Post #109472 by TikiGardener on Sat, Aug 21, 2004 3:12 AM

Andy Partridge of XTC- Working a book store, I turned around and there he was. I offered him some help and asked; "Are you.."
and before I finished the sentence, he said; "Yes." We chatted breifly and I thanked him calmly but profusely for his volume of works.

Slash- A job at a clothing store, he came in with a host of people whose family must have had a tradition of marrying. This one girl was screaming for him to sign her "TIIIIT!" He grimaced and obliged.

I caught his attention and very subtly motined for him to come to the back portion of the store where he could escape.

Once he was back there ( this was when GnR was huge )I asked him if it was like that everywhere he went. With a grimace he said yes. We talked for awhile, I think he was happy that some one was just talking to him like he was a relatively normal person.

The next time he came in he ignaored everybody and we had another good talk. The next time he came in I was on vacation, and he was asking where his "homey" was. Haven't seen him since.

Ian Hunter- Same job. Shorter in person than you'd think. Had to use that cliche. But it is true.

Paul Schafer- Same Job. In his world he is too cool for school. I have a good story about him, a small conceert, and a throat lozenge.

Warren Cucurulo ( Guitarist with Zappa, and Missing Persons ) Installing art at his home. He asked me if I knew how to use a video camera, offering me the job of filming his porno films. Hmmmm, I always wonder how surreal it would have been if I said yes.

Steve Martin- Not unexpected, as it was on the work order. But it was truly bizarre to be prepping some of his artwork for travel, hearing someone stirring coffee, turning around and seeing Steve Martin standing there. It got even more bizarre when he said "Hello" like his character in The Jerk would have.

Ray Davies- On the street, he was pleasant, until he knew we knew who he was. Man he moves fast! We just stood there agog.

Cheetah Chrome (punk rock legend) getting a pizza at Stromboli's in NYC, I looked down and saw Cheetah lying against a wall, his pizza sliding off his plate as he went deeper into the land of nod.

Stephen King- In a record store. Very pleasant man.

Ian Astbury- Record store. Had a good talk with him about the Apollo 17 moon launch. odd eh?

Iggy Pop- Record store, watched him check to see if they had any of his records in stock. The extremely hot for a groupie chick abandoned him, and we watched him search up and down the stret in vain for her. Nobody dumps the Iggster!

Jimmy Kimmel- My parking structure, walked out of my car, there he was.

John Leguizamo- Streets of New York, had a chat about what it was like to do Spawn. He seemed to have enjoyed it even if the public didn't.

Walking to work one day this blond woman was walking her rat sized dog in front of me. With the dog wandering all over the sidewalk, I couldn't get around her and her dog. It was obvious that I was trying to get by, but the lady seemed to think her dog owned the sidewalk. So I hit after burner and just stepped over her dog. It almost got itself stepped on. I turned to scowl at the self important dog owner, only to see a very surprised Debbie Harry. I wonder if she remembered giving me a very approving up and down look at The Rock Styles show at the Met. My wife and her friends were there, and wouldn't stop teasing me that Debbie Harry had given me "The Look".

Nicholas Cage- Clothing store. Came in asking for vintage denim jeans. He proceeded to do karate kicks in various pairs of jeans for the next half an hour. Aside from that we had a pleasnant conversation.

Thats what I recall at the moment. I know I'll remember some more later.

TG

[ Edited by: TikiGardener on 2004-08-21 03:33 ]