he was your "offensive" friend, or??

Ekkssvvppllott wrote:

barndog wrote:

Ekkssvvppllott wrote:I've had more "brushes with fame" than you've had hot meals.

All your brushes with fame and five bucks will get you a hot meal.

As long as duck's on the menu, I'm not complaining.

Howdy, cocksucker! I'll have the lobster and duck!

Colonel Panic wrote:I saw an Asian guy out at a bar once and was like, "Omigod! That's Chuck Uchida from Defoliants!!!" Then he looked at me and waved, and said, "Hey". It was... dreamy!

Back in the days of Crash Palace I was there one night with a friend from work and Al Jourgenson was hanging around, being a dick. He was wearing a cowboy hat and a Skinny Puppy t-shirt with the skeleton on it and was just walking around, fucking with random people. He said to my friend, "Hey, you wanna come home with me? I'm bisexual!" My friend said, "Dude, why don't you take your shit somewhere else, OK?"

Al walked away and a couple minutes later, the bartender came up to us and said my friend had to leave because he'd offended one of the bar employees. I told him that the guy he'd just talked to was Al Jourgenson, and he started laughing. He said, "Alright man, whatever you say!" And we left.

Al Jourgenson has always been a complete dick.

If I remember correctly, Tanya Tucker used to go to Crash Palace at around that time. Probably because of all the drugs that floated around there.

I remember hanging at Dreamerz once, and most of the people from Guns 'N' Roses came in and sat down at one of the tables. After a few minutes, someone from their group (a manager or handler or whatever) came over to us and said it would be ok to come over and sit at their table if we wanted. We all just kind of looked at each other, laughed, and told him to get the fuck away, we didn't care who they were.

Boombats wrote:I'll have the lobster and duck!

And in that order, comprende?