Nicest/Meanest 'celebs' you've ever met?

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Harmony korin. I’ve never met him but i’ve seen a couple of interviews and i can’t stand that guy!! pompous, full of himself, little rich boy, no talent hack!!! I mean how stupid was “kids”? And all Gummo was, was a shitty exploitation flick! He makes me angry!

You can’t stand him off the back of a few interviews you’ve seen?

Yeah, that makes sense. And what would you know about him being rich? And does it matter if he was/is?

His films are full of vision - both poetic and quirky. I can think of very few (young) film-makers in the indie genre whose films have made as much of an impact on me as his have.

And as for Gummo being ‘exploitive’ - please see this film again and think about it for awhile and then come back to me.

Although, I guess I can’t expect somebody who gets excited over meeting Slash to be able to appreciate challenging and original film-making.

No offence Mr Voice Of The Working Man.

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sorry to shit on your muse. but that dude shouldn’t do any more interviews then, or hire a publicist to maximize the full benefits of the purpose of the interviews. He comes off as a spoiled rich kid (I believe in one interview he even talks about being the kid of rich parents) and the problem with that is, motherfucker doesn’t put any effort into anything, he expects to be handed shit! His writing certainly shows that. As a matter of fact he even says “i wrote Kids real quick cause someone asked me to write something for him (family friend or teacher or somebody) so I just slapped it together real quick.” I couldn’t help but laugh…No shit huh, you don’t say!!!

His movies suck!! They reek of high school depth (“your so deep man!”) and pretentiousness.

“challenging and original film-making.”
By challenging if you mean sitting through something like “kids” you betcha! who didn’t see that coming? near virgin girl getting aids the ONE TIME she fucked and the never used a condemn girl who has fucked 12 + times and had anal sex, NOT GETTING AIDS. Boring and predictable! Err, I mean, That’s so deep! It could happen to anybody. How profound! NO WAY That was a charter bus crashing though your house at 2 am with it’s high beams on, its radio blaring, and the Horn honking! No offence but you gotta be a dumb motherfucker to not see that coming and think that it’s profound!

What about that witty dialogue…

“you got this digg man?
This digg?
yo, you sell this dig?
This DICK MOTHERFUCKER!”

“Man I just fucked 2 virgins in one day there ought to be a law against that shit!”

Tell me again. His movies are deep? PLEASE!

as far as original… Hardly, I’ve seen people do “shitty-film” way worse than him! (you ever seen “Plan 9 from outer space”?)

What would you call Gummo if not exploitation? I’ve seen it twice If I watch it a 3rd time it will certainly be under duress.

Sorry Just ain’t my cup of tea and then his shitty ass interviews just make it worse. You wanna come through my computer screen and slap me? Whatever…[;)]

I’m the voice of the working man? ok I’ll take it.
Late,
grmpysmrf

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He comes off as a spoiled rich kid (I believe in one interview he even talks about being the kid of rich parents) and the problem with that is, motherfucker doesn’t put any effort into anything, he expects to be handed shit!

To get to where he has got to, he would have to have put a great deal of effort into it. He probably downplays it to live up to the slacker/druggie genius thing. I would also assume that a guy like Harmony does NOT take interviews seriously.

I think he just loves the whole ‘artistic fuckup’ label he gets stuck with. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I see alot of that in myself. I grew up a slacker rich kid. I could sit around all day with my thumb up my ass and my kids would still go to college.

And that’s not to show off or anything - it’s what I was born into. I just accept it. I don’t think it makes me a terrible person. I don’t have a ‘job’ as such, but I work a couple of days a week with the homeless and at an animal shelter. I don’t have to do any of that shit. I could just be the filthy rich slacker that everyone just assumes I am. I’m not a show off - I don’t drive a Ferrari and date super models. If that’s what people want to believe then who cares?

So that spoilt rich kid thing really strikes a chord with me. I think you just caught me in a vulnerable mood.

His writing certainly shows that. As a matter of fact he even says “i wrote Kids real quick cause someone asked me to write something for him (family friend or teacher or somebody) so I just slapped it together real quick.” I couldn’t help but laugh…No shit huh, you don’t say!!!

He wrote Kids as a 16 year old. That’s not a bad effort for a guy still in junior high.

‘A Crackup At The Race Riots’ is a fantastic book of his. DEFINITELY not for everyone. I like it. He across as Groucho Marx on drugs with Attention Deficit Disorder. It’s just…unusual.

But no point drumming it into you. If you don’t like it you don’t like it.

I’m the voice of the working man? ok I’ll take it.
Late,
grmpysmrf

That was not a snide put down - just trying to get a rise outta ya!!

[:)]

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I haven’t seen Harmony’s new film, but I’ve seen Gummo more times than I’d care to think about. My favorite part of that film is when the drunk white trash group get bored and wrestle the kitchen table. The fact that one gut loses to it says a lot.

I can take him or leave him, I think the guy has some talent, but its been railroaded by drugs to some degree.
Didn’t he used to live in a treehouse?

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I so wanna meet Star Wars kid or Numa.

Fat is the new black.

Seconded.

Speaking of fat, one of my homies met Andy Milonakis a couple years back.

“Pancake on my face makes me extra-happy/I like shampoo bottles that sit on my lappy”

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john frusciante - heart of gold… gave me a big hug

where/when dd you meet him? tell more. i would really love to meet this guy. to be honest i’d like to hug HIM. the guy practically came back from the dead (4-5 year heroin binge) and is still one of the best true guitarist today.

i would also like to meet ohgr - never been able to. I’ve always perceived him as a very intelligent person.[/reply]

He had just played a solo show in NYC at some coverted church… not the limelight… this was circa his to record water for 10 days tour… after the show he came out after about 20 minutes and met every single fan that stuck around and was the most genuine sweet guy you can imagine… and this was right after some “fan” had stolen his sweater that he got from him girlfriend right off the stage and ran out of the venue. It was a great show… he played all of his best songs and did covers of bowie (rock and roll suicide and modern love) also nico (secet side) joy division and i think one more cover that i can’t remember at the moment. He was just takingf requests right from the audience as to what to play… and he basically did every song that was asked except anything from his smile from the streets you hold cd, cause as he put it “i was a little too messed up at the time and i don’t remember how those go”
There’s a bootleg of the show floating around somewhere…

anyway after the show I asked him to sign my niandra lades original release cd… and we were just talking. For maybe a good 15 minutes or so. and i mentioned how that cd was my sountrack to high school and that I basically can play the cd from to back in my head I’ve heard it so much yada yada yada one thing led to another and next thing I know he;s giving me a hug. It was one of my life’s favorite moments…

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met connelly and other famous faces at the exact same transvestite bar, and connelly was a right cunt.i asked to borrow the eyeliner and he flew off with arms waving like a swan about to take flight,“OH …um…NOOOOO!”
anyway, phil collins, boring as hell. nice guy. peter murphy. very articulate and genuinely nice. wanted to discuss books. saw him at an in-store.
worst has to be robert plant. complete and utter ass.
savin’ that one for my book.

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I can relate to this thread!!!

Before he died, I lived in Hollywood in the early 70s with my father who worked for a PR company to some of the biggest names in Hollywood (he even gets a mention in the ‘Easy Riders Raging Bulls’ book!!!).

I met them all - Warren Beatty, Streisand, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Woody Allen, Bob Hope, Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, KISS, Jodie Foster, Tatum O’Neal, Roman Polanski…

The nicest would have to have been Alice Cooper. A genuinely warm and incredibly sharp witted individual. VERY clued in about things in general. His head was in the right place. He sent me a condolence card after my dad’s funeral some years back. I still have it.

Tatum O’Neal was strange. She used to roll joints in the reception area while waiting for her father to finish his PR meetings - and ignore repeated warning from the receptionist to stop doing that.

I plucked up the courage to say hi to her once (I was only 10 or 11) and she responded with a loud “who the fuck are you?!”

Barbara Streisand was very rude the one time I met her. She also treated her employees badly and they were always quitting and calling her a bitch behind her back.

KISS were…weird. Gene and Paul were pricks and the other two were complete clueless fuckups. Honestly you wouldn’t give them a mop and bucket job! They didn’t give a shit about the fans back then and probably still don’t. Gene even used to admit he was only ever in it for the money. I doubt he even likes music!

The meanest (or scariest) would have been Dennis Hopper or maybe John Phillips (from the Mamas And Pappas) - who asked me if I’d ever smelt a vagina before (this was when I was only 11 years old mind you). A total and utter creep and waste of space. My dad threatened to beat him senseless.

Man, the things I saw in the 6 years I lived there…make your hair stand on end if I told you.

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The few times i’ve met patton he was nothing but the nicest guy in the world… guess maybe it was a bad night or the enviorment

Yeah…he’s kind of an oddball character.

Unpredictable.

john frusciante - heart of gold… gave me a big hug

John Frusciante bought the Throbbing Gristle ‘TG 24’ boxset off a friend of mine.

You wouldn’t think he’d be into that sort of thing but apparently he is.

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“You ever smell a vagina?”
that is too fuckin’ funny and to an 11 year old? comedic gold!!

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When I was 10, Peter Graves asked me if I’d ever seen a grown man naked. Scarred me for life.

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peter graves? holy crap. you get my vote for best celebrity encounter of the third kind.

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peter graves? holy crap. you get my vote for best celebrity encounter of the third kind.

he’s referencing a scene from the movie Airplane.

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You ever been in a Turkish prison? Do you like movies about Gladiators?

1002

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I interviewed Paul Barker for the school newspaper when I was in college… nice guy, very relaxed. Didn’t get into too much detail with him. He DID call me back the next day at 9 AM and woke me up, and said, “Oops, wrong number. Go back to sleep, Lowell.”

I also met Wallace Shaun when I was 11. For those of you who don’t know who he is, he’s the “inconceivable!” guy from THE PRINCESS BRIDE. I didn’t know his name, so I said, “You’re… that guy.” And he nodded and smiled and said, “That’s right. I am indeed that guy.”

End of post.

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already spent too much time on this…

Jon Auer (Posies)
Clive Barker
Paul Barker
Lou Barlow (Dinosaur JR, Folk Implosion)
Steve Bartek (Oingo Boingo)
Peter Buck (REM)
Tim Burton
Justin Chancellor (Peach, Tool)
Les Claypool
Coop (Artist, devil girls)
Stewart Copeland
Zach De La Rocha
Jerome Dillon (ex NIN, nearLY)
Bret Easton Ellis (Writer, American Psycho)
Danny Elfman
Richard Elfman
Shepard Fairey (Artist, OBEY)
Perry Farrell
Flea
Bob Forrest (Thelonious Monster, The Bicycle Thief)
Franz Ferdinand (Whole Band)
John Frusciante
Neil Gaiman
Robyn Hitchcock
Seu Jorge (Brazilian Superstar)
Jason Lee (Actor: Mallrats, My Name Is Earl)
Live (Whole Band)
David Mack (Artist, Kabuki, Daredevil)
Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Ministry (Whole Band, 2008 lineup)
Kathryn Morris (Cold Case)
Keith Morris (Circle Jerks)
Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger)
Roger O’Donnell (Cure)
Richard Patrick (Filter)
Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction)
Giovanni Ribisi (Actor, Boiler Room, Friends)
Bill Rieflin (Ministry, REM)
Claudia Sarne (12 Rounds, nearLY)
Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Joe Strummer)
Sherik (Sax w Les Claypool)
Ralph Steadman (Artist, Hunter S Thompson Books)
Tony Visconti (Bowie, T-Rex Producer)
Chris Vrenna (ex NIN, Tweaker, Marilyn Manson)
Wil Wheaton (Actor: Star Trek:Next Generation, Stand By Me)
Saul Williams
Bernie Wrightson (Artist, Swamp Thing Creator)
Rob Zombie

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john frusciante - heart of gold… gave me a big hug

John Frusciante bought the Throbbing Gristle ‘TG 24’ boxset off a friend of mine.

You wouldn’t think he’d be into that sort of thing but apparently he is.[/reply]

I don’t think there is a style of music this guy is not into… from stravinsky to the wu-tang clan (he was on their last cd) and everything in between… he likes aphex twin and those warped bands alot too

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[reply]john frusciante - heart of gold… gave me a big hug

John Frusciante bought the Throbbing Gristle ‘TG 24’ boxset off a friend of mine.

You wouldn’t think he’d be into that sort of thing but apparently he is.[/reply]

I don’t think there is a style of music this guy is not into… from stravinsky to the wu-tang clan (he was on their last cd) and everything in between… he likes aphex twin and those warped bands alot too[/reply]
Apparently when the Venetian Snares/Cyrus Rex/Otto Von Schirach tour was in LA they stopped by Cevin Key’s place with a couple of other guys including Frusciante for a three hour jam. It was recorded.

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Apparently when the Venetian Snares/Cyrus Rex/Otto Von Schirach tour was in LA they stopped by Cevin Key’s place with a couple of other guys including Frusciante for a three hour jam. It was recorded.

have you seen it floating around?

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Apparently when the Venetian Snares/Cyrus Rex/Otto Von Schirach tour was in LA they stopped by Cevin Key’s place with a couple of other guys including Frusciante for a three hour jam. It was recorded.

have you seen it floating around?[/reply]
No, Cyrus has the recording of it I think, but its a no brainer to release at least portions of this even if its just a limited internet only thing. Cevin played a Tenori-On he brought back from Japan throughout the jam. This is a neat piece of machinery.

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I’ve met a few celebs… but the best encounter was when I met Rudy Ray Moore. They were playing Dolemite at a film festival up here and he came and then did a stand up routine after. Classic shit. Had me laughing the whole night.
I talked to him after and he greeted me with “sup Cracker?” , and then autographed a wooden backstratcher. Fucking awesome.