Someone famous on the street?
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- bulletfactory0
Steve Buscemi lives on my street (2 blocks down), so we have run into each other a number of times walking down the sidewalk or at the local bagel shop. Just kind on nod at at each other.
The first time we passed each other on the sidewalk, we did the awkward, "i'm trying to get out of your way, you're trying to get out of mine, but we both zig and zag to the same side of the sidewalk thing... twice."John Turturro also lives a few blocks away, so we see him out and about. The first time we saw him we were standing on the same street corner waiting for the walk signal. I discreetly attempted to tell my wife who we were standing by, but she couldn't hear me and, rather loudly said, "WHO?!?" So I repeated myself, and then she realized who it was. By then John was just staring right at us. We ended up going the same way, sharing the sidewalk for a few blocks. We tried to 'play it cool,' but felt like doofuses.
- steve buscemi seems like a cool dude to knowscarabin
- Yeah, wish i felt like I could chat with him - he seems like he's on a mission when he walks in the neighborhood - trying not tobulletfactory
- get hounded by people.bulletfactory
- Fuck yeah, Buscemi is the shit! I'm a huge Boardwalk Empire fan. I'd defo have a chat if I saw him.sem
- CygnusZero40
I bumped into the lead singer from the band Live, his name is Ed, and he is a total dick. Avoid if you see him.
- haha!bulletfactory
- this was actually a lot of years ago though. He might not be the same douchebag now.CygnusZero4
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Leave 'em alone.
- cbass990
shared pizza at The Rainbow with the guitar player from W.A.S.P.
yes, W.A.S.P.- blackie lawless? hahahajaylarson
- i think it was Johnny Rod haha. it was pretty funny..he still thinks he's a huge rockstarcbass99
- I dont think he ever was. Noone knows who Johnny Rod is.CygnusZero4
- duckseason0
I slurred and mumbled a bunch of shit to DJ Quik at a Kangol event years back.
He told me he wished he was as drunk as I was.- Had I not been piss drunk, I probably wouldn't have said anything.duckseason
- instrmntl0
Edward Norton was right next to me at the her premiere. My gf was fanning out, but we didn't say hi or anything.
- detritus0
I sat opposite DJ Shadow in a private lounge before a gig of his - just the two of us. I drank a bottle of lager, he a bottle of water. We said nothing to one another and barely exchanged a couple of non-commital looks.
He, because he's famous and wtfshouldhe? Me because although I liked his music at the time, I had fuck-all idea what he looked like, so this guy in the lounge was Just Some Dude to me.
By the time I saw him on stage afterwards I was fairly stoned so just laughed inwardly about when I realised.
Point being - looking back, I hope he presumed I knew who he was (I was at his gig, after all) and just thought I was being totally laid back and chill for just letting him be.
The conceit is —
for a second, perhaps DJ Shadow thought *I* was cool.- who?CygnusZero4
- DJ Shadow is a king.bainbridge
- who is that?CygnusZero4
- Google him.monospaced
- cannonball19780
My sister and I were seated behind Bruce Willis when we went and saw Avenue Q. During the intermission he kept making the air masturbation motion which I guess was referring to one of the songs in the show. I tried getting it on my phone but this was back when phones sucked and were useless at capturing situations like that because you had to press five buttons and do all kinds of UI shit and even then the res sucked. Anyway I think he saw me but then saw my sister with me and had this ashamed look on his face, like she was making the "how could you" face hahah. I don't know if he knew we were sitting behind him but I didn't see him after the show.
- monospaced0
I was at an AIGA lecture in NYC about iPad publishing, and this bitch two rows ahead of us kept taking pictures of the slides on the screen with her cell phone, in a dark theater, using flash. Me and some other people told her to knock it off, and she turned around and it was Martha Stewart. Her team was presenting her iPad magazine. Still, she was being rude.
- cbass990
DMX was once playing pool and I was blocking his backshot with my spot at the bar. He was trying to drain the 8-ball... I moved and said "You got this shit." He scratched the cue ball and lost the game...
- CALLES0
oh yeah thats true i played pool with this english dude it was only after i beat him that someone told me it was paul oakenfold. and i am not that good at pool
- Lol why would he give his name?CygnusZero4
- Randomly, "...by the way, Im Paul Oakenfold". "Um... ok."CygnusZero4
- Oh you said someone told you. I thought HE did. That would be strange.CygnusZero4
- robotinc0
Having lived in Santa Monica for 6 years I would see famous people quite often. I never really cared so i didn't say anything or what have you. Then i saw the this dude at whole foods on thanksgiving. I totally nerded out and ended up stalking him through the store. Don't know why it was him that broke me down
- I doubt he gets recognized often. He isnt really that famous.CygnusZero4
- he looks like this spoiled rich kid in Mexico i want to beat up, not really a kid, hes 30moldero
- He isss Weego!cannonball1978
- hektor9110
Bump into Jake Gyllenhaal this morning at a coffee shop. He was sitting by himself and looking at his cellphone. Nobody said hello.
- i saw him as i was walking into joe doe and he was walking out. he said, "hey how are you" and i said "hey what's up?!"doesnotexist
- nycdoesnotexist
- he thought you were famous?bainbridge
- doesnotexist0
would tons of people when i worked one block south of houston.
i usually leave them alone. i would want to be left alone.
- dbloc0
Saw Jason Lee at an art show one time. It's a little awkward because you feel like you know them, but they don't know who the hell you are. Basically just told him I've been a fan for years, you're awesome...keep it up. A little stroke of the ego.
- whatthefunk0
I work in SoHo and saw Joe Montana as I was crossing the street. I was looking for my bank and he appeared to be looking for a store. Took a second to realize who it was but when I saw him looking around confused I preferred to just walk on by and think of him making huge plays on the football field and not as a regular dude who can't find shit on Broadway.
- inteliboy0
I met Adam Jones from Tool. We tried to act cool and helped him find his way through some alleys in the city though he probably could tell we were nerding out.
- mg330
I helped Barry Manilow shop for pants when I worked at the Banana Republic on Michigan Ave. here in Chicago. Maybe in 2002. I don't really get star struck; treated him like anyone else. But it was memorable to be on my knees going through a stack of pants for him and his bodyguard, and when I said "here's your size" look up to see him smiling approvingly at me. Sometimes I forget that even happened. Seems so long ago.
- Does Barry Manilow know you raided Banana Republic's wardrobe for him?cannonball1978