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Bryan

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #60 on: July 09, 2008, 05:00:32 PM »
He says Barney was an incredibly cool guy, which makes me feel a little bad for not liking his work even a little.

I think there's no shortage of nice, cool guys doing work that isn't particularly good.

That said, I've only seen the DVD version of Cremaster, and I thought it was pretty amazing. But you don't have to like everything. F'r'instance: I don't much like Radiohead.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #61 on: July 09, 2008, 06:00:02 PM »

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 Know Where Jeff Mangum Lives

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John Junk 2.0

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #62 on: July 09, 2008, 08:14:50 PM »
Hey, the guy with the dumb mustache in this insipid video works at the Trader Joe's I go to.  Do I get a ribbon?



Nothing?


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Ugh.  This video makes me want to cut off my legs.



Shaggy 2 Grote

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #63 on: July 09, 2008, 08:21:54 PM »
Oh yeah, Junk and I have a friend in common.
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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #64 on: July 09, 2008, 08:23:39 PM »

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 Know Where Jeff Mangum Lives

then we are definitely meeting up at Gonerfest.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #65 on: July 09, 2008, 08:26:11 PM »
Hey, the guy with the dumb mustache in this insipid video works at the Trader Joe's I go to.  Do I get a ribbon?


That's funny, a member of the Butchies works (or at least worked) at the Trader Joe's I go to.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #66 on: July 09, 2008, 08:30:23 PM »
I hung out with Chelsea Clinton at Stanford (I'm not braggin').  She has her mother's legs.  
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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #67 on: July 09, 2008, 09:29:40 PM »
I actually am less than six degrees from Kevin Bacon. My friend goes to camp with his daughter. I guess I'm a few degrees from the Clintons and Joe Lieberman too.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #68 on: July 09, 2008, 09:42:46 PM »
My friend from college went to hs with Natalie Portman, she was a year above him, I think.

He told me she used to do the lighting for their plays and dances.  I asked him once how strong her lighting game was, so to speak, he said "eh, it was alright"

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2008, 10:00:03 PM »
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.


I have tried to dance with Chloe several times and (I don't know why, but) she won't even give me the time of day. She's always in a grumpy mood.

Also, I have connections to similar / probably the same people Junk.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #70 on: July 10, 2008, 12:01:48 AM »
My friend from college went to hs with Natalie Portman, she was a year above him, I think.

He told me she used to do the lighting for their plays and dances.  I asked him once how strong her lighting game was, so to speak, he said "eh, it was alright"

When I was in high school my friend's brother that went to NYU claimed that he stalked her all freshman year.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #71 on: July 10, 2008, 01:14:43 AM »
I always knew that Natalie Portman's lighting chops sucked.
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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #72 on: July 10, 2008, 06:52:16 AM »
A few:

Jackie Onassis frequently had dinner at the house of a friend of mine.

George Segal's daughter, Alix, was my intern once upon a time (I'm gambling that fathers count as friends).  I liked her a lot.  I only figured out who her father was because of the occasional, casual reference to details about her past (her buddyship with Jodie Foster, for example).

Mordecai Richler's daughter, Martha, was an intern at the same joint. 

My father was acquainted with William Mandel (famous, among other things, for saying to Senator McCarthy during a Senate committee hearing, "This is a book-burning! You lack only the tinder to set fire to the books as Hitler did twenty years ago, and I am going to get that across to the American people!"), who gave a rousing speech from our back porch in Columbus, Ohio, when I was four.  As he spoke I sat at his feet playing with a three-legged dog (survivor of a lawn-mowing accident).  (My father lost a job because of the whole business, and my mother still has the hate mail they received afterward.  I really do need to ask her to dig that out for me sometime.)

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #73 on: July 10, 2008, 09:51:43 AM »
My favorite: Vin Scully, play-by-play guy for the Dodgers


He's related by marriage to one of the distant cousins (my mother's side has 50 first cousins, so I think I'm technically related to everyone in the world). I tried for a long time to figure out how to guilt him into doing play-by-play at wedding. Imagine it.
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By the way, if you have not heard the Mike Birbiglia bit about the MVP awards and Eckersley, go do it now.

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Re: Friends of friends of friends
« Reply #74 on: July 10, 2008, 10:57:38 AM »
Chuck Woolery.




Oh, yeah, and I knew Jul-ia Roberts when I was twelve at sum-mer camp.
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