From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #256 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 Saturday, September 26 1998 Volume 01 : Number 256 Today's Filings: ----------------- and so i join the ranks... strange... Hmm, Software Engineering sucks, I am not a girl... sobriety! have you ever wondered? what the fudge. everyone else does it. what the fudge. everyone else does it. CD buying frenzy Sides a splittin"!!!! Re: sobriety! Re: Sides a splittin"!!!! You Dont Know Jack ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 04:56:53 -0700 From: Chickfactor Subject: and so i join the ranks... yes, here i am witha drunken post. well, i'm not really all that drunk anymore, but about 3 hours ago i was completely verschneckered./ i'm still a bit buzzed, but watching Leprechaun 2 on tv sort of killed it for me. actually partook of the festivities on fraternity row tonight for the first time in a LONG while/ TKE was having their annual "Around the World" party where eacj room hada differnt country theme and a different drink to go with it. though what a mimosa has to do with the upper west cide, i'll never know. but hell, who am i to complain? free liqor~! boring thursday. heldd off calling up slimstyl e so i can talk to stacy tomorrow. yay! but i may be calling a smidge later than 10:30 in teh morning,.... considering it's 4:30 rght now... Baby Britain is also my favorite track off of XO. but my favorite line is "revolver's been turned over." in fact i played it on my show this week. went to a party/shopping excursion of sorts tonight out at thsi lady's house inVan Nuys. she hs a vintage store and evry few months she has a thing at her house where she invites a few friends and you basically pore over all the stuff she has in her "play room" and try on clothes and all that. i found a fabu dress from teh late 50's/early 60's and a great never been used italian wallet (it still had the origianl tags adn tissue paper inside) with a van gogh (?) print on the front. all for $20. go me. yay, i have ssomething to wear to the Royal Crown Rvue show next week! so.... yeah, i should get to sleep now. love to yews. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Okay, what does this say?" "Desperate." "Okay! I've got shoes that go with desperate!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:17:59 EDT From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: strange... I still have no clue why this stupid thing seems to send some notes twice when I send them via flash sessions. Crazy. Jordan's morphine post was crazy. I know we've had some drunken posts on here, but I'm not sure drug-induced posts are very cool....I mean, I don't think anyone would like it if I posted every time I did heroin. You know, I need to keep my slight figure very slight... At first I read the first line of J's post as Morphine the band..I was like "cool! Another Morphine fan." Duh. and then I caught on once I read past that first line... Anyway, I got my Belle and Sebastian ticket for the DC show! So I am DEFINITELY going. I was so scared it would sell out. I don't have any big plans for tonight...and it's a Friday...perhaps I'll walk up to the Cat's Cradle to see if they have any Robbie Fulks tickets left since Schoolkids doesn't seem to have gotten the presales like they were supposed to. I think some sort of crazy show is going on at the Cradle tonight...if it looks like anything exciting I might venture in...but then again, that would mean spending some money and considering I have none, I should probably NOT do anything this evening. Another day full of Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches...gotta love it. I do plan on buying some beer (no more than $10 worth) tonight so I can drink a bit before tomorrow night's show and Tuesday night's show...to save money that I'd spend on beers at the club. I'm so economical. That's all there is to my life. My roommate is out of town again for the weekend (I think) so if anyone lives in the area and wants to bring over a movie and popcorn, we can party! haha. San PS. Saw a girl driving a car with personalized NC plates and the plate read: ANOOP. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:52:37 -0500 From: "Anoop Ranganath" Subject: Hmm, Software Engineering sucks, I am not a girl... Well, my software engineering class sucks. Our groups has a 30 page document due on Tuesday, and we don't know what we're supposed to write. Sucks. Have to clear up the fact that I'm _not_ a girl. Indian names are generally unisex, so there are plenty of guys and girls with the same name. Anyways, I have no clue why I feel that I have to reiterate this, but I do. It's just really disconcerting to be referred to as she. I forgot to tell you guys what happened to me last weekend. I was driving to school about 1:30 in the morning on saturday night. I was coming from home, which is about an hour away. So I'm driving down the interstate at like 80mph and something just explodes on my windshield. Luckily there was nobody else on the road cause my visibility went to zero. I basically stop on the middle of the interstate, get off as much of whatever it was that I could, and then got back to school. The whole trip there was this odd smell, not bad, not good, just stale. Anyways, I get back to school, get out of the car, and my hood, windshield, part of my roof and doors, are just covered with eggs. It must have been like two dozen or something. It's like 3:30 in the morning. I washed off all I could, and drove around looking for one of those gas station car wash things cause eggs take the paint right off of a car. Finally found one, went through, got back to campus, and thought I'd look under the hood to see if any egg got in there. I basically had a thin black omelot on my engine. But I was tired, it was four in the morning by then, and I just came back to my room extremely pissed off, and went to bed. Anyways, that's about it. Anoop ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:27:15 -0700 From: Chickfactor Subject: sobriety! okay, I've slept, eaten and regained control of my motor skills. now how about I mention some things that i left out in my drunken stupor. while i was at TKE's around the world party, we stopped in the room with the Mimosas, adn what shoudl i hear on the stereo but "Video"! so i struck up a 2 minute conversation with the owner of the cd. he was nice (for a frat boy;) and said he had all 3 albums. and that was pretty much that. and then i got him to get me a drink. then we left. word. Markus, I'm not going to pull Jelly Roll Morton out of my ass, but i have played him on my show before. i don't have any Bix Biederbecke, but he's on my long list of stuff to get. I called a bunch of record companies today to get them to give me free stuff for theshow. Stacy, i called Slimstyle, but ended up talking to Jack Vaughn directly. but if you ever call up KSCR, send a shout-out my way. I got the number of the Warner bros. record representative for Royal Crown Revue last night from a friend and I might be interviewing them when they play at the Palace on thursday night. yay me. and i called my contact at Mammoth to get the SNZ christmas album. he wasn't in though. NO ONE is in their offices on friday. NEVER. grr. oh well, i suppose one i'm a high powered music/movie exec, i'll duck out of my office early as well. yick, i need to get a new keyboard. this one is fecked. it's all old and dirty and the E on the E key is almost completely rubbed off, and the S is starting to go. and then there's the whole arrow difficency think. you never realize how much you need the down, left and right arrows until they're gone:( well, i do believe we're off to see Ronin tonight, so I'm going to go and put on some make up. i look afright, i tell you. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "It could have been worse.... he could have SHOT her." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:13:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Hedges Subject: have you ever wondered? Ok ok I know this is really going to sound weird to everyone but I am going to go ahead and say it. If the Jellyfish never broke up, would you like them better than bff. I mean I am sorry BFF rules, but honestly I just think that if the Jellyfish had never broke up they would rock and we would all be on a jellyfish mailing list. Its just a thought, maybe I am wrong. Umm anyway I talked to this guy on AOHELL, and he said that Fear of Pop was coming out and the beginning of november and not at the end of October. I just hope to hear it soon even though it is going to be weird as hella. Ok I am out Jason _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00:06 EDT From: Eriklyons1@aol.com Subject: what the fudge. everyone else does it. IT being post drunk. FL = hammered. however, unlike everyone else, I certainly will pay attention to the back space key. otherwise here is my next thought w/o review.... i just went to a bar where the average age is like 20....yikes. fl is gettiun g old. i am cerial. these grrls are hotties as can be, but i listen to them talk and i am lkike" hello:" you are sounding so goddmaammmmmmmmmmmm stuuuuuupid, get a pill" actuallu.y the way i describe them, i am souding likie them. the disease has cought me...... seeeeeee......that is bad news. no back space. really. nothing against hotties. but christ. it is A-mazing how much you learn as you grow up and go through the shyte. (back me up M and Anne, or I shall kill). Anyhow. Hotties rock. But they are not even in school. Guys suck, young ones who fucking stare at me because.....WHY??? no idea..but they WANT to fight.... weird. by. buy. yours in fearless (Have I said that yet?) love each and eveyone of you. really i do cereal (correct spelling) g'nite. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00:00 EDT From: Eriklyons1@aol.com Subject: what the fudge. everyone else does it. IT being post drunk. FL = hammered. however, unlike everyone else, I certainly will pay attention to the back space key. otherwise here is my next thought w/o review.... i just went to a bar where the average age is like 20....yikes. fl is gettiun g old. i am cerial. these grrls are hotties as can be, but i listen to them talk and i am lkike" hello:" you are sounding so goddmaammmmmmmmmmmm stuuuuuupid, get a pill" actuallu.y the way i describe them, i am souding likie them. the disease has cought me...... seeeeeee......that is bad news. no back space. really. nothing against hotties. but christ. it is A-mazing how much you learn as you grow up and go through the shyte. (back me up M and Anne, or I shall kill). Anyhow. Hotties rock. But they are not even in school. Guys suck, young ones who fucking stare at me because.....WHY??? no idea..but they WANT to fight.... weird. by. buy. yours in fearless (Have I said that yet?) love each and eveyone of you. really i do cereal (correct spelling) g'nite. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:06:48 -0400 From: Spencer Corden Subject: CD buying frenzy This happens to me every now and then. I just start buying every damn piece of recorded music in sight. But I have a *huge* recommendation to make. Any of you guys remember the background music from the Little Rascals and Laurel & Hardy shorts from the Hal Roach Studios circa 1930-7? The recordings originally written and arranged by Leroy Shield have been unavailable from over 60 years because none of the arrangements ever survived. Well, the music has now been made available on CD since I guess about 1995. A group from Amsterdam called The Beau Hunks painstakingly transcribed about 100 classic themes note for note from watching all of the shorts and finding bits and pices of info through the Library of Congress. Then their little orchestra played them onto CD with actual period instruments. It's *exactly* the music from those shorts, just without all that irritating hiss. It is freaking incredible. I'm listening to it right now, and I feel like Spanky and Alfalfa should be walking in the door any second. Or maybe that's just the mescaline kicking in. So I also caved in and got the new Brian Setzer plus the Seinfeld stand up disc. I'm sure that doesn't come to any surprise to any of you who know me pretty well. My obsession with Seinfeld will never end, it seems. Setzer's big band arrangements are incredible. It looks like I've got some pretty heavy sax and horn transcribing to do so I can imitate him for my big band gig next month. And Setzer's guitar playing will rock the damn roll right out yo' ass! Of course, I'm sure everyone here has probably already had the CD for quite some time and I am once again very behind in the times. I mean hell, I'm listening to the Little Rascals theme at 11:30 on a Friday night. How hip could I possibly be? Don't answer that, you cynics. I *do* have feelings. They're just buried in a Napa Valley cabernet right now. Spencer "this is another fine mess you gotten us into" Corden "Do you take requests?" "Sure." "Do you know 'Old Man River'?" "No, but I know his mother..." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:29:50 -0400 From: Spencer Corden Subject: Sides a splittin"!!!! OK, correct me if I'm wrong but... We've gotten a great list going of people contributing drunken posts. And I've enjoyed every damn one of them the utmost enthusiasm. But FL has got me in tears. Ladies and gentlemen.....I present to you for the first time..... THE FIRST *DOUBLE* DRUNKEN POST!!!!! Congrats, FL! You and your wife have won a grand prize selected especially for you! You'll spend 6 days and 2 nights (figure that one out...) at some shithole resort in the bottom right hand corner of Armpit, Tennessee. Bask in the partly cloudy skies of this humid as hell, shoeless place that I call home, courtesy of the Chuck Barris Studios. In addition, for your wonderful work with the space bar, we've added a lifetime supply of peach/lime MD 20/20 to get you ready for either those nights where you *really* want to get it on, or just rumble with that young punk that keeps staring at you. Congratulations from all of us here at The Rockford Files! Spencer "I'm the next item up for bids" Corden ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:39:07 -0700 (MST) From: Stacy L Flatt Subject: Re: sobriety! Courtney, ou r lieves are the same. =-) Oh, and everyone, please forgive my tyuping. see, I am at home, and I don't have my computer at home. So I telnet. And its soooo slow, and this keyboard is diffnere,t so I make lots of mistakes. and I refuse to backspace bvecause telnet is so slow. Ok. Courtney-- Jack is cool, I hang out with him I actually knew him personally before I knew him professionally. Ast night a group of us (and him of cousrre) saw Austin Powers at the movie theatre. It was cool. my keyboard is just as fecked as courtney's manybe more. =-) my enter key is completely gone... there is just a round little button there. plus the m is gone, and half the other keys are coming off too. I mean, the letter, not the key for thsose. the only key that is physically gone is ethe enter one. So that, plus our affinity for TMBG, swing, B&S, and of course Ben as well as many others I won't name (I play Elliot Smith all the time on my show!! I like WAltz #2....but the whole CD is brilliant.) plus, we are both from Portland, OR. thats just so coool. I am so proud of myself. I am no swinger like courtney, but I do love it, and I did beat the crowds. granted, only by half a year or so, but that was before BBVD and Cherry Poppin Daddies. =-) Of course, Ben I discovered way before the masses, same with Radiohead, and most of thes tuff I love. Today, at my internship, it was great. WHat I do, is I call radiostations and see how our stuff is charting, how people like it, if they want more, etc. Its great. I took the east coast stations, but Courtney, I asked if I could be the contact for you, and Rusty said no problem. =-) Ok, now I *KNOW* that Courtney and I are not the only 2 radio people on here. WEven if you are not on the east coast, I can be your contact person. So... I expect some emails! Slimstyle is ska and swing. Its great work though. I am doing really fun stuff, and I get to talk to cool people about about music I love! Wow... now, if I could get paid for this! Ok, well, I guess that is all. stacy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:43:43 -0700 (MST) From: Stacy L Flatt Subject: Re: Sides a splittin"!!!! Wow... I want to do a drunken post now!!! They look like so much fun! I've chatted while drunk, talked on the phone many-a-time drunk, and of course, been to parties drunk... I've emailed drunk... but never to a mailing list. Thats it. The next time I am drunk, you all will be the 1st to get an email. stacy ps Courtney--email me and tlel me what CDs they are sending ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 02:12:10 -0400 From: Kristin Klevering Subject: You Dont Know Jack I was just playing a game of You Don't Know Jack, and I was surprised at the fact that they had a BFF reference during the "Jack Attack". The game is, for people who have already played YDNJ, "Super Ultimate Trivia". The BFF comes about during the Jack Attack, under the topic "Want to Join our Band? It was so weird, to see our boys as a reference in this trivia game I've been playing for almost a year! If anyone wants to know how to access this site, who hasn't played YDNJ, please email me. I don't know how to put up the URL for Bezerk. But I will direect anyone who is interested in to finding the right place to go. BTW, does anyone here play Acrophobia regularly? Just curious. Later - Kristin "No matter what happens between us, I want you to know that I really do like Ben Folds Five" - my boyfriend, after we'd mended a problem in our relationship. ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #256 *********************************