From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #161 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 Monday, June 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 161 Today's Filings: ----------------- "gracefully" expanding bandwith New threads, anyone? Joining the club Oops uhtlantuh Because you ARE an assface! comptapes BAD TRADER ALERT!!!!!! picture pages Hi! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:21:21 -0500 From: Clayton Smith Subject: "gracefully" expanding bandwith Spencer: sure we shared lockers! when is that 10 year reunion?? oh ya and i want that sound thing but im on the loose mail version of the RF and it just doent list your email address.....So to recap, we here on loose mail need an address to email you privately at......but dont worry ill use this post for other things so i dont expand bandwith blatantly. Oh ya, Spencer, ill make an attempt to play trival pursuit....but i wouldnt expect dazzling results....Also in other news i was just copying erik on the skunk thing....so if he was using drug terms it blew right past me....and speaking of getting flogged and not needing viagra...one of those insurance company's is stopping paying for there customers viagra......they say its not a needed thing, but rather a quality of life thing....Do you really need the viagra spence??? Kathryn: First of all thanks for the schedule of dates all in one convient place....and I can't be sure your not a fariy, but then who can! And maybe you are on crack! But here on the RF you are welcome....crack and all! Shes cool by me! Clayton Smith ctsmith@onr.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:41:41 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: New threads, anyone? First I gotta comment on ongoing threads before boldly proposing my new one: Trivial Pursuit: at my school we have something called Varsity Quiz which is kind of a form of mini-Jeopardy and all the schools compete in it and some of the matches are televised on our local PBS station. We get PE credit for it. Basically it's lettering in useless crap...this makes me a superb Trivial Pursuit player. *And* I wear glasses! Bands I love other than the five: Radiohead, Supergrass, Superdrag, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Sean Lennon, Jewel, Ani DiFranco, Save Ferris, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue, Cherry Poppin' Daddies (see a trend?), Semisonic, Court Petrie (he's not famous yet...hell, he doesn't even have a record yet...but he will be big), Spacehog, Nerf Herder, REM, U2, and I'm sure I'll love Bus Stop, Snuzz, and Majosha once I can find their CDs!!! My new proposed thread: What's the funniest/strangest/most interesting quote someone has ever said to you about Ben Folds Five? Mine comes from a friend, who, on seeing my WAEA T-shirt said, "Who's Ben and why does he fold five?" There's more but they take up pages and pages of dialogue...some of you may remember the "The baby was a brick?" conversation. That's all...48 hours and I'll be in NYC! Meg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:31:18 +0100 From: Jay Reddick Subject: Joining the club Hello all! I feel like a real member of the Files now...replying to several people at once! Jessica (and Anne): I think it's really funny that the first two people besides me to sing the praises of baseball, et al, are female. Just love it when stereotypes are quashed. Now tell me you loved The Natural and Major League, too, and you'll be mine forever. :) Oh by the way, my AOL IM signon is jreddick19, for anyone who wants to talk BFF, sports, or stuff. Courtney: The X-Files rocked...I went to see it with a 'shipper, though, and I'm starting to get tired of THAT take on it already. Glad to hear another take (and edge-of-my-seaty is a great word). Sandi: Time to scare you, and myself: Picturepages, Picturepages, lots of fun with Picturepages, lots of fun with crayons and with pencils! Picturepages, picturepages, how about some picturepages, why don't you let Bill Cosby do a picturepage with you? hehehe Spencer: Where on the Carolina coast? I was in Wilmington this weekend...and I'll challenge ANYONE on the list to Trivial Pursuit. My strong suits are Sports (and Wine) and Entertainment, but I'm a very well-rounded trivia maven. (My nickname at work is "master of the arcane," but I prefer something a teacher once told me: "Your mind is a plethora of useless information.") Oh, and thanks to all for your movie reviews...so much to see, so little time... Ummm, was there Bentent? Is the word "Bentent" enough Bentent? Take care, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:34:30 +0100 From: Jay Reddick Subject: Oops Double-post alert! Kathryn! Didn't mean to leave you out of the XF props...a body count? Oh my. CERTAINLY different from the 'shippers, to whom only two bodies matter ;) OK, that's my three cents. Take care, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:31:54 -0700 From: "Will Canzoneri" Subject: uhtlantuh >And I keep lovin' the Atlanta shows... it sends >me back to that happy little place every time another >person writes a >review. I do fear, however, that they're coming to an >end soon here... Perhaps this is the last one. It's been one week. so I guess maybe this horrible laziness disease-type thang I have has some good qualities. I live in Birmingham, so when I left at 4, I still hadn't come to the realization that Birmingham is in CST and Atlanta is EST and that I would be losing an hour. So basically I left at 5, and when I got to that hellish excuse of an interstate system in downtown Atlanta, it was 7:15 or 7:30. Something like that. Of course, if you make a wrong turn, you're screwed, cos you can't like, oh, say, get back on the interstate, go to the next exit, and turn around. You can't even get back on the interstate. You can get on but you can't get off. How ingenious! YES!!! Basically, it took us 45 minutes to get from the exit to The Tabernacle. So I was realatively pissed and stressed by the time I got to that long line. Stupid me, I got in the line to go in, not to get a ticket. Waited in that line for about 10 minutes, then realized my faux pas and made myself even more stressed out by buying 2 "Admit One" tickets from a scalper for $35 ($17.50 apiece!). Turns out they were real, but anyway... Snuzz was highly enjoyable and I bought their CD afterwards from Britt, the singer. God, I thought Ben was playing bass when I first walked in. But you've heard it all, they were ON FIRE. Actually, they seemed rather tired throughout the first half (ex: Ben's half-assed stool throws at the end of Philosophy). But after they played Evaporated and Brick, WOW. Loved the Big Rock Ending. MAN OH MAN OH MAN. That kicked ass... I really wish I had written this a week ago, it's getting vague now... I was wondering- have they ever played Bad Idea live? Oh yeah, I hadn't eaten since lunch, as I had no time to get supper, and was starving my ass off. But afterwards, Snuzz all came out to their piece-o-shit van, and I got Eddie Walker's autograph and the CD. If any o'y'all were out there, I was the obnoxious kid up on the platform trying to sneak backstage and who made a stab at a keep-the-angry-mob-entertained stand-up act. But when Ben came out, talked to him... 1. The new album will be recorded (not released) by October. 2. "Fear Of Pop" will be released in September. Ben & Caleb have one more track to do, with William Shatner on vocals (for real). 3. I asked him about Caleb... didn't sound good. I asked him "y'all aren't ditching Caleb, are you?" He replied with not the expected "NO," but with an "ah... uh... I don't know, we might, I don't know...," which sounds like a "BRING ON THE BRENDAN O'BRIAN!!!" Actually, it sounds like "James William Guercio will be producing our new album." Okay, nevermind. But it KICKED ASS. I saw 2 FINE films last week: "The Ice Storm" and "Deconstructing Harry." Go see 'em both, if dementia is yer kinda thang... - --- "Reality, it's not for me, and it makes me laugh..." -The Beach Boys, 1971 Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:50:41 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: Because you ARE an assface! COURTNEY & LOVELINE: Can't you all just imagine it? Stoned 15 year-olds calling our very own for love advice? But who would she replace? I'm hoping no one, because that Adam, crude as he can be, is sometimes a pretty damn funny man. Plus, I'm a sucker for Dr. Drew. I vote for a threesome! :) JORDAN: Well to the family. I accept your praise, but make sure its in some killer accent! I, for one, promise not to throw things at you! Thanks to that hallucinatory dream you wrote about, I think you probably are both mammothy strange AND bored. But I respect you because you actually know how to play cricket. I tried for the first time last week and...well..let's not delve into the massacre that occurred. THE REAL WORLD: See, now, this just isn't fair. You guys all get to choose your characters while I (am I really that special?) get my character prepared for me by other people! Let the hand of fate roll the dice again! (As in...Erik, please, give them all a few lashes and then give out the roles as you see fit!) RF-TENT: Anybody else on digest format absolute love how it reads "Today's Filings." VERY clever and cute, to boot. :) Tiny. Phrase. At. The. End. Of. My. Post. Which. Spencer. Supposedly. Loves. But. I. Can't. Remember. For. The. Life. Of. Me. What. It. Is. Yay! My headache's back! Need new BFF album. Desperately. :Þ Here's a random quote: Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was coming down. It was. -- Inscription on Harry Edsel Smith's gravestone ~Kathryn THE STRANGEST THINGS I know my page is jacked-up. All I can give you is a shrug and a smile. http://members.xoom.com/HndOfChaos `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:48:00 -0400 From: Amanda McClintock Subject: comptapes Well Katie I think your suggestion is SWELL! I have already recieved a mix tape from a fellow filer and was most happily surprized by its contents. (claps for Kristen) However I cannot help you with figuring out how to do a systematic Rockford Files trade. Perhaps if one of us became a ring leader, and everyone emailed that person, then that person put everyones name in a hat and then drew names (since we can't physically do it) That's about as much stratigic planning that I can do at this time of night. As for MY favorite movies: The Kevin Smith trilogy (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy), So I Married an Axe Murderer, Strictly Ballroom, Pricila Queen of the Desert, Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, Say Anything (pretty much all of John Cusak's 80's flicks), Bottle Rockets, The Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, Much Ado About Nothing, Nightmare Before Xmas, Kicking and Screaming, and then my classic two High School flicks: Wayne's World, and Singles. These are all my fav comedies, which is the genre I love most! taker easy Amanda ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:41:45 -0700 (PDT) From: ralph kyatsu Subject: BAD TRADER ALERT!!!!!! THIS IS A MESSAGE TO WARN EVERYONE NOT TO TRADE WITH justin@gcnet.com (Justin) HE IS A BAD AND HAS RIPPED ME OFF...I TRADED WITH HIM IN FEBURARY(yes i am patient)AND i HAVE GOTTEN NOTHING...... A VERY PISSED AND RIPPED OFF ralph (sorry about the shouting, but wanted to make sure this guy doesn;t rip off anyone else) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 21:07:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Katie Subject: picture pages were "lots of fun with crayon and with pencil, you can play with picture pages, fill your day with picture pages, till bill cosby does another picture page with you!"? that's what i remember. maybe this was the version at the end, though. but what was bill's pen's name? movies - gotta love the committments. and girls just wanna have fun. i'm a sucker for sleeping beauty, and betty grable films, too (esp. ones with carmen miranda). btw, did anyone catch the AFI article in newsweek about the top 100 films of the last 100 years (those years, of course, being 1912-1996)? spencer - ck was #1. bentent - does anyone ever remember the lyrics wrong but with essentially the same meaning? whenever i sing along, i think the line in steven's is "...tamara easter, who later revealed to him, her innermost _thoughts_"? why do i do this? finally, i must live in the suckiest town on earth - instead of conan, we get jenny f-ing jones after leno! get me out of here! - -nicebug ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:09:20 -0500 (CDT) From: LaRubia@bigfoot.com (Carrie) Subject: Hi! Stacy -- You like Self??? I've been trying to find someone who will share the love. He is a genius. I listen to the Subliminal Plastic Motives CD and don't think it's necessarily THE greatest in any one category, but just the fact that one guy did the whole damn thing. Wow. Spence (mind if I call you that?) wrote: >Carrie (Care Bear--do you mind if I call you that?) jumped *way* up on my >list with her comments about my regular posts. How are you at Trivial >Pursuit? What do I get for being "on your list"? If it has anything to do with licking honey-drenched thighs.... Actually, I'm a wild card in TP. I'm actually REALLY great at Jeopardy and Win Ben Stein's Money, but my TP knowledge is very random. I can do poorly for a long time, and then whip it out and kick ass. "It" being my awesome useless knowledge. It makes me a great team player. (Funny, that's what they said about me when I played Little League baseball...) Tonight, my boyfriend John, in a fit to impress my English-majorness (thank God we're still in THAT stage of the relationship!), began a screenplay. It goes a little like this: Two guys are roommates, been best friends for a long time, both attractive, charismatic, etc., but can't meet any decent girls. After pretending to be gay for a while around their friends, as a joke, they finally decide that it's not a half bad idea. So they start messing around with eachother on occasion and enjoying it. Suddenly, they're both confronted by girls being interested in them again, so they break it off with each other. However, whenever one of them is dating someone, the other gets jealous and finds some violent way of scaring/killing the girl off. He's not sure how it will end, but it's going to be a black comedy. Maybe I'm being judgmental, but computer science majors shouldn't write screenplays. :-) Anyway, it made me think about that Belle & Sebastian song that starts "Lay on the bed there / kissing just for practice / could we please be objective 'cause the other boys are queueing up behind us, etc" Is that kind of what that song's about? It just hit me... B&S is a great band, but I haven't taken the time to figure out what a few of the songs mean... Hmmm... Saw the X-Files movie. It was cold in the theatre, and I had to pee, which means it was that much scarier... awesome. I got some great laughs out of it. My friend Kellie: "Oh, I get it! It's in the corn! Everybody likes corn!" Me: "Porn? You bet they do! An ingenious plan, really..." Courtney: Are you related to Alfred A. Knopf, the publishers? I was just wondering because one of my favorite books from when I was a kid, "Under Plum Lake" by Lionel Davidson, is theirs. Saw Ben Folds Five in Kellie's CD club order form. They were one of the specially described artists in a bubble. They have some really good info on them, quotes from critics who have recognized their amazing talent, etc., and then they ruin it with a big yellow thing that says, "WITH THE HIT SINGLE, **BRICK!!!**" First of all... uck. Second, it is not the kind of song to announce that way. Yeah, it was popular, but it's not a "HIT SINGLE, **BRICK!!!**" type of song. I still haven't found out if our favorite quintet is playing Case Western next semester or not, but if they are, I highly recommend y'all get yo asses out to the Land of Cleves. You'll get to meet ME, if you haven't already, and the host of characters that invade my inane little stories! Hannah: I'm getting really Ben-esque on "Cigarette"... I will prevail! I can't do the cricket chirps on el piano, though... :-( This post is longish. My boss from Ingram's Magazine is out getting me a job doing freelance work for a publisher in Cleveland this weekend... I'm giddy!! :-D BTW, for those of y'all who keep typing "BBVD" for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, I want to inform you that EVERY SINGLE TIME it takes me 10 minutes to figure out you're not talking about Bel Biv DeVoe. "Do me, baby... Ohh... Do me, baby... Do you like it in the morningtime, girl? Do me, baby..." I mourn my childhood. Enjoy y'selves, all. carrie "no you may not call me care bear" shanafelt ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #161 *********************************