From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #163 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, June 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 163 Today's Filings: ----------------- ruminations on chaos (replete with baseball analogy) Nothing particularly interesting... ROAD RULES APPLICATION Day Off I forgot... More random stuff and an actual point to this post Speaking of Apocalypses new orleans? kickass! I AM ROAD RULES DAMMIT! Real World--I call the big bedroom!!!!! splendiferous ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 04:38:05 EDT From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: ruminations on chaos (replete with baseball analogy) alright. many of us, you know who you are, have felt that bf5 is getting tired. allow me to explain the phenomenon from my perspective. i became a fan early........it's been about three years, or approximately 1,576,800 minutes. i could tell you how many seconds, but i just don't have the time. but the band never quite hit my personal heavy rotation chart until, oh, mid 96. i needed to have some of the things that have happened in my life to happen, allowing me to identify with the music and allow it's meanings became more clear. and even tailoring them to be personal.......which i can assume we all do. 'the last polka' is still all mine. taking songs is the mark or fans. so when 'whatever' (damn all you and your acronyms!) came around, it was fresh and new. daisy scented, even. it gave us all the jolt at the time. i remember the early talks that we all had , before they became mundane and routine. ("what's brick about, in your opinion?" "that's a phone!" "they're starting to play this killer lounge version of 'she don't use jelly!") so it's all starting to sound unfresh. it is merely human nature to slump upon occasion. take baseball for an example. we enjoy watching baseball because it is a physical and mental game, one which you need to be astoundingly talented to excel at. (can we say michael jordan.............snicker.) does omar vizquel have off days? does sammie sosa? does el duque feel not up to par sometimes? well, before you all shout out the answer at once, it's yes. (admittedly, their slumps are still better than anything the rest of us mortals could ever aim for at that game.) so we saw some amazing shows........ ben dressed up as the grim reaper. conBENtion 98, i have my button. the odeon, metropol, horde....... and we saw a handful of not too amazing shows, where it seemed almost lackluster and half-hearted. and as our passions for the music dimmed, so did ben's, upon occasion. for those of you who saw the boys rock lately, consider yourselves lucky. that's how it's supposed to be. for those of us who couldn't hide our disappointment at recent shows, my advice is...... wait for early 99. make it or break it time. and in the meanwhile........ every so often pop a boot of conBENtion in. and listen to the words. onto business. tolerate my longwinded prattle, for you only have to put up with me once or twice a week. meg: good taste in music, though i'm a little iffy about the ska-lite stuff, personally. supergrass is amongst the best, and i'll bite the ear off of anyone who disagrees. everyone: a long time ago, no, i don't know how many minutes, i was declared cheerleader of the rockford files. so all you new meat, don't even think it. real world persona? i'll be me. jay: baseball man. smile. carrie: licking honey drenched thighs? (honey is awfully sweet. word of warning.) what? belle and sebastian! hannah: please e me your address. i just made a mix of how a 2 hour long radio show should go, as opposed to how they do. god, i hate radio......anyhow, it fits, it's happy. it's matthew flava. (and it's a tape and a half long.) jordan: "please don't be harsh." where do you think you are? the ma?(moron's acronyms.) if you are going to anneble at length, as i believe i'm doing, attempt to make it interesting. that's the only rule hereabouts. movies: raging bull, killing zoe(well done though predictable), usual suspects(see 'killing zoe'), trainspotting, arsenic and old lace, barefoot in the park, fear and loathing in 'vegas, casablanca, godfather 2, empire strikes back, citizen kane, etc etc etc etc........ eric: jonestown. heh heh heh. spencer: the plain, square magnet that adorns my fridge has the movie poster reprinted from 'reefer madness' on it. i kid you not. trivia pursuit is so......blase. i've been a cybergeek conquering the known universes with 'starcraft' lately. anyone else? (you can get online teams/competitions going. jason and i are rocking the zerg with our version of tank madness. i love the smell of siege tank armadas in the morning.) anne: we'll talk soon. promise. stay well. fl: how about that cubbie team? matthew "kaiser soze!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:07:41 -0400 From: Anne Lyons Subject: Nothing particularly interesting... Hey all! I really liked the apps for RFRR! Very fun. And I like Emily's story about "That was Ben Folds Five"... And the FL's quote-o-rama at the beginning of his post. Have I told you people lately that I love you? Hey! I made the Real World! Apparently, the producers got my naked photos. Anyway... anyone want to go for a few Hurricanes at Pat O'Brien's? I feel the need.... the need... for beads. There is an Anne Lyons wannabe? Oh. My. God. Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse? An Anne Lyons Wannabe approacheth on a pale horse? Or is that a pale AML Wannabe approacheth on a regular, or rather, a sort of dun colored horse? Nevermind... Speaking of apocalypses... I saw Apocalypse Now last night for the first time. It was pretty darn good. But I think that if I had been on drugs while watching it, it would have been better. My favorite line: "Charlie don't surf!" Anyway... not one of my favorite movies... but very good nonetheless! It did remind me of another favorite that I was going to list here today -- and then I saw that the FL beat me to it! Bridge over the River Kwai is a great film! And some of everyone else's faves reminded me how much I liked them, too! The Commitments was a notable one... Welp. That's about all for now. Oh yeah... interestingly enough... I was perusing the MA the other day and noticed that some girl was really disturbed by the "RF attack" and wanted people to e-mail her to discuss it. No, I'm not kidding. And then someone else called us all pricks today. Although was sort of being nice (I think it was in a "Even those RF pricks are fans" kind of way). And there's only been a few posts from us lately -- one from Markus* offering to buy singles for everyone, and one from me sharing the yoga tidbit with the Armchair. I'm not sure what is so disturbing, or prickish about those posts, but apparently, we still offend even when we aren't there... Welp. That's all. See? I tolja it was of no particular interest to anyone... - -Anne P.S. Oh yeah... my e-mail address will probably be changing soon. (Sorry, Katie -- no more westlyon! That was from my present workplace... Westborough Schools/Anne Lyons/8 characters -- you know how it is!) I will let you all know when I've got a new moniker! * Markus- they are clamoring for you on the 'Chair... one guy wanted to know if the "guy from Seattle with the singles" was still on the list. And then someone else said that your name was Marcus, and also asked if you were on the list... just thought I would pass it all along... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:11:54 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: ROAD RULES APPLICATION Name: "Crazy" John Boyer Occupation: Student. Radio Management. Radio News Boy. Place of employment: WOBN-FM, WTAM-AM Hobbies/interests: Music. Listening and playing. I play Bass guitar in a band called "Qix"(pronounced kicks, if you don't remember the old Atari 2400 game...If that doesn't make me a geek, I don't know what does). I love discovering new Indie Rock. I love reading...DeLillo, Auster, Coupland, and Amis. I love to write as well. I have written two full screenplays. They suck, but they are getting better. Three interesting things about your childhood: 1) This is a clincher, I hope...I lived most of my formidable years in Europe. I spent 1st-6th grade in Muttenz, Switzerland which is a suburb of Basel. I know German. This would help our trip greatly!!! 2) As a small child, still living in America, I used to jump out the window of the family car at intersections, trying to emulate the Dukes of Hazzard. 3) In Switzerland, there was this big park called Grun Actzig(don't know how to make an umlaut over the u in grun, this translates into Green 80). They had a huge dinosaur, and the first time I saw it I was so scared that I fell backwards into a lake! I have been petrified of dinosaurs ever since. Favorite BFF song: Kalamazoo. Emaline. Evaporated. Not fair to ask for just one. Favorite BFF moment: album moment: Cigarette...comes at the perfect time on the album...it always causes me to stop everything I am doing and become perfectly silent. live moment: Ypsilanti, Mich. During the encore, Ben begins to talk about the new Flaming Lips album, Zaireeka, which I had. He asked the audience if anyone had it. I was the only one to say that they did. We then proceeded to talk about the album for about 3 minutes, just Ben and me, with the rest of the venue absolutely silent. Very kewl. Talked to him about it after the show as well, for 15 more minutes. How has BFF affected your life: Money. I have now spent way too much money on BFF merchandise. Obsessed. BFF has also completed my descent into total dork-dom. Who am I kidding, I have written screenplays and I play bass, and I know a foriegn language. Not to mention I have a homepage, and I am in love with Robots. Nevermind, I already was a dork. Why should you be picked for RRBFF: Simple. I know German. Also I have roadtripped with Sandi before to Cincinnati. Gotta start forming alliances on the show early! I am afraid of dinosaurs. And I have been known to sometimes drop off the face of the social planet and not talk for weeks. Lets see how Road Rules deals with that! Ha! They always deal with people who are too outgoing, but can they handle an introvert!? John Boyer Indie Rock Director WOBN-FM Westerville, Ohio "Close your eyes and you'll see nothing at all, or maybe it's just everything at once." --Modest Mouse _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:00:53 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: Day Off So after taking a day off to recover from Sunday night's all-night return drive from Lilith Fair ("Uggh...I'm sick...I won't be in today...Zzzzzzzzzzz")--to which you should go if it comes to your area!!!--I return to 4 quadbillion emails. After reading through the necessary ones, responding to the compelling ones, & deleting the boring ones, my "deleted items" folder showed "61 items, 19 unread"...19 unread?! Can anyone say "Magical Armchair"?!?!?!?! Delete, delete, delete...:-) In all seriousness, go see Lilith Fair. Sinead kicks much arse, as does Erykah. Of course, YOU won't be seeing it @ the most beautiful amphitheater on the face of this or any other planet, the Gorge, but go anyway. & tell Sinead I'd gladly have her love child! (BTW, if you've ever the opportunity--go to a concert @ the Gorge!!! Unbelievable! God, I love this state!) No Bentent, but I will say that both Natalie & Sara played pianos, but neither threw their stool, so their technique lacked something! Marcus Kamp TS Documentation Marcus.Kamp@PSS.Boeing.com 425.957.5122 m/c 7M-AT ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:31:53 -0400 From: Anne Lyons Subject: I forgot... So, I bought some new CDs this weekend. I finally got around to buying Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. They are in HEAVY rotation -- in my car, in my 'puter, in my CD player. I love 'em! I know a bunch of you guys are into swing here... so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon... _>_>_>_/^`` o===o Oof. That was a piss-poor depiction of Anne jumping on the bandwagon. Oh yeah... I knew there was something else I forgot! Do I love The Natural? You betcha! Actually, one of my best papers in college was one I wrote for Sport & Society called "The Connection Between Sex, Love and Baseball in Literature." I wrote about The Natural, Bull Durham, and this book that I forget the name of -- it was good though. It was about some guy who created a whole fantasy league and really started living inside it -- to the point that he lost his job and all his friends. He was just a tad bit obsessed. Damn. I wish I could remember the name of it. ANYWAY... my paper was all about the baseball euphemisms for sex in real life, and how sex & love are portrayed in stories about baseball... The woman in black (sex) vs. the woman in white (true love) in The Natural "Your pulling your hips out too early" Bull Durham Baseball Annies... Annie Savoy in BD "Nahhhhh, man, we didn't fuck. She read poetry to me all night. It's more tiring than fucking." BD Anyway... it was the finest achievement of my freshman year. Of course, my mom was none too psyched about my choice of topics. I mean, nineteen-year-old Irish Catholic girls should know nothing about sex, right? *grin* Anyway... more drivel for your enjoyment! - -Anne "Blinded by the sauce You know I'd rather stay bent" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:36:55 -0500 From: Clayton Smith Subject: More random stuff and an actual point to this post ok, lets get started here.......First the actual point to this post. My great Idea is that we collect a list of all the ppl on ICQ and AIM(aol instant messenger) and what there ICQ #'s are and however you add ppl on AIM so we can all talk to eachother. I would be happy to put the list together if you guys are interested. Let Me know what you think. Onward, The movies, I heard someone say trainspotting. Best movie here ever was. It is very cool. Comments, Anne: someone was asking about your last name on the armchair Carrie: may I ask where licking honey-drenched thighs.... came from? Spencer: If you were stranded on a deserted island and you could only take one thing, what would it be, a piano or a bottle of viagra......im sorry i had to ask after our FL pointed out that you needed it along with other things. I would also like to take a moment to thank Chad Sarles of the BFF Audio Archive, He's a really cool guy and has a bunch of cool mp3 files for us that dont own all the imports or just wanna listen to some good music on the computer. Clayton Smith ctsmith@onr.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:53:42 EDT From: ILuvRobS@aol.com Subject: Speaking of Apocalypses I was thinking of something that would really suck. Wonder if the apocolypse really did come in the year 2000. I finally get out of the mindless world of high school.. and bam.. the world ends. Do you realize how much that would suck? Sure I've lived somewhat of a life, but still. And it would probably happen the day after I graduated. Just when I thought I had freedom.. boom! (Yes, the end of the world will come in one sound, BOOM.. and it won't be like a crashing boom, it will be a cartoon boom. Yes, it's all completley true.) I think I'm getting pink eye. It really stinks. I hate doctors, maybe I'll just borrow some eye drops from one of my ever sick little cousins. I think we need some Bentent in here.. Uhm.. a week ago I picked up a Gladhands album at my local used CD store. Yeah, the one with Rob on it. (Ok, it was more Robtent.) Hey Erik, on your page instead of ben_menu.htm.. I think it should be benu.htm.. sorry, I think it would be neat. Hey Sandi, may I once say again how I think you need to go back to the '91-'92 look. It suits you......really. Thinking of the perfect sign off, Katie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:33:08 EDT From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: new orleans? kickass! except, you realize that with the cast you've given, somebody would be fucking someone else in a matter of days. if not hours. probably on the pool table...... smirk. either that or mr. spencer and i will be arrested for possession of illicit substances and paraphernelia. we'd get out of the 'plan to distribute' charge by claiming vociferously that we intended to smoke it all. i'll bring the playstation, spencer, you get the golf games....... anne: 51? respectable. mmmmm.........sunburn.......... katie: if you are chock full of angst, i could suggest a sisters of mercy, nin, or joy division/smiths/sad defunct bands fan letter for you. i'll stray from the overly lengthy posts and finish..................... here. matthew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:36:29 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: I AM ROAD RULES DAMMIT! hey there, i will not be spilling my guts out to the RF to get myself into the RF Road Rules clan, because i STARTED the whole thing. I feel like SUCH a number. i am very hurt. so i'm going to pout. Should I tell Anne, since she's the den mother? maybe she'll give Erik a lecture for posting this: >RF Road Rules: Europe/BFF Tour Bus >In the Winny: >Grrls: Sandi >Boys: Eric i mean, christ, it was MY idea. *sob* Jess don't ask my favorite movies, bunghole. **************************************************************** I'm not just naked, I'm Naked for Jesus!!! * --+-Read The Shrubbery-+-- * http://www.theshrubbery.prohosting.com --New Every Month- -Humor, News and More-- * Ben Folds Five International Fans Page * http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/6814/fans.html --Get a "Ben" Pal- -Now Spans 11 Countries-- **************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:48:46 -0400 From: spencerc@usit.net (Spencer Corden) Subject: Real World--I call the big bedroom!!!!! Ha! I moved in before anyone else! No, Markus, GET AWAY!!! This is *my* room! See? I already put my suitcase in here. Plus, I *CALLED* it! Now...get out of here so I can put up my bluelight posters and lava lamps. And Anne, get the HELL off of my bean bag! You can borrow my Suddenly 70's CD only if you promise to bring it back, OK? matthew, I already saved another room for you. But I wrote your name on the door in capital letters. I hope you won't mind. When are the sultaness and hand o' chaos gettin' here? They must have stopped off at the Steak & Shake for some cheese fries and a vanilla Coke...Don't worry. FL's sitting out front on the porch hittin' a bong made out of a 2-liter Mountain Dew bottle and a toilet paper roll. He said he'll leave the light on for ya. Carrie: Spencer, Spence, Spenser for hire, whatever. You can call me anything you want. I can take it about ten times better than I can dish it out. Just ask my therapist. FL scribbled: <> It's gonna be tough with a *cat* named Spence and *me* being in the same house. Please don't make the obvious joke here. Just chuckle quietly to yourselves. FL also feeds my image with: <<>Clayton Smith wrote: >Do you really need the viagra spence??? Hah. Among *other* things...>> Hey! I resemble that remark! Now if you guys don't mind, I'm gonna settle down in the house and make some of my world famous cuisine. Let's see here...."Take plastic off chicken and brownie. Poke holes in plastic over corn. Heat at 350 for 23-27 minutes." Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh, Spencer "Martha Stewart, my ass! The Elvis throw rug STAYS!" Corden ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:04:48 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: splendiferous gosh it's been a while since I posted. I was being bad and neglecting my email duties. Sometimes I suck like that. Carrie: nope, I'm not related to Alfred A.....though I think that's be nice. I'd be sitting in some posh town house in Manhattan and going to some pretentious womens' college. Wait no, it's summer. i'd be in the Hamptons. Let's see....I went to see Indigo Swing on sunday night. that was very cool. Well it was cool and it sucked. It sucked because none of my friends would/could go with me so I went by myself. First of all, I dislike being by myself in large crowds. Second of all, there were way too many cutsie/happy couples jitterbugging and lindying. I hate happy couples....mainly because I'm not part of one. And I suck because i only know 4-count swing, adn the only guy who asked me to dance wanted to do 6-count so i made ass of myself, and my dance card was empty for the rest of the evening:( But the cool part of the evening was that the only people I knew there were the band members. We booked them from USC's Swing Night in the spring, and we also have some mutual freinds in San Francisco, so I got the hookups. They are such a great band, and they're absolutely the sweetest guys in the world. Johnny Boyd is one of the most chivalrous guys in the world and oh they're just all around cool:) If any of you haev seen that picture of me in the lavender dress, teh guy in it is Indigo's guitarist, Josh. If you have a chance to see them, DO IT!! Or I will personally come and kick your arse. So hmm...I wanted to go see Ivy and Komeda tonight, but alas the show was 21+ and I'm the only one of my friends with a fake id. and after sunday night's aloneness, I didn't wanna do it again. *sigh* I went on a mad shopping rampage today. I got a couple basic tank tops from Nordstorm, and I'm gonna go back and get a navy one and make myself a Belle and Sebastian shirt. Since the web page is sold out of them ever since their van was robbed in manchester.... I'm so resourceful. Then I did some catlog ordering. Woowoo, i LOVE J. Peterman, and the Delia's sale catalog. I'm so happy that our BFF Real World is in New Orleans. We can tear shit up during mardi Gras. And my friend at Tulane can hook us up too. And my friend has Anne Rice's home phone number. And think of all the great jazz shows we can go see....oh, and isn't the drinking age 18? PAR-TAY! So the mix tape idea, es bueno. Scott already has a Courtneytape and can attest to it's kickassitude. And speaking of mixtapes, may Ginger kick ass on the Semisonic cover art thingy. And do i get a pat on the back for being the one to jump on Markus' Underground single offer? Now I understand why I like loose mail so much:) I bought Tommy Keene's CD "Isolation Party." Kicks arse. Very poppy and cool. It was reviewed in the CMJ with The Boys (there's my bentent!). Oh, and I found the Semisonic "Pleasure" EP *and* Trip Shakespeare. Go me. Okay, I'm going to wrap this up as it is too long for its own good. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Dan from your department." "Departmental Dan?" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #163 *********************************