I have never met any celebrities, but I'd love to meet my inspiration, Amanda Bynes.
Disney sweetheart Amanda Bynes, or in need of an intervention Amanda Bynes?
- - - Post Merge - - -
I've met the members of my favorite band, Travis, a few times. But this isn't all about them!
After one of their shows (Detroit, 2007) I had finally met their lead singer, Fran, after trying for YEARS to meet him and get him to sign an LP all the others had signed. After I met him and got his autograph, I saw
Nigel Godrich standing off to the side in the parking lot.
Who? He produced OK Computer for Radiohead, The Man Who for Travis, Mutations for Beck, etc etc. The man is a genius. A frickin' genius. I was feeling emboldened, so I went up to him and said "Hi, are you Nigel Godrich?" And he was like "Um, yes." And I said, my hand to God, "CAN I SHAKE YOUR HAND BECAUSE I THINK YOU'RE A GENIIUS!?!?!" Amazingly, he did! And he was nice to me, and chatted with me for like 10 minutes. He even asked me questions like "So, what do you do?" and stuff. Who CARES what I do, dude! Let's talk about YOU! After a few mins my friends came out and we all started to talk. One friend said quietly to another friend, "I'm thirsty, do you have water?" The other friend said no. Nigel then excused himself and we were like "Ok, well, that was FREAKING AWESOME!" and we assumed that was that.
A minute later Nigel came back out with cold waters for all of us. He wasn't even asked, he just overheard my friend say that and did it to be nice. We saw him again at the next tour stop (yes, because we're the kind of crazy fans that follow bands on tour -- or at least we were until we grew up and had to get jobs) and he remembered us and chatted with us again and everything. He was SO. NICE. Now he's working with Thom Yorke on a band called Atoms for Peace.
Also, I once ran up to Paul Newman and took a picture of him without asking for his permission. I still feel rude about that. But I was, like, 16 and didn't know anything about manners apparently. >_<