From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #183 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, July 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 183 Today's Filings: ----------------- Apologies... goin away BRING IN THE NOISE blah blah blah Re: The Rockford Files V1 #182 weewooweewooweewoo (don't ask) apoplectic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:43:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Anne Lyons Subject: Apologies... I had every intention of doping another chapter in the BeFeF Rock Show this morning -- but time got away from me and now I am heading out to the links for a little more pitching and putting... But maybe I will get to it tonight? if not toniht then *defnitely* tomorrow... I've got the whole thing rattling about in my head, and if I don't spew it out electronically -- my noggin could explode! As to a castring call... that may be arranged after the show is complete... as to geekiness... I once played in a M:TG tournament. How's that for geeky? Of course, we won a lot because all the younger, teenaged geeks couldn't help but drool over my chest. And no, I'm not kidding. I think I seriously harmed some 14 year old because I flirted with him during the game (me being all of 24 at the time...). Ahhhhhhhhh... I'm evil, EVIL, I tell ya! Anyway -- I will return with more of the saga later, before I go on vacation to NH on Wednesday... (sans computer) Later & Take Care All! - -Anne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:46:29 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: goin away Hello everyone... Just wanted to say I'm out for the next 3 weeks... Have a lovely time without me. I'll be in NYC for conan, and I'm goin!!!! I cannot wait. Anyone else going? Well, if so, email me at alicechildress@hotmail.com anyway, talk to you in 3! Stacy Oh, but I send my best, cause God knows you've seen my worst. --Ben Folds Five "Fair" Baby, I was doing fine, how do you think that I survived the other 25 before you? --Ben Folds Five "The Last Polka" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:58:17 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: BRING IN THE NOISE bring in da funk. What the? Quiet? In the RF? must be brain cramps. Lemme start by saying I have an excuse. AND, it is a good one, however, I mustn't reveal it to all or I shall face the wrath of evil spirits... Went and played basketball at my old high school last night. IT was eerie. It was dark and I could SMELL that smell.....took me back to a place I hated. I wasn't the most popular person in school. Oh well. But that place hold nothing but bad memories for me (except for one. Playing the lead in Dracula). Well, the baby isn't here yet, but she may as well be, for she is stressing me out still in the womb. (read: cranky, 8+month mom). But, being the good papa, I hold my tongue, temper and anything else within hand's reach... But, in a moment of tranquility, me and the mama were talking about all the crime in our city. Usual talk (what is wrong with kids these days? society sucks...yadda). Well, it was Saturday morning and I said, "hey, it is attributed to television in a way." And, I think it is. Well, to be more specific, I think the media has OVERstepped it's boundaries, as has cable television in general. For example, while maybe getting thumped by a toadstool, I never saw much in the way of violence on the Smurfs. Nor in Scooby Doo, Garfield, etc....I flipped and flipped and could not find any cartoons on Saturday. What the hey? Leave the kids alone to watch tv and they find rated R movies on in the morning. 15-20 years ago that was impossible. I think I could open a huge can of worms, but I just wanted to comment on the fact that there are not cartoons on tv on saturday morning anymore, and this saddens me. I am SICK of the saved by the bell crap. I mean, I STILL like cartoons, and I want my daughter to be able to watch them (instead of purple f*cking barney). Anybody else remember the ELECTRIC COMPANY? Man, I loved that show (Spiderman, etc)..... Maybe I am getting old and cranky. "Get off my porch you damn kids, and turn down that devil music..." Yeah, I am losing it. So don't hate me. But, now I have remembered another conversation I had w/a buddy this weekend. We also were talking about the crumbling of society and felt like we wanted to do something about it. But, being only one person, feel overwhelmed by the task of "saving the world". So I told him, every worthwhile cause started with one person, one idea. Look at the files... So I told him we should pick a day and a time and stand and protest what we were talking about to get heard. And do this like clockwork. Same day, same time, for as long as it takes. Moral of this story: I think everyone should feel THEIR importance as ONE person who can make a difference in even the most daunting task. God, now I sound like an activist. "Hey, let's go get that pig blood to spread over the capitol floors!!!" No, not me. I think I would just like to wake up ONE morning without reading about some kid, under the age of 10, getting shot, murdered, or whatever, OR shooting or murdering someone else. God this saddens me to lengths which I cannot EVEN begin to put in words... Bentent? none. - -fl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:57:53 EDT From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: blah blah blah okay....... the reason not much has been heard from the rf rw-er's is because, embarrassingly enough, spencer burnt down the house. picture this: "sure, man, we can make grilled cheese sandwiches with an ironing board and an iron," spencer said on that fateful night. "i've done it before, you novice." then he wandered off, searching for something to drink, bread and cheese, leaving the iron to sizzle and smoke. i was out at some 'disgustingly fashionable' coffehouse with markus, (they played third eye blind during the swooping camera intro) complaining about how i had fallen in love with both anne and courtney and, in my neurotic confusion, was afraid i was losing it. "maybe it'd be easier if i was just some mad monk of the hills somewhere....(gesticulating wildly with my hands)......what do you think markus?" markus was, at the exact same time as spencer was fleeing the burning house, carrying only a bong and a toothbrush, mocking the iced latte the rw staff bodyguard guy purchased for us, in a seinfeld-esque routine. "so i'm like, hey, why do feckin people need to put ice in coffee? isn't it supposed to be warm? i just don't understand this shyte......" we haven't seen spencer in days, unless, of course, that homeless, ragged sunburnt man i saw on the way to the hotel was him. (wearing a tie-dyed shirt, sporting 3 days of stubble and carrying a cardboard sign that said 'will work for smoke.') the show has put us up in a hotel nearby, and they play a repetitive cycle of a certain talking heads tune while they arange for a new rw abode for us. i'm pushing for something old fashioned, with ivy crawling up the sides of the building. e said he liked ivy, it reminded him of wrigley field. courtney's only concern was that it had a courtyard large enough to swing in AND it was near prince moujobbber's house of voodoo. anne has been hogging the impromptu confessional booth set up by the shows execs and i need some jaegermeister. matthew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:06:00 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #182 Did I hear Kathy-rin say life sized Darren???? Don't toy with me WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's serious stuff you're messing with..hehehehehe. My mind is racing...ooooooo the possibilities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I happen to think Darren is THE sexpot. And I am going to conclude that NO ONE else in the coterie is a sexpot, because they don't think I'm a sexpot, only because I'm the damn ROADIE. But wait...Scott is kinda sexxxxyyyy...eehehehhee Ginger needs to come back! I can't come camping, my mom is a freak and says I'll ruin your vacations. And I was going to sing the Turkey song! Actually, I'm never going to sing that song again. Never again. ooo bad thoughts oooooo I know WAY too much about Jem, Kathy. They ran an orphanage because Jerrica/Jem's mom used to be one, and they wanted to help the same type of girl. So they were the "Starlight Girls" How lame is that?! We are The BFF "Starlight girls" but they guys just really don't count. Jem's mom died in a plane crash due to bad writing. The good Misfit was Stormer. She was friends with Kimber. Whoa... I'll stop RIGHT THERE. I'm the laziest girl I know.......... Lucy "I hate all of you....."---Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:16:21 +1000 From: "Julie 'anti-gavin' Hurst " Subject: weewooweewooweewoo (don't ask) My holidays (notice I been gone? I forgot to tell alot of people) consisted of: Shopping, which seemed to be mainly going into CD stores, giving evil looks to the charts and bff posters, (meanwhile I found the Where's Summer B.? 7"!!!!) Sitting at home on my computer (I took my computer with me....duh! it had to get fixed...) and I made an Adam Said Galore webpage...(not that I expect any of you to know who they are but yeah) Ringing people.....I had about 3 people I could ring....but hey, it took up 10% of what I did... I found this BFF poster on cardboard...and I went to the girl "what are you doing with that bff poster?" "It's a prize in a competition" "How do I enter?" "You have to buy the album" "Oh come on, that's no fair, I already got 2 of them" *slammed my hand on the table* "Well I'm sorry, get a friend to buy it.." That made me mad, and I annoyed my friend for the rest of the day by working out how I am going to get it.. THEN i went home and found out I had to wait a whole 4 days before I can get the internet reconnected... uhhh then I only get 2 hours a day...which I CAN NOT handle, and ended up being on for 4 hours....shhhhhhheeeeeeaaaaaatt Now my entire holidays were a big wonder about whether I am going to get dumped..or whether I should dump..it was higly doubtful that I would dump...but I did write a few emails doing it..I just never could send them (cos I didn't have the internet..haha), then this guy rang me to tell me that my boyfriend still loved me...so I thought everything was gonna be fine..then I thought everytime I think its gonna be fine it never is, so I just gave up thinking about it...school was actually helpful!! So then I finally got a chance to go on the internet..and I got dumped..:/ But the weird thing was....I was fine...it's not like I wanted to get dumped....I would give my entire BFF collection for this guy, but honestly....there was just nothing....if anything, I was happier than I have been for ages.....:) and I AM happier So I'm having this party on Friday night...we are going to watch pyscho movies, listen to Undone backwards, smash things (stuff that guy gave me), and eat, eat and eat!!!!! My life is perfect ain't it? Seeing bff in 10 days! and in 11 days!! I finally have a good excuse to listen to SFTD incredibly loud...and I got a day off school out of it!! (hey...it is suppose to be the worst day of my life here...heh..yeah if yesterday was a bad day....woah imagine the best day..a day where I call gavin gay and hug darren..oh wait...heh..that day already happened.) - -Julie 'anti-gavin' P.S - I'm looking for Aussie Fans to put on my fan page...I have the page ready and that, so If you are an Australian fan email me....PLEASE!!!! Julie's Australian Ben Folds Five Page http://www.angelfire.com/me/katefolds/ "C'mon baby, now throw me a right to the chin...don't just stare like you never cared I know you did.." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:36:02 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: apoplectic Well we certainly have been quiet in the aftermath of the RF RW house going up in flames. I think we were all feeling guilty that we ruined our wonderful IKEA fiilled house. Or at least I know that's why *I'm* sad. Well i had myself a pretty good weekend. I did have to work, but that's okay. I got my financial aid package from USC and am quite please to find that all my loans and grants total a whopping $28,000! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Of course you realize I'll be paying those loans back until I'm 84. ANd I also got a couple Rufus Wainwright postacrds in the mail from Janet! which were ever so cool and appreciated:) And then I rented Mimic and watched that. It wasn't all that good, but like I say...Jeremy Northam is cute and British, so what the fuck do I care? And last night after work the Bill Elliot Swing orch. played a gig at the Crystal Ballroom. It was fabulous! Aside from the fact that I was ALL ALONE. Have I mentioned to you people that I hate my friends? Well I do. But anyhoo...I got in for free cause I got me some mad hookups, yo. And I finally got a chance top meet Bill...ironic that When I finally meet him, it's in Portland and not L.A. But anyway that was great fun and he bugged me about coming to swing camp in catalina next year. And I got to dance a couple times with one of the singers in the band...although my Gaydar was pretty much off the scale, it was still nice because he was a good leader and very tolerant of my spazziness:) and then during their third set, Bill made a big spectacle of me and made me come up to the front because I had asked him to play "The Best Things Happen When You Dance" (which is from White Christmas, btw). So that was cool. I felt like the person who always gets to sit in the rock star booth at shows:D I just wish I'd had someone to share it with. *sigh* but all in all, 'twas great fun. And then today, i went out to run some errands and while looking for Komeda's new CD (i was unsuccessful), i DID find their Swedish Import Pop På Svenska for only $11 (cdnow.com has it listed for like... $28) and I also picked up the 7" for Sean Lennon's "Home" which has "5/8" as a b-side AND it came with a sticker! Man, i have so many cool stickers but no car to put them on. 'scuse me while I whine in the corner:( And speaking of 7"..I got Looper the other day and i think it's quite brilliant. But then I always did have a weakness for the scottish accent. Well I do believe that the Daddies are on Letterman tonight...so I'm off like a prom dress! ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "*I've* yada yada'd sex." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #183 *********************************