From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #129 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, May 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 129 Today's Filings: ----------------- His Mama Called Him Clay Godzirra ramblings I'm gonna ranneble on... Air. wow...harsh Let the FL in...he wants to bust on KS... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 07:30:32 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: His Mama Called Him Clay Well, Carrie, don't go defending Lawrence in my honor. Lawrence is OK, but as far as seething generalizations go, KANSAS SUCKS HARD!!! Lawrence & points east are the exceptions (not Pittsburg, however!), but the rest of the state FECKIN' SUCKS!!! In fact, make a little channel between Houston &, say, Phoenix, and run it from the Gulf of Mexico/Rio Grande all the way up to Canadia (staying in between Denver/KC, Salt Lake/Des Moines, Jackson Hole/Minneapolis) & IT ALL SUCKS!!! (With the obvious exceptions of Austin & Lincoln, NE.) Tulsa-great. KC-alright. Tucumcarie-you betcha. Dallas-just fine. But the rest of that vast wasteland (Wichita? OKC? Omaha? Fargo?) is ALL 100% CRAP!!! Sorry if I offend, but I lived through it for the 1st 26 years of my life, so I speak from experience. As far as Sinforosa goes, Erik, we're doin' just fine. Bass/drums/guitar are done for the CD ("Deadly Faerie Tales"). All that's left is vocals & mixing. The recording'll be done by the end of this month, w/mixing/mastering/duplication taking up as much of June as necessary, & we'll hopefully have finished a product in hand for sale by mid-July. We did burn a limited edition CD single (for promo only-I don't even have a copy). We'll probably release that for sale as part of an EP or CD+ later in the year (if ya don't know, a CD+ is a normal CD "+" a multimedia track, sorta like Sarah MacLachlan "Freedom Sessions" or Squirrel Nut Zippers "Hot"). Many of you have asked me about the CD (THANKS!!!) & I'll definitely keep everyone posted. Don't forget: WOMAD USA, REDMOND WA, 7/31-8/2. (This may be a once-in-a-lifetime deal, or @ most once-a-year, so don't pussy-foot around & miss it! @ that time of year, Seattle is the most gorgeous place on this chunk o' stone we call "Earth"!) Markus ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:46:07 -0400 From: Jake Alderman Subject: Godzirra I hope everyone who bought the Godzirra soundtrack skipped to track 5 and stopped listening to the rest of the album. I made the mistake of listening to the whole album. My head still hurts from the poor quality of the rest of the album. I bought it for the Ben folds song only. I was not expecting much from the rest of the album. I received even less. It needs to trade Bush for Ben Folds and this would be Apocalyptic album that would ruin music as we know it. Ben Folds is the savior. Air is a great song. I just wish Brendan O'Brien would have left his hands off of it. He ruined Mathew Sweet. I hope he doesn't f**k with Ben Folds. I can't wait to here it without O'Brien. I hope Ben Folds stops doing soundtracks, like they said they would. If they want to put out a non album-cut, put it on a compilation album. At least that way I would not have to own any Puff Daddy or Wallflowers, etc. Once again puffy could not come up with anything original. At least he got the original artist to play instead of an old record and mixed it. It is kind of nice that Jimmy Page will get some royalties. That way he won't go into a nursing home next year when he turns 70. I have an old copy of Sitten on the Dock of the Bay. It is all scratched up and skips every 3 seconds. I was thinking of releasing it as a Puffy song. But I heard on B.E.T. that he already had it in the works. Fuel is trying way to hard to get their music in before the 90's are over. They have Copied every bands style except for Ben Folds. I hear they are trying to work in a baby grand on their next album. "Procreate for genocide" That has to be the Cheesiest Line I have heard In my life. Days of the New meet Alice in Chains: Alice in Chains meet Days of the New Green Day has a "great" song on the album. If you loved Brain Stew before. You'll love it even more with Godzilla singing backup. Jamiroqueer- funk revisited. If you hadn't had enough. Wallflowers- My god please make it stop. I have had enough of One Headlight. I don't care what you title it. It is the same monotone song. Sorry for Venting Jake Does any one know who is opening for Ben at the Atlanta show? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:00:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: ramblings Hello my fellow Fjordians! Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I must say that I enjoyed my stay in Texas very much, there were just certain things about the state I didn't quite understand. Sounds like Sandi had the same problem! (Oh yeah, Sandi, I was to the right of you, on the other side of the girl with the wheelchair, right in front of Robert.) Don't mess with Texas is infinitely more interesting than Keep NC beautiful--don't litter or Click it or ticket. (Anne--I think I'd have to chuck Natalie Imbruglia before Hanson right now...if I hear Torn one more time...!) Happy happy joy joy, I have found someone who is going to trade me a copy of the Austin show so I can play it for my friends and have them believe me when I say that Ben did dedicate Emaline to me. I am slowly but surely converting my friends into the Fold--I've brought five into the light in the past year. Today is my first day at my new job as an office assistant. Yikes, I'm going to have to act professional! Um, Bentent. I really like the video for Song for the Dumped. It's adorable, I was laughing the whole time. Oh yeah, the guy whos sending me the Austin show wanted to send Ben some Dean Friedman tapes, but doesn't know where to send them or who to call to find out where to send them. Do any of y'all know? Anyway, the puppy's barking, I think he wants someone to take him outside. Bye! Ginger :) Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:14:02 -0400 From: Anne Lyons Subject: I'm gonna ranneble on... Whew! I'm still recovering from Buffy slaying Angel* in last night's cliffhanger! Not that I truly think for a second that David Borerearereaneaz won't be back next season... but as cliffhangers go, I must admit I enjoyed it. Especially for the line when Buffy is chattin' up Spike and he tells her that she's "wants his Dru back the way she was before Angel turned bad" and Buffy says something like "I'm not helping you just because your girlfriend is a stinkin' ho'!" Classic. My erstwhile beau came through the livingroom while I was laughing at that and he said (and I quote)"Oh my God. Just look at you! You've been Buffied!" Which reminds me... yesterday on my way home from work I was contemplating the tendency for our generation to bestow an acronym on everything -- from BFF and DMB and SNZ and NIN to DOS and RAM and ROM and SCSI to DUI and DWI (whoops! I guess those mean the same thing! *grin*). And I think the reason for this goes back to our childhoods in the 80's -- c'mon, y'all remember what ADIDAS "stands for" and how titillating that was to a 10 year old! When you think about it... there were only a couple of acronyms back 15 years ago... LASER and SCUBA and RBI are just a few. So why do we make acronyms out of everything now? Are we truly running that low on words? But I digress... I was thinking about the acronyms we pronounce as opposed to the ones we don't... now I pronounce "DOS" and "RAM" and "SCuSI" and "NIN" and "RiBI", but I never pronounce "BiFF" -- or would it be "BoFF" or "BuFF"? Now why is that? I usually say that I'm gonna "listen to a little Ben" or something to that extent if I'm not using the full name. But now I think I'm going to start pronouncing it. So my question to the RF is this... is it BiFF or BoFF or BuFF? I'm personally leaning toward BoFF... just because I think it would be more fun to say that I was "BoFFing my way across the country" instead of "BiFFing my way across the country". But enough about what I think... what do *you* think? = D Erik: A 31? Color me impressed! Meg: Good dream! My Annealysis... first, the white piano: white can sometimes connote purity or starkness or other lonely/alone emotions. So that could have something to do with the boyfriend being away. But something ust struck me... a lot of people equate the color white (or really, the absence of color) with death. And I've been thinking about colors a lot lately (what they mean, etc.) and I was thinking that white is probably equated with death because of the theory of having a soul, and the soul being the most pure essence of you (so, souls are white for kinda the same reasons why angels are portrayed in white). SO... perhaps the piano is your image of your own soul... which would explain why you are able to create such beautiful works on it. The way you describe the music is also interesting -- rumbling and swirling seem to be adjectives that are powerful and moving. So I think this shows that youa re at one with what your soul has been creating lately -- have you been having any epiphanies about life, Meg? Finally about the fact that Ben is "helping" you to create this music. Again... this is interesting. Maybe you are thinking about your boyfriend? Would you consider him your soulmate? Although the fact that you pat Ben on the knee and walk away is interesting... perhaps you are appreciating what you have (the music you make) with the NY guy but are considering moving on? I think there is a lot of interpretation that you can do from my starting points, basically. Or, of course, you had this dream because you were chomping on some popsicles before bedtime again! Welp. It's lunchtime... I'm off to BoFF in my car... *grin* See ya! - -Anne *Sorry about the Buffying... but at least I didn't talk about the Dawson's Creek finale! = ) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:45:29 -0500 From: "Scott A. Schneider" Subject: Air. As I was driving to work this morning, I got to thinking... do all of you who have been raving about 'Air' *really* think it's a good song, or have we all just become so hungry for new material that we'll devour anything that we get? I was listening to the song while I was driving and thinking about it, by the way. In my opinion, it's characteristic of the rest of the Godzilla soundtrack: boring soundtrack drivel. I mean, really-- the Chicago Cyber-net improv song was catchier than this! The drums are boring and the bassline is worse-- I could probably learn it in a few hours, and I suck. Brandan O'brien (or whoever) should be drug out and shot-- the cheezy synths make me think of bad 80s music (*BAD* 80s music... not those funky-cool synthed 80s songs)... yuck. Oh yeah, and the movie sucks, too. Jurassic Park part III. I love Matthew Broderick. I love BFF. I didn't love the movie or it's soundtrack. :( What was my point? Umm... yeah, I forgot. Luv, scott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:16:50 EDT From: Sandibrady Subject: wow...harsh I was not making a rash generalization about KS at all, I merely stated that IF that's what it's all about, I'm happy to not be returning. That radio guy was such a jerk I couldn't stand it. As for the bands performance, Darren himself even backed me up on the fact that they didn't play like usual after last night's show. He said they had been there all day and were really tired and just didn't feel much like playing, etc. I believe Robert (or was it Ben? I can't remember....Calvin, help me out!) even made a bad comment about the Lawrence show. I think they're all just drained in general. BUT, last night's show was great. It was Superdrag's last show with them, so we were kind of bummed about that. It was hotter than hell in that place (Bogarts)! They must not have air conditioning or something. My sister drove up to the show from Louisville, Ky. It was her first show and she loved them. :) We had a great time. Ahhhhhh, I better get going. Sandi ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:52:00 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: Let the FL in...he wants to bust on KS... Oh yeah. You betcha. Kansas can kiss my ass...here's Y: Oh, back around the turn of the decade, back when Stevie B. was the bomb out west and that Cherry girl was bustin' rhymes (I have the CD), and of course, Stacy Fox was my wet dream, I was out in AZ for a spell. Did a bit of labor, a lot of drinking, and watched CUBS games at 11 o'clock in the morning. But alas, too much of a good thing is bad so I returned to Illinois for summer school and the warmth and security of my parent's house. So, for the KS injection. I left Phoenix around midnight, slept on an Indian reservation somewhere in New Mexico, awakened by a little injun jumping on my car, and was driving through KS around 11pm the next evening. I was taking the state highways because 8 hours earlier I was thinking of side-tracking to see some family in KC (MISSOURI), but realized I would get there at 2 in the morning, so I was carving a new route toward home. So anyfuckingway.... I pulled into a McDonalds around 11 (Big Mac, large fries if you care) and pulled out back on my way. As I was leaving town, a pick up truck had pulled behind me. I am now on the highway and this truck is on my ass. They wouldn't pass. So I sped up. They sped up. I slowed down, they slowed down. Then they would pull up close to me and then get behind me, screwing around the entire time. I was extremely nervous. AND, as I looked down, I was running out of gas. And, being in KS, I was in the middle of nofuckingwhere. So I am traveling at speeds up to 90+ and they are right on my ass. This continued for about 45 minutes. Finally, out of the blue, they turned. Now, here I am around midnight running out of gas, worrying about getting to the interstate. And my fucking food is COLD. These events would have made a bitch cry. But, being the FL, I persevered. But, I will never drive in KS again. Bunch of fuckheads (no offense to the beautiful women who are dying to move out-of-state). As you can see, this is a touchy subject with me. Cold fries SUCK. - -yours truly, FL.... ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #129 *********************************