From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #219 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 Thursday, August 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 219 Today's Filings: ----------------- Various rambling... and the beat goes on Y'all My Unconventional Conventionists.... I keep my underwear up with piece of elastic ooo Anne ooo!!!!! i, bill clinton, had all the dallas cheerleaders too........ We both know... Fwd: Re: you posted to ANNE RAWKS... Re: WTF?!?!?! Re: We both know... Gosh darn my west coast/california/orange county-ness... Fanatic Show Me Sexy! My secret signal... FANatic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:00:27 +0000 From: "Luke Wilson" Subject: Various rambling... This communication and the information it contains:- (a) Is intended for the person(s) or organisation(s) named above and for no other person(s) or organisation(s). (b) May be confidential, legally privileged and protected in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please contact us immediately by email at postmaster@fwuk.fwc.com ______________________________________________________________ Good morning peoples. Damn, damn, damn and bugger. I profusely apologise for the damn security disclaimer stuff at the top - blame them upstairs, not I. Anyway, (he says throwing himself forcibly inwards), I was just kind of wondering, as is my way, how many Britishers were on this hallowed list. Or am I all alone in a mass of Americans, sticking out like (resists obClinton joke) a sore thumb. What else to say? I'm hungover, which is rarely good, and I have a whole day of mind-numbing dullness stretching ahead of me. Ick. Cheers, Luke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 04:20:51 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: and the beat goes on All i can say about bill is "I LOVE THE NINETIES!!" this shit would never go on in the 50's or 60's....and in the 80's, well none of those guys were young and virile enough to mack on an intern. but god, when the leader of the free world comes on your tv to discuss...or imply....sex? HOT DAMN!! Ah college dorm life...i had a bad experience. no roommate and i was so damn shy, and unforunately for Ginger's words of wisdom, they were ALL dumber than *I*. not to sound pompuss or anything but i got a damn letter from the RD that SAID i had the highest gpa in the dorm "and if you could help your friends..". yeah RIGHT. they all thought i was a dyke. but i will be moving in with my girl friend (TWO WORDS) in the spring hopefully so i am NOT lonely, but i AM away from home. Ska....aye aye aye....i believe that east coast ska is the only true ska. anything from CA makes me ill. Check out the Grand Rapids MI band Mustard Plug. they are just GREAT. yes they have a third-rate trombonist but you take what you can get! :) I heard some Specials the other day and i was jonesin' to listen to my old ska CDs, and so i did. OH! and you gotta love the Scofflaws, and Skavoovie and the Epitones. Scofflaws are coming to cleve-o on the sam enite as Pearl Jam so if you didn't get tix for that like *I* did, please go see the scofflaws!! Jon- hey, yo yo yo, it's 1998 ant his is a BFF list. no one talks like that, mack daddy. Anoop- well you should tell ALL of your friends to visit the SHRUBBERY too!! it's rawks my werld. (and thank you) :) i was SO bored tonight i went to Yahoo chat. but then i realized that sucked and didn't stay long. Anne- TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD!! yes what an AWESOME book. turns out my b-day is the same as Harper Lee. how cool is that? kickass movie too. my fave books, just a handful that i can remember: to kill a mockingbird, harper lee if i never get back, daryl brock moby dick, melville hatchet, gary paulsen (this is actually a juvenille fiction book but i just saw it on sale and i bought it and i am gonna read it again!!!) anything by robert cormier (bumblebee flies anyway, i am the cheese....EX. STUFF!!! okay it's also juvenille fiction, but i didn't read much past 5th grade...) anything by gary paulsen Hamlet, shakespeare (SEE THE MOVIE TOO!!!) woah..i have such a small list. ouch! i'm sure i liked other books, but they are trivial (ie ALL THE WORDS: monty python's flying circus) hmm....what is with us? why are we all writing so much lately? let's get some bentent... i am eager to see FANatic. hopefully i will not be a doofues and get some sort of LIFE and forget... 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: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:27:09 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: Y'all IT'S Y'ALL...I'm from OK &, Anne, tell yer Texass friend ta kindly feck off. As an editor, I've been justifying my use of "y'all" to you Yankee bastahds fer a feckin' long time, so I'll do it here too..."Y'all" is a contraction of "you" + "all". As American English does not offer a word for 2nd person plural, we in the South invented one. We also added our own variant, "all y'all". If "y'all" is a group, "all y'all" means every goddamned one o' ya! (Thus, "f*ck y'all" isn't nearly as bad as "f*ck all y'all"..."f*ck y'all" simply means, "I do not approve of you as a group, " whereas, "f*ck all y'all" means, "I do not approve of a single member of your group." Now, "mother f*ck all y'all motherf*ckers" is about as bad as it can possibly get!) We also offered "you'ns" but, well, frankly that sucks, as it just sounds ignor'nt. What y'all hafta realize is that it's hot in the South. Damn hot! All this bitchin' y'all're doin' about how hot this summer has been? Well, f*ck all y'all, it's that hot in the South every summer! When it's the hot that frequently, ya conserve energy in whatever way possible, which means ya slur yer words, thus "y'all", "ignor'nt", & "itdonmatter". (Don't ask me where "warsh", "deeshes", "nucular", & "libary" come from, 'cause I just don't know...except I'm fairly certain that the extra 'r' in "warsh" is the same 'r' that's missing from "libary".) You can further verify my explanation & spelling by lookin' it up in Webster's 10th. Markus's advice, part 594: never listen to a Texan unless it's my uncle! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:18:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Patton Subject: My Unconventional Conventionists.... Awww, no get to see the Carrie. :( Ah well, I know I'll be making the trek down to BG several times over the year. Besides, you can show up, meet the Jester (Word of Warning: don't be surprised if he uses the line "So, when am I gonna get you half naked and covered in oil?" He is a massage therapist, believe it or not. ;> ) and tell him you know me. He'll probably laugh, and invite you and your boyfriend to several unsundry and illicit acts of debauchery at his place afterwards. ;) Now, as much as I hate to start conflict, (Not a WORD out of you, Markus!) I have to back up ska-punk. True, there are a lot of posers out there, Reel Big Fish went mainstream, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have gotten way too socio-political, but there is one other ska-punk band worthy of note: The Suicide Machines. There's one single great reason they're cool, other than the fact that they originally named themselves "Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines" and they're from Detriot. They have a bet going with Less Than Jake as to who can put the word "fuck" into their albums the most times. LTJ is losing so far, but just because the Machines put out a new album more recently. ;) Anyway, skank on, Rude Boy. Hail Eris! ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "Fate has kneecaps, too." -EBP _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:00:08 PDT From: "Starre Smith" Subject: I keep my underwear up with piece of elastic Hannah Writes: heeey. . .STEEEELLAAAA! not to preempt Anne here, but I couldn't resist. . .you seem to be suffering from a common fan malaise. . .that despair and disillusionment that many of us fell into early this year as Brick rose on the charts. . . the sunglasses are another representation of the barrier blocking your connection to the band as a devoted fan - I assume you finally got to talk with him, which may mean that you are coming to grips with the band's new status as popstars. . .maybe in your next dream you'll get to make out with Darren at a party or something. . .I think that would symbolize a *total* recovery of peace and contentedment for you. ;) Anne Writes: Stella: Here's your own personal Dream Annealysis... You wrote: >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.. So, first off, lemme say that it was not Ben's fault that he drove into a wall... I mean, it sounds like it came outta nowhere... along with George Michael and Andrew whosiface, but let's save that annealysis for another day. = D No, seriously, there weren't many clues in your dream -- so it is difficult to say what any of it means. The key thing (that I can see) is that Ben was being non-communicative (compounded by the fact that he wore sunglasses). So is there someone in your life that you are trying to get through to, but who insists on distancing themselves from you? That's all I came up with... Hello, guys.. Hannah and Anne: I think your'e right.. as far as everything goes I think it was the Brick thing that set me off and it makes a hell of a lot of sense...:) *giggle* Maybe I will make out with Darren at a party next time.. *grin* Or talk all 3 into an orgy.. *Just kidding* *LMAO* :) You both were a lot of help, thanks a lot.. I was so confused about it, it was driving me insane.. And someone who distances themselves from me, I might know who that is... actually, I definately know who that is! :) I've been writing occasionally to Chuck Folds.. he's written back to say thanks and that's about all... He's so nice about it though, its cool that he's nice.. :) He even said something to the effect of "Ben Folds Five Rox and so does Bus Stop" :) I thought that was really cool.. :) In the CD Player: My 2 Xena Sndtrks.(WOO HOO! Minneapolis Convention Rocked) Rammstein-Sehnsucht *as much as some people hate it, I like it* Beastie Boys-Old BullSh*t Tortoise-TNT Ben Folds Five-There's Spring of Myself *my Japanese bootleg* The Cult-Ceremony "Ben Folds is a f*!?in' a**hole!" "If you come across a woman who looks exactly like me and displays any interest whatsoever in you as a man, that's the bad one..." - -Xena "Warrior...Princess...Tramp" "Waiting here for you.. we were born in the room, we grew up in this room and we thought that we would die here but now that youv'e arrived our lives can truly have meaning..." - -Daria "The Invitation" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:39:24 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: ooo Anne ooo!!!!! Ms. Anne Lyons, I need you help! I had a Darren dream....oooo yes sirreeee I had a Darren Dream!!!!!!!!!!! Kathy-rin and others KNOW HOW much I like Darren...and now I have dreamt about him. Ok, the dream was very fuzzy, and I don't remember half of it, but I was in the tour bus with Darren, and Ben and Robert were playing video games. So me and Darren are looking through is records. And he's like, "Oh, you gotta take these records and listen to them, and get back to me!" And I'm like OK MAN! So I take his records, and run out of the van. Then I search my entire school for some reason, for a record player. I end up turning this lamp into a record player (with much blood, sweat, and tears) and listen to his records. And I think that was it.... What the hell is that?! I like Rush. I listen to him. I believe him. He rawks me. He is right. Love, Lucy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:44:49 EDT From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: i, bill clinton, had all the dallas cheerleaders too........ anne. old milwaukee? yack. david eddings......good ref. silk was indeed the coolest of characters, though i bet you are more of a polgara person. harper lee's classic has never left my list of faves...... fat lucy. masturbates w/ beef jerky? (allegedly.) now, i'm a male and all, but i somehow believe that beef jerky would be altogether unsatisfying as a dildo. rumors and gossip should have some sort of precedence for validity and authenticity. translates this way: they shouldn't be weak attempts to make others feel lousy so that you can feel better at their expense. markus, what's your take? supermeg. demon that is talk radio? i like talk radio....... i rotate between it and my cd changer whereever i happen to be going, because without a doubt, the fm mainstream stations all suck. especially the "alternative" mainstream fucking stations. pardon my vehemence. anoop. other good books i've read lately.....wallace's 'infinite jest', thompson's 'fear and loathing in las vegas,' and vonnegut's 'dead eye dick.' i'm about to start on wally lamb's book that our voluptuous annie just mentioned........ shan. the rockford files is kinda like one of the most over-rated sitcoms of the decade. it's a list about nothing. (actually, you should ask the fl what the list is about.........he's got a rockford files constitution sitting around somewhere.) and the ma isn't evil..........it's just for plebians. ginger. i enjoyed your quote that rounded out your last letter. so true. matthew know this: if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:06:36 -0400 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: We both know... ...we're never gonna make it But when we touch We never hafta fake it Aaaaaaallliiiiiiiiiiaaaaaa Here we go again Hey. First off... nice dream interps! I personally tried to stay away from the obvious "Brick" reference because I was a-feared of starting a Brick thread... oof. I went for the more obscure Wham! reference... but the fjord seems to be skewing a bit young these days... (The group Wham! is about as current to them as the Wham! bubbles in the Batman show were to me! Oh... wait... yeah... I guess that Batman was current to me, too. Oof. I'm old. Lemme just oil up my wheelchair so's I can get ready for the Senior Olympics...). But I digress... Lemme get on to my shout-outs... Jay and Silent Spence: Hello? You guys out there? I miss you! No... seriously, I *really* miss you! And that goes double for... Em & San: You guys relocated in NC yet? Carrie: Nekked & Drunk vs. Rocky Horror, hmmm? Can't you have both? = ) Matthew: Just when I lose all hope and believe that you have indeed succumbed to a nasty, coma-inducing accident involving a loaded tray of food... you post! So now you are a long-haired hippie, hmmm? I fear you may be beginning to look a bit like Alexi Lalas, O my strange bedfellow... Markus: Keep the tips & tricks comin' baby! Jon: I'm not mad at you -- how could I be? I just asked as nicely as I knew how for everyone to remember that we don't all get the RF in the privacy of our homes... Finally, as the Fjordian Denmother* I would like to propose a little something. I've noticed that we have all learned to play nice in the RF sandbox... but can I suggest that we stay away from such incendiary topics as politics and religion**? Those tend to be things that can really escalate emotions. I mean... something that you might think is an innocent, obvious comment about recent happenings might be construed by someone else as an attempt to expectorate on their beliefs. I'd hate to see the Fjord turn into a digest of "Them thar's fightin' words!", y'know? Now, I have some milk and cookies that I will bring to the next BENCon if you all behave... - -Anne "The reason he hangs around with those 'gorillas,' as you called them, is because anyone of those 'gorillas' would take a baseball bat to your head anyday. It's called loyalty." * Not that I have forgiven you all for giving me such a bland moniker!*** ** Well, maybe religion is sorta OK... Hail Eris! *** Unless, of course, I become the Denmother of Iniquity... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:33:50 PDT From: "emily burningham" Subject: Fwd: Re: you posted to >> hey >> long time no poast... >> could you by any chance put the conbention in summer next year? or in >> the uk. alternatively :) >> man is it depressing reading about it :((( >> >> hmm, anyway my life is like oo, full of excitement. working at a pub is >> oh so much fun y'know....it's actually scarily like fawlty towers >> sometimes. incidentally is there anyone from the uk here?? oo, i'm >> tired too much darn work :( >> >> well, i'd better stop moaning now, before you all beat me about the >> head... >> >> love >> (auntie-as-of-last-week) em :) >> "sometimes a smoke, a drink and a ponder can work wonders, >> when you're down, takes your frown, turns it round and round" >> if - the bluetones >> > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:04:32 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: ANNE RAWKS... ...just because of the "Jay and Silent Spence" thing. YOU ARE THE COOLEST DENMOTHER EVER! I love Kevin Smith flix. They rule my world. Aw, cripes, I can't make this a two-line post. Blergh. Hey, nothing against talk radio cool people like Dr. Laura, I'm just saying that I have bad childhood memories of being FORCED to listen to talk radio. A five-year-old cares not about politics; this five-year-old wanted to groove to the oldies station and/or Cyndi Lauper. There, now it's longer. Meg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:23:56 -0700 From: Jennifer Auletto Subject: Re: WTF?!?!?! On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 02:16:34 EDT, Lennonita@aol.com wrote: >Fellow West Coast Filers, are you having/have you had the same problem of >finding Belle and Sebastian stuff? I should have just bought it when I was in >New York. If you can help, I'd really, really, really be grateful. I'm >desperate and I'd rather not use my mom's credit card for any more online >purchases. Hey, if you have a Borders around you, they have some stuff there. They're even in their little computer search doohickey thing. Hey, I'm sure no one remembers me since I've been gone like all of July and a lot of August, but I am (well, was) the cool chick making the tape trading page. It hasn't been updated since like, June or something, but if anyone else wants to submit mixes, I'm all ready to start posting 'em. Just send them to jenauletto@earthlink.net. And if you haven't already bookmarked the page (ha), it's at http://home.earthlink.net/~jenauletto/bff/mix.html . So go check it out. Sis boom bah, Jen - --------------------------------- Jennifer Auletto jenauletto@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:26:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: Re: We both know... Anne! Aieeeee! You mentioned Wham!! Oh my God, that was my favorite band when I was younger. My friend was going to marry George and and I was going to marry Andrew. That tape got worn out by lil' Ginger. :) I just thought I'd share, since you implied that we younger Fjords might not remember them. ;) Oh yes, I was a hip little kid, I was all up in music even then. :) Three smileys, I think that's a record! Ginger :) (er, four!) Ooooo Ginger Nance ( ) ginger_nance@unc.edu ) ( http://www.unc.edu/~gnance (o) GO HEELS!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:37:29 EDT From: HndOfChaos@aol.com Subject: Gosh darn my west coast/california/orange county-ness... ...Because everyone I talk to on-line is now watching Ben Folds Five on FANatic on MTV whilst cable-less I am sitting here. Alone. Writing an email. In a different time zone than everyone else. While my best friend (who, incidentally HAS cable) is out of town. Anne (See, I used "gosh darn"! ) > sister-in-law, who is from Texas, insists that it is written ya'll. Well, so does Ben Folds Five, apparently from the NBP disc! Why? I swear that it's some evil plan to mess with our heads. I cannot, for the life of me, remember the correct way to spell "fannie" or "fanny." Jordan and Princess Jon: AP Physics was terrible! The only thing I liked about it was getting a 35 out of 50 on every single test and somehow, through the magic of "curving," the computer would make that out to be an A. I never did take Physics 1. Oh, and a total of two people out of 20 took the AP test. We both passed. I think that it's safe so say that my school was not telling the entire truth when it boasted of a 100% pass rate on the AP test. Almost as bad as those guys who snicker in class when the word "hadrons" comes up...(Dude, he said "hard-on"! Heh heh heh...) John: You are Oh-So-Correct in saying that Money Mark rocks, but I find his CD a bit more ecletic than Beck's stuff, with the lyrics being more straight- forward. But his pop melodies are very catchy! :P Definitely worth getting, RFers. Courtney: Not stopping all the way? You must measure by the stomach. If your stomach is still going while you're supposedly "stopped" at a stop sign, that's not going to look good on your report. I learnt the hard way. :) Ha! At least you people can FIND Belle and Sebastian. Ugh. Got one of those CD by Mail Clubs in the mail today. B&S are on the "recommended" list. > This communication and the information it contains:- (a) Is intended for > the person(s) or organisation(s) named above and for no other person(s) or > organisation(s). (b) May be confidential, legally privileged and protected > in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be > unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please contact > us immediately by email at postmaster@fwuk.fwc.com Luke, this thing in front of all your emails scares me greatly. Lucy: It's hard to regulate on a Ben Folds Five board when there's nothing WORTH regulating. Heh. Dan C.:Neo-Ska-punk sucks. Majorly. Especially when you live in Orange County, CA. Everywhere I go, it's Reel Big Fish this. No Doubt that. Save Ferris. The Aquabats. Jeffries Fan Club. La La La. I could care less. Oh, and let's not forget Ween, Wank, Sprung Monkey, MxPx, etc. all of whom litter the "Alternative Music" station KROQ. It's oh-so-faddish and irks me greatly. Where are all the other Californians on this list? Don't worry, it's not like I want to MEET you because we're all crazy psychos and too many crazy psychos in one place at the same time would not be a good idea. But, just wondering where you all went? I know that there's at least one. I hope. Hell, half of Ohio is on this list! What does that say? ~Kathryn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:52:15 -0400 From: Kristin Klevering Subject: Fanatic Hi All - I got a kick out of how Dan was so desperately excited at meeting the band - - I felt the same way when I had to find the guts to ask Ben if he'd be willing to shake my hand when I met him in person (and I was so scared he'd say no!). Great video clips between segements! I now have the clips I've spent hours watching on Vito's page (thank you Vito) on videocassette of Uncle Walter! I could say more, but I need to get to sleep. Later - Kristin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:25:17 -0700 From: "Will Canzoneri" Subject: Show Me Sexy! WOW... it's been like 10 YEARS (10 YEARS!!! 10 YEARS, MAN!) since I've subjected the world to my neon rainbow. Grant Lee Buffalo- Copperopolis SUCKS. Easily their worst. And JUBILEE... in the words of Addicted To Noise, "ORGASMIC." So I live in Birmingham. I thought I was alone! Where the HELL did you come from, Anoop? I've got some friends that go/are going to BSC. Rawk. I've never heard of this law. But I don't think it'll do anything. I've always thought of Birmingham as a totally separate state- just a random city that happens to be surrounded by the laughingstock of the nation (actually MS is, so AL must be #2 or 3). That kinda "protect the youth" shit is huge in MS- more than here... I spent the first miserable 16 years of my life in Jackson... I remember how they yanked Showgirls out of ALL the damn theaters in Jackson- and a few people cared, but that was it. Of course, the movie's a piece o' shit, so I guess it doesn't matter, does it? And yes, Anne, "ConBENtion Birmingham" has quite a nice ring to it... ooh... here goes... I KNOW 90% of you love this band, but, uh, get over it... I have recently come to the conclusion that Barenaked Ladies is the WORST band in the world. Yes, that's right. The absolute worst, most annoying, cloying, soulless, and vomit-inducing band I have ever heard. It still bewilders me how there are actually people out there who actually find their squeaky-clean LAME-ASS brand of pop culture-based "humor" FUNNY. STOP THE INSANITY, PEOPLE! They beat former "worst band"ers Emerson, Lake, & Palmer by, oh, 20 TIMES... then again, there's always the Jimmy Castor Bunch... BILL CLINTON. Should that dickhead ever happen to step in my path, I will find a large heavy object, like a golf club or an aluminum baseball bat, and I will BASH THE FUCKER'S HEAD IN! Lying womanizing sacks of shit like that don't deserve to live, much less be the leader of the free world. After a finished laughing hysterically at his little lecture, I got really pissed off. And it's only gotten worse since then. >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" Sorry man, but think "some of y'all," used to refer to some out of a group. "All y'all," would then refer to an entire group. Be good- will - --- "Reality, it's not for me, and it makes me laugh..." -The Beach Boys, 1971 Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:18:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: My secret signal... After this entire secret signal thing, I've determined that I need a secret signal as well. maybe a pair of socks. Well, another boring day at home. I can't wait to get back to college. My dad made an appointment for me to get my tires rotated at 7:20 in the morning. I haven't been up at that hour for god knows how long. I asked him why he got it then, and he said i'd only have to wait ten minutes. I'd rather wait an hour at noon. Will - You live in b'ham as well. Wow, weird. We can drive to ConBENtion in Chapel Hill together. As for ConBENtion Birmingham, I know I'd have a helluva lot more fun in NC. Jordan and Jon - AP Physics was _really_ screwed up at our school. Our teacher was brand spanking new, and didn't have any sort of teaching degree. General consensus is that she got the job cause she's the school photographer's niece. Either way, my performance in that class fluctuated a lot. First six weeks, C-, second six weeks, 100, third six weeks C+. It was quite a ride, second semester levelled off at all B's I think, but in the end, it comes down to the AP Exam, and I got double 5's, so I wasn't too disappointed. Speaking of physics, I never told you about the physics professor I did research with this summer. He went to Russia at the end of my ten weeks to get his mail order bride. isn't that fascinating. Like, there's these women in this catalog (that are surprisingly attractive, half of them are doctors) that all want their green card to come to the U.S. So you just send in some money and get their address, and then you correspond with them for however long, and if you like each other, you get hitched, and bring her over. Pretty scary, huh? He's not the most socially adept man, I'll have to admit that, I just hope she doesn't run off on him. She's bringing a kid over, not sure where he came from. I missed FANatic. Damn. Maybe next time. Anoop ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:04:30 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: FANatic Hello Just saw Fanatic. it was cool, but I must say the coolest part of it all was watching it and saying "I was there on that day, I met Dan, I met Ben, I met Darren, and Robert, all on the very day this was filmed in the very city this was filmed." And that my friends, was the coolest part of the whole thing. listening to BFF is a religions experience for me too. yup yup, I love them. 1st thing I do when I wake up is check my email. I get lots of BFF email, so thats cool. I could give a really cool "Ben Folds Five Tour Of Tucson!" and include all the places where Ben played, and where Underground was filmed and stuff. The problem is, all the places are really far away from each other. So there would be more driving than site seeing. And my car has no air conditioner. Shut up, I live in AZ, its hot I have no air conditioner, I deal. *sigh* barely. But this is a poor college student speaking (though one wouldn't know it from my 2000$$ CD collection... the words of Cake come to mind... "your CD collection looks shiny and costly..." though it isn't my parents in this income tax brackett, I just don't eat thats all.) and I can't afford to get it fixed. Though I have a great stereo in my car, so my passangers would be entertained by great music while driving all around the city from BFF site to BFF site. I could wear my shirt "that proves I was there, that I heard of them 1st" to quote Cake yet again. Damn, this song reminds me far too much of myself. Anyway... Jon, um, this is old news by now, but the sooner you break up, the less heartbreak there will be for the both of you. Just be honest. And the gap sounds like a cool job, so don't quit. I am staying in my job cuz I get awesome BENefits too. Ok, not BEN as in BEN BENifits, but I just liked the way that looked. like when all y'all (Marcus, was that correct grammar? I'm a linguistics major, maybe I could do a thesis on y'all!!) write conBENshun or whatever. It looks cute. Um, what was I saying? Oh yeah, I like the benifits of my job, so I am staying. Good pay too for a poor college student. Um... la lala..... books that I like... I am a big fan of Nabokov. He is awesome. Pnin is a great book by him as well as The Defense. What else do I like? welll... hmm... Pat Conroy is an excelent author, as well as John Knowles (A Serparate Peace) and of course, it seems everyone loves Harper Lee. Why didn't she write another book? My speculation is that she thought she could never duplicate teh sucess of To Kill a Mockingbird, so she had hit the top and didn't need to do it again. What else... well, I read lots of plays and librettos of musicals. HUGE stephen Sondheim fan here. He is a genius, and that is all that needs to be said. Man of La Mancha is also a classic among classics as far as musicals are concerned. For some good fun light reading though, I'm a fan of Crighton. The movies just don't do the books justice. I go back to school on Monday. Woohoo. The University of Arizona. Yup yup, 2nd year there, 3rd year of college. I'm Human Resources Director of KAMP the radiostation, and after having a shitty summer dealing with crap, I finally got things under control. xcept the fact that I have a shitload of stuff to do in one week, plus go to a funeral tommorow in Phoenix, PLUS move all my CRAP into the dorm. ARGH. and then there is SCHOOL. And work, cuz I still have to have a real job cuz though the 500 bucks a semester working for KAMP is a nice perk, it just ain't enough to live on! Today on my radioshow (which you can listen to on Real Audio, I'll post the URL on here someday) I played Chuck Folds' band Snuzz! It was awesome. (thanks Rey!!!) And of course I played Ben. I think I did 2 of their songs in 2 hours. Somday I'll cram a 3rd one into there. woohoo starting to ramble. yup yup. Maybe I'll go to bed now. Yeah, bed = good. All talk to y'all later. "rock on completely with some brand new components" --Cake Stacy ooooh PS buy the new TMBG. It does some serious kicking. I'm digging it all over town. yup, sure am. And the guy at the store I bought it fromwas super nice too. TMBG does Planet of the Apes songs at the end... later dudes. I'm standing hight on tiptoes looking over fences, Waiting for somebody like you to kiss me Senseless. I've had a bellyfull of faces drawn in sadness, I want to jump deep into tides of loving madness. The taste of Love The more you get the more you want, And all because It all makes Sense When you're near it, it all makes Sense. --The Lightning Seeds "Sense" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #219 *********************************