From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #179 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 Thursday, July 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 179 Today's Filings: ----------------- 'Cause I'd love to mix in circles, cliques, social COTERIES.... Shoop Shoop The emptiness...the craziness...satisfy my hungriness... Mad Props! Whoops! just a few quick notes Re: The Rockford Files V1 #178 Jem & the Holograms! well, i've lurked long enough Re: The Rockford Files V1 #178 There's Spring of Myself You don't need one of these to let me inside of you... The Reoccuring Dream BFF Covers... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 03:50:32 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: 'Cause I'd love to mix in circles, cliques, social COTERIES.... So the slow weekend ends! Yippee! Well, we did throw you a party for your half-birthday Katy, but since we party every-single-day in the RF RW House, well....We just plain gave up on themes about two weeks ago. Though it is interesting to come up with reasons to go wild: "Katy's Half- Birthday"..."The Gardener Didn't Sue Us"..."Steven's Back in Town"..."I Found My Other Shoe"..."What's That Smell?"... "I Didn't Win Ben Stein's Money!"..."Today is a Brazilian Holiday"..."The Cat's Alive (We Just Need to Defrost Her)"...(note: no animals were harmed in the writing of this post. Except for Scott.) I wanna be able to see who a post is from in the digest format! Waaaaa! Well, well, well....FL, I see that you have been to my lil' ol' web site-a- roonie and no, Axl Rose is NOT dead, although he sometimes looks like he is "on another plane." And "warped" is the only safe word I could use (without being thrown off of the server) to describe the Homepage For the Dumped. Man, are those flowers....warped! (Sorry....) Keep on giving those gems o' knowledge! Even you, Lucy! The Tim Collins Nine rawk. Even though I haven't heard a single song of theirs yet. Oops. HANNAH! You came ba-ack. I'll make going to Circuit City a priority next time I go shopPING. It's not just shopping, it's shopPING. Freaking Windows 98 overwrote my BFF startup and shutdown screens! Damn you, Bill Gates! And I had this nice picture of Ben doing that thing where you have yer hand in a fist except for that one finger....In the middle....and it said "Starting Windows...." :( Plus, I'm too lazy to change 'em back. Waiting for Ben Con '00 and '01 and '02 and... Ginger is SO evil...she is the earthly manifestation of all evil in the world. Ginger is my master...she has always been...she tells me what to do.... I like this character, the apostrophe. I am a strange cupcake.... ~Kathryn THE STRANGEST THINGS ...a web site which only works if I want it to!... http://members.xoom.com/HndOfChaos `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 03:46:05 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: Shoop Shoop Anne: Beautiful work, baby! I'm hooked, can't wait for more. I always thought Ben should write a rock opera, like Tommy, cuz his songs tell such great stories abou people. Now you've one and done it for him/us! yay! Courtney: Bug's life?? Dave Foley does the voices for one of the bugs. Yum :) uhm...well if anyone was wondering, I worked all weekend. No parties. I had a little "date" with a guy from work.....meaning, since we work at Blossom Music Ctr. (yes, the same yucky pavillion BFF played with Beck) and it was the July 4th music spectacular thingy with the cleveland orchestra, complete with fireworks, Mark (this guy i work with) and I took off after dinner service and watched the show together. Apparently, he is being contacted from the netherworld by Henry David Thoreau. Ah, too bad he's 34 and divorced....Anyway, we watched the fireworks as well. This weekend was like that movie Groundhog Day, only it was Independence Day. I worked 4 days straight, all 4 days i stayed up till 5 am, got up at 1 PM, went to work. Worked, saw fireworks, went home, lather, rinse, repeat. However, SUNDAY night i found myself facing my fears! i was always terribly afraid of fireworks as a kid, and somehow this weekend i found myself driving, in a sucky electric golf cart, right INTO the fireworks, with fireballs raining down on me. I almost made it back to the restaurant without freaking. Almost. I pulled off the road into a pavillion. *sigh* But that's pretty cool for a girl who missed fireworks the first 15 years of her life cuz she was damned scared of them! Allright now i feel all significant because i posted about my life. Big shot, big shot. Whoo hoo! READ THE F'N SHRUBBERY!! 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: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 03:59:38 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: The emptiness...the craziness...satisfy my hungriness... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --part0_899884778_boundary Content-ID: <0_899884778@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hmm....Ginger, are you okay? Somehow, this ended up in my mailbox....Sorry if you have to read it again! ~Kathryn - --part0_899884778_boundary Content-ID: <0_899884778@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from relay23.mx.aol.com (relay23.mail.aol.com [172.31.106.69]) by air18.mail.aol.com (v45.16) with SMTP; Wed, 08 Jul 1998 01:05:21 -0400 Received: from listserv.oit.unc.edu (listserv.oit.unc.edu [152.2.25.17]) by relay23.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id AAA25725 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:01:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from root@login2.isis.unc.edu (port 1191 [152.2.25.132]) by listserv.oit.unc.edu with ESMTP id <222617-6085>; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 23:59:15 -0400 Received: by email.unc.edu id <7266-73324>; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:00:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:00:38 -0400 (EDT) Sender: Ginger Nance From: Ginger Nance X-Sender: gnance@login2.isis.unc.edu To: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: Re: The emptiness...the craziness...satisfy my hungriness... In-Reply-To: <5c10cd48.35a00bcf@aol.com> Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I'm leaving for Mexico in the morning, but I just wanted to say that Kathryn is evil. She says I am but nooo...it's all her. I told the MA, I'll tell y'all. Buy Dag. Buy Jump, Little Children when their new album comes out. Buy The Doleful Lions. All good stuff, I'll miss it while I'm listening to...whatever it is they play down in Mexico. I showed Emily around Chapel Hill on Sunday, it was soo much fun. We were geeky and took pictures in front of the Mitchell Lane/Rosemary sign. Unfortunately Mama Dip's was closed...but I think Em actually likes grits so I wouldn't have ahd as much fun. and i meant to type had Oy, don't post for a while and you get rusty. Forgive me for this! Ginger :) Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! - --part0_899884778_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 07:59:34 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: Mad Props! First to Courtney for doing the same to me. I never knew anyone even knew who I was on this list, it would seem that you even remember me! Wow, I'm blushing. I don't think anyone understands the magnitude of the step it took to apply for RFRW. Oh well. I'm shy. Who cares. Second to Sanders for the CD release dates, and for telling us about his radio/net show. Just so everyone knows, I will be putting a show up on the internet in the near future as well. My radio show, "Advice For Robots", will not be simulcast on the web, but the day after the weekly show one hour of the two hour show will be posted on the net in streaming audio! Stay tuned for more details!!! Check out the "Advice For Robots" web page at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Mezzanine/9184/robots.htm Does acknowledging a lack of Bentent give you actual bentent? Btw, Courtney, I did not in fact go to your school...You are the second person from this mailing list to ask me that. Weird. - --end transmission johnbot "As for me, I could leave the world with nothing but today in my eyes." --Truman Capote _____________________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:50:22 -0400 From: a_lyons@juno.com (Anne Lyons) Subject: Whoops! Hey all! I sent this yesterday, but I was silly and didn't wait until the majordomo actually added this new address, so it got denied. Our intrepid FL was kind enough to send it back to me, though -- which was a lifesaver, as when I sent this yesterday, I had yet to turn on "save all sent mail." Thanks E! So here is the post that should have gone in yesterday's RF... > Subject: A new identity... > Speed of lightning > Power of thunder > Fighting all who > Rob or plunder... > Underdog! (Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh!) > Underdog! > > Hey all! > > C'est moi! I've got a new identity, see? "What's up with that?" you ask. > Well, I'll tell ya! Y'see, the "westlyon" address was my old work > address. I got it for free because I was working for the district. And > since I also had ultranet at home (or rather, hubby has ultranet at > home), I used it illegally on the weekends. Tee hee. So anyway... since I > have no idea if or when they'll yank my westlyon address now that I > skedaddled from that horrible place, I decided to start using this new > address from good ol' juno. > > So yeah. It's me. Anne Lyons in the (electronic) flesh. > > OH! I almost forgot! Well, actually, I *did* forget in my last note... > but we'll let that pass, won't we? > > Jay: Yes, yes, YES!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyou for remembering that the > book I was talking about was indeed The Universal Baseball Association! I > can't for the life of me remember where I put it. I can't believe that I > would have sold a fiction book, but stranger things happened to me in > college (mostly when I was drunk). Anyway. It also reminded me that my > paper was not only on Sex & Love, but also on religion! Oh yes... Damon > as the antithesis of a demon... and his death, like the death of Christ > re-enacted in that world each year... Plus that whole fate vs. free will > deal with the forcing of the death of Damon's killer. Isn't that how it > went? And there was a lot of religion in Bull Durham too... Annie Savoy's > whole religion of baseball, for example. And who can forget... > > "Millie, can I give you my testament?" > "Well, sure, honey... you can give me anything you want." > > Anyway. > > So anyway... this is kind of my test post. I'll probably send my next > post from my trusty ol' westlyon address. > > Later! > > -Anne _____________________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 08:12:52 PDT From: "Big Mouth" Subject: just a few quick notes - -Mad Props Rock. - -Courtney, I want to swing someday. Maybe you teach me. - -John, you need to be a DJ in a high-profile station and get the "mad props" ou deserve. Your knowledge is pretty damn extensive. - -actually saying I don't have bentent is indeed a cheeseball way of getting around being expelled from the RF playground. - -Kathryn, master of chaos, I kill axel rose daily, if only in my mind. - -Where in the sam hell is sandi? - -I seen more ACTUAL bentent on the list in the past few days. you guys are starting to scare me. - -Does Scott really love Ginger? Did Ginger really get rescued off that island? and, where in the world is tina louise? - -I remember some guy named Markus. He, by far, is *my* hero...(sorry Eric...Hail This!) hee hee - -Katy, you are HUGE fan...Um, KL5-BFF-HELP is the number you can dial! They have great support. I know. I have speed dial to the number. Sometimes the trio is actually on the other line, yelling and screaming at you to chill, but it never works. - -what time is love? - -RF is therepy - -who the hell am I? This was nice. Thanks for being there for me. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:06:05 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #178 Ha ha!!! That's really great Amanda.... But don't knock on Jem man!!! She's my inspiration....... Ok, I'm really bored, so I'm going to go pretty nuts right now...scroll if you like... Darren=Kimber Benton (the redhead that is also Jem/Jerrica's sister), but nevermind, Kimber plays the piano. So BEN is KIMBER..but wait, Jem sings.....so BEN IS JEM That's right and Darren is Shana (the black drummer with the wicked-cool purple afro) And Shana doesn't really HAVE a love interest, so Darren will be caught in a love triangle with Melantha and me. He loves us both, but I rule, so in the end, I get him. Robert will be like Aja (the chinese girl with blue hair) and he will be involved with the arch nemesis OASIS's sister or something. And he likes her, so Oasis and BFF is connected.... So Ben is Jem, and he hasn't told his girlfriend that he can morph into Noel Gallagher yet....so that will be very interesting. I'm kinda obessed with Jem, I have all the tapes. It's very funny music. I have a bunch of the dolls too. They're very funny. Cause Rio has purple hair, and Jem's earrings light up. Ahhh...the wonders of growing up in the 80's. Oh yeah, Jem had the "Dream World Tour" cassette, and it has GREAT 80's music like K-c and the Sunshine Band, and the Thompson Twins, etc. It's very cool. Plus Jem had an MTV jacket. Whoa, I took that TOO far...sorry. But who is going to be Kimber?!! HOw about Leo? And leo will fall in love with a girl on a motorcycle and call her "big mama" (I didn't make that up, it's from Jem, I swear) heheheh Lucy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 00:30:16 -0500 From: "Scott Schneider" Subject: Jem & the Holograms! Okay, who's been distributing the crack rocks? Scott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:37:32 EDT From: KamalaICB@aol.com Subject: well, i've lurked long enough and i will make a post now, i think anyway hello, my name is casey, i live in philadelphia, i caught the bug when my college music video show that i host received the Uncle Walter in the mail a few years back...i made them program it nearly every show...bought the S/T while in japan, actually...it was on sale there for 888 yen i haven't been to a million shows of theirs (only 5).....i have gotten to speak with them 3 of those times......made me real happy ummm....i work at a radio station here in Philly....Y100, some of you may be familiar...i also go to school in Ithaca NY, Ithaca College to be exact....will graduate this coming may and as far as bentent goes, here i go 1) today at work i was going through the newly placed "junk" CD bins that were brought down and stumbled apon a Japanese Import single for none other than Emaline (that i now own!!)....i have never even heard that there was one, but now i have it...it's the version from NBP and it's the only song on the CD, the insert cover is baby blue with the words Ben Folds Five accross it, and Emaline written underneath...the writing is all in Japanese, and both the Caroline and Virgin logos are on it...has anyone else seen this anywhere?? 2) while at the record shop today, i saw a copy of "Schroders last nite in Philly", it's 2 CDs from the 2/21/98 philly show and also the versions of Brick played on Leno in Feb and on the Keenan Ivory Wayans show too. IT was 48 bucks...i didn't get it...i already had 50 bucks of stuff in my hands.... anyway other stuff bout me: i like lots of music....top ten are: BF5, TMBG, Belly/Tanya Donelly, Bouncing Souls, Green Day, Mr T Experience, MMBT, Rancid/Op Ivy, Screeching Weasel, Weezer i play lots of instruments and i sing i'm usually more chipper than this, but i was up real late (my brothers band played CBGB's in NYC last nite....we didnt' get home till 4, then i worked all day) if anyone is in the philly area, tune on Y100 this sunday nite/monday morning 12-6 a.m. and hear me!! that's all for now casey-girl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:43:56 -0500 (CDT) From: LaRubia@bigfoot.com (Carrie) Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #178 >Self - "Breakfast with girls" : August 25 >Belle and Sebastian - "not titled" : September 7* >Ben Folds - "Fear of Pop" : September 15** Sanders, thank you. I never know anything. It is the triumverate of goodness. If only Dan Wilson and the Boyz could slip something in there... Anne? What can I say. My hat is off. So are my shoes. I feel inspired... I've started what looks to be a novel, but rarely do I get time to work on it. But now I realize -- it's gotta be done. It's just got to. Bentent: I am currently going through my abstinence period. While I was at school, I was Benning several times a week, sometimes more than once a day! Right now I'm holding off for a few months. I'd gotten to where Ben wasn't the sacred experience it once was, and I knew I had to back off. For a while I felt lonely. I felt unattractive. But soon I realized that I need to feel loved whether I Ben or not!! Only then will Ben regain that magic feeling. I'm starting to write for my magazine. How 'bout them apples? :-) Two days till I get serious nookie. Counting the minutes... Salutations to all, and to all a good night, Carrie "Do you think there are bootleg tapes of Musak outtakes? Maybe they get excited by the groove and really cut loose sometimes. And the producer says, okay, boys, that was swell but now let's try to get this wrapped so we can all go home. I bet that happens all the time." -- Jonathan Lethem, "As She Climbed Across the Table" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 20:53:48 PDT From: "Starre Smith" Subject: There's Spring of Myself Hey BEN FOLDS FIVE FREAKS and GHOULS.. The subject of my e-mail is the title of the Japanese bootleg CD I got... its got "Twin Falls" and "Boxing" on it from NPB plus a slammin' version of "Tom and Mary" and "Video Killed The Radio Star" :)I'm really excited that I got it and can't wait to see BFF on Conan... Amanda! What's up g-funk? *just kidding* How are ya by the way? You should write me sometime! :) So we can discuss Ben things etc.... I'm trying to get BFF on Loveline from someone! Its awesome, I've been looking for that... even though its only got Ben on it, it should be interesting... :) I figured Darren would be on there! I'M SURE IF WE KNOW DARREN, HE'D BE MAKING SICK COMMENTS! :) HEE HEE.. :) About bodily discharges and blue balls or something... *LMAO* Hey Julie Jessee! :) *L* You know about Darren and... well.. never mind that... :) I'm on my sick comment spree, watch out... I've been having flashes of seeing Ben all over the place.. Esp. at work... Its driving me crazy! I thought I saw someone who looked like Robert though! The heat stroke is getting to me! AHHHH! Help! Medics! Gotta go.... "I don't understand it either.... guess that makes me gay..." -"Sports n' Wine" "I think I look a lot like that guy from Wang Chung..." -Ben on 120 "Its not the Ben Folds Five Mother Fucker!" -Robert from the "Potty Mouth Video" "Here at Subway we make our bread from scratch....." -Ben from the "PMV" Stella Folds ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 00:57:13 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: You don't need one of these to let me inside of you... Hello! > Kathryn: Why did I not know you lived in the LA area (or at elast i > guessed it by your mentiopn of KROQ)? i have a friend from high school > called Caroline Yu and i know she has relatives in LA..... you two > related? or am i smoking some premium crack? Me? Live in the L.A. area? More like the bastard suburb of Orange County...like I always say, I live right by Disneyland, the Mighty Ducks, and dead Richard Nixon. No kidding. If I *really* wanted to I could walk to the Richard M. Nixon Birthplace and Library in 5 minutes. Um...I know Michael Chang and Janet Evans kinda, simply because of where I live. I know not any radio station named KROQ because you are definitely smoking some premium KCRW 89.9 Santa Monica crack. Or maybe Y107 crack....Because. That last name is very common. Go and look it up in the phone book one rainy afternoon. My, those are some premium typos! You should all really go to www.sixdegrees.com and do things like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon used to do. 'Cause that's what I did. :) Now I know all these people that I don't know. That doesn't make sense...oh, well. Yikes, today's high in Yorba Linda, CA is 97 degrees. I love where I live. TOM: Chronicles sucks, man! Legends is SO much better. :) And hey, I think that there are 7..well...8 important books, counting Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Winter Night, and Spring Dawning...Time, War, and Test of the Twins...The Second Generation ("Wanna Bet?"), and how the hell could you leave out Dragons of Summer Flame? Despite the fact that the elves seem to have disappeared out of the majority of the book...I ain't talking about Magic: The Gathering either. Good luck Sanders, Ginger, Scott and etc. on that new web site! Just make sure you choose a snazzy name and an easy to remember URL...and make BFF screensavers advertising yourself. I think that would be awesome! Easy advertising, as well. I am in desperate need of a BFF screensaver ever since I deleted the Sessions on West 54th Street one...Just a thought. Bear with me, I'm using Verdana, which is an awesome font, if you ask me. Anybody else scared of that new movie Small Soldiers? There's a character in it named Brick...hmmm.... ~Kathryn THE STRANGEST THINGS ...a web site which only works if I want it to!... http://members.xoom.com/HndOfChaos ```````````````````````````````````````` ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:57:35 +1000 From: Kate_Watkins%HBH@themis.com.au Subject: The Reoccuring Dream Help! I think I need Annelysing! I have had this reoccuring dream every night so far this week. It is a very pleasant dream, but rather bizarre. BFF only feature in a very mild way so bear with me! The dream starts with me getting into a car with a girl I know driving, her boyfriend (whom I have never met) sitting beside her and 3 of his unidentified friends in the backseat with me. The car is very small and it is very cramped with three 6' tall lads and me in the back seat and I keep saying that it is okay and I will meet up with them later, even though I really want to go (the guys are cute!). Anyway, they convince me to hop into the car with them and we drive out into the country to this enormous house. I know it is a long way out but the journey does not seem to take a very long time. When we get there, everyone in the car piles out and goes into the kitchen and starts mixing drinks. I am still wandering around with my mouth wide open at this house (it is just huge and has this oldy worldy feel about it) and feeling a little shy coz I don't really know any of these guys and my friend is busy with her boyfriend. Anyway, one of the unidentified friends from the backseat of the car says that he will show me around. He is nice but kind of quiet and shy (not my usual type at all) and as we wander about he tells me little bits and pieces about the history of the house (like here is where I broke my arm when I was 9 - that sort of thing. This is how I realise that this is the house where he grew up). It is odd because this is probably the longest part of the dream and I don't really remember it that well and the guy has a very distinct personality but no distinct physical features. (ie I could tell you what his favourite ice-cream flavour is but not his hair colour - that kind of thing!) Well, we work our way up to the top of the house and it has a little circular observatory at the top with a 360 degree view of the forest. There is a piano towards one side of the observatory and while I stand there and start turning around and around, looking at the view - the guy starts playing Cigarette on the piano. This is when I wake up feeling all content, with a big grin on my face. What does it all mean? Okay - to add my own wee comments to the last RF ....... COURTNEY: You met Hans Zimmer! I love his soundtracks! I actually got hooked on The Power of One for a while there and my Dad and I used to put it in the CD player whenever we went anywhere together. Was he really cool? Or your typical musical nerd? ANNE: My 2 cents on your jobs (ie whether to take the one you are offered now or to wait until you see if you get the other one) - wait for the one you really want! If you really think you can get it and are confident etc at the interviews - fate has it that you probably will I reckon! (but don't blame me if you don't!!!) THOMAS: I agree with what you said about the lack of chemistry between Kate and Leo in Titanic. Actually I think the thing with me was that the whole time I was sitting there thinking - but he is so immature compared to her! The only time that I thought the whole thing came together was when he did the drawing of her - and that did not last very long in the overall scheme of things. KATIE: I gather that wearing a dress for you is an unusual thing? Are you somewhat like me (you're my namesake after all) and live in jeans whenever possible (which mostly only weekends now that I am working!)? ANNE: <> I have been doing this a bit myself lately - I am going into BFF hyperdrive with the boys playing in Aussie land at the end of this month - and I listened to s/t, WEAEA, and NBP in order last week when I was cleaning up my little unit! It's the best way to get hyped for a cleaning frenzy! BTW - loved the musical number! I can't wait to hear the rest. I have often pictured people saying the lyrics of the boys songs in different settings - the main one being Uncle Walter - I have one of those!!! AMANDA OR WHOEVER: do you want to fill me in with who Jem and the Holograms are? And what role do the Misfits play? Aaarrrgghhh! Sometimes I hate being a non-TV addicted Aussie! I never know what the hell you guys are talking about! Anyway, back to the real world again! (Yeucgh!) Later, Kate. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 02:44:18 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: BFF Covers... Hopefully someone on the chair or RF can back this up... I just thought of a brilliant cover...Grant Lee Buffalo's "Mockingbirds". I have the GLB Honey Don't Think Promo CD5, and there is this version of Mockingbirds live with a more prominent piano line, less guitar, more bass and a sweet "Smoke"esque drum line. The chorus, for the majority of you guys who haven't heard it is falsetto harmonies. Ahem, can we say perfect for the band. The guitar solo, is actually easily transcribed to bass, and it would just work soooo well. It is a crossover in styles seeing that BFF is not a Americana band in the mold of Son Volt, Wilco, or Tragically Hip(actually from Canada) as GLB is. Mockingbirds would absolutely rawk! Reply publicly or privately...would love to meet other devoted GLB fans that are also disappointed in the departure of Paul Kimble and the addition of the Tonic bassist on the new album, that is by far their worst to date. Oh well, also waiting the inevitable cover of Karma Police by Radiohead. I also think that covers of Fountains of Wayne - I want an Alien For Christmas, Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself(man those chorus harmonies could be pristeen), For Squirrels - Left Behind, and Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore. Guess that's enough from me. Two posts in two days? What's wrong with me. Thought of another great cover!!! Vic Chesnutt - Dodge!!! Could be sooooo good with high energy!!!! Ordered the Looper 7"(Stuart David of Belle and Sebastian), can't wait. Check out the new Wilco/Billy Bragg collaboration too on recreating unreleased Woody Guthrie songs. So brilliant. Sooooo brilliant. Ohhhh. New Counting Crows Live!!! New Elliott Smith!!!! New TMBG Live!!!! Soooo excited!!!! INDIE ROCK DIRECTOR - --end transmission johnbot "As for me, I could leave the world with nothing but today in my eyes." --Truman Capote _____________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #179 *********************************