Spike Lee (placeholder)

Met may be an overstatement. :-) I stood next to him as we were getting ready to board the same flight.

... was in Fort Greene, Brooklyn—across the street from Brooklyn Tech (where he filmed the Doing the Butt video)

I met Spike Lee at a screening of School Daze in L.A. back in the 80’s.

WAKE UP!

somewhere in the midst of his neverending “black filmmaker” controversy in the late 80’s, spike lee came to speak at UT austin while i was a student there. everyone mobbed him and afterwards they fawned all over him, asking stupid obvious questions—but i didn’t. i was reserved, polite and brief. my reward? a bit of a chat and an autograph wherein he wrote something that referred to our conversation.

it taught me a lot about how to deal with famous people (ignore them and they’ll gravitate towards you)—and how to behave if i ever became one (maintain privacy at all costs).

I accidentally kinda left him hangin when it was my turn to meet him (see, there was this kind of receiving line set up an I wasn’t payin attention). Bad impression I think.

I’d like a second opportunity meet him again, tho (he wouldn’t remember me from the first time anyway). Man’s brilliant. Could stand to ease up off the conspiracy stuff a little tho.