Claim to fame
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- MarleyMarl3
I smoked a joint with Justin Timberlake. A solid guy he is.
- That sounds fun.monospaced
- I smoked a blunt with jamie fox at the standard when i was a kidscarabin
- And by kid i mean like... 23scarabin
- autoflavour2
Vantagepointradio.com is my current one.. then I name drop Ron English, Tristan Eaton, Nychos, 1UP crew..
or if im talking to people in Australia about electronic music or hiphop I casually drop im friends with Hermitude, Urthboy and a bunch of the elefant trakkers since 20 years at least.
- or that I have VJ'd for EL-P, Blackmilk, Grooverider, Noisiaautoflavour
- rootlock2
I once sold Dale Carnegie a pen.
- _niko6
I once told a woman that I coined the phrase "pardon my French"
- bezoar2
My best friend from high school is the nephew of Kerry Livgren, the former lead guitar and songwriter from "Kansas. So occasionally I would hang out at Kerry's house and have dinner with the family. Super nice guy. About 10 years ago Kerry had a stroke and can't remember who I am :( He's doing well though. My first "professional art job" in high school was cover illustration for his upcoming album (was only used for promos).
Kris Kuksi is a close friend of mine and any time I go to his art openings he's introducing me to people. The coolest ones I met are Ron English, Alex Grey, Chris Hardwick, and had brunch with Roger de Cabrol (Dali's former assistant).
- DaveO6
After being up all night I once gate crashed Liam Gallagher and Liam Howlett's party in a private section of the Edinboro castle on Camden. They were celebrating the Prodigy’s number 1 album and were with the Appletons and a load of hangers on.
I was really messed up – had been up all night with my mates and then had to DJ at the pub for an event my friend had arranged. I arrived at noon and because i was still 'charged' from the night before i started playing tech house. At noon. On a sunday.
I'd seen Liam earlier in the day and had gone over to him to say how amazing he was and that the new album (that i could not remember the name of) was amazing.
I finally get removed from the decks and get lost in the afternoon's boozing, clearly getting much worse for wear.
Their gathering was now behind a velvet rope and as I had nothing to do i thought I'd go and have a chat to my old pal Liam.
I plonked myself down and reached for a champagne flute, only to have Liam (Gallagher) - without braking stride of the conversation he was in - look me dead inn the eye and juts say “fuck off mate”.
- 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.
- Akagiyama0
I worked at the Universal City Hilton for about 3 years. Delivered dry cleaning to:
Janet Jackson
Wilford Brimley
Lorenzo Lamas
Warwick Davis
B. B. King
- imbecile8
I met and enjoyed drinks with Jevad when I lived in Hong Kong.
- BonSeff6
We had a very active member on this board back in the day, all of the sudden, radio silence, those of us were worried so I literally called his home (before cell phones) - dude's lady picks up and I ask for him, she asks, "who's calling?' - and I go, "Bonseff from the internet"
She hangs up- "Yes, this is dog"SteveJobs
- lol "from the internet"
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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
- Melanie3
I went to Elon Musk's birthday party about 10 years ago. It was weird.
- bainbridge2
Everyone here is posting that they once met someone kinda famous once.
- Yeah. I don’t get that. How is that claiming fame?monospaced
- It's not a literal claim to fame - more tongue-in-cheek brushes with The Great - "A bit of one upmanship but essentially true".Nairn
- I see.monospaced
- 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
- Nairn2
Who was it here whose mum was boffed by a former Ozzie PM?
That's one of my All-Time favourite QBN stories.
- pango1
Jesse Hughes gave me a hug once...
- shellie7
I work with a lot of famous people because I've worked in music and movie advertising for most of my career so most of those interactions are commonplace for me. But, a few early situations stick out in my memory.
At my first job, Jack Black joked around at my expense in an elevator. We were told not to pay much attention or bother celebrities when they come in. So, he took pleasure in tormenting (in good fun) new hires around their superiors so see if they'd stay cool.
At my very next job, Robert Downey Jr. stumbled into my office drunk. He smelled strongly of booze and was clearly disoriented. Wong address. He was trying to go to the Diesel Jeans showroom next door.
I met Kanye and Amber Rose back stage at a Kid Cudi concert right after the first Tailor Swift incident, and was stuck standing by Bobby Brown for about an hour. He was high, drunk, and in very bad condition. I ran into him two times after and he wouldn't forget me.
The very next concert I went to, Nas shook my hand with both hands (a hand sandwich) and told me I wad doing a good job. Ae ate all the food in his dressing room because he doesn't use his dressing room. It was all really good vegetarian food because hos wide at the time Kielis, was vegetarian. And, I watched Ghostface Killa play dice since everyone pretty much took over his dressing room at that particular event.
There's so many celebrities I hate, but I won't but pen to digital paper on those stories.
Fun times. Weird times.
- Nairn0
My Great-Uncle was on the very first Scottish TV broadcast.
- Or, at least - first evening's TV.Nairn
- (story sounds better if i imply his mug was the very first one seen..)Nairn
- Did you post this in another thread? Rings a bell for some reason.Fax_Benson
- He died last year. I think I posted a link to an old B&W Youtube of an intro to one of his showsNairn
- Ah yeah. I remember the vid. Nice story.Fax_Benson
- Fax_Benson1
I'm related to former Major League All Star pitcher "Moon Man" Greg Minton.
- What in sweet shit is going on with his lower lip? Was he hit in the face with a baseball?Nairn
- Easy.Fax_Benson
- haha, sorry - a family trait?Nairn
- Thukof Naahnm.Fax_Benson