From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #170 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 Tuesday, June 30 1998 Volume 01 : Number 170 Today's Filings: ----------------- SPICEWORLD Peoples is peoples Re: The Rockford Files V1 #169 Short and sweet... Kate's posting - The Novel - Part 2 Kate's posting - The Novel - Part 1 RF #167 If you like.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:37:36 -0400 From: Jake Alderman Subject: SPICEWORLD Spiceworld was great. I highly recommend watching it next time you have a bunch of people. I thought it would be hard to find at blockbuster. They had twenty copies, all 20 were there. The movie was cheesy as hell, as expected. I won't talk about it. I do not want to spoil it for anyone who is going to watch it. GIRL POWER Jake Thanks for all of your suggestions ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:49:11 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Peoples is peoples I really don't have anything to say today that's really Bentent. Kristin: For father's day, my mom and my sister went to Old Navy to get some wife-beater shirts for my dad as a joke, and they too discovered the globes. They bought one and put a picture of my hunting dog (his absolute pride and joy) in it. The globe distorted his face and made it really huge. It's the funniest thing you ever saw. As it turns out, my dad didn't like the shirts, so back to old navy. I bought myself a snow globe, but I'm waiting for the right picture. It's a very neat little globe...... I wanna see a cover of Rupal's "Stinky Dinky" by BFF. That would rock my bones..hehhehe Lucy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:58:44 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #169 Just jumping along on this Belle and Sebastian thread... I got my copy of Tigermilk from a friend at school who got his from someone on the west coast. I also have some songs from the BBC radio one sessions, those include , Sleep the Clock Around, Slow Graffiti, Lazy Line Painter Jane, and Modern Rock Song. Sleep the Clock Around is soooo soooo good. Jen: I'll be sending you a mix tape soooon. - --end transmission johnbot "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: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:55:50 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: Short and sweet... RF Road Rules Episode Two: http://members.tripod.com/~elyons/episode_two.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:19:10 +1000 From: Kate_Watkins%HBH@themis.com.au Subject: Kate's posting - The Novel - Part 2 Continued..... Okay - onto other things. I have been promising Spencer that I will put up my own list of 10 things that I look for in a guy to match his (top 10 things in a girl that is). Well, it's not as funny as his (in fact it sounds like my Male Mall Shopping list - told you I would use that Spencer!), but here goes - 10. Musical or artistic in some fashion - it makes for more interesting conversation. 9. Likes kids - I am planning on leaving him to look after them while I go back to work (he, he) 8. Able to cook coz tho' I am capable of cooking - I hate it. It would also be a bonus if he cleans but I am not holding my breath for that! 7. Able to dance - I love to head out to the nightclubs and dance the night away (ooohh that sounds like a song). But if he won't dance, he's gotta accept that I do! 6. Likes the kind of music I like - if he does not like BFF we will NEVER be able to live together! 5. Personally attractive - does not need to be a Brad Pitt look-a-like but must also not resemble Toad from Toad Hall! 4. Super-intelligent and able to answer the worlds problems without forgetting what the question was! 3. Has a fantastic sarcastic sense of humour (more Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites than Seinfeld - not that there's anything wrong with that!) 2. Must be straight (I have discovered that having a crush on a gay guy just doesn't work!) 1. Must be able to put up with me!!! (very important this - there are not many of these incredibly rare people out there!) Also, I wish to add my "Hear, hear" to the Trivial Pursuit challenge. I am one of those people who knows the answers to the really bizarre questions but not the obvious ones - so teams would be great! On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:18:37 EDT BlueJellow@aol.com wrote <> It would not be a problem - Darren would just dump his girlfriend and start going out with me! And Robert would enter the priesthood and get everyone to start praying before they start their gigs. Hey I am praying I will be able to get to one of their Aussie gigs, so it's working allready! Meg proposed: <> Had one person ask me if Ben and Robert were brothers coz she said they look exactly alike! Well, that's it for me little chickadees - now I will head off and have my lunch. Later, Kate. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:18:57 +1000 From: Kate_Watkins%HBH@themis.com.au Subject: Kate's posting - The Novel - Part 1 Hello people! Okay - I have tried to post this a few times and now our beloved FL has informed me that my post is too long and that is why it won't go through! Wow! I actually wrote enough to choke up the RF?!?!?! I'm impressed (even if no-one else is). So now you all have the joy of a multi-part Kate posting - lucky you! Please don't jump on me coz the info in this is so out of date. It's not my fault (whingy, whiny voice of unreason returns!) Later Kate. Kate Watkins 24/06/98 01:47 PM To: rockford-files@smoe.org cc: Subject: Application for RF Real World Hello people, I thought of applying for the Road Rules also - but then I would have to get my USA Drivers' Licence and that just sounds like TOO much effort. Anyway, keeping in mind that I have never even HEARD of this program until you guys started discussing on the RF, here goes.... (I too am copying Megan!) Name: Kate Watkins (no nicknames I am prepared to repeat!) Occupation: Full time lawyer, part time student, part time amateur (very) musician Place of employment: A law firm in Aussie-land (of course I would have to change that if my application is successful - I could be a paralegal in USA!!) Hobbies/interests: music (listening (esp live) and playing), making fun of my cyber-pals and then spending the rest of the e-mail helping to inflate their ego as a way of making it up to them, lurking on the RF, making tapes of Aussie music for overseas pen pals, pinching my friends musical instruments so that I can fiddle around on them and pretend that I can play..... ummm various sports which change frequently coz I get bored and want to try something different. Three interesting things about your childhood: 1) When I was 2 years old, there was a huge hail storm where I lived and the windows imploded and the entire roof came off our house, except for a small section over the loo. My parents, my brother and I huddled under that small section of roofing for about 2 hours until the storm subsided. To this day I am so scared of storms that I turn white and start to shake whenever I hear loud thunder. 2) I taught myself to read when I was three (also copied from Megan - actually I was reading by my third birthday - love that being super-competitive with my older brother thing!). I could also do addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication and division by the time I started school (age 5). (just to go one better!!!) 3) I was nearly expelled from primary school. I told a teacher to f#*k off and then ditched school and walked home (I had forgotten my shoes at school and it took me nearly 2 hours to walk home - my feet were killing me by the time I got there!). There you are FL, you wanted a trouble-maker, well I am excellent at that job description. (not really surprising from a kid whose first word was "Yuk") Favorite BFF song: changes frequently - but it is Song for the Dumped at the moment - just coz I love being able to sing "Well fuck you too" instead of just shout it! Also The Best Immitation of Myself coz so many of the lines seem to apply to me (all of my friends and family agree with this also) Favorite BFF moment: Being in the mosh pit for Livid '97 (which the guys were playing at) and Darren (I think - I could not see over all of the heads to know who actually said this line!) said "Hand me my cock ring" instead of "Hand me my nose ring" and a goodly portion of the crowd were shocked! Saying "Did he say cock ring, did he really say cock ring". I just stood there and killed myself laughing! How has BFF affected your life: I feel like I can relate to all of their songs. Some songs, like Underground, made me re-evaluate my own life and realise that it was really pretty good. I was one of those kids in school who was a tad too opinionated to really fit in and that and One Angry Dwarf got me realising that there are a heap of us out there who did not fit in at school and the best thing to do was just to accept it and not go over and over about what I would have done differently if I had had then the confidence that I have now. In a nutshell (again to borrow something from Megan!) their music helped me to accept myself as I am! Why should you be picked for RWBFF: Because you just HAVE to have at least ONE weird person from overseas. I could be like Steven and always be telling you I am leaving but just keep on staying. I could amaze you all with my tales of famous Aussie people (not that I know any, but anyway) and I could complain about how that is not the way we do things in Australia! Basically I could be a whiny little bitch and you could just ship me back to Aussie-land when you want to recast and put a multi-hair-coloured , pierced in weird places lesbian in to replace me! (not that I have a problem with any of these things but it is what I have gathered from guys is the usual casting) Also, I could sort out our legal problems when the landlord tries to kick us out of the place we are living in for having too many wild orgies on the front lawn! To be continued........ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:05:56 -0400 From: Kristin Klevering Subject: RF #167 Hi all - Wanted to say thanks to Jess, who gave us the URL to the Q magazine interview - that was one of the funniest interviews I've read with BFF in a long time! I went to Jen's "Mix Tape's A Masterpiece" site tonight as well, and it's just teriffic! You all should check it out - great graphics (how did you do it so quickly, Jen?). And thanks, Amanda, for praising my mix tape. I think the joy I got out of viewing the "Video Portrait" and knowing it is mine to keep forever is much greater than any mix tape could ever bring to a person, but you were sweet to mention it! I will be making a mix tape to post. I would be interested in doing a blind mix tape trade, though. That's part of the fun of mix tape exchanges - never knowing what you're going to get. Someone posted about this earlier, and I don't remember who, sorry. I wonder if this could be included into your site, Jen? Just a suggestion. I brought my BFF snowglobe into work today and showed it to some of my favorite co-workers. They think I'm certifiably nuts now. And I work in Psychiatry! But they still like having me around, although Dr. Kroll suggested that I take some time off and stop listening to the band for a while. He's been an additions specialist for more years than I've been alive, but I still refuse to heed his advice. Maybe if I start missing work just to sit home and listen to the band...hehe! Later - Kristin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:07:55 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: If you like.... Hey Guys... I heard all this talk about Rufus Wainwright on the list... Then in the CMJ magazine there was a song on the sample CD... and in Spin or Rolling STone, or both, there was an article, and so I decided to check him out. I bought the CD and I am digging it. BTW, I've already been a fan of his father Loudon Wainwright III. Check out his CD called Little Ship. I love it. Loudon is really cool, kinda folk rock I guess you could call it. I dunno, he transcends genres. =-) I reviewed this CD for the radiostation and that is how I discovered him. If you like his son, definatly check out the dad. =-) Stacy Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba --Ben Folds Five "Fair" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #170 *********************************