Damn, I'd be completely thrown for a loop by meeting Bob Mould. Mike Watt's the only punk rock hero I've met who's ever been human enough to make me feel at ease.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Oct 22, 2004 6:56:20 am PDT #5518 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Alicia K - Oct 22, 2004 6:56:42 am PDT #5519 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I do indeed work at the Coffee Company That Ate the World's headquarters. I'm in the Benefits department.
I wasn't embarrassed. I was pleased that I was able to form a coherent sentence, and I was obviously extremely gleeful to be talking to and hugging the man, but embarrassed wasn't the word. I wasn't even embarrassed when I ran back down to my department and bounced and squealed up and down the cubicles for an hour!
Kate P. - Oct 22, 2004 7:06:08 am PDT #5520 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Alicia, that's so cool! Dude! And it's a great picture of the both of you.
I once broke down crying in front of Nerissa & Katryna Nields. That was pretty damn embarrassing.
Hayden - Oct 22, 2004 7:06:52 am PDT #5521 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Alicia, you look unembarrassed in that picture. In fact, you look very, very happy.
Sue - Oct 22, 2004 7:13:31 am PDT #5522 of 10003
hip deep in pie
And I told him how super-fit he was looking (he was! looked way fitter than he did 20-ish years ago). So he was telling me about his workout regime. So, it was funny becuase he was having a fairly normal conversation and I was all bug-eyed, sputtering, over-sharing fangurl.
He's talked a lot about his workout regime in his blog.
Like Lyra, I would tend not to approach celebrities because I wouldn't have anything to say to them. I tend to get all shy with even actors I know when I am in awe of their work. I once worked for four months on a show with a guy who did one of the best performances I have ever seen on stage, and I always felt too embarrassed to tell him how great I thought he was.
The thing is that all the performers I know never tire of the compliments. Maybe the big, big stars do, but the regular working performers love it.
lisah - Oct 22, 2004 7:30:01 am PDT #5523 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Mike Watt's the only punk rock hero I've met who's ever been human enough to make me feel at ease
Bob Mould was completely down-to-earth and nice. I was just very, very excited to be meeting him.
I had dinner with the Nields once. At a restaurant at a table with a load of people so I didn't talk to them at all. It was during a radio industry convention I tagged along to with a friend. I didn't really know who they were but one of their members, a bald-headed guy, looked so much like my ex-boyfriend that it freaked me out some. We ended up staring at each other a lot during the meal. (Me because of the freaky resemblance thing, him because of me staring probably)
Mr. Broom - Oct 22, 2004 7:34:46 am PDT #5524 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Didn't get to see the Decemberists. Bad intelligence reports led us to believe it hadn't sold out well in advance when it had. This required much subsequent drinking to get over. I need water.
DavidS - Oct 22, 2004 7:41:55 am PDT #5525 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Awww, sorry Mr. Broom.
I would try really really hard NOT to squee and stop breathing, which means I'd probably blush and stammer and say something nonsensical, then bounce about 10 feet in the air as soon as I was done talking to him.
I got deeply (though not weirdly) shy and tongue-tied bumping into DJ Bonebrake, the drummer from X, in a record store. I did feel compelled to choke out, "Your music changed my life" because I felt like I owed him that much. It's not like X ever had a platinum album, so they should know they mattered.
erinaceous - Oct 22, 2004 7:42:55 am PDT #5526 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO TELL RIO THAT TODAY, OCT 22, IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!!!!!
Oh, I guess I just did.
Kate P. - Oct 22, 2004 7:56:32 am PDT #5527 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I didn't really know who they were but one of their members, a bald-headed guy, looked so much like my ex-boyfriend that it freaked me out some. We ended up staring at each other a lot during the meal.
Heh. That's David Nields. He's... a little freaky himself. I worked for their manager a couple of years ago, and I got to be friendly with both Nerissa and Katryna, but I never felt totally at ease around David.