From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #294 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, November 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 294 Today's Filings: ----------------- my english paper is due in 20 hours dan and i, lovelorn failures. as i was walkin' down rub a dub square It starts in the morning... i will try not to breathe If a tree falls... A Slight Return Fear of Pop Artwork/In Love oh, the ego's going down... rain rain go away ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 08:53:50 GMT From: "tavia -" Subject: my english paper is due in 20 hours ah jordan, to not have been at livid...very sad that ..... >Part of it might have to do with the play. All of my circle of friends made the play, and I didn't. So, I've started to not be a part of their jokes and sayings, although I still hang out with them. It's hard to be the only one not laughing. so true! big sympathy vibes out to you dan crappy advice: do they need stagehands? ...... also: >....the alochol more and more, I found myself talking in an australian accent! I *LOVE* their accents. =-) this always amuses me, how americans seem to dig aussie accents so much.... mind you i rather like american accents (well some of them) and english ones are divine... (mmmmmmmmm...) I think I should stop procrastinating and get onto my english discussion paper taves 'the wasting of days' mcgahan '1988' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:53:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Jordan W." Subject: dan and i, lovelorn failures. dan, this one is for you, buddy. thanks. for your eloqence and your support. today was depressing. maybe i should just tell her how i feel and see how we go. nah. that would be too freaking brave for me. yup, not only am i a lovelorn failure, but a gutless one at that. and what it all comes down too is whether i value a friendship more than a relationship. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 03:59:52 -0500 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: as i was walkin' down rub a dub square Tom, some guy was dressed as a Zulu at the party i was at and he won first prize (a bottle of wine). Wonder how he's feeling today too... My halloween was a little on the boring side. I smoked so much, my head nearly exploded. I wore a couple of fake lip rings and my friend Andy (who is like my older hippy brother guy) was nearly freaking out when i said they were real, and then i took them out and he cornered me and tried to explain how he'd love me even if they were real and he called out the window and asked all the folks what they thought and he made a big deal out of it.. so my thoughts on this? it's sort of a drag to be the only straight-thinking person in a room full of high and drunk people. Okay well i wasn't straight up but i think their moaning and bitching and philosophizing was just GETTING to me. This is why i don't go to frat parties. Don't need a bunch of drunken frat boys telling me the meaning of friendship. on a lighter note, my friend Marco showed up in drag and he looked absolutely GORGEOUS. you'd all be jealous, girls. Thing is, his ride took off with his purse (keys, wallet) so there he was, stuck downtown in drag with no keys, no wallet, and no lipstick :) hehe ... he said it was something out of a drag queen's fantasy. Courtney...i am SOOOO jealous of you right now. I have been dreaming about Ed every night since i saw some previews for American History X (not that i wasn't dreaming of him before) and i am seriously going to see that movie every night for a week when it comes out. I mean..ed...with no shirt...tattoos.....ROWL ROWL ROWL ROWL..... Okay i am going to go before i pass out now. 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: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 02:32:48 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: It starts in the morning... ...When you're lying next to me I'm rolling I'm rolling I'm rolling so quickly Now I'm not a doctor And I'm not a lawyer I get a prescription and set it on fire Blow me a kiss I'll be happy the rest of my life *** Travis makes me happy, yo. Check it out. You'll be happy, cuz I'm so happy. Anyway. 2am. oh boy. Little Stay-Seated hasn't budged from this chair. She's written a whole 4 pages too. Hell yeah. All I gotta do is finish telling what happened at Wounded Knee, and as long as I don't go past 8 pagse total, I'm set. Its a damn good paper too. I'm quite proud. I got an A on the last paper, got an F on the midterm, so I need to kick some serious ace on this paper in order to keep my gpa. I'm coming down off the cafine, dammit. getting tired. yawning every now and again. Damn. My coffee is cold. *heats her coffee* yeah, much better. I gotta count my CDs. Not sure how many I have, but I am almost postive its past the 200 mark by now. shit yeah, thays cool. Cuz I bought my computer on November 4th last year, and thats when I started buying CDs, cuz I didn't have a CD player. I still don't. Except my computer, that is in deserate need of more ram. So, what is 200 divided by 12? wowie. I average 16.666 CDs a month. Wow. say a CD costs on average 10 dollars. This is cuz I buy used and also get some for free from the radio station, but I buy plenty of new ones too... so 10 is a good rough estimate for an average. So, that means I average spening about 166 dollars a month on CDs. Wow. I am one sick person! Considering in a *really* good month, I make 600 bucks a month. Wow. Well, at least my CD collection rocks, huh? =-) wowie. Thats some strong coffee I made. I'm feeling much better already. I think this little break did me good. I'll go back to writing that silly little paper that could determine the coarse of my life. Yeah, really. See, I do well on it, get an A in the class, it boosts my GPA, I get into an aweomse grad school that lands me a kick ass job, and I am happy and making lots of money, and all is wonderful in Stacy's life. However, I do a shitty job on the paper, and I fail the class, it fucks my GPA over, I can't get into a good grad school, and I am stuck as a waitress for the rest of my life. Sooo.... No pressure. =-) Tavia-- If I could, I would hang out with Ben and Nicolejust to hear his lovely Australian accent. =-) I'm just lucky they happen to to be 2 of the coolest people I've met recently. =-) Seriously though, I love accents. All kinds. Its silly really, but something cool and exotic like a Scottish accent or Australian accent always gets me, just the same as an accent from the USA, so for example Missouri, or New York. What it boils down to, is that I love voices. Its why I was drawn to linguistics and radio. When I was a kid, I paid so much attention to the way words were formed. It did and still does facinate me. Ok. I'm going to do some more on that paper. Stacy Cuz everyones my friend in New York City And evertything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty The streets are paved with diamonds And there's just so much to see But the best thing about New York City is you and me. --They Might Be Giants "New York City" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 02:43:31 -0800 From: flames on the side of my face Subject: i will try not to breathe i can hold my head still with my hands and my knees these eyes are the eyes of the old shivering cold i will try not to breathe the decision is mine i have lived a full life these are the eyes that i want you to remember ah yes, i just got done watching the 120 Minutes countdown of the top 10 REM videos. i'm so happy that they showed "(All I've Got To do is) Dream" video. i'd only seen it once before on M2 and figured i'd never see it again. and i really love the video for Daysleeper. it's very reminiscent of early stop motion cinema, first pioneered by Eadweard Muybridge who was comissioned by Leland Stanford to win a bet that he made wherin he proposed that all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground at once when it's running. woo. nice to know that my film degree will let me critically analyze R.E.M. videos. but wow, R.E.M. were a big thing for me. back when Out Of Time came out, i was a hardcore Sassy Magazine reader, and i remember how Jane Pratt got to be in the Shiny Happy People video. and i was going through my Kate Pierson (from the B-52's) phase and wanted to be just like her, so when i saw her in the video i went and bought the album. and oh, Automatic For the People was the first CD i ever bought. i bought it on my 14th birthday- after my dad bought me a CD player (that now resides in our living room) - with birthday money my grandma gave me. our living room smells like Bounce dryer sheets. for a very odd reason. my roommate was shooting her 290 film this afternoon and was lighting something but needed a diffuser, which was not included in the lighting kit. so she used a dryer sheet. it pretty much had the same effect as a diffuser... until it started to smoke. and that was the end of that. i kept all the reciepts from the CDs i bought this summer and i spent about $350 total. i've been keeping track of how many i've bought since i got back to school and so far i'm up to around $200, which is pretty good considering just ow many CDs i've come into since september... probably about 40 or so (thank god for radio freebies!). well, i should go to bed. i've got to go hustle up $7000 tomorrow to foot the bill for the radio station swing night i'm planning. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Iiiiiiiiikea this is comfortable!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:56:54 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Patton Subject: If a tree falls... If a tree falls.... If a tree falls in a forest, It'll land on me. There, riddle me that, Batman! ;) Anyway, my Halloween report. No, no drunken debauchery (so we weren't drunk,) no Rocky Horror, but I still had fun. The main reason I didn't go to Rocky was it sold out before my friends and I could get tickets. That's okay, because we decided to entertain the line while we waited, and put on an impromptu floor show. At one point, on of my friend who went as Death was dueling a Dark Jedi, scythe against lightsaber. Freaky, unless you're one of the initiated. ;) Plus, we got a girl unfortunately dressed as Baby Spice to go out to the concrete island in the middle of the street and sing Wannabe. Of course, then we got the entire line to sing the theme to Gilligan's Island. I love my friends, I love my town, and I love Halloween. We finished the night by tying on of my friends to the pipe in my bedroom and...... but that part's not suitable for younger viewers. So, then next time I invite people to one of my parties, who's coming? ;) Hail Eris! ERIC _______________________________________________________________________________ "I have not yet learned that the next step I take without looking WILL lead directly off a cliff. Of course, it's usually when I'm watching my step that I get hit by a low hanging branch." -EBP _______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:45:43 -0800 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: A Slight Return OK, OK, I'm still here, I'm just busy actually working @ work...a surprising thing to hear from me, I know, but it's true! I'm currently doing the work of 5 editors (including my normal workload) here @ Boeing, so fun e-mails just can't happen nearly often enough! Anyway, I don't have just a whole bung load to say (write)...still failing @ my mission to find a mate; Sinforosa's CD will (finally) be available for Thanksgiving, so stay tuned here @ the Files for more; still wearing black nail polish from Halloween...nothing gets stranger looks from aircraft designers/engineers...("I shouldn't find that intriguing and yet I can't look away," thought the engineer as he boarded the elevator w/the other-wise-quite-professional-looking young male co-worker w/the nail polish, while fighting desperately to repress the "unnatural" urges he felt in his loins.) Nuthin' much else to say, so I'll appease your appetite for Markusisms by listing the CDs currently on (one of) my (three) desk(s) here @ The Boeing Company (along w/parenthetical comments from my own self): Barenaked Ladies, Gordon (their best by far!); Bliss (mmm...perfect work/mood music); Bozzio Levin Stevens, Black Light Syndrome (fave drummer, fave bassist, cheesy guitarist); Jeff Buckley, Grace (what can I say?); Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool, Panthalassa: The Music of...1969-1974 (ibid.); Danny Elfman, Music For a Darkened Theatre (ibid.); Global Sounds 10, 11(see comments for Bliss); Jazz At Lincoln Center Presents: The Fire of the Fundamentals (some of the best jazz musicians currently living); King Crimson, THRAK (mind-opening experiential music); Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass (ibid.); Lounge Music Goes Latin (call my machine @ home for a taste of "Mais Que Nada"; Papa Wemba, Molokai (by far the best singer in the Congo); Polytown (fave drummer again...more excellent mood music); Portishead, Dummy, s/t (it's like musical sex!!!); Soul Coughing, Irresistible Bliss (literary hip hop...how can ya go wrong?!); Squirrel Nut Zippers, Perennial Favorites (BBVD & CPD & all the other "Daddies" in the "swing" world need to listen the feck up, 'cause someone's tellin' 'em how it should be done!) No surprises, I'm sure, as that's my typical fare. Still, any inspirations from that should be well-heeded! Alright, I'm gettin' back to my all-too-important job. Bye for now! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:13:35 EST From: Keyserdan1@aol.com Subject: Fear of Pop Artwork/In Love Hey people. I just put up the Fear Of Pop art as well as most of In Love in .ra format. Enjoy. - -me Keyserdan's Pseudo- page ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:48:56 EST From: jaedonely@juno.com Subject: oh, the ego's going down... Hey guys, Today was a disheartening day for yours truly. Fuck, Im shy! I need self confidence in my innate female abilities! Theres a school semi coming up...last one, Im a senior. I need a date...and there's two kids at school that I have my sights on. Of course I dont really know them, I just lust after them, but Im all over treating myself, you know? So I was going to calculus extra help after school and POW! There walks Chris Kelley, my junior crush. Perfect time to be like, " dude, semi? yeah." and who was struck dumb? me. =( and the other kid I want to ask...the best looking sophomore...although Im afraid that could be illegal ;) (what?! Theres a year difference between us, plus, senior guys and sophomore girls, god there ought to be a law) So I dont know what I want to do. Ask Chris Kelley tho' I just lust after him? Ask good looking Anthony Tufo although hes a sophomore? But he plays the guitar and we can talk about music? My other option is the guys at work...but I think one likes me (hes a skinny bald kid) and I kind of like him but there is the most beautiful boy I have ever seen at work, too, so, shit, Im horny. I would talk about this with my best friend...but good god she has senior-itis! Shes thinking about herself a lot, we never do anything, she has the lead in the school play, shes not in any of my classes, its a tragedy. I just wish our friendship could be at that easy period, but its not. Senior year... much love to all y'all (xo, mom its okay its alright nothings wrong) ~Elisabeth ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:12:12 EST From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com Subject: rain rain go away it's poured all day. not good for a high school with three buildings. it makes crossing the parking lot very difficult. i wish it would snow instead. i love winter. break out the mittens and ski hats :) Stacy-- i don't know why we can't wear those big skirts anymore. i love them. my friend and i were looking for homecoming dresses and just for the hell of it i tried on this long dress with a big skirt and i just couldn't take it off...i cant wait till prom :) i was the one who bought spilt milk. my favs so far are joining a fan club and sebrina, paste and plato dan-- you sound so melancholy. i would be happy to spend a saturday night with you anytime, you don't by chance live anywhere near st. louis, do you? :) my halloween was fairly boring. no costumes, no parties. i spent both nights of my weekend watching two of my friends get tattoos. oh well, atleast on halloween i got to hear jackson cannery on the radio. every once in awhile i have to pull out my bff cd and listen to it. i think we all need a new album. you can only listen to three cds so many times. shan "You say you mean well. You don't know what you mean." ~ Elliot Smith i feel the need for two quotes today "Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see" ~ They Might Be Giants ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #294 *********************************