10 Memes I've Done that You Have, Too

[talktooloose]

10 Things I've Done You May, Perhaps, Have Not:

I was paid to appear naked and simulating sex on Queer As Folk (I think it's season two, episode three, but it's almost impossible to see me).

I was not paid but was even happier to appear in a few frames of Cyndi Lauper's 1992 video for the song That's What I Think.

I was one of 120 puppeteers on the Muppet's 30th Anniversary special and had the honour of talking to Jim Henson for about 30 seconds. I was the Swedish Chef's hands in one scene.

Had sex in a love hotel in Tokyo

Had brief but enthusiastic sex in the bushes in front of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington

Watched Charles and Diana's wedding on the only television on Grand Manan island, New Brunswick

Met three of the four members of ABBA (of course, not Agnetha)

Prepared a presentation last month for Kofi Annan's top aide and another for the CEO of Dow Chemicals

Held Jules Styne's original piano music for "Neverland" from the musical Peter Pan, a song my mom used to sing to me as a lullaby

Held at the Polish border in the middle of nowhere at 1a.m. and not in a romantic sense. Actually, it was Snake's passport they didn't like but I insisted on getting off the train with him and our luggage. After a brief phone call to Warsaw during which he was clearly given shit, the chief border guy told us we could go. At that point our train, which had been waiting just for us, decided to go on without us and the border guy grabbed our stuff and we all ran for the train, jumping on it as it began to move.

Then there was the guy who told me that he was... but it's probably not true...

Comments

you forgot...

[codystrum.livejournal.com]

A couple of things you didn't mention which I know about:

-you had a half-hour conversation with Joni Mitchel
-you performed in a federal meaximum security prison (women's)
-you and I appeared on much music commercial 12 years ago
(or at least I did; not sure as I never saw it)

Here are a few of mine:

-I've seen the world cup football (er soccer) on location in two continents: Spain (1982) Tokyo (2002)
- I got gently scolded by Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies when I wished her a good show instead of "happy new year"
-I appeared nationally with my guitar on CBC's Performance in 1981 at the tender age of 17 (in the same year I was molested in the basement of Western University by a personal friend of Mick Jagger's; he showed me the pics; freaked me out then but I think it is cool now)
- I smoked a joint with Neil Finn and his band when they played Sneaky Dee's in 91 or so and in the same year
- I was briefly questioned by Tokyo police on suspicion of being an Arab terrorist (i was deeply tanned that summer); luckily I found my passport tucked in my knapsack and I was carrying it
- I got a media pass to the 1996 vancouver AIDS Conference and almost got into a fight with the New York Times AIDS reporter and had lunch with Spin Magazine's Celia Farber

-I sucked off a college boy in a Johnny on the Spot
-I chikan-ed (fondled) a 25 yo salariMAN (not a woman) on an overcrowded Tokyo commuter train (he got off BEFORE his stop)
- canoe sex in Northern Ontario (maybe many of you have done that)
- I tried to get my sex buddy to get laid by Scott Thompson at a Ru Paul concert (I wanted a threesome) but my buddy was too shy
- I jerked off a young yakuza gang member (hey, I liked his tatoos) in a hotspring in Nagano

Hey Loose...is this a contest?

Re: you forgot...

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

"Is this a contest?"

No, but it is a meme. Post it to your journal, baby! Wow, awesome list.

Thanks for the additions to my list! I asked Joni a question on air (I still have the tape) and then talked to her briefly in the hall and she signed my copy of Don Juan's Restless Daughter. It certainly wasn't a half-hour conversation but it was memorable. Can you believe I forgot to bring my camera with me? Someone snapped one of me and Joni and I gave him my address and phone number, but I never heard from him.

I remembered another one: when we shared the gig with Beverly Bratty's band Urge to Purge at the Cameron, I was on door for a while and Jane Sibbery came in. She gave me this look like "Look! It's me!" and I fucking didn't recognize her. Heh.