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I consider R2-D2 my friend.

 
  

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Haus of Mystery
20:47 / 23.09.04
I've served Brian Eno a beer
I've got pissed with Glenn Fabry
I've ignored Julie Burchill
I met Richard E Grant in the Czech Republic

Am I famous?
 
 
Haus of Mystery
20:47 / 23.09.04
Shit. That reads like a fucking riddle.
 
 
Sax
06:13 / 24.09.04
I had coffee with Joolz Denby yesterday.
 
 
_Boboss
08:38 / 24.09.04
stoat - isn't

the guy who dies in the carwash in view to a kill patrick mcnee, not david yip (who had a good mid-eighties run in brookie too)? i always liked his face.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
21:19 / 24.09.04
I used to be friends with Jake Busey, until he brought Haley Joel Osment to a barbecue at Tobey Maguire's cottage on the lake. Just a little bit creepy, no?
 
 
Triplets
02:58 / 25.09.04
There's something fucking wrong with all of you.
 
 
John Octave
06:59 / 25.09.04
I am good friends with Joss Whedon, creator of TV's Buffy. I met him at the Chicago Comic-Con, when I stood in line to get a comic book signed by him. While he signed it, I told him I really enjoy the book (namely, an independent--or "indie"--comic with a small print-run called Astonishing X-Men). Apparently no one had said this to him the entire weekend, because he responded, with trademark Whedon wit, that he was "glad to hear it." OMG!

We're practically brothers, really.
 
 
Papess
18:46 / 25.09.04
I know this is off topic...but on title:

ARTOO, R2: small and cute. I found that here.

As for the topic: I have met quite a few famous people, most were sports icons and retired politicians, but actual friendships with people who are on television, or are internationally recognized?...I can't say I do. I am oblivious anyway. Even if I meet a celebrity, someone else will usually have to point out who they are to me.

I did work in a pub once, with the guy who did one of the earliest viagra commercials. Doesn't really count, huh?
 
 
Benny the Ball
19:09 / 25.09.04
I took a shit in a cottage owned by Emma Forbes.
 
 
Baz Auckland
01:28 / 27.09.04
At age 14, I was briefly friends with Sarah Polley... I once served coffee to Posh Spice's sister and Anastacia, and sold books to Dustin Hoffman, Margaret Atwood and Renee Zelwigger (who is apparently only 4ft tall in reality).... I have a very loose definition of friendship, so they count!
 
 
Bed Head
20:27 / 05.10.04
Jesus. I’ve just remembered: I’ve met Maddy Prior. And her husband, or ex-husband, whichever. Difficult to tell with these middle-aged hippies. And I’ve seen a school concert given by her son and his chunky farmer-boy chums: they scowled and shouted their way through the *most* bizarre approximation of Rage Against The Machine, as interpreted by a bunch of obnoxious posh teenagers from rural Cumbria.

So, while they’re not exactly friends of mine, they bought drugs off the cool brother of my friend. Her kid and his ‘band’ bought drugs, that is. And they stayed in tough-guy gangsta character throughout the deal, and then we all went to Maddy Prior's house to deliver. God, I don't know how I ever managed to forget all this.

Although, if I’ve told this story before and just forgotten my remembering it, kindly ignore this post.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:32 / 05.10.04
Fuck you, I'll park my tractor where I want to.
 
 
Baz Auckland
02:50 / 24.10.04
Ha! I just found out that one of my co-workers at the Pioneer Village was the Indian Math Team guy in Mean Girls...
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
12:58 / 24.10.04
i got drunk with Michael Marshall Smith at the Straw Men launch party in Soho. i wanted to talk about Only Forward and so did he, only the PR people kept dragging him away to talk to VIP's.
he came back three times though.

my old bookshop manager is *friends* with Jacqueline Wilson. ze is moving in with her and i've an invite to visit.

i met a lot of authors in my eight years in the booktrade working for Hammicks. sadly they got bought out by Ottakers.
 
 
Ganesh
14:26 / 24.10.04
I've served Brian Eno a beer
I've got pissed with Glenn Fabry
I've ignored Julie Burchill
I met Richard E Grant in the Czech Republic


The last line here should be 'but I've never been to me'.

George Morrison sends me messages through the medium of blinking.
 
 
Sax
07:47 / 25.10.04
That's his way of snubbing you, you poor deluded fool.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:57 / 25.10.04
I consider RJD2 a friend. I just love his sub-DJ-Shadow instrumental hip hop stylings!
 
 
Ganesh
11:04 / 25.10.04
That's his way of snubbing you, you poor deluded fool.

Not if you know the secret blinking code that only George and I know. It's not knowing the code that's the snub.

I love blinking, I do.
 
 
Sax
13:23 / 25.10.04
George might be blinking at you, but he's winking at me.

And that's because he's got something in his eye.

And only I'd know that.
 
 
Ganesh
14:03 / 25.10.04
It means he likes you half as much as he likes me. Which isn't bad going, all things considered, but don't expect him over for strip swingball.
 
 
Sax
14:16 / 25.10.04
Ooh! Thanks for reminding me. Left my Twister mat at George's a couple of weekends ago. Hope he's wiped it down.
 
 
Ganesh
14:17 / 25.10.04
Pfft. You wanna try moving to live in the reality-based community, you do.
 
 
Sax
14:21 / 25.10.04
 
 
Ganesh
14:23 / 25.10.04
Ah, but can you remember his name? That seemed to be giving you problems, last time.
 
 
Sax
14:24 / 25.10.04
Well, I call him "My Marvel Boy". Not sure what you call him.
 
 
Ganesh
14:26 / 25.10.04
That'd be telling. We communicate five-dimensionally. Through, erm, blinking.
 
  

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