From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #167 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 Saturday, June 27 1998 Volume 01 : Number 167 Today's Filings: ----------------- us!! Mix Tape's A Masterpiece... Five...three, sir! Zig-a Zig-ahhhhh Mix Tape's a Masterpiece, part 2. Sean, it's OK, really Road Trip! Vacation... Short note. Fine! Crossing Delancey Yalloppin' Hounds ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 03:40:25 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: us!! Hey, i got this little dandy of a quote from an interview.article with the boys in Q magazine (url to follow): German: "What is your idea of success?" Sledge: "A house full of naked hermanphrodites and 24-hour Rockford Files." http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/5430/QInter.html jess **************************************************************** 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: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:10:43 -0700 From: "Jennifer Auletto" Subject: Mix Tape's A Masterpiece... Hey! Someone mentioned trading mix tapes with each other, which I think is a very very cool idea. I was gonna post the same thing (no lie!) but someone beat me to it. Anyway, I have about 10 megs of web space just sitting there waiting for me to use, so if you all want, I can set the page up so that you can just post what's on your tape and your e-mail address and stuff so that we can get the trades going. I've been planning mine...you know, it's *so* hard not to just make 3/4 of the tape BFF stuff. Anyways, let me know what you all think. I Hate Blockbuster Video and all that It stands for, Jen A closed mouth invites no foot. ICQ 6447144 ======================================== Jennifer Auletto jenauletto@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 04:24:23 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: Five...three, sir! okay you boneheads, stop laughing at me for asking about the quintet. i don't understand what's so funny. i KNOW there's 3 in BFF. i also know that people have referred to them as a quintet before, for a joke. okay, bastards? geez. i don't need this from the RF. i can go to the Winnebego and get slammed on TV. jess **************************************************************** 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: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:55:53 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: Zig-a Zig-ahhhhh So you want some Spiceworld punch, eh? Step up to the bar. I fix you up. One really good punch is one that my friend brought to our last day of high school all those yers ago (my, she was SUCH a bad influence on me. same girl who taught me to swear like a truck driver when i was 8.). You take some Raspberry lemonade and add some lime juice and equal parts vodka and kahlua. I did have a really good one from Swing Time magazine that was very hawaiian inspired and would make you want to light tiki torches and dance the hula. but I can't seem to find that one right now. What a bad hostess I am. You may also want to try www.hotwired.com/cocktail for a good "virtual blender" full of suggestions. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "This dress is Dry Clean Only, Melanie!!" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 03:26:55 -0700 From: "Jennifer Auletto" Subject: Mix Tape's a Masterpiece, part 2. Me again. Well, I just finished slaving over a page...yes, I realize it's 3:22 am, but who am I to ever sleep? Anyway, if you wanna check out the page I made for the mix tape trading thingy, go to http://home.earthlink.net/~jenauletto/bff/mix.html. I didn't post a tape on there like I said I would, because I'm too tired and I couldn't figure out the stupid forms thing since my brain is pretty much mush right now. But I will probably do it tomorrow (which could actually be *before* you read this...) so check it out! And sign my guestbook and let me know what you think of it! OK! Enough exclamation points! Bye! Dreams of pickles await, Jen A closed mouth invites no foot. ======================================== Jennifer Auletto jenauletto@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:40:46 -0500 (CDT) From: LaRubia@bigfoot.com (Carrie) Subject: Sean, it's OK, really >a quintet constitutes 5 members, while Ben Folds Five only has three. So >it's a trio (power trio if you ask me). If this was the armchair the >person who made that mistake would be in tears right now.... IT'S A *JOKE*. Albeit a not-very-funny one, but a JOKE nonetheless. Don't worry. I may be an imbecile, but I am not a complete imbecile. Courtney wrote: >I heard that when he's writing songs, Stuart writes from a female >viewpoint...so i guess it's about a girl making out with him, eh? THANK YOU! This is one of those things that, well, if you don't know it when you listen to the songs, you're quite convinced they're ALL about experimenting with homosexuality. Of course, they probably still are... "You should go with girls / you'd be better off / at least they know what they're doing..." "The best looking boys are taken / The best looking girls are staying inside / So, Judy, where does that leave you?" I'm going through a Belle and Sebastian point in my life. No, not experimenting with homosexuality, Erik. Just really dig them, man. More and more... Off to work, carrie "'Goodbye,' said the hero in the story. 'It is mightier than swords. I could kill ya sure, but I could only make you cry with these words.'" -- B&S ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:17:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Patton Subject: Road Trip! Awwwwww, yeah! I'm on the Winnie, I'm on the Winnie. Great, so now I can go running all around the world, degrading everyone's opinons of Americans even more! Par-ley-vouse-Fran-chesy? Oh yeah, Kathryn? Dragonlance readers? Hello? Have you SEEN my email addy? I have a small cottage in Solace for when I pass out of this world. ;) Anyway, I'm off. Oh yeah, I just want to know, in what episode do we reveal that Sandi and Jessica are both pregnant with my love children? ;) Hail Eris. ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "Can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding." -TMBG _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:28:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Anne Lyons Subject: Vacation... ...is all I ever wanted! Hello from semi-sunny Boxborough! Ms. Lyons asked me, her cabana-boy, to type this while she removes some excess suntan oil so that her fingers don't slip on the keys. My name is Rocco, and I was hired by Ms. L. to be her assistant during these trying vacation days. So I slather on lotion, and hold her book at an optimal angle so that the binding does not interfere with any possible Massachusetts rays. Ahhhhhh... I hear her coming up the stairs now... Thanks for starting this note, Rocco! What's that? Oh yes! A back massage while I type would be great! Go ahead... souirrernnn jhsduffff am jstu aahhe mfddda e3neffsf kddssskoeeeeeewsma ccbvaeuaa. Sorry about that. I just realized that having a massage while I type is not a good idea. I sent Rocco to do my laundry instead. So yes -- I am officially on vacation. I am seriously considering taking the entire month of July off, as well. Which means I am giddy with vacationing! But I digress... Let me explain some things. I finished my job yesterday for good, which means thaat I had to clean out not only my office, but all my files on my computer as well. So I have no back issues of the RF to refer to. so if this seems to be a note that is not in reply to anything... that's 'cuz it is. Sorry! I can start saving issues again, anyway! Also, I don't like this keyboard we have at home... it forces me to make more typos than usual. so I apologize in advance, 'Kay? Moving on... so I think I got kicked off of the Armchair. At least, I haven't received any MAs today. Maybe they're just late... because I caaan't imagine that I'd be kicked off for my last post, which was chock full of questions about the BFF existence. Actually, I should have saved the questions for here, but I thought I'd try one more time to start an insightful, non-redundant discussion on the MA. Last I checked, it didn't work. My post was regarding the BFF rise to fame, (one of my scenarios was that MTV uses BFF songs all the time in their shows as mood music, but yet they rarely play BFF videos). My question was basically: "Do you think BFF is suffering from too myuch exposure, not enough exposure, the wrong kind of exposure, etc? Are they in the mainstream, or not, etc.? I titled my post "The New Grateful Dead?". So the replies I got were as follows: In the actual MA... none. But i did receive two personal notes: one from someone who said that he enjoys my posts here and on the MA, but was asking why I titled it "The New Grateful Dead" when I had no reference to the Dead in my post. I answered him by saying that I was trying to draw a parallel between the fact that the Dead only had one "hit" -- A Touch of Grey, etc. Maybe I was being too obscure, though... The other message was from someone who answered a bunch of my "questions" -- none of which I had actually asked. For example, I made a point about the fact that BFF is out there -- people know about them. Example given: "The new MTV VJ Dave of Eye Spy (I Spy? I never actually watched it) used BFF as one of his three CD choices on the MTV video contest," blah blah blah. So this guy wrote back to me telling me that "Dave is not the new VJ, he lost the competition. Jesse is the new VJ and MTV just gave Dave a show as a consolation prize." And then he went on to explain the concept of Dave's show. ?????????????!!!!!!!! he also told me that "MTV does not play BFF, for BFF videos, check out M2." HELL-o?! Was that not my point??? So anyway... I wrote back telling him that I really had not needed any of the info he gave, but thanks anyway. And oh yeah, I also pointed out that in my opinion, if you are on MTV and you have your own show on which you show videos... that would make you a VJ. But perhaps I was a bit harsh. Speaking of MTV, anyone seen Jesse lately? the first few times I saw him -- sure, he was inchoherent... but he had not problem with words -- jsut in completing sentences. Last time I caught him, he couldn't even form words. I think Jesse took that giant cardboard check for 50K and walked it immediately down to the nearest drug corner and bought as much heroin as he could with it. I mean, c'mon! The guy wears long sleeve shirts and pants at the beach in June!!! And if he isn't wearing long sleeve shirts, he wears scuzzy looking bandanas around his elbows! My husband wants to stay home and watch the show every day, because he is convinced that Jesse is going to OD right on MTV someday. Ummmmmm... this post has been brought to you by todays word: "annebling". Later! - -Anne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:50:20 -0500 From: "Scott Schneider" Subject: Short note. Us RFRRers are in pseudo-England now! Whoohoo! Here's my short posting for the day: I wore a BFF shirt to work today (hey, Friday is casual day!) and a co-worker (who happens to look JUST LIKE Wilford Brimley, but that's besides the point) came up and said "Ben Folds Five... they do that 'she's a brick' song, don't they?" I noted that they did, and he mentioned "that is the most depressing song I've ever heard!" Oops... I forgot what my point was. It's my little story for the day. Scott PS-- Kathryn lies when she said Hand of Chaos isn't her favorite death metal band. and Ginger could keep me out of her bed if she REAAAALLY wanted to. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:51:46 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: Fine! OK, so I get NO mention on the RF Road Rules page! SHUN (as my friend, Big Gay Dan would say)!!! I don't wanna play in any of your reindeer games anyway! & after all I've done for you! BTW, if there's no Kate single, why do I own a copy?! Hmm...curiouser & curiouser. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:29:14 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Crossing Delancey Well, My mom made me watch her fave movie, Crossing Delancey (sp) and the main character, Isabelle, was in the bookstore. This guy came up to the door and she let him in and said, "your timing is impeccable" and I was like, "whoa" but then I realized. The whole song Alice Childress is ABOUT the damn movie on some level. Especially on the line "An arranged marriage is not so good." If you haven't seen the movie, you can't argue with me. But I think that's what Anna Goodman and Ben had in mind when they wrote it. So, lemme know what you think..... Lucy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 20:04:40 EDT From: Jen116nyc@aol.com Subject: Yalloppin' Hounds Hey everybody, I think someone here put my name on a list to get info. on swing dancing events. If you did, Thanks. Because I saw the Yallopin' Hounds at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing last night. It was so much fun. Unfortunately, I can't swing dance very well, so me and my friend basically did our impression of swing dancing. I will be taking lessons in July, and once I can really swing I'm going to go back and dress up and all that cool stuff. I know someone had been asking if Ben Folds Five is sexy...well. they are not sexy in the conventional sense, but they are very sensitive which can be very sexy. For example, Lou Barlow-the most sensitive man in indie rock-is very very sexy with his messy brown hair and sexy glasses. Here's my question: Is Ben Folds Five swank? I think so. This is supposed to be the "Summer of Swank" for me and my friends, hence the swing dance lessons. Thanks for listening, Jen ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #167 *********************************