Macrolog
Celebrity Spotting
At work this morning we were talking about celebrities who’ve been to our store every now and again, prompted by yesterday’s visit by Paul Weller (ex-The Jam, if you didn’t know). We get our fair share, locals for the most part - Marianne Faithful, Elvis Costello, the Edge, Ronan freakin’ Keating - and evey now and then some more interesting appearances.
Like last year, when a couple of guys from Grandaddy wandered in when they heard their latest album playing over our PA. Or the time last summer when Jackie Chan took a break from filming to buy some videos. Or even a few weeks ago when James Earl Jones was happy to sign autographs for a few lucky people on the 1st floor. I’ve also heard stories about Richard D James (aka Aphex Twin) being a total dick when he was in the basement shopping for vinyl, and the one about Morrissey buying a bunch of his own albums (sounds so stupid that it’s probably true).
I haven’t been privvy to most of these events (most annoyingly, when Jackie Chan was in I was upstairs on my lunch break and missed the whole thing).
But today I got lucky.
Not ten minutes after we had been talking in the back room I was out on the floor with Paul, by the metal section, when who walks by but Scott Ian from Anthrax. Fucking Anthrax!!! I nearly dropped my pile of CDs. Of course I was completely starstruck and didn’t even attempt to approach the man, but just seeing him there in the flesh - Scott Ian, axemeister extraordinaire for one of the most influential metal bands of all time - it made my day.
Sometimes work gets me down, the hours can be awkward and the people and the shit we have to deal with sometimes is unbelievable, but things like this make me realise that I’m luckier than most.
Sat 27 Jul 2002 at 22:36 ·
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