From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #103 Reply-To: rockford-files@smoe.org Sender: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk The Rockford Files Wednesday, April 29 1998 Volume 01 : Number 103 Today's Filings: ----------------- My kind of town....Portland Is (but i like L.A. too) Fame & Fortune Pa, I Cut Myself On the Screen Door Again! French girls just wanna have fun Whoa! Better off Dead has a fanbase greater than two? Curious ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:02:19 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: My kind of town....Portland Is (but i like L.A. too) >From: "Kamp, Marcus S" >Subject: Courtney's Benless in Seattle > >lonesomes. That's fine, I guess. I mean, would you trade not >getting to see BFF more frequently for having to live any closer to >California? Oh, you had to go and say it didn't ya? Marcus, I *live* in California for school. As we speak. Right now. and it's about 68 degrees out and it's 1 in the morning...*that* is what i love about this hell hole called Los Angeles. But It isn't all that bad...but i'll be home in less than 2 weeks to fresh air and clean water. And that'll be nice for the next four months...though I'd much prefer to be here and working a production job at a movie stidio..but i digress. to sum up in a slightly clearer fashion: Portland = Good, L.A. = not as bad as you think. So today was my last day of classes, and finals start on thursday. I only have three since my jazz final was an essay on the movie "Lady Sings the Blues" which was SO simple. I'm just not looking forward to my Cultures of Latin America final. Maybe if i had actually *gone* to class i wouldn't be dreading it so much, but whatever. Hmm...okay, yeah. I'm done. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Do bears bear? Do bees bee?" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:36:18 -0400 From: Anne Lyons Subject: Fame & Fortune Hi all! Thanks for missing me, Meg. Nope... it wasn't anything anyone said (up until now). I thought I'd have time to post more to the RF over my April vacation, but it ended up being such a nice week... I was outside a lot more than I had anticipated. And then I got sick. Very sick. Throwing up sick (which is the worst kind, I think). >Anne is *too* busy for us. Working women of the 90's. They ignore all the >*little* people who they use as a step ladder to fame....* Let me tell you about someone who works her @ss off just to stay on top of things, never mind get ahead. Someone who gets to work at 7:00 am, works through lunch and occasionally works until 9:00-10:00 pm at night. But that - -- (as it is with any job -- and to all you young'uns, once you get out of school you will soon learn this as well) -- is never enough... the pressure to do even more is intense. But sure, occasionally she takes some time for herself. For example, she belongs to a little community that she really enjoys... It's just a mail list, but frankly, she really enjoys 'virtually' hanging out with the members of the list. She has fun with this list... she enjoys clever posts from others and hopes others enjoy her attempts at humor. But sometimes life interferes, and she is unable to post for a while. Some members simply remark on the gap between posts, and ask if anything is up. But others take a jab. Oh yes, "all in good fun" of course. But see it from her point of view for a second... she finally gets back to work after being sick, and she opens up her "fun" mail after 36 other "work" messages. It kinda feels like being kicked in the teeth, she's thinkin'. It certainly doesn't make her want to post more, that's for sure. Of course, she may be overreacting due to feeling so sick, but obliged to go to work anyway. But sometimes, she just can't help the way she feels. Just a little story. Not up to par with fan fiction, certainly. Just a short little fable for a Tuesday. - -Anne * BTW, when did I get famous and step on the little people? I missed it. Those 15 minutes sure do pass quickly... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 07:52:19 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: Pa, I Cut Myself On the Screen Door Again! Can't we stop the fussin' and the feudin'? I've never left (you thought I was gone, now I've come back again), I've just been workin' my skinny little arse off. So many Boeings, so little time. Ya know, when ya work for a company 1 of whose favorite customers is a Chinese dictator, the workload just never lightens! Plus, ever since Sandi broke my heart & started *dating* Ben, I just haven't had much to say! Progress report on Sinforosa's "Deadly Faerie Tales" CD...we've laid down bass & percussion for 4 songs & may do so for the other 6 this weekend. Comin' along just peachy & I'll keep y'all posted. (New thread...) My favorite commercial of the spring thus far...(in my best tractor-pull voice) "Live, @ the Tacoma Dome-THE SPICE GIRLS!!!" Understand that playing the Tacoma Dome is about like playing the Tucumcarie State Fair! Poor Posh Spice, where ever will she place her boa?! Well, I'm off like a pair of *plastic pants*. Gotta help build Boeing's new Destruct-o-Ray! Markus ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:57:07 From: "Hannah Kuhlmann" Subject: French girls just wanna have fun >I will keep my testicles....er, I mean, tentacles alerted... >nevermind. hmmm. . .reminds me of that fantastic 80's absurdist work of art. . . Better Off Dead! starring the incomparable John Cusack. oh and. . .uh. . .next tuesday that ARD compilation CD comes out with BFF on it, in case anybody forgot. Never let it be said that I lack Bentent, dammit. and MATTHEW! if you're still around. thanks for volume one! I'm in love with this tape, and I keep interrogating everyone I see about wether they've heard Brad or not. . . :) - -Hannah - ------------------------------------------ Hannah Kuhlmann - kuhl0025@tc.umn.edu **FLASHY BEN FOLDS FIVE WEBSITE** AT http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1094/ - ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:18:56 EDT From: Lennonita Subject: Whoa! Better off Dead has a fanbase greater than two? I half-seriously thought me and my best friend were the only two people in America with an affinity for that little piece of 80's gleaming glory. I got it at Suncoast for--get this--a whopping seven dollars. How sweet it is. Seven-dollar Cusack. Yum yum. I like him. He's another baby-faced dark and handsome almost-yet-not-quite-Brat Pack-er (Matthew Broderick, anyone? the man I swore I would marry?) Bentent? I just read a hysterical post from some girl on the MA (Majorly in need of Anasthesia) WHO TIPED ONLY LIKE THIS 4 A LONG TIME that MTV News had just "broken in" (hopefully nothing of value was stolen) and said that BF5 had split up and cancelled (English spelling!) the rest of their tour dates. Not fucking likely, I say. Though I have been wrong before...for example, I thought for sure I'd get into this special summer program at NYU that I applied to. *ANNOYING BUZZER NOISE* Wrong. Cut to shot of poor crushed heartbroken Meg back here in bumfuck Las Vegas. I'm a little pissed. Bitter, party of one? Bitter...your table is ready... Meg "Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much. Or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance. So are everyone else's."--The guy in "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) on the April CMJ CD, and this is actually part of a real speech given at some graduation by Will Safire or someone like that. I can't remember. I like how my pseudo-PS is longer than the rest of my post. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:10:18 -0400 From: Amanda McClintock Subject: Curious Hey all I am just curious if anyone read my little Files Fiction? It's just that like NO ONE said anything, and well since I am majoring in english I am a little worried that my story didn't capture anyones attention.... But if it truly did just suck a llama'a ass, then tell me. (It was in Files #97) That is all for now.... Rejectedly Yours Amanda ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #103 *********************************