From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #131 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 Friday, May 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 131 Today's Filings: ----------------- Just to let you know... Oh PLEASE! blah blah blah WHOOPS! God Bless the Piano Men.... Air live I gots something to say... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:54:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Patton Subject: Just to let you know... Not that this has anything to do with BFF at all, but the Deftones are throwing a free gig at Clutch Cargo's (yes, the name of the really cheesy cartoon that used real lips for the words) tonight. In case I don't make it back, which is quite possible, I just wanted you all to know that I love you all! I leave my wit to Markus, 'cause he needs a refill, my flirtateous nature to Sandi, 'cause she'll get the most use out of it, and my entire fortune to the Spice Girls, so they can stop singing and just stand there. I think it'd improve the music ten-fold. ;) Laters! ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "Love is a fountain, Gryphon, a well -- a great many people can drink from it, and none detracts from any other's helping." -Asrial Arconan _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:23:45 -0400 From: Anne Lyons Subject: Oh PLEASE! Oof. I am COMPLETELY insulted that Markus actually believes that I would ever in a million years watch The Nanny! And neither do I watch Ally GetReal* or many other subpar (in my opinion) shows. In a typical week, I watch maybe 8 hours of TV -- and here's what I watch (so that when you make fun of me, you can actually get the shows *right*) *grin*: Monday: nuthin' worth watchin' (according to me) Tuesday: Buffy and Dawson. I can make a pretty damn good case (now that Seinfeld is gone) that some of the best humor writing is on BtVS. Wednesday: Party of Five (my weekly dose of angst) Thursday: It used to be that I would watch Friends, shut the tv off for a half hour, watch Seinfeld, shut the tv off for another half hour and then watch ER. but now that Seinfeld is gone... I'm wondering if I will stick around for ER... Friday: nuthin' worth watchin' Saturday: X:WP (if I am not otherwise ocupied) Sunday: Simpsons (tv off) X-Files So there you go. Oh yeah! And if I have had a particularly stressful week... I have been known to watch 90210 as well. And I will tune into a good VH1 "Behind the Music" (or, as a friend nicknamed it: "Behind the Music: There Is Always Sex & Drugs") So, sure, people can make fun of me for watching Buffy and Xena. But lemme tell ya... Don't knock it til' ya try it. So, Markus... now you know. Please don't insinuate that I would watch The Nanny or Teletubbies or Boy Meets World. *shudder* Moving on. Hey! I have another album to my top ten albums of all time... I guess you could call it my top 11. I just bought Fleetwood Mac's Rumours last week... and every feckin'** song on it kicks my ass. That album is truly a work of art. SFTD video: I've yet to see it. Will it be something that gets a lot of play d'ya think? You know what I need? [Yes, Markus... thanks for chiming in, but I do not need a swift kick in the pants just now, little drummer boy.] I need MTV to publish a playlist of all the videos they'll be showing for the next week. That way I can stay up and watch for the videos that I'd like to see. So what if it is impossible. It's what I want. Air: Have yet to hear anything more than a snippet. Perhaps it makes me less of a fan... but at this point I do not intend to go get the Godzilla soundtrack unless there are at least a couple of songs that I belioeve I might like. Kansas: I've only flown over... never been through. As to the "Markus Swath" -- I've been to Austin and Dallas and OK City and Tulsa and Kansas City and Fargo... and I've had fun in all of them. But then again, I was travelling on an expense account at the time... so that might have something to do with it. Fargo was a trip. I flew in during a blizzard and flew out during a blizzard... but we had fun in between taunting the marketing gal from California who had never driven in snow. It's not every day that a 23 year old girl from Massachusetts and a 24 year old guy from New York can teach someone to do reverse donuts in the parking lot of the exhibition center where they are supposed to be working a trade show. Aaaahhhhhhhh... the memories of a marketeer. Welp. That should be all. - -Anne "Finally baby The truth has been told Now you tell me that I'm crazy That's nothing that I didn't know" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:36:48 -0500 (CDT) From: LaRubia@bigfoot.com (Carrie) Subject: blah blah blah Marcus: I couldn't care less that you don't like Western KS. Indeed, I really don't consider that portion (even though it is MOST) of the State to be anywhere at all. It's just a huge expanse of nothing. Nothing to hate, nothing to like, just a huge void of anything. (Except for Witchita, which it is OK to despise.) So, uh... hi. I really like the Song for the Dumped video. Watching Ken burn into all his little plastic bits is so fun. One thing I've noticed about most of their videos, though, is that, when it's just shots of the guys playing, they look bored out of their skulls. I think the Underground video might be better, I forget, but in BoWCCL and SftD especially (and I LOVE the BoWCCL video), Ben's just kinda going through the motions. Alright, I KNOW they're not actually playing and ARE just going throught the motions, but... it's just different after seeing them live and smiling and going at it really hard (Darren is a madman) and then seeing them plink through it on my TV. It's not, like, bad, it's just different. So I don't have a hell of a lot to say. I still don't have a job. I think I got rejected for the first time in my life (since elementary school). I don't take rejection well... Burns and McDonnell, FEEL MY WRATH!!!! :-) I've been practicing my guitar a lot. I've started looking at real songs, and I can now play... *breath held* Neil Young's "Heart of Gold". Hey, quit laughing! I'm spending my days playing Ben Katz from that show on Comedy Central. I read a lot. Sometimes I go swimming. Carrie Shanafelt, this is your life... I miss hearing from you guys as oft as I used to! Our dear FL has a birthday coming up this weekend! Twenty-nine years on the planet. *wow* Tina? How's stuff? Anne? Things is good? Anyhow, drop me a note if y'all get bored. I know I do. How many people are heading out to see Semisonic this tour? I'm missing them *again* due to a family reunion my dying uncle proposed. I kinda have to go. So I haven't seen them live since Aug. '96, when I first fell in love with them. *ahhh!* If any of y'all go, write me and tell me all about how much they kicked ass. - -carrie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:22:28 -0400 From: Anne Lyons Subject: WHOOPS! Forgot to add my end-notes: Ally GetReal* every feckin'** song * Puh-lease! Can we have a "strong female character" who is less strong? From the *very* little that I have seen (maybe 25 minutes all told) it seems that she is obsessed with finding someone to make her complete. Just what I want to see touted as a strong woman... a waif in very short skirts. C'mon all you little girls! See what the beautiful successful woman is all about -- never mind the law degree and the personal friendships , she needs a man to be complete! And she is easily the biggest pushover on tv today. All you need to do is be a male and smile and she's done for. Personally -- the next big "crossover" I'd like to see is Buffy and Xena kicking Ally's ass all over Boston! [Opinions are the sole property of an in- an- argumentative- mood- but- not- a- bad- argumentative- mood Anne Lyons and should not be construed as an invitation to try to convince her how cool the show Ally really is.] ** I've started to use "feckin'" now that I've seen The Matchmaker... great rental. Sorry! - -Anne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:42:54 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: God Bless the Piano Men.... Okay. I may be dredging into waters sailed, but I must comment. So I am sitting here listening to Joe Jackson play a concert in Chicago earlier this year (incidently 2 days after Benny was there) and I says to myself, "self, goddamm if Ben and Joe don't sound so similiar. This is eerie...." I guess I never really got too involved with the discussion before. I had heard Joe before, etc., and just agreed on past sound bites. But after listening to both Ben and Joe IN concert, it is just goofy to me I guess. Now I am not talking about banging on the piano, just the sound and flow and of course, their voices..... So people from the South and people from across the pond sound alike... In my opinion, people who like to make money could exploit the two men and have them do a special concert together. They would sound great singing together....The possiblity of it would send tingles up and down me. And yes, I would travel ANYWHERE to see THAT show.....really..... That's is enough rambling from me....Just had to put my $.000001 in.... god bless. Father FL. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Katie Subject: Air live Have any of ya'll compared the live version to the soundtrack version? Is it just the use of synthesizers that's the difference? With all the mixed reviews about the soundtrack going around, I'm just wondering what people who've heard both think... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:26:29 PDT From: "Jessica *" Subject: I gots something to say... This is too weird.I found some real audio clips of Jeff Buckley on the net (I mean, where ELSE can I sample quality music for free?) because all you fjilers seem too like him, (and of COURSE I trust your taste) ..all of a sudden, Sara mentions him at the bottom of her quote. Coincidence? I think not! I’m hoping you sweeties will take a few moments out of your packed schedule of dissing Kansas (GLENDA lives there, for Pete’s!) and synthesizers to help me out. If you have the album Grace, will you please tell me what you think of it? I have a VERY limited music budget, and I can’t waste it on cheap shyte. If you don’t wanna write a lot, just add a certain # of *s at the end of your post (out of the standard 5, please) to let me know what you think. Thanx to Ginger (is that your real name? Be HONEST!) for the heels info. can rest easy now! For Anne: personally, I always say it like this: BeFeF...Like a drunk 4-year-old saying "Beth". As the (singular) Canadian show draws near, my days grow gloomy. All my friends who are going (friends *I* converted) are making some big sign, and they always give me updates. I can’t go. This sucks. I wanna see the SFtD video….But Much is too busy playing Torn (I hate it too! I hate it too!), hanson, the Spice Girls, and if I’m REALLY lucky, Madonna. (I actually kinda like that Ray of Light song,I’m just grouchy) Ralph: I really think you should go to your prom. Everyone needs prom tales to pass down! Be sure to take pictures and do at LEAST one shameful act that you will never live down. Bubye! Jessica P.S. What does ADIDAS ‘stand’ for? I have the urge to be titillated! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Act really sly..the audience loves that.... yeah, like a pimp." - -Kori Pop ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #131 *********************************