From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #213 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 Friday, August 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 213 Today's Filings: ----------------- file under: difficult listening B boys till the early morn... A Few Words From Our Markus Shake your arse... fifty cups of coffee and you know it's on......... Re: Shake your arse... Fulfilling my quota... ohioans ay? bencon in chapel hill? READ: YEAH BENTENT INSIDE tatooing ect Re: READ: YEAH BENTENT INSIDE what a night Atlanta...YEE-HAW. Alabama's fascinating new obscenity laws I did it! (NOT what you think...) Whilst in boyfriend-withdrawal... i really should be in bed... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:36:34 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: file under: difficult listening Here i write, from the great beyond. Anne and I carried out or Spice Girls suicide pact this afternoon, and i gotta tell you, that purple sequined death shroud of hers was da bomb! Back to reality...I must say Anne's channel surfing habits are damn near identical to mine as i too was flipping between Buffy, news radio, Studio 54: Behind the Music, Dawsons' creek, the real world and the madonna concert. very very creepy. But apparently all my channel surfing is for naught, as I ONCE AGAIN missed my appearance on My Generation. But yes, that was me that Erik saw. only it wasn't a black sweater, it was a black blazer. big difference in the world of fashion, yo. I really do love Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. And the other day i got a Getz/Gilberto CD, which I am loving to pieces. Ooh, bossa nova makes me happy. Indigo Swing are in town tonight and tomorrow. this evening they had an instore performance at a great CD shop and I got there pretty early, just as their vans were pulling up to unload their gear, and they were all hooting and hollering at me walking down the street. Vance, the bass player thinks I'm hot stuff, apparently. And William, the piano player, whos' like...40-something was totally chatting me up, it was funny. After the show Josh, the guitar player, came out to eat afterwards with a bunch of my friends. and we're all going vintage shopping tommorrow. I'm carousing with rock stars. sometiems i really love my life. (if you would like to see a pic of Josh and I at USC's swing night and just generally put a face to my rantings go here: http://www.uidaho.edu/~harr9657/barflies/list/bio/courtney.html, and if you'd like to know more about Indigo Swing, check out their site at http://www.slip.net/~indigos/) Okay, HRL tomorrow! Gotta set my VCR. it's now or never, baby. oh damn, i forgot to tape Who's Line is it Anyway? tonight. grr. i watched it last week and damn near wet myself, i was laughing so hard. I was traumatized by Days of our Lives the other day. It was like they had changed the title of the show to "Stefano DiMera: Lord of the Dance." Scarred for life, i am. talking like yoda, i am. err...time for me to go sleepies. i start to babble on. You'll get another good dose of me tomorrow night after i get home from Indigo Swing's actual show. I'm a tad smitten with Josh. he's sooo cute and FLIRTY, my gawd. his girlfriend must get sick of putting up with that, man. Okay, time for me to SHUT UP. 'night all. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "And you were going to be a gymnast?" "Journalist." "Right, that's what I said." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 03:39:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: B boys till the early morn... Hey, here i go again Hello Nasty rocks! i bought it when i first came out but didn't listen to it as my old stereo made it sound shitty. however, i have now obtained a 200w amp and 4 20" speakers for AU$5. It was broken but i fixed it and now am rocking the house. litrally. the house is shaking. this setup is soooooo cool. it is stereophonic, hydromatic, in fact it's grease lightning! oh.. i shouldn't have watched that. B Boys will be at the Big Day Out this year and i for one will be there. Me and me mates are gonna get Matt's ute and drive down to that, then go up to livid and then see warped in Coffs. it is gonna go off. i will have no money or brain cells, but that's ok! watched many movies today not the least being Good Will Hunting. Wow. it is amazing. also watched Starship Troopers which wasn't as bad as i was expecting. and then i forced my will upon the group and made them watch both Rocky Horror and West Side Story. i love these movies. suprisingly, some of them enjoyed it. the others were sober... Milkman took a fall today. He tripped over my dog and sprained his ankle. My dog rawks. Who do that voodoo that i don't dare do people? I reckon that i might just take up that idea of a gun. hmm... the most amazing thing in my life occured today. ok so i might be exagerating but it was up there. a choir of 500 people singing a african mass. It sounded so beautiful we had the music teachers in tears. and that was in a shitty little auditorium with a out of tune piano. wait till we are in the Opera house with a full orchestra and another 500 people. i hope there are some basses tho. there are 25 basses and 270 sops. and we still made more noise. I taught a 3 year old to mosh today. Grinspoon rock, oh yes they do. it was the funniest thing i have seen in a long while. This child went nuts for 2 hours and then feel asleep. :) Osobouko is what i would cook the boys. i can cook it too! however, it is meat. so i think it would be accompanied by fine wine and cheap spirits. Osobouko rocks. marcus rocks..apparently you rock man! or so i have heard. anne you rock. goddamn, you all rock. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeer. Jordan "Dear kindly social worker They tell me get a job Like be a soda jerker Which means I'd be a slob It's not I'm antisocial I'm only anti-work Glory Osky, that's why I'm a jerk" If anyone else knows this quote, they are now my offical hero. sing along if you know it _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:21:45 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: A Few Words From Our Markus Jessica: How you could possibly think anyone would prefer Cleveland to the (much) Greater NW is beyond me!!! Obviously you've never been outta the rust belt for long. Not since SNZ played KS have they stood around on a wooden stage longing for the delights of Ohio (4 dead in...). Seriously, you hafta see Seattle to believe it! Carrie: As much as I wish I could send you our CD, it ain't done yet. Yer jest gonna hafta wait your pretty little head a wee tad bit longer, but a copy is definitely reserved in yer name. Anoop: The details of my name are quite inconsequential (oops, I'm not Dr. Evil!!!)...actually, the direct origin of my name is Dutch, but its historical roots are grounded in Ancient Rome (as are most Western European names, for obvious reasons). "Marcus" was the origin for its various sundry derivatives (thus the meaning of the word "derivative" I guess, huh?!), such as Marc, Mark, Markus, Marcel, Marcos, and Marquis. The name "Marcus" basically means warrior, as in "one akin to Mars, God of War". That's me, Baby! As Patty Smythe 1ce so proudly proclaimed, I am the Warrior! But since I'm a pacifist (or now that I'm on the Left Coast, a pacificist) who loves great sex, I guess I'm a Warrior of Love:-)! My middle name, Séan (the proper spelling!!!), is Irish (or Gaelic, if you'd prefer) for "John", so it may have Biblical roots. That's me, a combination of a Roman God & a Christian prophet:-)! Markus's advice, pt. 798: No matter how good an idea it seems @ the time, do NOT get the chili-cheese fries @ Jack In the Box!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:45:22 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: Shake your arse... I realize this isn't a "Material Grrl" list, however, I must add to the thread. A Long Time Ago, in a galaxy far, far, away.... ...when I worked a million hours in a steakhouse as a prep cook, the manager and me would *jam* out to music all day while we cut meat, made food, etc....and so he was a HUGE Genesis freak and while I like them already, he hooked me onto 3 Sides Live and it RAWKS. But, one day, he brings in this tape.....Madonna.....his home mix....He had like ALL of her shit up to that point 1987. SO, I went out and bought the PARTY MIX tape. Still have it, and still listen to it. It also.....R A W K S.....she can get down to that funky beat. "Where's the party?" Love it. I think me and Anne would also have kicked Courtney and her partner's arses on My Generation. Not that Court isn't one of the most intelligent people I've ever met and flows with CA-RAHZ-MA. But me and Anne are like the Wonder Twins on the Superfriends. "Wonder Twin Powers...ACTIVATE!....FORM of a GENIUS! SHAPE of a TOASTER!" Yeah, you guys would have been toast. = - ) So, with all this talk about returning to school, yours truly has decided to finish what he started and get that damn grad degree. Why? I guess I am bored. Or, I just wanna look at all the kiddies on campus.....or maybe, I just want to be able to take afternoon naps in the library A/V room while I watch my soap opera (AMC baby, for over 15 years now)..... So now you know my weak spot. My midyear's resolution is to visit Markus soon. Cross out a couple days so we can swing out! SHHHHHHHhhhhhHHHWING..... And I am OUTTTTTTA here..... Hey, didja guys know that Jon Stewart, formerly of eMpTyVeeeeee, will be the new host of the D.Show come January?? I have no comment. by. - -FL ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:36:54 EDT From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: fifty cups of coffee and you know it's on......... yes, indeed, the beasties do rock. i may be in disagreement with you kids when i spout the opinion that lyrically, this album might just be their weakest yet. ('paul's boutique' is still the cassius clay of their albums to me......) musically, however, i think it is one of their most impressive albums yet, with perhaps the exception of 'the in sound from way out.' i'm pissed, because my friend in toledo has my new beasties cd. i don't even have all the words memorized for the concert.........tomorrow night. e: mmmm........diapers. why do you think it is that humans have one of the longest maturation processes of all the mammals? sammie is at 46, baby, and you bastards do have beck. cubs can't be all bad. markus: puffy combs is producing sinforosa's new album, featuring mase? hmmmm.......... cutie patootie is right out of bloom county, 1986. i don't know what to tell you about the follies, my man. i'll drop you an off-list note. anne: oral sex is illegal in massachusetts? what sort of state is that???!?!?!!!! surely you jest. (".......and stop calling me shirley.") i saw your mention of ricotta cheese, which led me to believe that, were i to invite the boys in the band over to my maison, i would probably make them manicotti. homemade........and i would make sure meg didn't load it up w/that too sweet tasting tomato sauce she makes. alfredo sauce..............that's the way to go. tattoos. tribal or henna-esque design, from the small of the back, up the spine a couple of inches. that would be my recommendation. sexy. katie: backstreet boys are the best. i'll make sure i rush out to purchase that, in exactly the same way i did w/the gojira soundtrack. anoop, the uncomparable one: neat name. my friend james' fiancee is geetha. my friend is goran, which i believe translates to 'life of the pig roast.' john_oc: you're in my neighborhood........i'm an akron boy. and i saw a couple of the same shows. that's more than enough talk out of me. matthew, the gift of god. cds in the vw. sean lennon, still. sublime, 40 oz. embrace, "the good will out" jeff buckley's posthumous cds.........gotta love new year's prayer. beatles white. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:05:21 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: Re: Shake your arse... >Hey, didja guys know that Jon Stewart, formerly of eMpTyVeeeeee, will >be the new host of the D.Show come January?? I have no comment. AHHHHHHHH!!!! When i read this i screamed, but it was such a high pitch sound that nothing came out. Oh YAY YAY YAY!!!! Surely Jon can never replace Craiggers, but ooh baby, break me off a piece of that! I've had such a crush on Jon Stewart since he hosted Short Attention Span Theatre on Comedy Central waaaaaaay back in the day. I even went to a taping of his talk show once when i was on vacation in New York. He rawks me....down to a nub. Mm-hmm. (imagine that in a Carl Childers sort of intonation). Over and out. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "This place is dead anyway." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:18:38 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: Fulfilling my quota... ...of at least one post a month. So. Been a while since I posted and I may as well get my paltry Bentent out of the way...finally caught the popped Brick...if you haven't seen it, you're not missing anything. Basically consisted of making jokes about it being Ben Folds Five and not Ben Folds Three (a LOT of dumb jokes about that) and inserting a spatula for Robert's bow and threatening to yank Darren off with a cartoon hook. There, I've saved you the pain of watching that piece of tripe. Saw Hard Rock Live. The sound quality for Brick was spectacularly bad, but my boyfriend, who went to it, said that that was the third time they'd played it because the first time they said the lights were messed up, the second time it was Polka Brick, and then the third is what we saw. (He also told me that they said the lights were fecked for OAD but that aired anyway.) And I didn't notice, but Ben messes up the lyrics. Oh well. Emaline was beautiful. I think that's the first time I really, really liked that song. AND I got to see Jason (boyfriend) and his friends on TV smiling in the background, which was nice. Glory Osky, I was IN West Side Story a year ago!!!! Saw the Brian Setzer Orchestra when I was in San Diego last week...the man wails. On guitar, too. It was awesome! I wished I'd had a swing partner, though...then when I came home (Las Vegas) they were here and I was going to go again, having recently created my swing wardrobe, but didn't have anyone to dance with (my swing buddy's out of town) so I didn't go. It's just as well. You know, I ordinarly can't stand rap, or anything closely resembling it, but I really like the Beastie Boys. And I just started to about six months ago. I could never tolerate it before, but...my taste is changing in my old age, I guess. That is all. Continue to look busy at your jobs while you're reading this. SuperMeg, woman of Jason ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:47:14 -0400 From: "barbi" Subject: ohioans ay? My gawd! how many people are here from Ohio?! John (johnoc@juno.com) , did you see the Grant Lee Buffalo show last thursday? It was all request again! I've seen most of those other ohio shows (ben in cincy etc) that you mentioned too. ATTENTION HERE: When i was at the Odeon in Cleveland, someone had grafittied "Ben Folds Rocks!" or something like that in the bathroom stall nearest to the door. Anyone going to fess up? Hello Jessica from Kent! I was just in Kent last weekend! Hello Carrie from Cleveland! I was also just there last weekend! ~ANNE, (btw, thanks for answering me {aw yeah! a Barbi mention!}) then I can't wait for BENcon"insert city" '98! I'll make the bumper stickers. I really think we should go to Chapel Hill (but only if there's enough tickets so everyone can go that wants to). It could be like "mekka" for BF5 fans. We could have dinner at some pizza parlor and ask for "Joe Capraro" and then enjoy some coffee at the "lizard and Snake" or whatever the place is that used to be the Hardback Cafe.... just a thought. When i finally get a webpage up.... it's gonna be "the Hardback Cafe... re-opens"! woohoo! barbi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:49:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: bencon in chapel hill? Okay, a few notes about Barbi's suggestions for a possible Chapel Hill shindig. We could go eat at Pepper's Pizza, because that place kicks and I hear Ben frequents it when he's home. We could also try to catch a Doleful Lions show, since that's Joe Caparo's band and one of the current darlings of the CH scene. Unfortunately, we couldn't go to the Lizard and Snake (formerly known as The Hardback Cafe) because it is closing...last show is tonight...and being replaced with a Wrap place. Yeaokay, wraps. We could also all be dorks like me and Em and take our pictures in front of the Mitchell Lane/Rosemary street sign. Then we could go to Mama Dip's...I'm sure some of you old skool kids have seen Robbie wearing his Dip's shirt before. The evening would wind down with drinks at Linda's, another place known for Ben-sightings. Hoo-boy, I'm a geek. Have I mentioned that the following people rock my face like outer space: Kathryn, Lucy, Jordan, Dan, John, Katie, Gina, Suzy, Scottie, Sara, Liz? Well they do, just thought I'd share. Ginger :) Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:47:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Richards Subject: READ: YEAH BENTENT INSIDE 1.The video for "Brick" has been nominated in for best alternative video of the year for the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards to be broadcast September 10 from the Universal Amphitheatre in Hollywood. Other nominees include Garbage, Green Day, Radiohead and The Verve. 2. August 19, 10:30 PM Eastern - MTV's FANatic show went and snagged Daniel Davis to go and interview Ben Folds Five, which he did prior to the Conan O'Brien appearance. The result is seen on "FANatic" Wednesday, Aug. 19. 3.And if you get this email really soon then vh1's thing is on at 11 central time. yeah know bff in concert. wow shist. Man my aunt and uncle live in Charlotte and I might be able to make it up to the the conbention chapel hill98. umm hell yeah Umm how far is chapel hill from charlotte anyways. Man I hope its not far. Man if I go I am going to get soooooo much bfff shit. I am going to takeout like all my money saved up for college and just by ben folds five stuff. hellyeah you can never have enough oh yeah here is a nice conversation I had on aol with somebody today. BenFoldsF5: I was sooo freakin bored today Ben Foldz: yaeh I just worked all day and let me tell you it was funn funn BenFoldsF5: really Ben Foldz: yeah really BenFoldsF5: you work at gap rite Ben Foldz: rite BenFoldsF5: what would you do if Ben Folds Five broke up Ben Foldz: kill myself BenFoldsF5: seriously?? Ben Foldz: umm yeah or hurt myself very badly BenFoldsF5: I would go and yell at Ben FOlds BenFoldsF5: and tell him how stupid he was to make that mistake and then tell him to get back together Ben Foldz: I would shit in my pants BenFoldsF5: ewwww BenFoldsF5: lol Ben Foldz: umm taste i am sure that professes my undying love for the band. Hellyeah umm for the bootleg video. I got some rules. soo read them now. 1st My video for 2 boots and I must get a setlist first and a venue via email 2.if you don't have any bootlegs you must send me a vhs tape. and not a shitty one either. I need one thats long so go at spend 2 bucks on one or something. 3. It is going to take a hell of along time to make these thing yeah like 16 of umm and like 3 hours long. Soo it could take a long ass time. If u send me an email telling me to hurry up I am going to hunt you down and kill you like the dog you are. moohahaha 4. You send your tapes first. ONce I get your tapes then and only then will the video be sent.. this cuts down on any chance of me getting screwed over. man I really hate when that happens too. 5. If this is all clear to you then I will get started on picking which boots I like and giving you my home addresss ok thats it..did you read it all?? yeah I didn't think soo. umm bentenion sounds groovey baby yeah Jon _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:22:58 -0500 From: "Thomas Kluis" Subject: tatooing ect All, Hey to everyone. Thought I'd join in on the Grant Lee Buffalo (almost typed buggalo) thread. I really love the album Copperopolis. I borrowed it from a friend and proceeded to buy it from him. Amazing falsetto. I have a tattoo of the coiled snake (the one Scully has on X-Files, the Norse beast Jormungand) on my left shoulder. Within the next year I want to get a banner w/ Jormungand under the snake and Thor's Hammer w/ its name Mjolnir under it. Problem is the funding.... The Twin Cities' main paper today had a big article on swing. Front page of the Variety section. It made me a little sad, I don't know why. Possibly that my passion is now mainstream (the writer mentioned that damn Gap ad about 3 times). Oh well. For HRL, I enjoyed it. Brick kind of sucked, but Emaline made the show for me. Although I thought the boys on Conan were much better. After Mr. O'Brien's show I kept thinking about how much they exemplified fun and humor. Didn't get any of that from HRL. Anyone catch Harvey Danger on Letterman? The song is surprisingly simple. No special drum line or background vocals, save the "Ba Ba Ba Ba". I thoroughly enjoy the song, call me a Flagpolehead if you'd like. Buffalo Tom is playing this weekend, don't know what to expect.... Also, that movie w/Anne Heche and Vince Vaughn comes out. Vince Vaughn kicks ass. Although even in Jurassic Park I kept feeling like he was going to start "turning it on". Trent has deformed my image of him. Maybe I'll catch that. Sorry for rambling. Still looking for boots to trade (please). Tom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:29:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: Re: READ: YEAH BENTENT INSIDE Once again, the Charlotte/Chapel Hill resident can be of assistance. Wow, go me. Chapel Hill is about 2 and a half hours from Charlotte, but can easily be made in two hours (speed limit? what's that?!). Oh, and there really isn't *that* much BFF stuff to be found here. Sure, Monster and The Record Exchange are always plentifully stocked on their cds, but there aren't really posters and stuff, unless I'm just not looking hard enough. I have to orient freshmen. Isn't it frightening that I'm their introduction to UNC?! (evil laugh) Whatever, we've got this thing going on Sunday night called Fall Fest and I just found out that I get to work a three hour shift and basically be Butch's (one of the guys in charge, who I worked w/in orientation last year) bitch and run around and set up lights and run mike cords and other fun stuff. Yee-ha...free Jump show tomorrow night though so life is good. Okay, I wouldn't have shared all this pointless info with you but FL said no one or two line posts. :) Ginger Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:48:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: what a night oh man, this has been a rather painful last few minutes. I had gotten the email about Hard Rock Live coming on again, so i literally sprinted out of my room down to the living room, tripped over the coffee table in the dark, (like literally tripped over, i flew over it and landed on my face, a few more inches and i woulda hit the stereo cabinet, and be lying face down on the floor with a broken neck). After flipping on the TV, and flipping one channel at a time from channel 4 to 54 cause i couldn't find the remote, I caught the last half of Emaline. AHHHHHH!!! That happens to be the MP3 i just downloaded. Hey Ginger, I'm on orientation staff down here at Birmingham-Southern College. I start orientation for being on orientation staff in a week. Each year Orientation has a theme song, and i've been fighting for the boys, but it's a lost cause. Just to put things in perspective, when i came into college, the theme song was the Macarena, and the year after that it was MMMBop. God knows what kind of hideous torture they're going to subject us to this year. I traded my CD-recorder for a minidisc player yesterday. I think i got a pretty good deal, cause it was a pretty old recorder, and a pretty new minidisc player. I can't wait for another good show to come by so I can record it on this little toy. I know that many of us our proud of our obsessions with Ben Folds Five, but none of us can compare with my little brother's obsession with the song "Ocean" by Sebadoh. My little bro is 9, and I gave him my discman this morning cause of the minidisc player. He got my Sebadoh CD (which he steals from me every chance he gets) popped it in, put on some headphones, and listened to "Ocean" on repeat for about 6 hours today. ONE FREAKING SONG!!! Granted it's a good song, but still. Right now, he's lying in my bed, still wearing those headphones with the song on repeat. He fell asleep a few minutes ago. My brother only listens to three songs, but "Ocean" is his far and away favorite. The other two are Uncle Walter and Stephen's Last Night in town. He's kind of picky. Oh, I forgot, he also listens to all the Disney soundtracks. Hmm, what else, I spent 10 weeks doing boring-ass physics research this summer, and all I could think about was going home. Now that I'm here, all I can think about is going back to school. I've said it before, I'll say it again, the new Liz Phair CD is extremely good. Amazingly good. I liked her before, I've fallen in love with her now. Well, enough of my late-night rambling. I know this is reaching, but any idea at all when they might start touring again. Anyone in the southeast want to plan BFF weekend. Like, follow the boys, for a weekend. I'll drive just about anywhere. (i've developed this new found appreciation for driving, it's like you're doing nothing, but you're being productive). OK, that's it for sure. Wait, stop the bus, I just remembered something else. But I'll save it for the next post. Anoop Ranganath ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:55:38 EDT From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: Atlanta...YEE-HAW. I'm heading to Atlanta tomorrow (Friday) to visit some friends. Thank god I have tomorrow off of work. Yippie! That's my big news...besides the fact that I am a streaky blonde. But that's already Ben mentioned...whether all of you were thrilled or not does not concern me. And yes, ANNE, I did attend the Big Baby Jesus show by myself. It was very cool. But there were SOOOO many cops there. It was crazy. So what's this about another ConBENtion '98? That would be pretty cool. I think I could handle that. In Chapel Hill? :) Emily drinking at work? What is this world coming to? So how the hell is baby Kate doing anyway? And how's her mom holding up? I finally caught Hard Rock Live and I must say, it seemed a little unfinished without the "short mean bitch" comment during Song For the Dumped. Emaline was great though. Alrighty. I guess that's it. Good night folks. Have a great weekend. San "I guess I would say "fuck you" and hope that maybe we could at least try to be friends and still have sex. No wait...friends but no sex. He's not good at it anyway." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:01:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: Alabama's fascinating new obscenity laws As proud as I am to have been born and bred in Alabama, it's things like the new law, SB607, that just make me wonder about the people that live here. Anyways, here's the deal, alabama just passed a new law to ban all sorts of material they deem obscene to protect our impressionable youth. What does this mean? The bill prohibits the showing of human genitals, pubic area, or buttocks without a license to run an adult-related business. Adult enterprises must be a certain distance away from areas frequented by minors. Well guys, you know what that means. R-rated movies with nudity may be a thing of the past in Alabama. Movie theaters have the option of airing these films and banning minors, or not airing them to keep minors. A third, worst case scenario, is that they will edit the films to remove all explicit content. Either way, movie theaters can't afford to exclude minors who are a GREAT majority of their business, so it might be out with movies that depict nudity...like Schindler's List...would be banned in Alabama. When will they understand. I can't comprehend how they can allow a child to watch someone be shot in the head, and not think a second about it, but god forbid a women's breast comes out, "COVER THE SCREEN, Johnny can't know that women have nipples, too!!" Proud to be a Southerner (although I'm Indian, dots not feathers) but ashamed of being from the South, Anoop Ranganath ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 01:11:08 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: I did it! (NOT what you think...) I did it! My hair is now 8 inches shorter. Hm. ~Kathryn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:13:31 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: Whilst in boyfriend-withdrawal... he never came online tonight. Waah! Oh, well, life goes on by posting to Los Archivos de Rockford.... Anoop, I read a while ago on the Ain't It Cool News website which has all kinds of useless movie information (www.aint-it-cool-news.com, if you're interested...I highly recommend it) that a movie theater somewhere in Utah had deemed that the nude scene in Titanic and the ever-so-brief-that-it's-not- even-a-fucking-nude-SCENE in As Good as it Gets were scandalous and the movie house's manager EDITED the flix. Just decided that it was her job to. I was slightly enraged, but what can you do. Second note to Anoop: Is the "dots, not feathers" thing a common thing to say? Because I'd never heard it before I saw Good Will Hunting. (Forgive my ignorance and flame me not.) Bentent? Nope. Why does BenCon II have to be in Chapel Hill? Next tour, we need one in LA. Or Vegas. or somewhere near me. I'm a selfish wench. I'm presently compiling new thread ideas so rest assured I'll be pelting you with them in a few days. Yippee. Meg Who thinks the new little green running guy logo for AOL is just too cute for words... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 01:44:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: i really should be in bed... Well, Meg, here goes, I read that EXACT same thing at Ain't It Cool News, and yes, it's an amazing site, I guess all of us cool people probably frequent the same sites. We should compare bookmarks sometimes. Unfortunately, that type of blatant and unnecessary censorship still happens. Of course she left in the entire second half of Titanic, which is enough footage to fill up Faces of Death #22 - #36, and in As Good As It Gets she left in all the deragotory (sp?) comments about african-americans and homosexuals, but all of that's OK. But god forbid that someone might see a woman's naked body. As for the "dots, not feathers," I definitely used it before Good Will Hunting, and I honestly don't remember where I first heard it, but it's been a while. Actually, I don't even remember that it was in Good Will Hunting. I like that one because it's very concise, you really don't have to do much explanation with it. My other favorite is "of the asian persuasion," but I think once I said that around someone who was oriental and they were offended. I don't see what's wrong with it either. Speaking of Ain't It Cool News and Good Will Hunting. You should go read Harry's review of Good Will Hunting, Meg. As much as I love the work he has done with that site, that review made me want to puke, like I really felt sick. As for the entire race thing, I think all this politcal correctness is blown out of proportion. (let me just reassure all of you that I am not racist. I don't feel that any groups of people is better than any other, I just feel that I am better than everyone else). But I don't think anything should be so sensitive that you can't "take the piss out of it" as those fabulously funny brits would say. Of course there are jokes that are in bad taste, and I'll agree that most ethnic jokes are, but some are very innocent, and very funny. Anyways, i'll step down from my soapbox now. In the last few emails I've ranted against obscenity laws in alabama, a woman who took it upon herself to censor movies, the coffee table in the living room, political correctness, a film buff with a website, and the fact that I should be in bed right now. Umm, BENtent...Here's a couple of lines from Liz Phair's new album that expresses a sentiment that I'm sure is shared by Ben and the boys: "It's nice, to be liked, but it's better by far to be paid." Amen. Anoop "going to bed for real this time" Ranganath ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #213 *********************************