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I've met several, if walking up to the person at a table and getting them to sign an autograph counts as "meeting." I'd say my three best celebrity encounters were with Carolyn Mark, Robin Goldwasser, and Amanda Palmer. I'm usually really shy around celebrities (and non-celebrities, for that matter), and I have the feeling I might have had more enjoyable experiences with others if I'd come up with a topic to discuss with them. And preferably a topic more interesting than, "Hey, you know that one song you do? It's AWESOME." But some others just seemed totally uninterested, like the two Johns from They Might Be Giants, although this WAS at an in-store for a children's album, and they were probably both tired and expecting to spend time with kids rather than adults. I've come across reports of other people having pleasant encounters with one or both Johns (Flansburgh, not surprisingly, tends to be more outgoing), and others who were basically shooed away by them. I get the impression that it really depends on their mood at the time. And I've had things signed by David Lowery on two different occasions, and he was in the middle of a conversation with somebody else both times.
I've met several, if walking up to the person at a table and getting them to sign an autograph counts as "meeting." I'd say my three best celebrity encounters were with Carolyn Mark, Robin Goldwasser, and Amanda Palmer. I'm usually really shy around celebrities (and non-celebrities, for that matter), and I have the feeling I might have had more enjoyable experiences with others if I'd come up with a topic to discuss with them. And preferably a topic more interesting than, "Hey, you know that one song you do? It's AWESOME." But some others just seemed totally uninterested, like the two Johns from They Might Be Giants, although this WAS at an in-store for a children's album, and they were probably both tired and expecting to spend time with kids rather than adults. I've come across reports of other people having pleasant encounters with one or both Johns (Flansburgh, not surprisingly, tends to be more outgoing), and others who were basically shooed away by them. I get the impression that it really depends on their mood at the time. And I've had things signed by David Lowery on two different occasions, and he was in the middle of a conversation with somebody else both times.
