Friends of friends of friends

[gravy boat]

but the only one i cared about was jeff mangum. i almost met him once and was totally panicking that i would just start shrieking! luckily for me, he ended up not coming to town that time and then i moved a few months later.

My wife is obsessed with him.  She pointed this out to me once, from Wikipedia:  "Mangum appeared nine times on New Jersey's WFMU to play tape loops and other recordings in the fall of 2002.[2]" 

You may have known that already.

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I've never even set foot in Texas, but a hundred bucks says someone I knows someone you know Joanna, just because that's the way it is.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Joanna, we have some Austin people in common, right?  Or did you just used to go to Salvage Vanguard a lot?

Angstrom, I don't know if you care, but I gave myself a couple of ground rules: my first degree (my friends) could only be people that I actually hang out with socially, and the second degree had to be people they've spent extensive time with - no meeting at a party or anything.  (Predictably, they're almost all actors).  If I included all the people I've met cater-waitering, the list might never end.  To that end, I can say that George Bush Sr. is super-charming, Barbara Bush is a bee-yotch of the first order, Art Garfunkel is kind of cool, and Jann Wenner is scary, especially when you've been sneaking margaritas in his kitchen all night.

[yesno]

I only included actual friends, and work friends if we've gone to social events together and are super friendly.

Otherwise, my list would include Larry Flynt.

[Chris L]

Otherwise, my list would include Larry Flynt.

He's on my list if I include people my dad has worked for.

[Spoony]

Lou Gramm of Foreigner.

Seth McFarlane of Family Guy.

That's right, the finest of all media.

[John Junk 2.0]

There's one guy I know who got briefly famous as a fashion designer, so that technically puts me 2 degrees from Chloe Sevigny.  In fact, that put me 2 degrees from her one time at a bar, where I was really drunk and trying to talk to this guy about painting while Chloe Sevigny was on the other side of him being like "Why the fuck are you even pretending to almost talk to this douche you know from college, keep talking to me!" and then he politely blew me off.  They're buddies or something.  The connection of this dude probably hitches me up to a whole night's sky worth of coke-addled stars (like probably Harmony Korine), but I don't really know who they all are.

[joanna]

but the only one i cared about was jeff mangum. i almost met him once and was totally panicking that i would just start shrieking! luckily for me, he ended up not coming to town that time and then i moved a few months later.

My wife is obsessed with him.  She pointed this out to me once, from Wikipedia:  "Mangum appeared nine times on New Jersey's WFMU to play tape loops and other recordings in the fall of 2002.[2]" 

You may have known that already.

i did. i think it was during one of those interviews where he was asked if neutral milk hotel would ever make another album and he said there was already enough material for a whole other album, but he would never release it. and then i shot myself.

Joanna, we have some Austin people in common, right?  Or did you just used to go to Salvage Vanguard a lot?

i don't know if we have anyone in common but i'd be willing to bet. austin is smalllllll.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

but the only one i cared about was jeff mangum. i almost met him once and was totally panicking that i would just start shrieking! luckily for me, he ended up not coming to town that time and then i moved a few months later.

interestingly enough, ive been thinking about him for the last four days. 

[jbissell]

My aunt is friends with the mother of the lady who does the voices of Amy on Futurama and Minh on King of the Hill.

That's about all I've got.

[Spoony]

That's about all I've got.

What? That's that's like pulling a swordfish out of the ocean with your bare hands and saying "this is all I could come up with."

HOLD IT UP OVER YOUR HEAD.

[Martin]

What's with all the Swedes?

They're my countrymen?

[buffcoat]

What's with all the Swedes?

They're my countrymen?

Ha, ha.  I make yoke.

[Martin]

What's with all the Swiss?

Funnier!

[gravy boat]

What's with all the Swedes?

They're my countrymen?

I don't know how famous he is outside the New York restaurant world (he's been in some glossy mags and on TV food shows a bunch), but I used to play pick-up soccer in NYC and would see and play against Marcus Samuelsson -- he's the chef / owner of this highly rated, incredible Swedish restaurantcalled Aquavit. He did your country proud on the soccer pitch.  Wow -- he was good.