From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #209 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 Monday, August 10 1998 Volume 01 : Number 209 Today's Filings: ----------------- Ben in pink fluffy jacket URL :) Repent... And thou shalt be saved. Bette And Other Naked Phenomena Subject? Yeah, right. Slipped Me A Rufie... Hello Pop Off This! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 04:22:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: Ben in pink fluffy jacket URL :) hey, the url for those pictures of ben in the pink jacket are here. Also see Rob as a security guard and Darren as some kind of grandmother? anyway. http://www.abc.net.au/recovery/bods/archive/980725.htm hopefully ill have this interview in realaudio on my page sometime in the next week. also saw the film clip for underground yesterday. laugh? i did. anyone with boots of the brisbane or the adelaide shows pls mail me :) Jordan _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 09:01:35 -0400 From: Sean Kiely Subject: Repent... And thou shalt be saved. Okay, first, to everyone out there, the person who posted the thing about ben having a wig was not me, it was someone with a wicked sense of humor and some means of sending email as me. To the person who did it... I was quite amused by it, it's not every day you see yourself post something without doing anything. The 10 or so people who asked me for a picture of it... that was a little annoying, but I got into a fun conversation with one of them, so that makes up for it. Back to the point, I was amused, so I didn't mind, but I would appreciate it if you would own up to it. Also you might want to work on your Grammar a little. You don't quite get the full effect intended when you spell Five FIve and have a sentence "A saw ben yesterday with a blonde wig" Doesn't make sense. sean (really, it is) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:37:04 EDT From: FieryLox@aol.com Subject: Bette And Other Naked Phenomena Am I the only one who DOESN'T find this Bette Midler thing that out of the ordinary? I suppose I'm just a magazine hound, but last time I read one of those lists where they ask a certain star (say George Clooney, he pops up in those lists OFTEN) about their favorite movie/music/actor/actress/video game/suntan lotion...you get the picture...there were quite a few notable voices raised in praise (I'm a poet! Yay!) in support of the boys. I mean, Bette Midler is a classy lady, I think...she did Beaches (c'mon, who here didn't cry?) and The Rose...why wouldn't she enjoy the fine stylings of Ben Folds Five? I think she can do a perfectly capable cover of "Boxing"...I'm not going to vouch for the...hmm, what word here...goodness? of it, but she's a good singer and I'd bet that she won't "mess up" our precious song. I'd bet Ben's honored! Thanks Hannah, for making me feel good about my judgement of that EW article...usually I love that magazine, but the treatment of BNL just pissed me off. I love them, dammit! So tell me...should I spend the money to go to HORDE? Tickets are 23 dollars, and I'm going to see RUFUS WAINWRIGHT tonight!!!!!!!! :-)))) Ta! Sara ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 18:36:09 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: Subject? Yeah, right. Hannah's got the plague! AAAhhh! Actually I *did* read The Stand (The Unabridge Version) and watched most of the four part miniseries. Damn straight. Personally, I think Dean Koontz is better. What's up with this Kate/Katie/Kathryn thing? Let me vent to all of you who love to give out nicknames (you know who you are...): I am Kathryn and that's it. [Okay, well, maybe Kathy-rin, but only to RFers.] I'm not Katie, Katy, Kathy, Kathie, Catherine, Cathryn, Catheryn, Katherine, Kat, Katty, Kitty, Kitty-Kat, Katty, "Catron"(!) or any permutation of the aforementioned! Grr! My only consolation with this stupid thing is that I once got 10 extra credit points in the 6th grade because not one person out of the 25 in the class could spell my name correctly. Sheesh. If I wanted to be called any of those above, I would change my legal name, okay? Here's the real semi-tent: If I started a section on my web site for those of you people like me who dream in music videos (see my Jackson Cannery one a few months back...) would anybody actually contribute besides me? I'm trying to write a new one but can't decide between The Last Polka, Fair, and Cigarette. That and the fact that I keep falling asleep at 7:30 'cause I'm so damned tired. I know that one video sequence site for another band was started, but folded after one year 'cause nobody was contributing. ;( How do you guys feel? ~Kathryn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 22:10:45 EDT From: FieryLox@aol.com Subject: Slipped Me A Rufie... Well, earlier tonight (as in eight o'clock early) I saw the lovely, the talented, the AMAZINGLY drunk Rufus Wainwright perform here in humid Atlanta at the Variety Playhouse. First impression: he is fucking FINE AS HELL... Second impression? He sure can't hold his liquor! The show was AWESOME...Rufus has the most gorgeous, sexy voice (except Steven Page) I have ever heard. I was about to pee myself during "Foolish Love". I swear! Um, anyway. A lovely show, anyone who has the chance to see this cute lil' fella, do it! It was great...after the show we went to talk to him, and he was a bit "in his cups", and QUITE hilarious. He kept asking us where he could find the hot guys, though a kind of not as attractive guy sitting next to him was obviously his boyfriend...my friends and I were laughing a lot. Speaking of laugh...anyone who has met Rufus MUST have heard that laugh. If anything is going to make Rufus INFAMOUS, it'll be that crazy foghorn laugh! OK, I'm done rambling now! Here's the set list for anyone who cares! Danny Boy Matinee Idol Damned Ladies (all three of these on piano) April Fools (on electric guitar) Barcelona (on acoustic guitar) Millbrook (all these back on piano) Foolish Love Beauty Mark And that's all! It was just Rufus, his instruments, and his beer. It was FABulous! Bentent? Um, here it is. Darren, though he likes to "hit the bottle", holds his liquor a lot better for a skinny guy than Rufus! Ta! Sara ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 22:57:51 -0400 From: barbi Subject: Hello I thought it's been past time for me to introduce myself. My name is Barbi and I live currently in Dayton, Ohio but normally, during school I'm in Columbus at Ohio State. I know many of you by your names since I am a die-hard fan who's been mostly "watching" instead of participating. I've been web surfing BFF pages ever since I got online a year and a half ago. Living in ohio, of course I've met Sandi (isn't she in tennesee or something now?). I see her at every show. It's a big reunion with her and Calvin and other people no matter what part of the state the show is at. Anyway, I'm here because I've decided to make time for BFF (let me rephrase that). I've decided to make time for the RF! I always had such a huge classload that, as much as i wanted to, I didn't have the time to scroll through 3 armchairs per day. And my excuse for not joining the RF? Not a good enough one. BUT, now that I've joined, I couldn't help but laugh at how many RF-er's I knew (or at least knew who they were through their page or something). It's about time I make some more BFF friends! My parents and friends worry about my "fanaticisum"(?). It's so bad, I honestly cannot control it. READ THIS: I was introduced to BFF in Jan of '96 when this kid was talking about this band that had no guitars but a piano. He was talking about it all day but no one would listen. So I listened. He said he'd give me a copy of their tape at school the next day. Yeah right. But he actually did. He must have had it cued to Uncle Walter when I first popped in in my headphones while shoveling snow on our day-off school. My first impression of it being a little weird was replaced my my own laughter of the lyrics. Well, I ended up becoming best friends with the "kid" and we took a whole group of BFF-convertees to a show in Cincinnati on June 11, 1996. That show blew my mind! They ran out of material so we had to yell out covers for them to play (in between the constant "champaign supernova"s) just so they'd play longer. I should add that I became a die hard fan when I couldn't stop laughing at the BFF interviews I read over the net. Thanks for listening. I love the RF! Barbi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 00:58:39 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: Pop Off This! Hey all you kats and kitties, i scanned the MAD bff spoof and put it up here: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/6814/notben.html It's my official "This is not a ben folds five page" page. You can also get a scan of Rob's Epiphone ad, as well as 2 other BFF-related goodies. So go...and be warned, i've already had one AOLer say she couldn't get it to DL right....and I know that for me the picture takes at least 4 mins to load. but i couldn't do it any better without having the words be illegible. oh yeah, and the pics are up for grabs if you want to add them to your OFFICIAL-like BFF pages. 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-- **************************************************************** ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #209 *********************************