From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #208 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 Sunday, August 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 208 Today's Filings: ----------------- Kate names *** Ben Folds Five *** BEN WITH A WIG Hair Color Why oh why oh why... [none] hack, cough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 07:08:34 -0400 From: Kristin Klevering Subject: Kate names I had to respond to the Kate/Kathryn thread. I have a cousin who I'm close with, and her birth name is Katie. She's 19, and she very much prefers to be called Kate, she sees it as being much more grown up than Katie. But since I'm her older cousin, I'm more than welcome to call her Katie. Much like how I like her to call me Kris or Krissy (my old HS nickname), even though I've been called Kristin since my freshman year in college. She's family. Bottom line - I think Kate sounds more grown up. Bentent - I saw the Hard Rock Live thing yesterday - literally as I walked in the door coming home from work - I changed out of my dress clothes and put on my sports bra during the commercial so I could dance my ass off! I messed up the taping of it (I have a new VCR that I don't know how to work yet), so I'll try to learn how to time record it sometime before the next viewing, which I believe is at 1am on Sunday. It was a good show - and I just loved how Darren goofed off after Ben introduced him (at the end) - he never gets the camera attention, poor guy. BTW, I have this cute picture of Ben in this pink fluffy jacket on my desktop, and I crack up every time I see it. I'd tell you where I got it from, but I'm too lazy to go find my day planner to get the URL where I found it. I just woke up, so forgive me. Later - Kristin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 09:30:48 -0400 (EDT) From: seank@CYBERNEX.NET Subject: *** Ben Folds Five *** BEN WITH A WIG Hey I've been getting the Rockford Files for awhile, and no one ever talks about the boys (Ben Folds FIve, in case you didn't know this was a BFF list.) A saw Ben a day ago and Ben had a wig!!! It looked really bad, but it was combed. I said to Ben,"You should return it!." He said he was thinking about keeping it. EMAIL ME FOR A PICTURE OF BEN WITH A BLONDE WIG. seank@CYBERNEX.NET sean ;) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:49:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Patton Subject: Hair Color Okay, now that Sandi's a blonde, I think I'm going to color my hair. I'm not going to go blonde, or red or anything like that. Not even gonna do the whole alterna-teen blue, purple, or green. No, I'm dying my hair flesh tone. I just want to see how many people I can freak out from a distance. Plus, I get the added bonus of being an extra on the Simpsons! ;) Hail Eris! ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "Fate has kneecaps, too." -EBP _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 19:28:59 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: Why oh why oh why... ...did someone HAVE to mention John Steinbeck's The Pearl? Brings back terrible memories of my freshman year in high school, where, since there weren't enough books for everyone to take home and read, my english teacher xeroxed about 100 copies of the paperback, fitting three or four pages of the novel on one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Yech. Teeny tiny writing Bette Midler doing 'Boxing'? I can't imagine the song with a female voice esp. one like *hers.* Would you feel right listening to her sing "Howard, the strangest things..."? I think that Muhammad Ali would roll over in his grave. Oh, wait, he's not dead yet. Pondering this...as well as this new "Hemplation" or something compilation (what? okay, it's an MA rumour....how am I supposed to know?) and BFF covering the Beatles sometime in the near future? How in the world would you even choose ONE song to cover? The newsgroup has it that the BFF FANatic will premiere on Aug. 18th at 8 PM. Hmm.... Smartassesliveon. Okay, guys, here's the real Bentent. I'm trying to make my BFF topics circle and it's not quite complete. Like....on the newsgroup or MA or something, there's this cycle of different topics...I'm having trouble figuring out the order so here goes: New CD --> new fans --> flames --> "I heard Station X play Song Y!" --> chaos - --> Tour reviews --> flames --> "I hate radio" --> radio people explain "what really goes on" --> flames --> anybody want to trade? --> hate mail --> dumb question --> 5, 000 answers to dumb question --> flames --> "I hate new fans" - --> flames --> "They sold out!" --> flames --> "I'm leaving this list, because its counterproductive" --> flames --> "Telling people that you're leaving is counterproductive" --> "Telling people that telling the list that you're leaving the list is counterproductive" --> general chaos --> list owner appears with gun in hand --> silence --> media appearances by the band --> silence --> 10 weeks of "this is so boring, they're not on tv or touring, hurry up and record the new album..." --> Okay, yeah, I need to refine it, but whats do yas thank? ~Kathryn ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 19:38:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: [none] ...because Kathryn missed my foot... Otherwise, there's no point to this. Um. I'd like to see Ben's wig. Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 21:31:45 -0500 From: luckybastard1@juno.com (Hannah B Kuhlmann) Subject: hack, cough. Bette Midler Boxing cover? Jesus H. Christ. Have you guys ever read The Stand? Seeing the TV mini-series counts too. Anyway, I think I'm coming down with that plague thing, so watch out. My glands are the size of small melons. The glands under my jaw, just to clarify. Why does Ben Folds always wear a turtleneck when he's trying to dress up? I point to the Brick video and the SNZ video as evidence. I read that EW article on BNL. . . wow! they're so. . .WACKY! and ZANY! jeepers, what would I do without Entertainment Weekly to tell me about all the crazy new wacky alternative bands out there? I don't know. That hot tip about They Might Be Giants and all those other cooky bands was a life saver. Actually, in all seriousness, I enjoyed the band quotes and anecdotes. But whoever said the article was patronizing was so so right. Oh, and then EW informs me of all the hottest actors right now, like I didn't know about such industry newcomers like. . .Anthony Hopkins! and my god, who's this fresh face they call Johnny. . .Depp? I'm just in a spin, a real tizzy. I like being sarcastic. It makes my throat hurt less. - -Hannah _________________________________________ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1094/ your Ben Folds Five resource center online since 1997 _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 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 #208 *********************************