On MSN or another message board or anything like that?

Someone in a band the rest of us would have heard about. Or an actor or actress?

Not anymore, no.

Not on a regular basis but every couple months or so I exchange emails with a lead singer of a band that most everyone here knows of. Heck he almost came to my wedding. But then couldn't because of a show.

well, if any of you watched cnn during the pope-a-thon when he died, one expert that chatted a lot on tv, john allen, is the husband of my wife's best friend. he just visited on friday. we all talked over dinner. does that count?

I used to talk to the bassist from World Leader Pretend a good bit, but he got axed from the band. Not they were famous either.

I'm good friends with last year's Miss America runner up. Not really famous either I guess, but HAWT nonetheless.

That's about it.

i know one of the guys in Antibalas, though we don't talk much anymore.

A good friend's father is a locally very-well-known Chicago restaurant/film/theater critic.

You guys are really disappointing.


<------------ Knows nobody famous either.

Do porn stars count?

My Ex's cousin is the drummer for Big Head Todd and the Monsters. That's all I got!!! I usually hang back stage with him after the show when he comes through Phoenix.

I talk to a ton of politicians and elected officials on a daily/weekly basis.

From local to state/national

well, then you are our new lobbyist.

do past/present editors of CMJ magazine count as semi-famous?

a good friend of mine from college is the drummer for Hatebreed. i'm even thanked in the liner notes of their albums. that's my biggest name drop. other than that, i pal around with a bunch of pop punk bands/people mostly from the NY/NJ area, and the other board i post at has tons of pop punk people that are high on my pedestal but may not float anyone's boat around here (peeps like Mass G, Larry LIvermore, occasionally Ben Weasel).

When's DAT ABRAMOFF MONEY start rolling my way?

Can I tell CMJ that I am recruiting all y'all to come back, all the while telling all of y'all to stay here? He was the best at that.

a play my wife was in, neil simon's Chapter Two, was featured in Variety magazine. she was also nominated for a local colorado best supporting actress award: http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_3336303 (kellie rae rockey)

i PM with some of the dudes on spade kitty.

yeah, it was definitely impressive.

And I talk to you a couple times a week about those people.....

I also talk to a a lot of people who are famous in their own minds but 99.9% of them are just hopelessly delusional.

That and hoodwinking them Injuns. I mean he could have just given them some blankets soaked in typhoid like in the "good old days", but no, he had to get that money as well.

Meh, they were probably drunk anyways.

drunk with smallpox.

I don't usually communicate by email or message boards with anyone real famous. I know some of the lesser known Saddle Creek people used to post on the message board for the label, but I don't check out that board anymore. I used to get emails from a guy in Oranges Band after talking with him in another message board, but they stopped.
Most of the semi-famous people I talk to I tend to see at shows or at bars here in Lincoln when they are recording stuff with Presto! The biggest example I have is drinking with Rilo Kiley two nights a week at Duffy's while they recorded More Adventurous. Other than that I just see the guys who run Presto! Mike and AJ Mogis alot, Mike is a multi-instrumentalists for Bright Eyes and AJ plays Bass for Criteria.

Tim Petrovic- Golf Pro
http://www.pgatour.com/players/intro/285345

Paul Nelson - Rocker
http://www.paulnelsonguitar.com/

Variety review: http://www.minersalley.com/shows/rose_g ... y_revw.htm

chapter two:
http://coloradodrama.com/chapter_two.html

it's just a matter of time before she's famous & i already talk to her everyday.

I talk to Josh B. of Riviera weekly, unless he's eating pudding, which is more often than you care to know.

I talk to Jim Dine on the phone a lot lately ( big deal artist), ellsworth Kelly every so often...had some conversations...spoke to Robert Pinsky on the phone a few times lately