I saw Yoko Ono today [Archive] - Beastie Boys Message Board

voltanapricot

10-14-2005, 11:56 AM

She was in my city because it was here that she and John Lennon started their peace campaign. 37 years ago I think.

I had a great urge to throw conkers, bless her!

Oh and Elton John flew over my house once.

What brushes have you had with fame?

jabumbo

10-14-2005, 12:00 PM

my uncle lived next to elton john

when i had visited him in 94, elton hadnt made an appearance in about 3 years

Rock

10-14-2005, 12:00 PM

smoked joints with B Real.

thats the only one worth mentioning.....for the 1000th time on this board.

voltanapricot

10-14-2005, 12:01 PM

She's dead tiny.

Jabummer: Your uncle probably lived next to some fella who happened to be called Reg Dwight. :rolleyes:

voltanapricot

10-14-2005, 12:02 PM

smoked joints with B Real.

thats the only one worth mentioning.....for the 1000th time on this board.
I've been here ages and I've never heard that one. (y)

ToucanSpam

10-14-2005, 12:03 PM

I've never had any cool run ins with celebs....well, non hockey-player celebrities. Whatever.

Yoko Ono? Cool.

roosta

10-14-2005, 12:04 PM

i was 5 feet from johnny depp last month.

i met rjd2.

mickill

10-14-2005, 12:08 PM

:eek:

I would love to meet her. I'm still a fan, though I prefer her early work. So lucky.
Yoko Ono has fans?

What brushes have you had with fame?
Lots. Not "Paul Jones lots" but lots.

voltanapricot

10-14-2005, 12:10 PM

i met rjd2.
Yeaaaaah, so what, I've met Noo Noo from the Teletubbies.

*raspberry*

monkey

10-14-2005, 12:25 PM

i very much like yoko's fluxus work. im gonna be writing a paper on her. :)

jabumbo

10-14-2005, 12:26 PM

Jabummer: Your uncle probably lived next to some fella who happened to be called Reg Dwight. :rolleyes:

:confused:

TAL

10-14-2005, 12:27 PM

I stood outside a building at the end of May last year eating a chocolate bar, when the Beastie Boys passed right in front of me. I thought to myself "Damn, they look short!" and then I continued to eat. It was Twix.

roosta

10-14-2005, 12:29 PM

Yeaaaaah, so what, I've met Noo Noo from the Teletubbies.

*raspberry*

you fool, that wasn't the real Noo Noo, that was some dude in a suit...

Rock

10-14-2005, 12:30 PM

I tried to spit on Ricky Rachtman once. I missed.

zippo

10-14-2005, 12:35 PM

- I think i saw Yoko Ono once, in this thing

- Mikhail Barishnikov, after i saw him perform that "heart" ballet,his last one? i bet some of you all saw that. when everyone goes down to "meet the artist" in another room, people were way too efusive and disorganized for what you would expect that crowd to be like though. was surprising.

- i went to a lecture the Dalai Lama gave some years ago, its so true what someone said from in here, hes so not what you would expect a "holy" person like him to be, a surprising sense of humor and at first glance shy, but then you realize humbleness.anyways, so after the lecture we went down to get ou cars in the garage floors and coincidentally thats where he left through (i guess cuz it was a discreet place to leave through), and suddenly he comes down where theres disabled people wanting to shake his hand so I joined the group and did the same.

- a bunch of other political dudes you all wouldnt care for.

- the ones i cant remember.

-shit! im so sorry new york! and John Lithgow after his 7/10 broadway show and almost that guy from the gigolo movie, whats his name, him.

fucktopgirl

10-14-2005, 12:57 PM

yoko ono ,i think she is evil!!

:eek:

her arts,, (n)

wanton wench

10-14-2005, 01:03 PM

TAL

10-14-2005, 01:04 PM

Do I like peanut butter?

Rock

10-14-2005, 01:04 PM

Do I like peanut butter?
no, but your dog does. *slaps knee*

beastieangel01

10-14-2005, 01:05 PM

the only run ins I have had are:

Dean Cook flirting with me on myspace and through emails.

Eminem over the phone on a local radio station when he first got popular (I called just to see if I could get through for the funk of it, I wanted to know how many people were calling. I got through! oops... I didn't actually want to talk to him haha)

then recently I met Bruce Campbell at his book signing. Yay. I was like a foot from him and I was so happy and a total fangirl it was sickening.

I think that's it.

TAL

10-14-2005, 01:06 PM

no, but your dog does. *slaps knee*
Do I like dogs?

Rock

10-14-2005, 01:08 PM

Ohhhhhh dogs, sure I like "dags".

CiaoBellaXO

10-14-2005, 01:21 PM

I seem to have a magnet up my ass for celebrities.

Elizabeth Shue in Florence
David Arquette in Cancun
Hot Lips Hollahan from MASH in the Gucci store on Rodeo Dr.
David Schwimmer -practially everywhere
Lance Bass from N-sync
John Cusack

....hey I didnt say they were cool peeps...just celebs.

b-grrrlie

10-14-2005, 01:59 PM

I've met paul jones and TAL.

And Yauch.

TAL

10-14-2005, 02:42 PM

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.

CJM

10-14-2005, 04:25 PM

got drunk with friends, and went to oxygen in Moncton. tried unsuccesfully to pick up chicks with Nathan Lacoste (he's pretty down to earth, and chill), who then took me back to the hotel to chill with Arto Saari, Rune Glifburg, and the team manager. Kyle Leeper was trying to sleep on the far bed. we drank keiths, listened to music, and talked about stuff. i gotta admit they were all pretty down to earth.

yeahwho

10-14-2005, 04:43 PM

Bono from U2 at California's Adventure next door to Disneyland. He was with his kids, we all rode the same roller coaster at the same time.

Even though it was obvious it was Bono (he had an entourage of Disney Hosts') nobody pestered the guy. It was a pretty neat bonus to a great day.
It was hot as hell outside (April 2001) and he still was wearing a leather jacket.

I've seen BB King driving a Lincoln Continental and Gene Hackman driving a Red BMW. Not really a brush, kind of a drive-by with fame.

Freebasser

10-14-2005, 06:58 PM

I've met random football and rugby players over the years and my English teacher also taught English to Richard Ashcroft.

Yeah, like I've never said that before :/

Documad

10-14-2005, 09:17 PM

Lots of politicians. Prince, Janet Jackson (w/ Jam and Lewis), and F. Lee Bailey.

And Danny Thomas. He was awfully nice.

dancin2beasties

10-14-2005, 09:23 PM

i live about 5 minutes from 50 cent's house here in CT, driven by his house many a time but havent seen him yet.
im almost positive vin deasel was on my plane to california last month. he was in like the first seat of first class, last to get on and the first to get off.
and ive taken a class from Savion Glover at the BDC, definatly one of the hardest things ive ever done haha.
thats it! :)

jackrock

10-14-2005, 11:49 PM

ive seen a limo once!

...

..

.. and at a bruce springsteen concert, bruce himself gave me his used guitar pick right there on stage! then right as the show was about to end, max weinberg (drummer for spring, and conan o'brien) walked up (on stage) and handed one drumstick to me, and the other to my brother beside me!! it was pretty sweeeet!! (y) (y) :p

YoungRemy

10-15-2005, 12:28 AM

I had Lobster Bisque with Doogie Howser!!

Ive had other encounters worth mentioning but that one was the most random one, and so specific!!

cookiepuss

10-15-2005, 12:44 AM

Bono from U2 at California's Adventure next door to Disneyland. He was with his kids, we all rode the same roller coaster at the same time.
^the dude is short, don't ya think? that's what I thought. I was working at a celebrity wedding and he and The Edge were dancing with a bunch of chicks...er ah women. And Bono wore those stupid fucking bug glasses all night. :rolleyes: rock stars.

mikizee

10-15-2005, 02:04 AM

my ex and i worked in a hotel where all the big acts stayed when they were on tour, and pearl jam came and stayed promised her tickets to their sold out show. they took her phone number, and promised to call her, and i thought 'yeah right'. the next day the phone rings and i answer it, and a guy goes, 'hey its jeff, is sam there?' and holy shit, jeff ament is calling my house!!! so we went to the show, (one of the best ive been to), then chilled out afterwards in their hotel rooms, the band went to bed fairly early so we drank with the engineers and guitar techs. smoked some shit hot weed too. thats where the guitar tech taught me to pop off bottle caps with a lighter. i was amazed. also we met moby too and he gave us tickets to his show out of his shirt pocket. good shit :D but then i broke up with her, and quit my job there. i later heard that she hung out with many other bands. bitch.

mickill

10-15-2005, 04:10 AM

Lots of politicians. Prince, Janet Jackson (w/ Jam and Lewis), and F. Lee Bailey.

And Danny Thomas. He was awfully nice.

I'd like to meet Prince. I think.

Anyway, I've met Snoop, The Alkaholiks, Devin The Dude, Liam and Noel Gallagher, had a nice long chat with Fran Healy from Travis, hung out with Sarah Brightman and her entourage in her tour bus, saw Mike Myers strolling through a museum with a lady friend, got brushed off by DJ Hurricane, saw Britney Spears through a window, met Redman and Method Man at Virgin Records, got a picture with Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest, stood 5 feet away from Tori Amos, saw whoever that actor is that plays Nick Newman on The Young And The Restless, talked about rap music with Xzibit (before he got signed) and was seated near Jeff Goldblum in a Japanese restaurant once. Oh and, Michael Buble hit on my wife and asked for her number. Twice. I think that's it.

mikizee

10-15-2005, 10:46 AM

I'd like to meet Prince. I think.

Anyway, I've met Snoop, The Alkaholiks, Devin The Dude, Liam and Noel Gallagher, had a nice long chat with Fran Healy from Travis, hung out with Sarah Brightman and her entourage in her tour bus, saw Mike Myers strolling through a museum with a lady friend, got brushed off by DJ Hurricane, saw Britney Spears through a window, met Redman and Method Man at Virgin Records, got a picture with Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest, stood 5 feet away from Tori Amos, saw whoever that actor is that plays Nick Newman on The Young And The Restless, talked about rap music with Xzibit (before he got signed) and was seated near Jeff Goldblum in a Japanese restaurant once. Oh and, Michael Buble hit on my wife and asked for her number. Twice. I think that's it.

ok you win.

BionicEye

10-15-2005, 02:08 PM

I saw Yoko Ono on the street once. She was attempting to be disguised, hat, big sunglasses, tall collar. I saw her at a cross walk - she crossed over and i stayed. As i sat there wondering if that was really her, three dudes in suits jetted by in her direction

ms.peachy

10-15-2005, 03:43 PM

I've had quite a few brushes. One oof the perks of living in cities like New York and London; it happens. I don't mean to be blase about it, like "oh please I am sooo tired of running into these celebs" but you know, it just does happen from time to time. My favourite 'brush with fame' incident though is probably the time I was at a music club in NYC (damned if I can remember the name of it now, it's just not coming into mind) seeing Bootsy Collins and I was chatting with a mate at the bar and I made an exaggerated gesture with my right arm, causing the guy next to me to spill his drink all over himself. And that guy was Robert Plant. (FYI - very tall. Most famous people seem a lot shorter when you see them in person, but not him.)

fucktopgirl

10-15-2005, 04:50 PM

i did see the "Grand Antonio" when i was 12 years old.That guy was famous in quebec ,it could pull a city bus with his hair,,that king of stuff!!!
A very strong man!!

And that about it,,well no ,i did encounter Stewart the mouse in my home like 2 days ago :D

yeahwho

10-15-2005, 05:04 PM

my ex and i worked in a hotel where all the big acts stayed when they were on tour, and pearl jam came and stayed promised her tickets to their sold out show. they took her phone number, and promised to call her, and i thought 'yeah right'. the next day the phone rings and i answer it, and a guy goes, 'hey its jeff, is sam there?' and holy shit, jeff ament is calling my house!!!

Thats a great story! So Pearl Jam like. Living in Seattle all these years has netted me a lot PJ sightings. They are w/o a doubt one of the coolest rock and roll bands today. All the bullshit people have piled upon them and they just keep coming out year after year tearing down the house.

Mike McCready kicks fucking ass. (y)

zorra_chiflada

10-15-2005, 05:31 PM

haha this thread is the perfect opportunity for me to tell you all again about how i grabbed horovitz's arm.
and the beasties did a shout out to me and joe at the melbourne concert.

cj hood

10-15-2005, 05:33 PM

i read the news today....oh boy!

yeahwho

10-15-2005, 05:36 PM

I've had quite a few brushes. One oof the perks of living in cities like New York and London; it happens.

(y) Those cities are like random celebrity generators. You never know who your going to get when you go out for a walk, in London I walk by Sinead O'Connor, in NYC I walked by Frank Gifford. It's always random and it's always bizarre. :D

These "brush with fame threads" always remind me of the excellent, witty book "a massive swelling (http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=29273&cgi=product&isbn=014100195X)" by Cintra Wilson. She's the anti People Magazine! It's freaking hilarious, her are some of her observations...

"Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra sex organ"

"Celebrity is a virulent killer of fundamental human values"

"the Emperor is a fat, naked freak, and it all looks sick and ridiculous". But most Americans never reach that point of disbelief, SHOW BIZ!!!

Not exactly Entertainment Tonight. :)