From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #288 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 Wednesday, October 28 1998 Volume 01 : Number 288 Today's Filings: ----------------- dreams and stuff Please, please, pleeease... Sweet Caroline. ok. everyone should kill their television. [none] ching chang walla walla bing bang Re: survey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:17:06 -0500 (EST) From: Ginger Nance Subject: dreams and stuff First I have to say that last night was one of the craziest nights of my life. I think Sandi can vouch for that, if she reads this while she's out in California. Watch out--there may be a song about everyone's favorite Old Navy girl in the works! Okay, on to the also bizarre dream I had recently. Anne, I'm not sure I want to know what this one means, but I've got to see! So Scott (as in Schneider) is here in NC visiting me, and we're hanging out with my roommate and her boyfriend in my apartment, except it wasn't my apartment. You know how that is. It's getting kinda late, and we're all thinking about bed, when Sari and Andrew say, "So, are you two gonna go have sex now? Go on, go get it on!" etc. Scott and I are speechless, and become even more so when they decide to "help us along" by giving us candles and a tape of romantic music and red condoms. I'm not sure why they were red, but whatever. So they basically tell us to scoot along and go get at it, and Scott and I go back to my room, sit down, look at the stuff they gave us and at each other and are just kinda like "huh?!" (As in, what the hell were they doing, not what's this stuff.) Then I woke up. I told you it's a weird one! I hope it doesn't mean I'm a sex freak or something! Help! Ginger :) Ginger Nance ginger_nance@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~gnance ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:54:37 -0500 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: Please, please, pleeease... Don't go on me! Hey all! Welp. It was a Pearl Jam kind of day as I drove into work this fine morning. Do you ever have moments where you just say to yourself... "I am just so damn happy to be alive!" Well... even if you don't -- *I* do. And I had one this morning. I took the back roads to work and about halfway to my destination -- PJ cranking -- I looked around and got that warm, fuzzy feeling about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And no, this is not another drunken post... why do you ask? *grin* Y'see, When I walked out to my car this morning... I was leaving fresh footprints in the first full frost of the year. I was rubbing my hands together in the chill morning air while I consciously exhaled with an open mouth so I could watch my breath explode into clouds before me. I just love the fall weather in New England... don't you? So I get in my car and decide to go back roads because yesterday it took me an hour and a half to get to work by highway. I thought that I might as well enjoy the scenery if it is going to take me that long to get to work. About halfway to work -- Monsieur Vedder's voice shaking my soul -- I looked to my right and saw the morning light streaming through the trees bordering a meadow covered with frost. As I wound my way down the hill, twisting around every turn... I halted my consciousness from its normal frantic mode (thinking about what I need to do when I get to work) and just enjoyed the view. The foliage is past peak around here... but the leaves are still clinging to the trees dressed in a myriad of rust & gold with glimpses of crimson and orange appearing here and there. I took a deep breath -- and just *was* for a moment. I still have a big grin just thinking about it. I'm just happy to be, today. Just thought I'd share a moment with all y'all. Moving on. San: So Ben's looking good, is he? And you've pushed for a double album? Cool cool. (Said with heavy southern accent -- picked up that phrase in Atlanta!) nd you even refrained from saying, "...and you heard it here first kids!" *smile* Carrie: I *was* wondering where your asterisk led... so thanks for the second message, chiquita! And I was thinking... not only has Emily been missing of late... but so has SCOTT and HANNAH! Where are you guys??? You can't tell me that you are studying hard... because I've been to college, baby! So sign in, people! Not to mention Jay and Silent Spence... you guys are too infrequent in your posts... And of course, there is the Lurker... which reminds me... E!: Explain how going to a Diamond concert on the 4th precludes you from attending festivities on the 5th??? Bacchanalian revelries at that? If you are half the man I think you are... you will be e-mailing the head of our militia for details pronto. Hey... if *I* can attempt the trip -- so can you! I shall be heading to lunch at a cool Thai place in approximately 8 minutes... Mmmmmmmm... lunch. A demain... - -Anne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:12:46 CST From: "Fearless Leader" Subject: Sweet Caroline. Anne. Basically, I need a weekend of rest and reflection after ND's show. He just rubs me *that* way. You know, the way Eric likes it! and. I love spending time with me daughter. of course. I *do* want to get away for a weekend sometime soon. like, after the new year. anybody in chicago nov. 3-6, stay clear. fl roaming around. i have found a femmes show, chris isaak, and lo and behold, the s.n. zippers. i will stay away from the firemen. but not the piano at the hyatt. or the bar. yum. note: i am there for a conference/training, *for* the record. spence is silent. silent like bob. whatz up with that? i think we should feel jilted if there isn't reference to some of us in some of ben's new songs. seeing as we are all bizzare in one way or another. double album? bf5 solid gold hits! anybody see a naked dr. laura? bob and tom say she is, well, furry. i so hate that woman. lion king 2 video hit stores today. joy joy. speaking on animation. eric's fav book is watership down (or so I have heard). I've said it once, and I will say it again, what a kick-ass movie. oh, and where is markus? he just wants to bang on the drums all day. just glaring at my conBENtion button. bee-u-tee-ful. what memories. i need a fix. nothing exciting happening other than all that noise. - -fl ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:52:39 EST From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: ok. everyone should kill their television. i don't have a dj show or anything, but i did have a day of housecleaning w/meg. so here's what was played......... beatles' sgt pepper's and white mmw "combustion" blind melon nico (with several fast forwards) the london suede "sci fi lullabies, disc 2" the dead's "live-w/out a net, disc 1" phish "slip stitch and pass" (skipped two songs.) amon tobin "permutations" (only 4 tracks off of) coltrane's "birdland" nirvana's remake of leadbelly's classic. van morrison's "astral weeks" for meg. supergrass' "i should coco" the doors "soft parade" for meg. an hour or so of am talk radio....... she vetoed the new soul coughing. bf5's whatever. we listened to only 4 tracks, before saying, "whatever," and changing the disc. sorry, guys.......doesn't have the same feel to me that it once did. the final cut's 'a dance for the saints' off of "consumed." "sex" off of a supergrass import. smile. and......... some gil evans. we listened to am radio's resident nutjob, art bell, upon returning from dinner. am i the only person who believes 5 o'clock pm is too early for it to get dark? matthew "just put it in the hamper. i want to go have a smoke." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:04:30 -0600 From: "Scott Schneider" Subject: [none] >And I was thinking... not only has Emily been missing of late... but so has >SCOTT and HANNAH! Where are you guys??? You can't tell me that you are >studying hard... because I've been to college, baby! So sign in, people Wow, my silence has been noticed! You're so sweet, Anne. :) I've been reading every digest, but just haven't felt compelled to post lately. My moment of interest: saw Belle and Sebastian in Chicago last night. The show was amazing. The opener (Momus) was very strange, yet also quite entertaining. An appropriate opener for Belle and Sebastian, I think (which would be a hard thing to do). It was woth the trip... Isobel was in the hospital a few days ago in Philadelphia with the flu, but she performed great and said she was feeling much better last night. I can't wait to see B&S in DC on Friday... it's a club about half the size of the Metro, so it should be nice and intimate (and probably smoke-fille and crowded, too... but that's to be expected, I suppose). Apologies for any typos or mis-spellings... the e-mail program I'm using to write this doesn't have the built-in spell-checker than I'm used to. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:52:03 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: ching chang walla walla bing bang Hello all you sexy people out there. I have news and stuff. First off, I was officially invited to attend the Microsoft eXtreme event November 14 in Syracuse to preview Office 2000 (and get a beta CD!) and stuff like that. However, the part of my card which contained my oh-so-important VIP number was ripped off in the mail (AAUGH!...apparently the postman is a developer too) and now I have to wait on a list with the other plebeians. Dammit. And here I was looking forward to FrontPage 2000, which should actually be cool. Clayton, this is for you. Also, I don't go to set up Exchange until tomorrow, now. Andy's been busy and hasn't made it to McPeak. Second, and much bleaker, the thing with Olivia, wherever it was going, hit new lows today. The hair gel trio was back in health this afternoon, actually asking her at one point if she'd smoked pot and what she was doing this weekend. I don't know what to do now. It's tearing me up inside that this girl can be so amazingly sensitive and kind and then let herself be propositioned by these total slimeballs...and like it, apparently. I sat there, apparently looking really depressed about it, and she asked me what was wrong. How on earth do I tell her? Every time I get the chance to speak with her a gaggle of boys is around her. And to think that 7 weeks ago there was actual, serious sexual tension between us... I was wearing the vest today that she picked out that one night at the mall. It was my lucky vest at one point, as it usually ensured good performance at work. Today, I almost got fired. Things have changed so much. I used to be concerned that I might be trying too hard to get to know her. Now, it's reached the point where I'm not trying hard enough. The sheer number of men she has is amazing. It boggles the mind. Maybe we all see her as vulnerable somehow and we want to exploit her. I tell myself that I respect her, that I feel this way because I don't believe how other people are treating her, but would I do the same thing if I were more aggressive? Worse yet, how do I let her know I care? I really don't understand. Things are going so wrong with my life now, and I can't even say that I'll be able to talk to her tomorrow. Maybe I did something wrong sometime, and I'm meant to watch her slip away. I wish I could be sincere and clever and I wish I could do whatever it takes to make it. This is the girl that I've convinced myself that I like, and I can't define what it is that I feel for her or what stops me from saying so. I'm sorry this was so depressing. It's just where I am. Oh yes...I too would like a B&S shirt, happy Athensian, or Washingtonians, or whatever. "Study at Stow" as well, although I feel like a schmuck now for copping Courtney's bit. (ps...I liked this shirt a month ago! it's retro, what can I say?) XL if possible to cover my fat ass, although L is acceptable as a last-minute substitute. I shall pay you back as well; 'twill be the first thing I send out Saturday in the post. (in other words, addresses are nice)... ~Dan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:29:53 EST From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: Re: survey Here's what you're supposed to do. At the end, copy this entire e-mail and change all the answers so they apply to you...then send it to everyone you know INCLUDING the person who sent you this. You should get back a lot of other 'get to know you' e-mails, too. You'll learn a lot about your friend (s) that you maybe didn't know! "The Ultimate Survey" > > 1. Name Sandi Shorter > 2. Nickname: San; Shortcake; short mean bitch > 3. Hometown: currently Chapel Hill, NC > 4. Favorite grade: grade in school? Probably pre-school > 5. Bacon bits or croutons: croutons > 6. Favorite salad dressing: ranch or some type of tomato-y thing > 7. What type of deodorant do you use: clear shit > 8. Favorite shampoo or conditioner: aveda's shampure > 9. Favorite color: gray > 10. Who you chat with most: Em, Calvin, Robin, Ginger, and currently Jonathan > 11. One pillow or two: big body pillow > 12. Pets: Sebrina (full name: Sebrina Paste & Plato) my dog - Yorkie > 13. Favorite Movies: Swingers, Sling Blade 14. Favorite type of music: power pop 15. Hobbies: portraying a drunken chick, rock shows, playing trains (Thomas the Tank Engine all the way) 16. Favorite author or book: Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov > 17. Word or phrases you overuse: Rock on; cute cute cute; woo-hoo, jerkboy 18. Toothpaste: Colgate Total & Tom's of Maine Cinnamint > 19. Favorite food: soup > 20. Most romantic thing that ever happened to you: and I quote "I wanna be around for a while Sannnnnnndi. I want to be your boooooooyfriend or somethin'" 21. Do you get along with your parents: as long as I'm living at least 5 hours away > 22. Favorite town to chill in: Hapel Chill > 23. Favorite ice cream: coffee heath bar (Ben and Jerry's) > 24. Favorite soda pop: I don't usually drink that crap.... Dr. Pepper or Coke I guess > 25. What's your bedtime: on a typical work night, I'd have to say midnight or 1am....helluva lot later when I'm out with my new hottie > 26. Favorite shoes: Cons, Simples > 27. Favorite perfume/cologne: I like that Country Apple shit from Bath & Body Works right now...don't usually wear perfumes...the kids don't like it > 28. Favorite song at the moment: quite possibly Baby Britian by Elliot Smith > 29. Favorite site: www.thisisaretardedquestion.com > 30. Favorite subject in school: english > 31. Least favorite subject: math or any sort of religion course > 32. Favorite sport to watch: baseball's good...as long as it's not the Cubbies 33. Most humiliating moment: we won't go there 34. Craziest/silliest person you know: Calvin or Emily....or the drunk version of Ginger > 35. Favorite Holiday: Thanksgiving because I get to eat tons of food that's loaded with fat and grease and then I wind up getting sick and then I go back to eat more > 36. What kind of work do you do: I'm a nanny > 37. Are you an inside or outdoors person: pretty much indoors I'd have to say > 38. Do you have children?: I call them "my" kids, but they weren't born to me...does that count? > 39. How many boys/girls? 1 boy- 3 & 1 girl- 7 > 40. Say one nice thing about the person that sent you this: Em. She fucking rocks. ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #288 *********************************