From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #296 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, November 5 1998 Volume 01 : Number 296 Today's Filings: ----------------- i play tennis, and i rock. Dear readers, I'm not sure where I'm headed... All Hallow's Eve Re: The Rockford Files V1 #295 boredom Playlist 11.3.98 CMJ!!!!! December CMJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 04:15:38 -0800 (PST) From: "Jordan W." Subject: i play tennis, and i rock. really i do. i mean, i fucking ROCK! i won, obviously, and that puts my team a entire 2 weeks worth of points ahead. kickass. matthew, i promise, i've finished moaning (for now). setting those two up has finished it for me. it always happens about november, it's a personal thing and it's something i think i might have just exorcised. i swear, no more whinging. thanks for using the loverly gilded whip though, i just luvvvved it :) content is the plan. stop copying me dan! rofl. i swear, it scares me how awfully close our lives seem to be at this point. but you have a job, which is something i don't. job=money and money=cds. damn. tim freedman is cool. yay for the whitlams! plus, i'm the cool guy that has all three albums and is now the lending post of school. hey fl, nice to see you. pass the merlot. biggles kicks ass. and so does courtney. oh, yes, i'm still listening, court :) she's so cool, i even read her post twice. or maybe that was a different courtney. (cue twilight zone music). Jordan "meet James Ensor, Belgium's famous painter" _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:18:45 PST From: "Summer B" Subject: Dear readers, I'm not sure where I'm headed... I've gotten lost before. I've woken up stone drunk, face down on the floor. MmmmMmmm Stipey is so delicious. Anywhoo... Tavia: <<'i think that I may well regret this in the morning' you am i (girls like that)>> Hmmmph?! You am I? tee hee, girl, I think you were thinking of our other dear Aussie band Custard. Whom mentioned that they were trying to call themselves Custaro...but noone believed them...so they switched back. Well...that's what Dave says...and I guess he's as trustworthy as Ben and da gang! (BENtent?!). Well, all I have to say is that you, Jordan, rock my world! You sound like one cool-arsed dude, and well...I can't seem to understand why you don't have a girl. I'm sure if you came down here to desperado land (ie. Melbourne) there'd be thousand's here lining up to meet ya! #=oD Anyway...this post is too long and boring for you all to suffer any longer, so I shall put you all out of your misery by shutting up here. Bye! "Who cast the final stone? who threw the crushing blow? someone has to take the fall why not me?" ~Falls To Climb, R.E.M. ************************************ * Kelly Lane * * Melbourne, Land of Oz * * http://members.xoom.com/SummerB/ * * ICQ# 4321387 * ************************************ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:40:53 -0500 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: All Hallow's Eve Welp. I have finally put my Halloween behind me enough that I can write to y'all about it. Here's the story: Last year a group of us went to Salem, MA (witch capital of the world) for Halloween. We stayed at a beautiful old hotel and went to the charity ball therein. This year, we didn;t have our act together enough to get rooms at the Hawthorne (yes, as in Nathaniel), so we would have had to pay mucho bucks for the charity ball. I still pulled for it, but was shouted down by the rest of the party. They wanted to walk around and bar hop. (BTW, Halloween in Salem is like Fat Tuesday in New Orleans...). So we got rooms at a cheap dive motel outside of town and got a limo to bring us in. Which was fun. Dressing up was fun too (I ended up going as Courtney Love...). We get to Salem and go to a bar -- and it is All Good. BUT... then we decide to go meet the limo in a parking lot so we can drink the booze we already bought and take a load off our feet. As we are trying to pull out of the parking lot (imagine the worst traffic jam you've ever been in and then add 150 cars -- that's what traffic was like) and we see out the back window some young hoods jump up on the back of the limo and start jumpping up and down. So the limo driver leaps out along with my brother-in-law Bill, and they yell at the kids to get off. Next thing we know... the punks (there were probably about ten of the teens all told) begin to beat up Bill and the limo guy. And whne I say beat up, I mean standing in a circle around the prone, fetal-positioned body kicking at the head and back. All the while yelling racial epithets and taunting their victims. And out of the hundreds of people standing around... no one helped. Yep. No one yelled, no one screamed for the cops, no one tried to stop them. We (me, my husband, and our friends Carl and Paul) jumped out of the limo and that is when they backed off. I asked where they were from -- unfortunately, they weren't from around there. We finally got everyone back in the limo and we left (Funny aside... they almost left me there. My husband slammed the door on me... thankfully they let me in after I knocked on the window!). We flagged down a cop... but they were fairly unhelpful (nothin' we can do... blahblahblah). My anger doubled at the fact that (stereotypically) the Dunkin Donuts parking lot contained 5 cops in a circle while there was no one within shouting distance of the parking lot containing hundreds of people and where two guys had face lacerations, broken noses and bruised ribs. We were back at the hotel at 11:00 pm. Luckily, I convinced most of our group that we shouldn't end the night on such a down note -- so we went to the hotel bar for some interesting conversation... And on teh bright side... no one pulled out a gun (which actually came to mind while all this was happening. I actually thought to myself -- "Geez... I hope they aren't packing") So... I guess you can say that my Halloween sucked @ss. Or bit the big one. It's a toss-up between the two... Changing subjects now: I finished reading A Prayer for Owen Meany last night... I really enjoyed it. Unabashedly bawled my eyes out and everything... to borrow a phrase. Matthew: I agree with your best friend/lover bit. Zoinks! I never knew Shaggy was so smart! Finally caught the BFF Hard Rock Live show on VH1... I really enjoyed it! Perhaps I even enjoyed it more than I would have had I seen it earlier... I think because of the whole overexposure thing. Anyway... I really thought it was a good showcase. My favorite part was when the Ben's seat feel off his stool and as he picks it up to throw it to end the show. The look on his face and the obscenity on his lips is just too funny. Zowee! That was Bentent! - -Anne "That's no moon. It's a space station." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:35:44 -0500 From: Carrie Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #295 >yikes that last digest was depressing. love lives are not looking >healthy around here. melancholia everywhere Not here! Carrie the Long-Lovelorn is spending her nights and days with a terribly cute, intelligent, sensitive, talented, adoring, generous, chivalrous, affectionate bassoonist. *sigh* :-) He's super-neat. Goes to the Cleveland Institute of Music, runs his own Mac consultation business, announces for NPR Cleveland 90.3, and likes to take me out around town. I got rhythm, I got music... Speaking of said bassoonist, he and I are roadtripping to Chicago on November 20th and staying through the 22nd to visit a friend of his there. Tina? Erik? Wanna meet up somewhere? Could be fun... ;-) Sorry I've been quiet. My life is INSANE. BTW, I recently went to a conference for university programming board directors, saw LOADS of comedians and bands and acts, etc. (They pay to come do their acts for us, the people who will hire them.) If any of you ever get a chance to see a guy named John Bizarre, GO. He is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. I lost gallons of body fluid from crying out of laughter during his act. (We booked him for Feb. 10th on site.) Take care guys, and Chicagoites, let me know if you're free!! - -carrie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:19:49 -0500 (EST) From: Ginger Nance Subject: boredom Well, in the midst of a busy busy week, I'm sitting at work bored off my ass, so I've decided to amuse myself by writing to y'all! My life, recently? Cool. Scott visited this weekend, which is always wonderful, and we got to see B&S in DC. I hate driving in DC. I got so lost, so confused, some guy actually yelled at me to "get the hell off the road." I said "mister, believe me, I'm trying." Thank goodness Scott was there to hold my hand and make me feel better, or I might have ended up in the fetal position on a sidewalk in the ghetto, mumbling something about road signs that actually take you to the place they are for. Belle and Sebastian were simply beautiful live. I love that band. Halloween was fun, even though I was really tired from my DC adventures. (Advice--don't stay at the Comfort Inn in Lorton, VA. Their fire alarm likes to go off at 7 am, forcing an evacuation of the building.) There were 70,000 people on Franklin Street this year. That was pretty crazy. This week is Homecoming. My big concert is Friday--I'm nervous. On a fun note, my ex bf's little a cappella group is having a concert the same night, but we're going to drown them out with our big bad outdoor amps! Hahaha. I wouldn't call it revenge, but it's still sweet. Sandi and I were so disappointed last night. We went to Pepper's, but our favorite employee Steve wasn't there so we actually had to pay for all of our food. Depressing when you're as poor as we are. Bentent? The countdown begins...they head to LA next week to start recording...Ben says the new album is very dark. Should be interesting. Now we only have to wait until what..March? Ginger :) Ginger Nance ginger_nance@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~gnance ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 13:41:09 PST From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: Playlist 11.3.98 Hey everyone, Here's the play list from my show last night. Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums - Rumpus Room Honeymoon Blue Plate Special - Work That Skirt The Lucky Strikes - Once Before Gotham City Swing - Gotham City Swing Bobby Darin - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Tequila Perry Como - Papa Loves Mambo Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Mais Que Nada Stan Getz & Louis Bonfa - Sambolero Red & the Red Hots - Cab To the City Eddie Reed Big Band - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen Jive Aces - Blue Moon/My Baby Just Cares For Me Indigo Swing - Blue Suit Boogie Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Duke Ellington - Rockin' In Rhythm Fletcher Henderson - The House Of David Blues Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp Woody Herman - I've Got You Under My Skin Charlie Barnet - Skyliner Brian Setzer Orchestra - Man With the Magic Touch Swingerhead - She Could Be A Spy Last Of the Int'l Playboys - James Bond Meets Pussy Galore Royal Crown Revue - Honey Child Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - She's Gone Frank Sinatra - It's Only A Paper Moon Nat King Cole Trio - This Is My Night to Dream Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Line For Lyons Betty Hutton - Hit the Road To Dreamland Dinah Washington - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me Ella Fitzgerald - Too Darn Hot Sarah Vaughan - It Might As Well Be Spring Bellevue Cadillac - Cuppa Joe Lavay Smith - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea New Morty Show - White Wedding (Rebell Yell) Medley Blues Jumpers - Thanks for the Boogie Ride Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra - Pep, Vim & Verve Glenn Miller - Pennsylvania 6-5000 Benny Goodman Quartet - Runnin' Wild Harry James - Cotton Tail Count Basie - April in Paris Django Reinhardt - I Surrender Dear Portishead - All Mine Belle and Sebastian - The State I Am In Teenage Fanclub - The Concept Jump, Little Children - Because of You Jude - I'm Sorry Now Pernice Brothers - Clear Spot Ben Folds Five - Best Imitation Of Myself Liz Phair - Uncle Alvarez that dog. - Minneapolis Beth Orton - How Far R.E.M. - Sweetmess Follows Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene part One Catatonia - My Selfish Gene Elvis Costello - Favourite Hour Elliot Smith - Bled White Semisonic - All Worked Out Rufus Wainwright - Beauty Mark Squirrel Nut Zippers - Evening At Lafitte's Jeremy Enigk - Return Of the Frog Queen Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Attack Combustible Edison - In the Garden Of Earthly Delights Cardigans - Your New Cuckoo Pink Martini - Sympathique hope sopme of you had a chance to tune in. if not, there's always next tuesday. http://kscr.usc.edu live on the web. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "He's in the Capades." "The Ice Capades?" "No oddly enough, the Gravel Capadeas. Sure the turns aren't as smooth, but when Snoopy falls-- Funny!" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:40:03 -0700 (MST) From: Stacy L Flatt Subject: CMJ!!!!! Ok letm me just say that this CMJ thing kicks ass. So I arrive in NYC yesterday afternoon and everything is cool. I just love NY. LOVE it. Imean really. I wanna live here some day. I've been facinated with it since I was a kid., Its my 4th time here. Ok. So, today registration for CMJ starts at noon. I wake up and walk all the way there, its a decent walk from where I am staying. I have to get in a huge line. So, I do, and me being the friendly person I am, start talking to the 2 guys behind me. They are really nice. They ask me what brings me here, and I tell them about how I am involved with KAMP and Slimstyle, but they didn't send me, rather, I came on my own. And they think that is cool and all, and I ask them wghat brings them here. One is just going to smooze (and I'll get to that part!) so as to get an "in" to the industry, and the other guy runs SpinArt. Thats the label Frank Black is on. VERY cool, I think to myself. And he gives me his card and says to keep in touch. Awesome. Then comes the fun that is the registration process. Yay, fun. And I'm done with that, and I have my badge which I will keep forever. Then comes all the free stuff. You go to the 8th floor of the hotel where CMJ is at, and there are booths set up. And they give you free stuff! Not dumb free stuff either, but CDs!!!!!!!And you know how much I love CDs. Well, I just added 8 to my collectiuon today, FOR FREE! Also, coupons for CD stores, about 50 or 60 ddoollars worth of music industry magizones, and WOW, more free stuff I can't begin to describe. Then you go around and make contacts and talk to peopkle at the booths and they tell you about thwhat they do, and then they give you free stuff and put you on a list to get more free stuff, and they give you their card, and you do a bit of name dropping, it is very fun. Tonight is more fun stuff. THere are like 30 bazillion concerts every night, FREE if you have a CMJ badge!!! Tonight, me and my boyfriend are going to go to the JadeTree showcase. This is The Promise Ring, Joan of Arc, Jets to Brazil, etc. WOW! I am just so excited. Every night and every day there are films and panals. That starts tommorow. It should be very much fun!!! SO, um, I'll tell you more when I get the chance to email!! stacy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:26:49 -0500 From: Kristin Klevering Subject: December CMJ Hi All - So I find my copy at a local Tower Records and I'm all excited about getting to hear "In Love"! I finally get home and take it out of the case in the magazine, and it's broken in half! I'm so pissed off, since I threw out the receipt for it. I don't want to sound petty, but I won't spend another $6.00 to get a new copy and have to wait until the actual Fear of Pop CD is released. Dammit! I think it's the full moon's influence. I've been moody as hell for the past 2 days, and nothing has seemed to go right. Never mind the fact that I've just started a new job and am totally overwhelmed as to all of the new stuff I need to learn in order to do it well, and deal with the backlash of the people I used to work with who are angry with me for leaving them. It was a new position in the same hospital, so I get these angry emails daily. I didn't do anything wrong in leaving them - I just wanted to take on a new position that would bring on more job security. Sorry, just felt the need to whine since I'm still pretty cranky. I keep my "Domo" CD at work so I can take a break and pretend I'm at a BFF concert whenever I need to. Which is many times daily. I have to keep the volume down really low, since the old farts I work with (but they're nice old farts) don't like to hear it, and I don't want to piss them off since they're teaching me my new job and I'm so totally dependent on them right now. Hope you all are having a better week than I am! Later - Kristin "I'm not a superhero, I'm a Latter Day Saint!" - Joe Young (aka: Orgasmo) ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #296 *********************************