From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #305 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, November 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 305 Today's Filings: ----------------- Bend me, break me, anyway you take me... Re: Bend me, break me, anyway you take me... Taint nuttin butter... everybody's doing it! [Fwd: I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially 'cause I rule] yah yah yah Fear Of Pop clips VCR Alert!!!! "Alternative" rant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:37:28 -0400 From: shirak@umich.edu Subject: Bend me, break me, anyway you take me... Shirley Manson now has earned her place as the Goddess of Rage and Lust (and raging lust, but those just go together) in my pantheon. She now joins the ranks of Tori Amos, who is the Goddess of Music and Beauty, and Janneane Garafallo, who is the Goddess of Truth and Sarcasm. Anyway, about the show last night. Yesterday sucked up until right before the show. I found out that my I probably won't get my paycheck from last Friday until next week, thanks to my funked-up former bank. What really sucks is now I can't reserve my copy of FoP. (See, Bentent! There is some in here! ;> ) Anyway, I get to the show and chill out. Girls Against Boys opened for them, and they did a kick ass set, but no one danced which pissed me off. Anyway, I just had two moments of pure coolness happen to me. First one, I was up amidst the throng of people, getting shoved and pushed and squeezed and loving it, when I see a girl go up to crowdsurf. Some rich little bitchy-boy drunken asshole decides that she's there for his personal amusement, and decided to lift her shirt up and start fondling her breasts. My Sir Galahad complex kicked into full gear at that point. The crowd parted for a second, I reached over, grabbed his hand and twisted, and just as the music died down for a second, I screamed "Settle down." in my most intimidating, action anti-hero voice, finishing right as the music picked back up. He melted back into the crowd, and I went on about my way. It was just cresent fresh. The other moment, I was about two lines of bodies away from the baricade, so close I could see the sweat on Shirley's forehead. Oh, and she was dressed up like a Gwen-a-be, too. I almost didn't come home, I wanted to chase her that bad. ;) There was a girl in front of me, and like I said, my Sir Galahad complex was in effect. I was trying to keep as much of the pressure off her as I could. Someone pushed her backwards and our heads collided. Now my head is the least vulnerable thing on my body, but she was hurt. I held her and checked to see if she was alright for a while before bringing her out of the screaming masses. I led her back to her brother, calmly introduced myself, and walked off. Of course, had I been thinking, I would have asked for her phone number, but that's not the point. Anyway, I had a blast, and anyone who has read through all of this, award yourself 10 cool points. ;) Anyway, I gotta jet. Laters! ERIC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:44:04 -0600 From: "Scott Schneider" Subject: Re: Bend me, break me, anyway you take me... How sad that moshing is still a fun thing for kids these days. Why is that fun for people? Can you really enjoy a show when you're getting pushed around and having to concentrate on trying to stay standing up? Now I'll have to stand in the BACK of the crowd at the Garbage show next week. Pish, and it's one of the first times they're actually playing in their hometown, too. Scott _____________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Scott at http://www.globaldialog.com/~sschneid ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:58:34 CST From: "Fearless Leader" Subject: Taint nuttin butter... ...than starting my weekend out with 10 COOL POINTS!! From what I understand, the group BEn FOlDs FIvE is "heavy" into their recording project. Heavy dude. They would make a great x-mas album. The Hurricane has passed through the Midwest leaving branches everywhere. I swear, I believe the world is ending soon. You may soon see the FL holding one of the signs at a future concert. I think matthew also would be holding one. He *is* the fanatical one ya know. You would think the guys, being out in TV land, would make some Guest appearances. But, like I said, I hear they are above distraction and will settle for nothing less than the most kick-ass music of 1999 (for their fans, of course). Can I just say writable CDs are in my cool things to do right now? Yes I can. Mix-cd-masterpieces for the car ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuule my world. But then again, I thought nena cherry was hot also and now I am jammin to her younger bro. I remember someone mentioning the Annie thief. I heard that song and also learned the character, Jay-z, is Number 1 on the charts. Boy, that sure is an accomplishment. Sampling music. Not that I don't think it is an art, but doncha think it is kinda making a grey area for role of a musician? Music samplers and rip-off artists should have their own chart. UM, katie, I am ALL 4 KSU wuppun up on NU. BUT, pleasse keep the score w/in the spread. (12)....baby needs some new shoes.... stand down. - -fl ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:25:29 -0800 (PST) From: Katie Subject: everybody's doing it! Giving advice to Dan that is, so I thought I'd add mine. About the tons of mail coming your way from random colleges: unless you've absolutely made up your mind where to go, I would say give all that propaganda a glance, at least. Something you may not have heard of may actually turn out to be a really good school. (like, say, Wash U.) And you may find yourself applying after everyone tells you how good it is, even though you think, "yeah, but I'll never go there." And you may find yourself flying out to visit because its get-out-of-high-school-free days with a trip to somewhere, even though you think, "yeah, but I'll still never go there." And you may find on April 30 that you may just have liked that school the best, though you really can't say why, and you may go there and find that it was the right choice all along. Well, at least I did. And shan, I always heard it was that you have to strap a buttered piece of toast, butter side up, of course, to the back of the cat and then drop it. Because who knows what a buttered cat will do? And that is way older than some college radio show you just heard. CHiPs '99 party tonight; if you were anywhere near here, i'd invite you, but you're not, so i won't. -katie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:36:37 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: [Fwd: I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially 'cause I rule] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------962F50193BF4896F9AE3C07D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hit me. I clicked the Reply to Sender button instead... ~Dan - --------------962F50193BF4896F9AE3C07D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <364C834F.8C0CE21A@twcny.rr.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:06:56 -0500 From: Dan Cohen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Katie Subject: I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially 'cause I rule References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Clerks. Heh. Katie wrote: > CHiPs '99 party tonight; if you were anywhere near here, i'd invite you, > but you're not, so i won't. -katie CHIPS 99!!!! Yesh! Easily the coolest made-for-TV whatever I've ever seen...have fun! It was very digable. Damn. I find out today I won't get the K-State/Nebraska game, hyped by the media and Katie to be the game of the century, due to damned regional coverage...I get Ohio State vs. Iowa(?) instead. Big Ten regional my arse. However, the SU/Virginia Tech game is shaping up to be important for the bowl picture as well, so that's a small consolation. Scott, if GVSB is opening for Garbage in Madison, get there early...a Girls Against Boys show is one of the most entertaining you'll see. A band who's almost there and who knows how to rule a stage. Awesome presence. FL: If you ignore the fact that Jay-Z fecking sampled ANNIE, he's actually a good rapper...great deadpan wit, very cool, a perfect companion to one of those crazy guys who jump around a lot. I dig his stuff from about two years ago...Reasonable Doubt was a good debut CD. Tribe Called Quest next Wednesday...farewell tour hits the Cuse. I may go. Damn, the Tribe kicks it. I'm really sick. I think I've got the flu and I've got all-county chorus auditions tonight. Not a good thing. Luckily, I made the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra High School Honor Chorus (!) this week, so I think I have an honest shot at this other county-wide competition. Wish me luck. - -------------FEEL FREE TO SKIP------GEEK BLOCK--------------- In geek news....I got my copy of Solaris 7 today, a remarkably short two weeks after I ordered it. Woohah. So now I have a basically free-type OS (well...it cost $18...not too bad I think) to play with as I please. Sweet. It may soon occupy a place of honour next to my dormant Linux directories on this machine. If you count MS-DOS and OS/2 Boot Manager, I have five operating systems, vestigial or operational, installed on this box. Time to buy another one. - --------------END GEEK BLOCK----------------------------------- Heh. Time to get dressed all spiffy-like and go to Tully and sing my ass off. Have fun, y'all. "Damn, you gotta be a stupid motherfscker to get fired on your day off!" ~Dan - --------------962F50193BF4896F9AE3C07D-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:12:00 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: yah yah yah So, anyway, back on nov 3 or so, you got a bunch of emails from me... in the middle of the night I was writing some dumb paper... well, I just HAD to share in my joy apon recieving an A!!!!!!!1 yay me! as for Bentent? Um.... how many of you are buying any of the compilations they havea appeared on? such as the Burt Bacherach one? the Sabrina one? Godzilla sndtrk? how about that one for radio? 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: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:30:14 -0600 From: Vamprrella Subject: Fear Of Pop clips If you simply can't wait until Tuesday, then go and check out all of the 30 - 40 second sound clips from songs on FoP at this URL: http://www.epiccenter.com/EpicCenter/docs/artistclips.qry?artistid=1056 Kristin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:20:59 PST From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: VCR Alert!!!! somebody up there likes us. a lot. i was checking MTV's website, as i do every friday to see what videos are slated to debut this week on 120 Minutes. i screamed with joy when i saw BELLE AND SEBASTIAN and RUFUS WAINRIGHT among the new videos!!!! also of note, Semisonic are the guests and there's going to be a "classic 120 Minutes performance" by the Afghan Whigs. rawk. rawk. rawk. rawk.rawk.rawk. also, Sessions at West 54th this week is Brian Setzer and next week is Elvis costello & Burt Bacharach. fell more enlightened? yay. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "He's a tap dancer.... yes, some people *would* say it's a lost art." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 23:04:50 EST From: jaedonely@juno.com Subject: "Alternative" rant Just a thought...especially since Im in high school... Sometimes I ask people what type of music they listen to and they say "Alternative" Im like "huh? Alternative?" There is no frickin alternative; especially if you listen to something like..Eve 6, for example. Would you guys agree with me? Are my uncool high school friends deluded? "Alternative" its like theyre trying to be "cool and rebellious" but theyre really abercromie wearing, generic pop liking people. It frustrates me. I say that I listen to "sensitive male singer/songwriter stuff, but BFF has my heart" Thank you for listening, ~Elisabeth "C'mon Anthony! Bobs a big boy!" -Bottle Rocket!! "Youre just a little whiny bitch!" -Swingers "All Im saying, pretty baby, lala love ya, dont mean maybe All Im saying, pretty baby first base second base third base home run"-Los Pixies! (Hello, great boston band!!) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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