Lifestyles of the Rich and the Slaters - Page 2

Ha! I can refer to GdT and Darabont as a "friend of a friend now." Then again, I don't know anyone who has any idea who they are so I can't pull that "three degrees of namedropping" bullshit. Fuck.

I hate you with every teenly little cell in my plump body. wink

Kitty - too bad, because I love you!

Here's another good one - you know the scene in "Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer" where the little girl comes in the house as they're killing her family? -
My parents bought a house a couple of doors down after I graduated high school. That was another weird day...

Tell me if I am wrong Hellboy but isnt Mark Hamill kinda crazy.

My girlfriend lived next to him once and he would always pop his head over the fence and go off about something. She got the weirdo vibe from him.

And another Tesh/Selica sighting!

Which one is that?

Hammill? Crazy?
Yup. He's at the least a little...off. Nice, though.

And in another move to lead the pack:
Tom Petty is my landlord.

All of this true. Folks like Ryan Rotten & The Inspector (who have stories just as cool as mine) can verify.

Slater doesn't like Slater? Gah, is the universe about to implode?

I should get Lady Koel on here to list all the people she's been in contact with. Including being around Marlon Brando and being hit on by James Woods. Then there are a ton of others who she has met but hasn't told me about yet. I am amazed when she mentions them all. Including Brad Pitt.

Shooo I'm dropping all the names for her!

Oh and my dad happens to have been a dog trainer with Karl Lewis Miller. Everyone's favorite Babe trainer and Beethoven trainer.

That's awesome. I'd love to chat with Mr K. Although he'd probably get bored of my fanboy talk pretty quickly.

These definitely don't seem very cool after reading Hellboy's stories:

-Louis Gossett Jr. is going to be here in Florence tomorrow for a movie premiere. For some reason they're doing an "Old Hollywood"-style premiere for this short film called "The Mirror" that was filmed around here.

-My cousin was very close to being Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" on Broadway. She got to audition with Hillary Swank, who's playing Anne Sullivan. After she didn't get the part, Patty Duke wrote her a letter that said she definitely had the most talent out of the girls that auditioned but they probably didn't pick her because she's too small right now.

-My friend lives in Memphis and Francis Ford Coppola checked out her house to see if he wanted to use it as the sick kid's house in "The Rainmaker." He chose one down the street. You can see my friend's house in the background in some scenes.

-My friend's friend's cousin has been dating Kyle Gass for something like 5 years.

-My friend saw Matt Damon making out with someone in the Boston airport. She interrupted them to get his autograph. He was pissed.

-My friend's dad is good friends with Steven Segal. His filmography is <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Beene,+Dan" target="_blank">here.</a> and her's is <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Beene,+Kelcie" target="_blank">here</a> . He was also in that Kinko's commercial with the farmer doing the presenation in front of the chickens. I think he was the only human in the commercial.

-I've met Ben Harper and the drummer from Interpol.

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Backatcha, honey. I was just kidding.

As was I, kitty...
But you are definitely among my fave chewers, all kidding aside.
Add Andre D, Bateman, Cunningham, Whitehead , Fett, Butane, Rotten, Inspector...the list goes on & on. Jeez, I guess nearly everybody is cool - with a few noticable exceptions...

Were you at Citywalk during Equilibrium Hellboy?

So this The Hellboy brag and name drop thread?

Interesting...

Well, Old Restless, it certainly seems that way...
No, actually I didn't mean it to be - I was just illustrating the strange & cool stuff that can happen when you live in LA...it's surreal. There's a million other people that can share these weird stories
But I won't share any more, sorry. It is tacky.

No CT - I wasn't there. This is the 2nd time I've been asked...what was it? A screening?

Nah...it was the Friday Equilibrium came out. Kurt had come to watch the movie with an actual audience and SJR had brought along a bunch of people and I couldn't recall if you were in that group or not.

*Heh can't let Hellboy get all the grief for name dropping. wink

Here's the thing;
I took a lot of shit for name-dropping in a name dropping thread - but if you live out here -ITS JUST THE WAY THAT IT IS. These people are everywhere. I live in same part of LA as Krak - How about Laurel Canyon & Ventura Blvd, Krak? - its an epicenture for Hollywood-type activity.
The Inspector & I used to work together at a place nearly anyone who is anyone came into on a daily basis. You would not believe it if I told you. There would be 3 or 4 famous people in there, just hanging out. So freakin' bizarre to a kid from Chicago.

Oh yea Hellboy you'll get no grief from me. You're right, it is just how it is out here in LA. I mean hell you can have Zeus walk into the store asking where the bakery is or you can have the world's fastest man want his pictures developed or even have Xzibit looking ratty why waiting to be checked out. And that's just the north end of the Valley.

I think Chuddites should take heart that people who post here are in such contact with celebrities and what is going on.

And frankly a lot of people are just jealous they can't drop names themselves. Yet most people need to realize...even seeing this people isn't the greatest thing either. Sure you get excited when you see someone you've seen on TV but beware, the attitude they have is often something you don't want to deal with.

A friend of my wife babysits for the brother of Sean Whalen (Roach from People Under the Stairs), and went to school with Erin Grey's son.

I used to talk to Jerry Only of the Misfits regularly.

AND...
I am friends with the brother of Carl DiMaggio, who was Officer Len Lopresti on OZ (he was the one who was banging Shirley Bellinger on death row), and I was at a bachelor party with him and my friend's family functions.

That's all for my slice of "celebrity chatting."

I forgot a couple more.

I went to kindergarden with Peter Tork's kid.

Tom Morello is from the town that is right next to mine & often comes back to hang with people he knew from high school & whatnot. He often goes to this bar a friend of mine and I hang out at. I had seen him there a couple times, but one night my friend was there & Morello was sitting next to him at the bar. They ending up talking for a few hours & getting shit faced.

Anyways, a couple days later we went back to the bar & he was there again, with a few friends this time. My friend didn't want to bug him, though, so we just drank for a while. When we were going to leave my friend went to say a "hello/goodbye, nice to see you again". Morello sees him coming, & in front of everyone & very loudly says something to the effect of "Oh, THIS guy again. Look pal, I'm hanging out with my friends right now, just leave me alone. Why do you have to keep bugging me?" And then starts talking about how people bug him like this all the time & how annoying it can be.

It was fucking hilarous. At least we knew he wasn't lying about meeting him before that.

Through something that I did in my past, I have just learned that I am now linked to the greatness that is MST3K!
About five years ago I was hanging out with a circle of friends who knew "The Great Luke Ski" before he got his stuff on the Dr. Demento show. This was a time when he lived in a shit apt building and his stuff was recorded on a karoke machine. Luke had asked if my band would do some of the tracks for his new CD.

So from Toledo, me and my drummer belted out "Momma Said Knock You Out" for his rendition of "Gowron Said Knock You Out," and shipped it to Kansas City.

Well it turns out that he just recently was at DuKon in Chicago and hosted a panel with Trace aka Dr. Forrestor!

<a href="http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/duckon/" target="_blank">Here is the link.</a>

So after browsing his site, I found the mp3 sample of the very song we helped create. <a href="http://www.lukeski.com/fanboys&shadows.htm" target="_blank">Click here and locate "Gowron Said Knock You Out."</a>

Here is the info on the song:
Track 17 - Gowron Said Knock You Out - 3:39
A parody of "Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J about "Star Trek's" Klingons. An rap anthem for all Klingons everywhere. The Klingon chorus in the background sounds pretty darn authentic. The events described in the song are from the 2-part episode "The Way Of The Warrior", when Worf joined Deep Space Nine.

Thanks to:
Mesquamacus.....the Toledo metal band who did the background music for "Gowron Said Knock You Out".

Anywho... They did a movie... it was in theaters...it's a stretch but damnit I can now claim a connection to MST3K!

I used to work in the electronics department at a Sam's Club in Flagstaff, which was fairly close to Sedona where quite a few of the rich and famous have vacation homes. I was there one day and saw somebody looking confused checking out computers so I went up and offered my assistance. When he turned to look at me I realized it was Everett McGill. That guy is so typecast that it was everything I could do to keep from laughing when he told me that he didn't know much about computers and would appreciate it if I'd "hold his hand through the process".