LA Celebrity Sighting #11 - Santa Monica Edition

We spotted Robert picking food up at the Santa Monica vegan restaurant Real Food Daily while we were eating there last weekend. For those of you who may not know, Robert Trujillo is the current thud staff man in Metallica. I highly recommend the movie Some Kind of Monster which documented the recording of the album St. Anger and the coming of Robert into the band; it's a great rockumentary, even if you are not a fan of the band's music. Robert is an amazing player who favors using his fingers rather than a pick, but who is nevertheless one of the fastest guys around, in the vain of Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, or Geddy Lee. Gotta respect the bassman!

LA Celebrity Sighting #10

I went down to this place called the Farmers Market down on Fairfax and 3rd a few weekends ago; it's not really a farmers market, but more like a tourist attraction, with dozens of souvenir shops and restaurants, very much like Faneuil Hall in Boston. It's adjacent to The Grove, a fancy-schmancy pedestrian outdoor mall, complete with a trolley and all the upscale stores and restaurants one would expect. Anyway, here I am, reading Rolling Stone magazine at this newsstand, silently lamenting the terrible state of the American rock scene (the heinous poseur band Fall Out Boy was on the cover!), when I looked up and found myself right next to Kanye West! I of course pretended to not recognize him (you gotta stay cool!) and proceeded to grab all sorts of different mags to look at as a transparent excuse to stay close to him. He was there with a woman and a kid, and spent some time talking to someone on his cell phone about some photo shoot. I have to say, he looked quite classy and handsome, and I probably would have said something to him if he had been alone.

LA Celebrity Sighting #9

R. and I went to see a show at UCLA called Flesh and Blood. I sat down next to this woman who told me she was holding the seat for her friend. I moved to another seat, and a few minutes later found out that the friend was actress Maura Tierney when she walked in late and quickly sat down behind me.

I was never a big fan of her work on ER, but I quite enjoyed her acting when she was on Newsradio, a great comedy sitcom that aired in the second half of the nineties, which was canceled after the tragic murder of one of its main actors, Phil Hartman.