From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #217 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, August 18 1998 Volume 01 : Number 217 Today's Filings: ----------------- yoyoyo, rf in the house... favorite books... Re: The Rockford Files V1 #216 Weekend special just because it is Monday... Dreams... 120 minutes the newbie Much Needed Plug Oh yeah.... no, the heat isn't driving me crazy Rambling. Y'all... Re: The Rockford Files V1 #216 Ohio/BENcon/Harvey Danger I totally paused! (I swear!) FUCK SHIT DAMN how about that slick willy this is NOT a bff site... Blergh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:27:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: yoyoyo, rf in the house... Boy, I am about to die of exhaustion. Our washer broke, so I had to do my laundry by hand today. We went to Sears to get a new washer, and I had to sit there for fifteen minutes trying to explain to the salesman that we didn't want the extended warranty. He didn't seem to understand. How many freaking times do you have to tell him. I understand that he's just doing his job, and he gets a very healthy commission if he sells an extended warranty. But I felt like I was being raped by the washing machine guy. No means no, right? I went to waffle house tonight also. That's another fascinating place. For an honors project at my college, some guy spent a month going to every waffle house in Alabama and collecting stories from different people. It was rather cool when they presented it. I don't remember what the academic relevance was, but it was neat nonetheless. I also went to the bowling alley tonight. What's up with this entire cosmic bowling phenomena (actually, it's been around for a few years, but I just thought I'd bring it up). I mean, when I go bowling, I want to go bowling. Not go bowling under cancer-inducing black lights listening to the extended dance remix of the spice girls album. Hvae you ever thought how cool it'd be to levitate. I mean, I'm a fairly fit person, but sometimes I'm just tired of supporting my own weight. It'd be so much more comfy to just be able to float. Basically, I wish I was superman. Well, that's all for now kids. One more week til back to school. I'm taking three math classes and a computer science course this term. Oh the joys of being a nerd... Anoop Ranganath ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:31:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: favorite books... Well, I was thinking about how I need to make my way down to the bookstore cause I'm all out of new reading material, so I thought I'd see if I can start a thread here on you guys' favorite books. My favorite book is by far "East of Eden" by Steinbeck. This book is an epic. It's the only book I've ever read where I can relate any major event in my life to something in the book. It's beautiful. "Grapes of Wrath" is also amazing, but I couldn't relate nearly as much to it. Notice the trend? I like Steinbeck. Actually, I just like american authors. Most other literature is so wordy and lacking in adventure. Well, I like american authors minus faulkner. He puts me to sleep SO incredibly fast. anyways, time to sleep, Anoop ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:44:08 +0930 From: helen Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #216 Hullo people out there ><> >Hey - I'm going to Livid as well!! Maybe I could organise to meet up with >you. I get sooooo jealous when the American contingent of the list talks >about meeting up with other Fjordians and think "Well, I could always >organise to fly half way around the world for the next BenCon" but then >sensibility kicks in and I realise that this is not possible. Damn!!! Anyone from south australia going to Livid who wants to give me a lift? AND i too am overcome with insane jealousy for i want to go to these snazzy ben folds five things. Instead i will hve to stay at home and wish i had optusvision so i could get the benfolds five concert mtv taped while in aust. I had a dream in which ben folds five were dressed up as various people in rocky horror. This scared me. NEVER have bf5 in your dreams if they are gunna end up like that. >Anyway, I think I know how you feel about racism. We are currently having >huge arguments over here about a political figure who is getting bloody >close to the Aussie version of the KKK!!! And I am continuously surprised >by the number of people that I thought were fairly sane who support her!!! Another example of australian stupidity. I read in a free street magazine that *shock* Robert was now the drummer. How did this happen? I went to that concert and i was SHURE that Robert played bass! *giggle* well, what CN i say but.. stupidity is surounding me at the moment. lexie ~impresive for the first time~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 06:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: Weekend special good morning young ladies and gentlemen (and eric):) it was truly a rocking weekend that yours truly had. i rode out bush on my bike in the rain and got really, really drunk. for 3 days :) however, the sleep deprevation is hitting in now so isn't it the perfect time for a post? carrie - i got a friend who whenever he sees the .org, he laughs. i also have one who laughs at a wiggleing finger and one who whenever see hears our maths teacher say du/dx, cracks up laughing. the rest of us just sit there making these 3 bruise themselves with laughter. it makes for great fun when all of them are drunk. hannah - i got a cd collection that you don't listen to if you are depressed. because you will kill yourself. too much melencoly and not enough happy, so i reckon that harvey danger cd sounds like the way to go, thanks. i've gotta go order about 4 cd's from my local record store. that's right, we only have one record store. and you have to order cd's that aren't in the top 40. and the top 40 over here, you don't listen to without a gun. Kate, the livid thang sounds cool. however, whats a couple of 1000 kms between fjords. i say you, me and the rest of the aussie contingent hijack a 747, and land it wherever BenCon '98 : the sequel (insert dramatic music here) occurs. who's with me? i can see the headlines now, Militant mailing list members memerise many millions (i love alliteration) and in the subheading, hijackers disappointed, no hookup for 747 available :) oh and by the by, you don't scare me. my family (even my dad) can recite the entire movie, songs and all, and my big sister dressed up as columbia and tapped danced her way into her yr 11 dinnerdance. i love you guys. i wanna come to your party. i like vb. also, is it just me, or is anything with the word hanson as a surname, naziesquie? im sure that the band was once called the aryian (sp??) youth and as for the bitch from ipswich, nuff said. American football is for wussies! try a real contact sport. league or union for preference, but even aerial ping pong (otherwise known as Afl). yeah. or cricket. it is with my friends anyhow. we broke 3 bats. how come i never get epiphanies? they rock! Jordan " i have drunk waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many crownies " Wightman _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:52:06 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: just because it is Monday... ..I think I'll post (as if I never post). First, I rock so hard, I make people laugh...at me... Dateline Summer 1997. Outdoor party. Many people. Small acoustic band with the token bongo player. Erik = drunk. Erik = confident he can play the guitar AND sing. Bad, bad, bad move..... Dateline Saturday(15th) 1998. Outdoor party. Many people. Small acoustic band with the token bongo player. I took all the embarrassment of last year and practiced "till my fingers bled" up until 11pm. At this time, open mike announced. Erik = drunk. Erik = not so confident. Erik = successfully plays backup to lead singer who masterfully sings N. Young's Rockin' in the Free World. That's good. Erik = confidence. Now, Erik = alone on stage (patio). Starts to sing alone and play. Whoops. Damn drunk voice. Butt. Quickly avoids disaster and laughter AT him by starting to parody songs he knows (a la W. Al Yank). Crowd now laughs WITH him and Erik = new career. Erik is now a stand up comedian with token guitar. And just to make things better, the band came up and sang Knocking on Heaven's Door while I played backup to end my set. So, Sat. Night = success. Sweet. Continuing on.... Talking about moods. I have friend, or rather, I know someone who is a musician and he says he can't write music, or even exist unless he is miserable. Okay......ummmm......he once said, and look----> I quote, "I am only happy when I am sad..." Oh yeah guys, this guy is profound. The Napoleon/Jesus dialogue was so funny that I think you should get one of those "RAWK SO HARD" buttons Courtney has a stranglehold on. I hate top 40 radio. *My* Kate rocks (but only when she isn't filling her diaper). Oh, and I have been meaning to ponder my thought on the following for about a week now. Is it just me, or does Jon seem to be drinking coffee and/or taking speed 24/7? That boy rocks himself so hard....somebody give him a hell yeah for Christ sake. I agree with Hannah. Quit the Gap. Stay FAR away from the Gap. Bad Gap, bad Gap. Hey, look! No Hands! - -FL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:01:05 PDT From: "Starre Smith" Subject: Dreams... Hello, Filers! Had a strange dream last night and was wondering if someone could kinda interpret it... I was in a van with BFF, Ben was driving and Robert was sitting there cranking the radio.. all of the sudden this big brick wall came up, and WHAM! we got into a wreck.. then I remember conciously waking up later and it was when I was at their concert, Ben was there with his girlfriend and I tried talking to him but he didn't realize anything about me... he wouldn't talk to me and I was just there with him... He was wearing these sunglasses and by the time I got to talk to him, it was a more relaxed conversation.. I don't understand what it means.. like all my other Ben dreams, it doesn't make sense... Jess> I agree with your comment about the singer for Harvey Danger being kinda cute! :) Stella *Folds* ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:52:14 EDT From: EMALINE84@aol.com Subject: 120 minutes Did anybody watch 120 minutes yesterday?? Well Ben Folds Five did one of those things were they say this is blah blah blah and you are watching 120 minutes. Well they did that and **Darren** has a very deep voice, I wonder how he does all those high harmonies....just thouhgt Id inform ya'll. PRINCESS EMALINE ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:59:27 EDT From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com Subject: the newbie this is my first post, i've been lurking on the RF for about two weeks or so....i'm one of those evil MA people :) and i'm trying to figure out just what everyone is talking about....but just thought i'd throw in my two cents about nothing in particular <> interesting you said this eric...my mother seems to think i'm in some sort of ben folds five cult shan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:02:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Patton Subject: Much Needed Plug Okay, since it's been established that half of Ohio is on this list, and equally established that there are Rocky fans among this bunch, I have to make a plug out of the goodness of my heart. (Or is that my spleen? I get the two so confused...) Anyway, my good friend and the person I blame for turning me on to Discordianism is part of a cast down in Bowling Green. They call themselves the Seduction Production (with good reason. I've been to their parties.) and they do Rocky every Saturday night. I'm headed out that way this Saturday, actually, so if any of you want to make the trek down there and meet yours trully (come on, I know there have got to be a couple masochists out there. ;> ) It'd be much appreciated. Anyway, I'll see you there! Hail Eris! ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "Fate has kneecaps, too." -EBP _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:18:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Patton Subject: Oh yeah.... I guess if you want to go to Rocky, you might want to know where it is. ;) Well, since I was in no condition to remember last time I was there, I figure I'll just give you the Seduction Production's website: www.toltbbs.com/~rhps/ There, now you can search to your heart's content. Laters all! Hail Eris! ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "Fate has kneecaps, too." -EBP _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:38:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: no, the heat isn't driving me crazy Note to self: spending app. 9 hours a day out in the humid, 90+ degree Chapel Hill weather sucks. Why didn't you remember this from orientation last year?! Sorry, but my whole life these past few days has revolved around freshmen. And around making up for the lazy-ass slackness of the other counselors who apparently forgot that there was work involved in this job. Grr. I haven't been dubbed the All Purpose Bitch for no reason! :) But! I do have a point! I got to see Jump, Little Children on Friday. They played a free show up on Franklin Street, and it rawked. I love those guys, and I love them even more for being sooo cute. I talked to their bassist for a while after the show, and discussed the possibility of Jump and BFF (one of Jump's favorite bands) touring together sometime. How hard would that rock? To borrow from our speed boy Jon, somebody give me a hell yeah! We have to make signs for all of these little programs we're doing for the freshmen, and one is a transportation program. Here's the sign I made (that of course no one got): "stop the bus! don't be lonely! learn how to visit your friends on south campus and elsewhere at the transportation program." My fellow OCs have also decided that my entire life revolves around BFF...I've stopped trying to convince them otherwise. Classes start tomorrow. Since Anoop shared, I'll tell y'all what I'm taking, too. An Old Testament Lit. class, an anth class called Consciousness and Symbols, Latin American Theater, Intermediate Fiction Writing, and Afro-American lit from 1950. Woo-hoo! Later gators! Ginger :) Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:38:56 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: Rambling. I have found Belle and Sebastian. At Best Buy, of all places. Go fig. Sorry I whined. I just watched VH1...Semisonic's "Closing Time" was on. Yay. But they said the album was "Feeling Strategy Fine." ha ha. They suck. VH1, not Semisonic. Is it easy to find Jump, Little Children's stuff anywhere? Because they sound interesting and based on y'all's (is that a word? Whoa.) opinion of them I'd like to check it out. Argh. Heat sucks. Meg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:58:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: Y'all... Meg - I can't believe you had to ask if y'all was a word. Being from Alabama, I'll give you the full definition. y'all - contraction for you all. Of course, being "you all" implies that it refers to more than one person, yet people down here continue to use "all y'all" as the plural of "y'all" Don't even get me started on "y'ompto" and "y'ongry". Anoop Ranganath ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:11:24 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #216 Hey! From one John to a Jon... Break up with her, and stop working at the GAP in one fell swoop. I know you don't want to hurt your girlfriend, but if there is one thing I have learned...stringing a girl along to only eventually dump her is even worse. Sooner is much better than later, for both of you. Kicking it to "A Thousand Leaves" right now...rock on. Oh, that's the new Sonic Youth record btw...yes I am listening to the vinyl. Hi Bree!!!! That's all Fol(d)s! John "Close your eyes and you'll see nothing at all or maybe it's everything at once." --Issac Brock, Modest Mouse _____________________________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:04:15 -0400 From: "barbi" Subject: Ohio/BENcon/Harvey Danger RF, Carrie, I love the ohio idea about carpooling in a van w/ "First Baptist Church Youth Group" and throw beer cans out the windows"! Yes!!!!! And guys, I really think we ought not have a conBENshun unless there's a gig we can go to. That's my final opinion (although if we have the choice of concerts, I did like the idea of haveing my picture taken in front of the Rosemary and michelle lane sign so I'd vote for mekka, i mean chaple hill). And, as the fan I am for Harvey Danger, I should put in my two cents: Those guys are the nicest, coolest guys i've ever met (well, next to you know who). I love every song on the album (BTW Private Helicopter is the next single), so you should buy it, Hannah. And if they come to your town, enjoy the new stuff that's not on the album (which is about 4 years old right now), and when you get their autographs, tell 'em Barbi from Ohio sent you. What I especially love about them, is that you can't have small talk with any member. You'll find yourself telling Evan (drummer) your problems, and Jeff (guitarist), will be giving you advice on life.... See ya'll later. Barbi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:05:48 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: I totally paused! (I swear!) Well Fjordians, guess what I did today? Give up? I FAILED my drivers test. :< i've been pouting all afternoon. Apparently according to the testing guy I don't stop completely enough at STOP signs. A pox on him. I'm retaking it next monday though. Which, horribly enough is the same day as my next dentist appointment. How much torture can I handle in one day? bleh. plus i have to find someone to go in my place to the NXNW stage managers meeting tomorrow because I made plans AGES ago (Brian Setzer! Woohoo!). My day has just sucked in geeral. Picture if you will, that scene in Clueless after cher comes home from failing her test. that's me. but without my own Jeep to take out anyway. Wish i could go find solace on Rodeo Drive. Tiffany's would certainly cheer me up right now. errr. Bentent? yeah, i bet they can drive. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Why should I listen to you? You're a virgin who can't drive." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Richards Subject: FUCK SHIT DAMN Wow shit I think the speed is starting to wear off. Umm whats up with people telling me to quit working at the Gap. 1st- $6.25 an hour 2nd- 50% off on clothes Soo I am 17 and thats not too damn bad.. so leave me the hell alone. Ok anyways umm Bentent??? no its just not happening right now. But anyways Ok the deal with my girlfriend is this For some damn reason I want to break up with her. But infact I can't really find a reason to break up with her. Damn what is wrong with me. Everyone tells me to break it off but dude I must be whipped or something.DAMN it!!!! OK ummmmm let me think....1 hour later.... Hey Anoop, whats up with taking my YO YO YO. Shit if you are going to take my sayings at least give me a Hell Yeah or something. Umm School started today. And since everyone is giving there classes why the hell not. 1st Study Hall-nap time 2nd AP calacus-damn I am going to fail 3rd AP phyics-2 classes that suck back to back 4th Programming I 5th Honors English-I didn't think I could handle reading 20 books in ap cause I already read 12 for honors 6th American Bussiness and Legal Systems-don't ask it has to do with law Pretty damn hard classes I might add. But I gotta go to college and I gotta get a scholarshit too hot damn. I just don't know if that 28 on the ACT is going to do it. Fuck I am stupid. I NEED MORE SPEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDA AHHHHHHH ok thats over with and now its time for my ending BYE PRINCESS Jon tha biggest crackasss of them all moohaha _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:59:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: how about that slick willy Boy, I was sitting in front of the TV right before 9:00 and I couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. When Princess Diana died, I really wasn't too emotional about it at all. Like, I didn't find myself really blaming the papparazzi. It just seemed like loss of privacy just went with the spotlight. But watching Clinton today, I felt _so_ bad for him. Sure he did a horrible thing, but to have it dragged out in the spotlight like that. Geez, I mean, having to face your family after something like that must be bad enough, but to have to deal with the judgement of the entire country when by most accounts you're doing your job just fine. Wow. 'nuff said. Jon - Sorry, I had no idea it was yours. Actually this friend of mine did that once and it cracked me up. I walked in the room and she goes "yoyoyo, anoop's in the house" I died laughing. I don't know why I thought it was so funny. Ginger - I'm cringing at the thought that I have to start Orientation staff in a week. We get two shirts (both the same) that we have to wear all week, and we also stand outside all day in the sun shuffling people about. Thankfully, our campus probably isn't nearly as big as yours (I think it's about half a square mile by my approximations. But the heat combined with the humidity is going to be intolerable. Meg - To find that Belle & Sebastian CD you said you went to Tower, Virgin, and Best Buy. I bet you've got a bunch of cooler CD stores out there in Vegas. Sorry, I'm just all about supporting the little guy. DOWN WITH WAL-MART! Isn't that right Jessica? Jon (again) - Break up with her. No reason is too small to end a relationship if it's something you can't deal with. As for working at the Gap, it's really odd, cause I overheard this conversation in a restaurant yesterday where these people were talking about how all guys that work at the Gap are gay unless they're the manager. Maybe there _is_ a reason you want to break up with your girlfriend... :) Well, back to nothing, Anoop Ranganath ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 02:26:30 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: this is NOT a bff site... Hey , some more people mailed me about getting the MAD-bff spoof. EVEN after i posted about it now being online. and then my mailbox got corrupted... So some people, i started sending it to again.... which is silly. So, if you still want the MAD-bff spoof, please go here: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/6814/notben.html and thanks to Leigh, you get it in supa-fast action. Jess *********************************************************** I'm not just naked, I'm Naked for Jesus!!! * --+-READ THE SHRUBBERY-+-- * http://www.theshrubbery.prohosting.com --New Every Month- -Humor, Music, News and More-- *********************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 03:04:12 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: Blergh. Anoop, I was going to go to lil' guy stores, seriously. But we happened to be on a family shopping outing (eyechhh) and my brother bounded over to Best Buy to feed his video game obsession and I just stopped in because I was there. Luckily I found it. The Virgin Megastore trip was due to coincidence of being there, too. Believe, me, I'm all for the lil' guy. Don't make me bust out my anti-Wal-Mart tirade. Oh, and about "y'all"...I'd written "y'all's", which just seems totally wrong to me because having two apostrophes in one word seems to be the linguistic equivalent of trying to divide by zero or something. But I guess it's okay. Wish I knew how to swing properly. Oh, now I need to make this list-relevant. when's the next album due out? Megamoo ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #217 *********************************