Originally Posted by
fearofpopvol1
I've been very fortunate, mostly because of the industry I work in, to meet quite a few famous people. Charles Barkley, David Robinson, Reggie Miller, Bob Knight, Barry Zito, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Ryan Adams, John Mayer, Norah Jones, Michael J. Fox, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Aniston, Zach Braff, Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp, Minka Kelly, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Jack Johnson, Hayley Williams (Paramore), Jason Mraz, will.i.am (of the Black Eyed Peas) and many others.
The Jennifer Aniston one might be the coolest of the bunch, because we talked for probably 15-20 minutes about a variety of things and she was very down to earth and very un-celebrity like. Very much a mirror of her character on Friends.
Barkley was awesome because I was in the 3rd grade and he was on the 76ers, who were playing the Pacers. The team was doing warmups after halftime and he was sitting on the bench and there was no security around and my dad convinced me to go say something and I did and he was super nice to me. He asked me about school and my ambitions and to stay out of trouble and I'll never forget that. He gets a rap for being a bad guy, but I'll always defend him after that.
Barry Zito was cool too, because we talked baseball for probably a half hour, including the Reds and their direction and he said he was a huge KGJ fan (this was back in like late '03).