From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #224 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 25 1998 Volume 01 : Number 224 Today's Filings: ----------------- Barenaked Ladies & other stuff Dan Cohen, ugly mofo my big long NXNW wrap-up, or why i've been so damn quiet this past week. narf hat trick What is today?? Monday, Monday Do you always trust your first initial feeling... clarity, just confuses me BFF in TIME! Yeah. Ho there. My bad Re: bare naked cheerleading/bff page/trip yo yo yo I got two card tables and a telephone... I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast B&S ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:16:23 +1000 From: Kate_Watkins%HBH@themis.com.au Subject: Barenaked Ladies & other stuff Just thought y'all might be interested in the below from the Triple J net 50 in view of the fact that BNL's One Week has risen ***39**** places in one week!!!!! ( and knowing how y'all LOVE them) _______________________________________________________________________ triple j net50 Aug 22nd 1998 TW LW +/- Artist Title - ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 6 5 Powderfinger The Day You Come 2 1 -1 Happyland Don't You Know Who I Am 3 42 39 Barenaked Ladies One Week 4 4 0 Tism Whatareya 5 5 0 Jebediah Harpoon 6 3 -3 Ben Folds Five Song for the Dumped 7 8 1 Living End Tainted Love (Live) 8 11 3 Garbage I Think I'm Paranoid 9 10 1 Eskimo Joe Sweater 10 7 -3 Adam Sandler Somebody Kill Me _______________________________________________________________________ And also this little exerpt (sp???) from Greg's Music World :- BARENAKED LADIES This issue will kick off with a non-Australian band because the Barenaked Ladies EP "One Week" is an Australian only release! This EP features "One Week", which was No1 US alternative single, and the lyrics are included. There are four other tracks, one from each of their previous four albums. This EP costs only $US4.20 plus shipping $US2.65 for overseas customers and $7.95 plus shipping for Australian customers. _______________________________________________________________________ <> Thinking of that movie, I am curious as to what the non-Aussie's on this list (especially those who have never been to Australia or really know any Australians) think of Aussie-land!!! I have to admitt that while I found the Aussie movies which did really well overseas (like Muriel's Wedding) very funny, they probably could give all y'all (see!! I too can pick up idioms!!) a very strange impression of what it is like over here. So tell me!!! What do you think Aussie land is really like??? <> Is the whole bridal shower thing still common in USA/England/ where-ever-else-you-come-from??? I am curious coz I am the bridesmaid for my brother's wedding in October and all I am expected to do is organise the Hen's Night (which is enough of a hassle in itself!!!). We still have baby showers but hardly anyone has bridal showers anymore unless it is a big society wedding!!! Is this just an Australian thing??? Spencer - welcome back!!! I was waiting with bated breath for you to return so now I can return to my normal respitory patterns and stop turning blue! The Books thread - I have to admitt that most of the books you guys have listed have been in the "It's a classic so I should have read it but it just seems like too much hassle" category for me. I read to relax and I tend to go for books which are the literary equivalent to Friends!! They generally a have romance/humour basis and are a bit like merangue - light, fluffy and easy to consume!!! I like suspense stories and detective stories and family sagas. My favourite novelist is Bryce Courtenay (he wrote Power of One) - if any of you ever want a good cry - read April Fools Day - it is a true story about his son who died while BC was writing Tandia (the sequel to Power of One). His son was a haemophaeliac who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion while he was still very young. Anyway, on that sad note, I shall leave you. Later, Kate. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 04:32:53 -0400 From: Dan Cohen Subject: Dan Cohen, ugly mofo I took a look at my face tonight and realized that for sure...that I am definitely an ugly, ugly, mofo. Before you get any ideas, this is a new thing; I'm not like psychologically mucked up to think that I'm horribly unattractive or anything. I just went camping this weekend. It wasn't the camping that even did it. Instead, it was my own stupidity and willingness to risk life, limb, and, well, nose, that leaves me in the state I am. We were tubing Sunday night when I became an ugly mofo. For the uninitiated, tubing involves strapping a modified inner tube onto the back of a speeding motorboat and holding on for dear life. After my two friends had fallen (the only way to end your ride by the way), it was my turn. I strapped on the life jacket and took off. At first, it was nice. We planed out and I was going pretty well. I stayed in the wake of the boat, where there aren't any waves, for a while. Until the driver got tricky, that is. He made me cross the wake, going over three-foot waves and coming into bare water, a few times. It was after one of these crosses that I saw it...the Monster Wave of Doom. It's about four or five feet high, which isn't much, but when it has 6 cousins behind it, as this one did, that's a family you don't wanna mess with. And mess with them I did. I hit the first few waves all right but the last one knocked me clear out of the water, about eight feet high in the air. My arms were ripped out of the handles and my face scraped across the tube. Then I hit the water face first. When I came up, I was bleeding quite badly, which I didn't know at first, and I also had two nasty scars on my face, also unbeknownst to me. I came to, basically, and staggered back to camp, where I looked myself over. Ack. I look a bit like a stereotypical Irish drunk crossed with a third-rate New Jersey boxer. I'm not sure yet, I'll most likely head to the doctor's tomorrow night if it still hurts, but I believe I may have broken my nose. It was bleeding pretty steadily for almost an hour. It still hurts. But will I do it again? Absolutely. Labor Day weekend, in fact, scar or no scar. It rawked until I hit. By the way...when I get pictures up, there will now be three stages of Dan...Fro, Post-fro, and Schnozz. OK. My view on Australia? Sorry, I'm an American. My world view is shaped by popular culture. I base all my thoughts of Australia on the one episode of The Simpsons. In other words, your Prime Minister is, in my eyes, an overweight lout who wears a soiled undershirt and hangs out in a creek all day drinking Foster's. :) Kinda like our president. My quote of the day? "It's good to know that even in your fractured nose-ness, you can still be a smart-ass" -Courtney My beats is sick like malaria, ~Dan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 03:07:42 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: my big long NXNW wrap-up, or why i've been so damn quiet this past week. Well okay, for those of you who don't know what NXNW (North By Northwest) is, it's a music festival (just like SXSW, only a bit smaller) that is an annual event held in Portland. The basic concept is that it's a forum for unsigned bands to play and record execs come and see the shows and possibly sign them. There are also seminars during the day about the music industry and it's pretty much a big fat schmooze fest. Think of it as the musical equivalent of Sundance. So I ended up as a volunteer and i stage managed for the 3 days of the festival at an all ages venue in Portland called Stage IV. 5 bands a night, each of them with 40 minute sets. My job was to make sure they got on and off on time and that the other volunteers who were on the crew helped them move their gear in and out of the place. basically i sat around and played dictator. It was fun. tons of power with like.. NO responsibility what so ever. a brief rundown of all the bands that played: THURSDAY: The Panties - A local portland band with a female singer. very lo-fi. sometimes it was just her on stage (one panty) with a drum machine backing up her guitar, other times it was the whole band (many panties). Not bad. not great. Speed Twin - From Seattle, i actually don't remember much abotu what they sounded like, but the bassist had these cheesy aviator sunglasses and was really playing up his hair band-ness. saturady night two of the guys from the band came back to the venue top see a band their manager told them to. they were real drunk. one of them grabbed my ass. i've got his card. Fuckpriest Fantastic - HOW on EARTH could anyone top this name(except perhaps for the Lesbian Muff Divers)?!?! well, they were really normal, nice looking guys but WHOA. i'm just so *not* a fan of hardcore. I'm all about music with melody. Love Nut - These guys are from baltimore and have a CD that they put out called ˇbaltimucho! and they were really the only decent and listenable band of the evening. I actually got off my ass and went to watch them in the actual room. they had some good pop songs, and i'm all about harmonies. Definitely a band I'm going to watch out for. so the 5th band that was slated to go on at 1:00 that night totally flaked out and didn't shw up. so i got to go home early. FRIDAY: Big Jim - Basic punkish stuff. a chick drummer who was tearing it up though. Um... I wasn't really paying attention to them. Spoil Sports - Sort of fun portland band. Poppy/Rock music. and the lead singer Christian looks a bit like Rivers Cuomo from Weezer. the whole time i was thinking to myself that the guitarist looked REEEALY familliar to me. only later did i find out that he works with one of my friends and I actually smoked out with him at a party a few weeks ago. who knew?! Spectator Pump - A cool name for a cool band. These guys have a big following around here and the fire marshal was getting a bit testy about how many people were legally allowed in the venue. we ignored him. it wasn't my problm, it was the club owner's. the Secludes - It's good to know that if anything should ever happen to blink 182, the Secludes can step right in and take their place. They have about 8 songs about drinking. and true to form, I went to a party at their house before the show. Jr. Samples - SO MUCH FRIGGIN FUN. They're sort of rockabilly/rock and roll. they call themselves hillbilly bastards of rock. And rightly so, they even have a washtub bass! Probably my favorite band of the festival. SATURDAY: This night was totally fucked to begin with. 3 of the 5 bands that played weren't on the origianl bill. Streetlight Fancies - Glam Rock. what can i tell you? the guitaris't strap was a white feather boa and they draped the stage in velvet and had a disco ball. They had two singers, a male and female. I liked her vocals better, but overall they were fun. Backbiter - They sort of sounded like Led Zepplin crossed with and 80's hair band. Not really bad... but eh, not so much my style. they were really nice guys though. Doorslammer - I honestly have no recollection of what these guys sounded like. instead of listening to them, my friend Molly had come to hang out with me and us, the crew and the cashier were all playing charades. Automatic Head Detonator - I left during their set to go see Creeper Lagoon play at a club 3 blocks away. They were good, though I feel I may have enjoyed it more if i'd had the CD. We got back to Stage IV for the last 8 minutes of AHD's set. All i remember was an ANNOYING strobe light and droning music that was NOT good. Seamless - These guys were put on the bill the day before and they weren't bad. Kind of mediocre. These guys are ready to hit the Modern Rock radio airwaves. and the lead singer looks a bit like Dan Wilson from Semisonic. NOT a bad thing, by any means. So that was that. I may go do SXSW next March if it coincides with my spring break, as I was told by one of the NXNW people that she'd love to have me back. so we'll see. I hear Austin has some great vintage clothes. marcus? you game? Sinforosa could have wiped the floor with every one of those bands...well actually maybe you'd have gotten some trouble from the Jr. Samples, but I have faith. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "I would have been here sooner, but I was thinking up that ham on rye line." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 03:21:28 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: narf Oh dear, i'm so tired. yet i have more to say even AFTER that long spiel about NXNW. Saw the Avengers on wednesday. NOT a good movie. i was really sad about it too. it had such potential. however, the production design was just so cool and mod, i loved it. and Ralph Fiennes in a pinstripe suit. Yum. and i FINALLY saw Saving Private Ryan on friday. great camera work. I really liked the way the battle scenes were shot, and the fliters/lighting that he used. Unfortunately i had a giant bucket of soda and was doing the in-seat pee pee dance for the last hour of the movie. i think that may have taken a bit of it away for me. And I've realized that my job has ruined movie previews for me for the next few months, because i've SEEN them all. though i must say, the preview for One True Thing made me cry. the PREVIEW. i'm such a sap sometimes. KATE: My thoughts on Oz. Well yeah, i loved Muriel's Wedding, Priscilla and Strictly Ballroom, but I know y'all ain't THAT colorful. Although two of my favorite Aussie movies are Proof (Russell Crowe... LOVE him) and Love and Other Catastrophes (Matt DAy....whooo, bring him on over here!). And Kiss or Kill was cool, but just bizarre (matt day in a wife beater and leather jacket! give me a hell yeah!). And I liked Children of the Revolution a lot. was that aussie? i know it takes place in Oz. either way it was flarking hilarious. Oh! and just so you don't think i'm a complete twit, i DID know that crowded house were from Australia. I was just being dumb when I filled out my bio. Sorry to hear about Dan's nose. but hey, now i'm a quote of the day! well i'm going now. i have to get to bed. i've got a dentist appointment at 11 and my 2nd drivers test at 2:20. so much torture in one day. *sigh* ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Oh the misery, the exquisite tragedy, the Susan Heyward of it all." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 03:27:48 PDT From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: hat trick Sorry for posting 3 times in a row, but i forgot to mention that on thursday night, since my last band flaked, i got home early and was listening to John Peel on the BBC and he played a NEW Belle and Sebastian track from the new album (The Boy With the Arab Strap, Sept. 8th on Matador)!!! It was called "Ease Your Feet Into the Sea." It's pretty and it reminds me a touch of The State I Am In. Counting the days down until it's available to play on repeat in my CD changer!!! ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Isn't that Dad?!" "Either that or Batman's really let himself go." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 09:13:33 -0600 From: "Erik C. Lyons" Subject: What is today?? oh yes, hellllllllll-o. It is M O N D A Y! and kiddies, you know what that means??? another pointless post from yours fearlessly leading. Today, for the rest of the post, I dedicate this reading to our beloved, fantastic, big-hair friend....matthew.... - --------- begin dedicated post to matthew ---------- hi peoples. i have few things to say. but gosh-golly, you just might find them interesting. first. to all the saps in the house who cry when they see movie previews (um, that would be court-nay), i believe me and my wife gots ya beat. whenever there is one of those damn hallmark movies (as if crying during one of those is mandatory anyway), we cry, check that...make that we lose it during the damn mini-movie-series-commercials...man, they hit your tear buttons. next. bnl and their sound. i will only say this. i preferred the live version of brian wilson and thought the radio version sucked ass. and i think the one week video also sucks. sucks, sucks, sucks. and that carrot top look alike bass playin fool cut his carrot top. they are all groomed for success. bite me. i got a new job and will start 9/1. how exciting, eh? i think i am becoming somebody now. that is always cool. or as anne would say, at least i got that going for me.....or really, it was bill murray, but anne lives in boston(area) and all that plagiarism has rubbed off on her...and we all know that anne likes the rubbing off....yum. hey markus. i hear a lot of new, unsigned bands' cds and i have to say the ones which i enjoy all have a sound similar to the lemonheads. this excites me. sosa 51. mack 53. this is fun. the big hair concert tour (warrant, slaughter, quiet riot, winger) flew through town last week with little fan(key word)-fare...cum on feel the clock ticking and these guys' careers coming to an end. by the by, if you want one of these awesome bands to play at your event, in order from above, this is how much they cost....6,100...8,500...8,500...6,100....save your pennies kids. i leave. - -------------- end dedicated post to matthew -------------- I believe that was WAY too much fun for a Monday morning. - -FL - -it's not the heat...it's the humidity! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:32:53 -0400 (EDT) From: KDEMCAK@WELLESLEY.EDU Subject: Monday, Monday I am back! Ah, but I did not know you were gone, Katy, you say. I thought you were just lurking again. But a horrible, awful, very bad, no good deadly crash of my hard drive hampered my anti-lurk policy and left me sans-email for a good two weeks. Yesterday I got to say "take this job and shove it" (metaphorically, of course) to the awful folks at the movie theater I worked at, but not before seeing every movie I could in an attempt to squeeze more money out of them. Negotiator: Good. Pretty shots of Chicago, too, for those ojf you from Chi-town. highlight of my week was seeing Sosa and McGwire slug it out at Wrigley. For three brief innings Sosa was leading McGwire by one homer, but then he got aghead with one in the 10th. Ah, the sweet pain that is being a fan of the Cubs. Only one more week til I go back to school--this is very good. cheers, Katy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:44:49 -0400 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: Do you always trust your first initial feeling... Special knowledge holds truth... bears believing I turned around and the water was closing all around like a glove Like the love that had finally, finally found me... Hey all! Stevie Nicks kicks my ass. Hard. First off... whoever said that I could be the "Denmother of Inequity" -- Well, I was going for more of the whole iniquity thing rather than inequity... I was seriously LMAO at that one! Jay & Silent Spence! Yay! I'm so happy to hear from you! And Jay... your post was hilarious! Pleasepleaseplease don't disappear off the face of the fjord again -- either of you! Matthew mine... thank you for affirming my voluptuosity! And my weaknesses are not Rush* and Ol' Swill... as far as you know. Actually, my true weakness is sitting in a wooden booth in a nice dark pub drinking good beer out of pint glasses. And well... I have other weaknesses, too... but I don't think I'll share those here! Clinton: Y'know what? Everyone is arguing whether this whole military thing is real or not... but that isn't really the point, is it? I mean, can anyone honestly say that you didn't for a hair's breadth of a second think "Wag the dog"? And that is the sad thing about this whole mess. It's not whether he cheated on his wife and then lied about it or what types of acts he enjoyed in or out of the Oval Office... it's the fact that the highest elected office in this land is now tainted. Think about it... you have a female friend (or a sister, or a daughter) who is interested in public service and politics and decides to become a White House intern -- how many snickers do you think she's going to hear (especially if she uses the phrase "public servant")? Just a thought... Oh yeah... and one more thought. Let me put this scenario to you... Microsoft hires some summer interns just out of college. Bill Gates takes a fancy to one of them and he begins an "inappropriate" relationship with this 21 year old woman. Now... wouldn't this be termed "sexual harrassment?" Isn't he her boss? All I can say is that in the places that I have worked, if any company officer started fooling around with an intern... well, either the intern would be out the door with a gag order and a nice settlement of $500K to $1M or, if the press got wind of it first, the officer would suddenly decide to retire and live off of stock options... I just don't understand why we have a higher tolerance for politicos' sexual shenanigans (whether it is Bill Clinton's preponderance for lovin' outside the vows of his marriage or Ted Kennedy's penchant for peccadillos or Barney Frank's predilection for young boys... including one who ran a male brothel out of his DC apartment.) Just a thought. Bentent: So where are they now? Are the Fearless Five still on tour? Or are they already home from Japan? Do ya think they need any aging groupies to hang around the studio while they engage in recording sessions? = ) See ya! - -Anne P.S. I'm re-reading Tom Clancy's Executive Orders... I've decided to escape from the reality of politics today to the fiction of politics today. And then I shall become even more cynical about them both... *Actually, I was much more into Aerosmith and The Who as a young'un -- my brothers were into Rush. But can you blame me for listening to Rush? After all, I was nee Anne Sawyer... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:48:45 +0000 From: "Luke Wilson" Subject: clarity, just confuses me 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 ______________________________________________________________ hello people, After a _splendid_ weekend, which included the finding of a Crowded House biography (they were gods. Just you try and deny it), the week is getting better and better by the minute. (a) it's my last week at work. 'Bout time too, if you ask me. Of course this has the disadvantage of pulling away my email access till September 20th, but it also means 4 weeks of nothing-to-do except reacquaint myself with doing nothing. *sigh* (b) now, I know some of you are going to disapprove, but Green Day on Thursday - luvverly. Regardless of what people say, they are _brilliant_ showmen. (c) We're starting to put up Christmas decorations in our office. It's drawn many bizarre looks, believe me. (d) Biscuits have pride of place next to my desk - choc. chip and cherry. Gorgeous. Anyway, that woman with the mask, Em, for I know it is you, said regarding ConBention UK (could we have UKonBention, or is that just really bad?) more than 4 i'm sure. i could get at least 2 more (with a little persuasion :)) - we should rent a van and follow them around the country :) Hmm...but this means waiting for the next tour. Which is bad. Unless, of course, we kidnap them, and force them to drive around the UK, just so we can chase them....intriguing. Anyway, more than 4 - lets see: Me, Em, Kirst?, John?, Graham? - and that's about it, unless of course there are thousands of UK lurkers on this venerable list. This would also involve some form of driving, and Doodle just ain't going to be able to do _that_ many miles. She's 25 for gods sake! (on Thursday for those who want to sing) Anyway, the whole idea still arouses me. No, not in that way. Anyway, I better fly away, 'cause I'm really starting to babble... Cheers Luke ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:28:44 -0500 From: Vamprrella Subject: BFF in TIME! It was bound to happen sooner or later. It was in a story about the bad influences Gangsta Rap has on kids--especially the from likes of BFF. ;) I don't know if anyone here has read this on the MA yet or not, but here goes anyway.... "Not all rap music is about violence. There are songs from artists like L.L. Cool J or Method Man that talk about loving a girlfriend. You should stop criticizing rap and look at the positives of it. There are other genres of music that are gangsta. On MTV I saw an alternative group sing 'Give me my money back, you bitch.' You tell me, what kind of lyric is that?" *Snicker* Oh, BFF is SO gangsta it hurts. In that case, s/he'd REALLY love the demo version of SFTD....hee hee. S/he must be pretty hip, considering the fact that I've only seen the video for SFTD being played but twice on 120 Minutes. I don't know about y'all, but *I'd* MUCH rather listen to SFTD, than oh, a little ditty called "Doin' It"......wouldn't you?? My Bentent for the day.. Kristin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:10:03 -0400 From: Carrie Subject: Yeah. Ho there. Hola, Fjordians! I'm back here in Cleveland, still computerless but coping. Classes started today. I'm taking Intro to Film, Gender Roles in Literature, Prose Writing, the Spanish Poetic Revolt, Feminism in Hispanic Literature, and African-American Lit. I like to read. (English-Spanish Lit major) Speaking of reading, favorite books: Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" -- INDEED! Jonathan Lethem "Amnesia Moon" (or hell, anything by Lethem) Kurt Vonnegut "Mother Night," "Cat's Cradle," etc., etc., etc. Walter Miller "A Canticle for Leibowitz" Irvine Welsh "Marabou Stork Nightmares," "Trainspotting" Franz Kafka "The Castle" Toni Morrison "Beloved" Jorge Luis Borges "Labrynths" Several of you mention Don Delillo -- I read "White Noise" and really didn't care for it. Has he done better/different? Anyhow, the naked drunk boyfriend weekend of wonder didn't go so well. We broke up the first night, got back together the next morning, and everything's fine now, but I think we're just backing off a wee bit. Hmmm... Besides, as I learned, two naked people (one of them 6'4", 200 lbs) don't sleep in a twin bed. It's impossible. Sweaty wrestling. Not sleep. Good to see Spencer back! He entertains me so... Ooh! I'm gonna be late for Gender Roles! Keep up the Fjording. Kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now. - --carrie Joy Fenton Ephesians 5:19 - "Make music in your heart to the Lord." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:21:00 -0500 From: Vamprrella Subject: My bad *Smack* Sorry for the two, exact same posts in a row. Don't ask me *how* that happened, but it did mysteriously... Ack......anyway...school starts on Wednesday for me. Boohoo. =( Kristin *Tripping and falling on her way out* ; ) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:11:19 -0400 From: "barbi" Subject: Re: bare naked cheerleading/bff page/trip hello. I guess I wasn't the only one too lazy to post lately... anyway, i thought after three weeks of a missing BNL CD, that I had lost it... nope, my sister borrowed it and I completely forgot. What's really funny was that she was using it for CHEERLEADING TRYOUTS! That's right! They did their choreographed dance routine to One Week! Weird, huh? I had nothing to do at work today so I scratched out the beginnings of my soon to come BFF page. It's RF inspired! That's right, by you guys! It will be original as of BFF pages, so I hope it goes over ok. I don't think I should drive all the way to chapel hill if the guys aren't playing; not while I'm in school. once that starts, it will be hours of painful studying. I won't have time for that kind of trip. But gawd, I'd really love to. Barbi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:24:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Richards Subject: yo yo yo Whats up dog. Hey bro, sorry about the nose. Sounds like it hurts. I just hope you can handle being Jewish for a while. Hey I got plenty of Jewish friends soo don't send me nasty emails ok. anywho Umm whats up with Ben. I want some new tent from the boyssssssssss (west side). umm yo..man life sucks and then you die. I am going to get fired. ok here goes. Last night i was working with my manager and she is such a bitch. ok but anyway she is always trying to pick on me and crap. Soo basically I got sick of the whole shit. she kept complaining at me and I was working my ass off the entire time. man soo she comes up to me and says some smart ass comment and I go "why don't you shut the hell up". I said it like soooo damn loud. Man like 3 coustomers started laughing. it was soo damn funny. but she heard me and like sent me home and goes "don't you ever talk to me like that agian". Man I wanted to be liek Bitch I am going to whip your ass right now. Give me a hell yeah for breaking the law (rules whatever its a song). umm so this is not all I did either. Before I went on a rampage on my manager I had gotten some ice cream in a cone and put it in the fridge so I could eat some later. Well the fridge is not that cold. On fact it like broke or something and that damn ice cream melted all over the place and like leaked on the floor. Hell yeah I rule or rawk or something. Damn taht bitch deserves every bit of it too. I am going to make her cry tonight. Speaking of crying, hey I broke up with my woman. damn dude I didn't know I was such a pimp cause she cried for like 2 hours. I knew I should have called her but I did it in person instead. Oh boy do I regret that one. But hey I got a date this Friday soo i am not sweating it. Me with no job=no girlfriend and thats why it would such to get fired no money no dates I mean how do you get a woman with no cash Ok I need to get this off my chest. what is up with saying Cheers at the end of the post. Is that I am from austrailia or the UK thing. I am not dissing or anything, but I mean didn't that use to be a tv show. OH yeah it got cancelled for a reason you get the point. Actually cheers use to kick my ass all over the house. But its rarely used in the USOFA. hehe or is it? umm Cheers Princess GoatDix _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:44:38 -0400 From: Spencer Corden Subject: I got two card tables and a telephone... ...cause I'm not nearly as hip as Beck. All right, please tell me if I'm getting too selective about who I go out with. Here are the events in chronological order: 1. I go to this small bar called The Spot on Friday night. 2. I meet up with some friends. 3. Oops, almost forgot. Got some beers. 4. Kicked mucho ass at cricket inside of 10 rounds. 5. Settled down after this *great* girl introduced herself (I *never* get this lucky...). 6. Talked w/ her for a while whilst listening to the tunes of the blues band that was playing that night. 7. Started feelin' *really* good. 8. Decided it was time to pee. 9. Washed my hands (yes, I'm anal retentive and hygenic). 10. Sat back down and resumed the conversation. 11. *She* got up to pee (I have no idea if she washed *her* hands...). 12. We start to talk about films. 13. She asks me if I've seen "Half Baked" (She didn't seem like that type...) 14. I say no. 15. I ask her if she's seen "Citizen Kane". 16. She says, "Oh, god. I slept through that movie." 17. I respond with, "You know, it's really gettin' late. I gotta go." Now, before everyone asks, "Spec, I would have thought for sure that you would have seen Half Baked!!!", I *really* haven't. But, I mean, this girl was for the most part really cool. Smart. *Way* smart. And funny. I was laughing my ass off, which takes quite a bit. She even knew sign language. *Really* well. I'm such a sucker for such talents. I forgot to mention outrageously cute. The type of girl you'd want to take to Baskin Robbins for an ice cream cone, sit on a bench at the mall and mock all the people walking by. But sleeping during "Citizen Kane"? I *must* uphold standards.... So this post was really stupid. I'm sorry I subjected all of you to this. Anyway, Kate: You are a doll! If I'm ever in court, will you be my attorney? Carrie: I must learn more of this "gender roles" thing. It doesn't have anything to do with "gender rolls" in bed with a sweaty 6'4" person, does it? ;-) Anne: I am at this exact moment singing "Tom Sawyer" because you have implanted the thing in my brain with your maiden name. Damn you, you evil temptress!!! In closing, I played a gig this weekend with a drummer. Found some people that were way hip on BFF, so I played an entire BFF set. Jackson Cannery, Alice Childress, Underground, Evaporated, OAD, Brick, Kate, and Missing the War. They flipped. Now my fingers hurt like hell from beating the shit out of that piano. That's my Bentent for now. May all your dreams contain Markus, Spencer "my standards are way too high for my looks" Corden ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:46:22 -0400 From: Dan Cohen Subject: I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast As I'm trying to work a Beastie Boys quote into everything I post...:) The nose update: it's broken. It only hurts now and then, and I have been on enough Tylenol and Motrin, etc., to dull the pain mostly. I went to work today (quite the recovery; I couldn't break something cool and get to miss a few days) and noticed that my arms and shoulders were pretty sore from the tube. Ah well. I'm feeling better. As far as the Jewish thing...I've had to put up with it all my life, Jon. I guess I took that crack kind of personally, since not all Jewish people have big noses, curly black hair, or a New York accent, if you wish to stereotype us a little further. I understand that it might have been a joke, but I do wish you would have chosen your words a little better. It's all good, though. Let's see. I heard the new Belle and Sebastian track today as well, on one of those "smash or trash" things on the radio where a new song goes up against yesterday's winner or whatever. Well, the latest Korn song was the reigning champion and, needless to say, it still is. Even though I altered my voice as much as I could to get some votes in, B&S lost by a long shot. It's a very pretty song though. I can't quite put my finger on what it reminds me of...not quite "The State I Am In", but close. Bah to Korn. Bah, bah I say! Ah well. At least Korn took the title away from Eve 6...if you play one show in Syracuse, you're basically a best-seller for a while (read: Our Lady Peace, who is a huge band here based on one show). We're stoopid like that. Well, the sleepy-time faeries are coming for me on codeine-laced wings...muhahaha. Good tidings to all...The Magic Hour sucks...Tartboy rocks...I'm rather indifferent on house plants. But Starbucks Frappuccino ice pops will always be my hero. Why? Quiescently frozen... I'm a DOG! A big, stinky DOG!- ~Dan "We were in the studio and this giant robot came down and started saying 'Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic.' We couldn't figure out what he wanted at first, but after a while we realized it: he wanted to play with us." - Ad-rock explaining "Hello Nasty" on Swedish TV ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:44:35 -0500 From: "Thomas Kluis" Subject: B&S Upon the fanatic bantering surrounding the enigma that is Belle & Sebastian, I purchased the album "If You're Feeling Sinister" at Cheapo Discs today. I've been listening to it all day and it keeps growing on me. So thanks! Limited Bentent: I work for Airborne Express delivering/picking up packages. Today I was filling out an address form in Boulder, CO. It turns out that the National Science foundation is 9 Mitchell Lane. I wrote the letters "FL ML" on me hand to prevent me from forgetting. Anyone else do that? I swear, I do it way too much. bedtime for bonzo tk ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #224 *********************************