I know some rather famous Belgian people, but I guess that doesn't count on this thread.

I had a phone-chat with Beck once, about PJ Harvey. I was twelve years old at the time.

And the tennis-player Xavier Malisse was in the same class as me. Kim Clijsters went to the same school, but she's a few years younger than me. We had a verbal fight once though, over the last waffle.

abierman said:

He did me ,so shut it

Nikki23 said:

just because he's also Irish.....

MarieLouise said:

Johnny Halliday?

Do share...

i spent an evening hanging out with tina weymouth and chris franz of talking heads/tom tom club, and i've chatted with tina in person and online a few times since. she's an awesome lady.

i also went to a very weird dinner party thrown by a friend of mine in new york, where i wound up sitting on the couch eating leftover pasta with ed koch.

Heiress said:

Evi Goffin, the singer of the dance-formation Lasgo ('I can see it in your eeeeeyes, there is something, something you have to tell me'....) was my best friend in the first two years of high-school.

Eddy Boutmans is an important politician, of the left formation 'Groen' (Green).

My niece was together with the British artist Billy Childish (The Headcoats) for a long time. He 's famous in the dark underground circuit. Only 45-year old punk-lovers rave about him.

I know Geert Hunaerts personally, who's an Belgian actor.

My ex-boyfriend was Helder, a great musician who will become really famous when his second cd comes out.

Oh, completely forgot that I hung out and had dinner with Karen Grassle a few years ago... She most famously played "Ma" on Little House on the Prairie.

Here she is:

ma ingalls! i would have asked her about the episode where she stepped on a nail and got tetanus, that was my favorite episode aside from the one where mrs. olson gets her head chopped off.

MarieLouise said:

I'll remember that last dude. We get lots of Belgian music here, ya know.

Speaking of odd celebrity relations, my sister dated Kurt Cobain's step-brother for a time... he's some kind of a small-time filmmaker.

abierman said:

No ,because he is huge and so cute!

I met him in a Dublin bar ,really i'm telling the truth

Anx said:

Ah well, if she makes it down here again sometime in the near-enough future (she's theatre now - works in France on occasion)... I'll be sure and ask her for you.

I forgot one of the best encounters...

At university I made a rather big work on Ivo Michiels, who was an 'avant-garde' writer in the fifties. Eccentric man, crazy book, hated by many but loved by me.

He has been living in the Provence (south of France) for a long time. He's 85 now, his wife is 20 years longer. They live on the top of a hill, in a pittoresque house full of cats.

I wrote him a letter, adding some of my poetry. We wrote back, I wrote a second one... and that summer I went to visit him in France. We drank three bottles of wine together and had so much fun.

MarieLouise said:

Ah well, maybe that sort of thing will work for me after I write this thesis on Duran Duran. Fat chance!

Heiress said:

And Nirvana was the opening act for the Headcoats back in 1990 or something. My cousin didn't like Kurt, she preferred Krist. She's the one who passed Beck on the phone btw. He was staying at her house.

Heiress said:

well, i don't know what i'd ask her, other than i'd be like that chris farley SNL skit where he interviewed celebrities: "remember that one episode when you stepped on a nail? that was COOL!"

MarieLouise said:

Dude, there is something to that 6 degrees of separation thang!

Heiress said:

Another ex-boyfriend had a great evening with Candy Dulfer, when he was working on the Blue Note-festival as a photographer. So Prince is only 3 steps away from me.

Nikki23 said:

you know he's huge, but not because he did you.....dirty girl!

I danced with one of the Corr-sisters at a club in Dublin! (I believe the one on the drums, she's cute!)

Too many to mention.. and too many to not care..

REDFEATHERS said:

that's the attitude.

back when i was in college, my best friend and i took the soup dragons to a waffle house in muncie, indiana. they made us eat french toast with ketchup on it.

it wasn't bad.

Heiress said:

I took an African dance class with Diana Ross's daughter Rhonda.

heartbeatocean said:

hmmmmm thats interesting!!!


By the way, does anyone have an idea where kevin costner lives?

OzlemUcucu said:

IN HIS SKIN!

I met a bunch of fairly well-known people when I hosted a little radio show for a few years. Also, it's quite easy to run into celebrities in Stockholm since pretty much all of them come here when they decide to "do Scandinavia". Therefore it doesn't feel like a big deal anymore.

Anyway, I think these are my most amusing run-ins with celebs:

1. Lloyd Kaufman, creator of such fantastic movie masterpieces as "The Toxic Avenger" and "Class Of Nuke Em High", tried to set me up with a girl that worked at the radio station we'd taken him to after kidnapping him at the Stockholm Film Festival. This old man with his business suit and distinguished look is the most insistant mo-fo I've ever met, I can tell you that.

2. I was at the airport in Nice, sitting on a bench and flicking through the booklet to U2's "Actung Baby" when suddenly the guy next to me starts pointing at the pictures in it. I take off my headphones and realize that it's Bono. Talkative as he apparently can be, he started telling me about the pictures. The Edge, who was sitting further away on the same bench seemed unamused.

3. Thomas DiLeva, a local Swedish musician who is known for his soft-spoken style and messages about peace, love and spaceflowers, elbowed his way through a nightclub that was closing and eventually began to push people so hard that they started falling over right and left. Some of them fell on a detachable wall that separated the hallway from the place where you hang your clothes, causing it to collapse and basically crush the people on the other side. As they were struggling to climb out of the huge pile of clothes, DiLeva smiled and said "peace to you all" in his softest voice.

retina said:

yeah man, Lloyd & Thomas are cool.........dunno 'bout that Bono-dude.....

abierman said:

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar ...when i met him

Nikki23 said:

she was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
that much is true....

abierman said:

Love that song!