Paradise Lost, was it Bijou Phillips?
Reanna, that is pretty cool to have been able to chat with one of the Iran hostages. It's not everyday you get to speak with someone who was involved in something so historical.
I was like 2 feet away from John Glenn in the basement area of the Capitol. This was during my trip to D.C. for Close-Up in, I think, 1996, so before he went back into space. Met Spencer Abraham, as he was a senator of Michigan at the time, before becoming Bush's Energy Secretary. Shook Al Gore's hand a couple months ago at a church he was visiting.
Hmm... any musicans I've met are not exactly big stars... Johnette Napolitano and everyone else from Concrete Blonde, Chris Randall from Sister Machine Gun, Kimya Dawson from The Moldy Peaches, all of the Verve Pipe, all of the Von Bondies.
Oh, I also met Buster Mathis Jr, who you may know as the guy who got his ass whooped by Mike Tyson in 96. He came into the pizza place I was working to ask for directions to some mortgage place. This was after he won some settlement from his old manager or something.
Me and Kelly Curtis looked at each other. He's Pearl Jam's long-time manager.
Okay, I guess I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I'll stop.