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Famous people meme

Posted by Rob (#1) on July 18, 2006 23:08 CEST

I'm starting a meme:

List all famous people you have met and tell how. You must have actually spoken to them and preferably they had some clue who you are. Then appoint five people to repost the meme and say who you think they would love to meet.

Here's mine in approximate order of notability:

The Offspring. In 1996 I hosted the most prominent website and ran a mailinglist for the band. When the operator of the site, Cory Hammer, got a job at Epitapth to work on the then new official site, that eventually resulted in an after-show pass for me and the opportunity to hang out with Dexter Holland, Noodles and Greg.
Nerf Herder. They always chat up their fans after a gig and I made them say something funny on video. One of the band members used to date Alyson Hannigan (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for which NH did the theme song, American Wedding), so that's a pretty cool indirect bonus as well.
A. Travelled to London for a concert in 2001 (my first foreign trip just to see a gig). Hooked up with some fans who waited outside to meet the band. One of the band members threw a cucumber and some casino chips at us in a friendly manner. Fun. And Jason gave me a beer at the Amsterdam concert, which was a lot more intimate with a crowd of 30 people or so.
PinBoys. Saw them twice in Rotterdam and they remembered me the second time because we hung out a while the first time. In May I chatted them up on MySpace because I was going to travel to Copenhagen to see them (and the lovely Kirsten), which I did, so we chatted again.
Cheap Thrills. Another band I follow. I'm now making a web site for them and hope they will get signed and become more than a local Dutch band.
Patrick Volkerding. Met him at Linux World. I run Slackware, so to me he's quite famous.
Rob Malda of Slashdot fame. Met him at several Linux World's. We got along and had a running joke on both being Rob from Holland (he's from Michigan, I'm from the country). It's easy to meet high-profile people from the open source world, my list includes Richard M. Stallman, Eric S. Raymond and of course most of the active KDE developers through my participance in the KDE project.
Maxi from Mini and Maxi, a popular Dutch music/comedy act. One of the singers lives in Oostvoorne, where my parents live, and we talked briefly at a bistro there once or twice.
Judith Nijssen. Surely some people will remember the girl who covered "I will survive" with the Hermes House Band. She's married to my ex-employer. Met her at the office several times, and at their house when installing his wireless network.

I'm appointing: Inge (wants to meet Evanescence's Amy more than Lauri/Aki or James Marsters, I bet), Dorith (Kotani Kinya?), Charlotte (Rufus?), Neil (George Bush) and Kris (no idea so I'll just say Ville Valo). Happy meming!

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Cheap Thrills Goudvishal

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Posted by Rob (#1) on May 24, 2006 09:54 CEST

Cheap Thrills played one of their best shows last night at the Goudvishal in Arnhem. Made a last minute decision to come along after all. Seems like so far they like how the web site I'm building for them is turning out. I doubt that alone is what inspired them to play an extra energetic show, but whatever the reason, it was definitely great to see.

Give me a gig!

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Posted by Rob (#1) on May 3, 2006 17:03 CEST

Quick update on Give It A Name: it was sweet! And how could it not be, with bands such as The Ataris, Silverstein, Panic! At The Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, Lostprophets. And many, many more. Said hi to Rachel, met wicked, sexy people like Caris, shopped at Camden Town.. yup, London still works for me.

Some recent gigs I might not have written about yet:

5/4: Versus The World (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

This was a tad quiet and boring to be honest. Lousy crowd and the show, well, I've seen and heard better.
7/4: Zombina & The Skeletones (Morlock, The Hague)

Zombina being an example of better. The sound was way, way, way too loud, but that didn't stop us from shaking our booties.
8/4: Cheap Thrills (Dynamo, Eindhoven)

(Enters groupie mode.) Signed drumstick. Wiee! (Leaves groupie mode.)
14/4: Less Than Jake (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

Always nice to have a band where you can skank, but it was a shame Din was ill.
21/4: Cheap Thrills/Dicemen (Latenstaan, Zoetermeer)

Ah, Sweet Lake City. Sweet is was.. probably because I spent €25 on beer that was €1.25 a bottle. Hiccup!

So what's up next?

13/5: Cheap Thrills (Motorclub, Leiden)
19/5: Pinboys (Loppen, Copenhagen)
27/5: Bon Jovi (Goffertpark, Nijmegen)
29/5: Taking Back Sunday (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
6/6: Alexisonfire (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
9/6: Angels & Airwaves (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
16/6: Cheap Thrills (Waterfront, Rotterdam)
25/7: Flogging Molly (Mean Fiddler, London)

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Cheap Thrills video on-line

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Posted by Rob (#1) on April 5, 2006 09:45 CEST

The Cheap Thrills video is on-line! The first attempt at filming the live parted went horrible, but I went to Haarlem a few weeks ago for the actual recording, with Din. The presentation of the video in Leiden was a bit of a disappointment because the planned gig was not going through and (other than the video) there wasn't much to do at LVC. But it's here now, and it rocks:

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(Hey. I would swear some of those people in the crowd look very familiar.)

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Video and a gig!

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Posted by Rob (#1) on March 31, 2006 23:58 CEST

Tonight in Leiden: a video presentation of Cheap Thrills and a live performance! Except there wasn't a live performance! Good thing there was alcohol (and company) to save the day. Hopefully the gig will be more like a gig on Saturday in Eindhoven. The video rocked though, I should drop a copy off at MTV's.

Cheap Thrills tonight

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Posted by Rob (#1) on March 10, 2006 19:46 CET

No more fever and the weekend has started: time for a gig! Cheap Thrills tonight, at Eurodusnie in Leiden. Should be a good opportunity to catch up on their lyrics before the video recording in Haarlem on Sunday.

And it's a very good excuse to finalise that MMS update feature if not solely for the reason I almost never manually transfer pictures from my phone to then post them on my site. Maybe tomorrow, even though I'm going to Eindhoven for Inge so I don't know where to find the time.

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Cheap Thrills video

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Posted by Rob (#1) on February 26, 2006 15:59 CET

Haarlem was quite a disappointment, no Cheap Thrills video shoot at Flinty's whatsoever. Should've checked MySpace and/or my e-mail this morning I suppose.

But that's no reason for a sad face: Amsterdam with Inge is fun as well. :)

Web site for Dick Barry

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Posted by Rob (#1) on February 20, 2006 23:49 CET

Just had a good chat with Gypsy Dave about Dick Barry's web site which I might be making. Definitely will involve some work but I think we'll be able to reach an understanding and be able to get a good presence on-line.

Should also talk to Hermance about the Cheap Thrills web site. Anything I can do for good, original live music I will!