From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #13 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, December 22 1998 Volume 02 : Number 013 Today's Fjordian Filings: ----------------- Re: The Rockford Files V2 #12 3 discs in 1998. Don't ever work at a toy store during Christmas! It's the twentieth of December... Re: 3 discs in 1998. Mistake? i have nothing left to say I had a dream but I just can't remember it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:43:25 EST From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V2 #12 MMkay... I'm about to aquire my yearly Christmas money mass. And before I waste it on useless shit like..lip gloss or something...tell me something. What is the best bootleg recorder to buy? I mean...a GOOD one. I'm talking top quality. I'm investing in a good one here. And I need suggestions :) So please...tell me! thanks :) Vonnegut's cat's cradle is one of my favorite books. Check out other Vonneguts and especially Slaughterhouse five (if you haven't already). It's lovely... Thank yew peeples. Lucy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 23:30:05 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: 3 discs in 1998. Good call...I suppose the discs that I think would be the best buys when 1998 comes to a close are...(this is very tough!) R.E.M. - Up(easy choice) Eels - Electro-Shock Blues Elliott Smith - XO There are others that I think are better than some of these according to my tastes, which are probably radically different than those of this list. ie: Starflyer 59 - The Fashion Focus, 764-HERO - Get Here and Stay, Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves, and Medeski, Martin and Wood - Combustication. But these cater to what I like best, and the other 3 are much more accesible in their sounds. Also, I must announce to the other Built To Spill fans on the list that I have had a chance to hear the new album due out January 25th entitled Keep it Like a Secret and it completely rules. I think that BtS could be huge. I think it will be the OK Computer of 1999, and it comes out at the perfect time to be a big seller. January and February are the most dry months of the year for record releases, and BtS will hit it right in the middle, just like Marcy Playground was re-released last year to co-incide with their being signing to a new label. Watch out. Warner Brothers thinks that Built to Spill will be the most important band of 1999. Lets see...I happen to think it'll be Ben Lee(his new one comes out February 9th along with Wilco and Sebadoh...great day for releases) as his songs actually could be a smash just like Sex and Candy(note: I'm not making a musical comparsion...just that Ben Lee is far more poppy and adolescent than Built To Spill). Wait and see...but as far as I'm concerned Keep it like a Secret is da bomb, and probably will be my favorite album of the year...unless of course the new BFF in April knocks me off my ass...but if it's more of the same-o, same-o...it probably will only be in my top 5 and not #1. New Radiohead in 1999 too which could be ground breaking...I've heard the songs flying around on the web and I am most impressed by True Love Waits...and that is just a demo version too! 1999 should prove to be much more exciting than 1998 though...at least I hope(but it was good year, I just always hope for better!). Ciao. John "I'm in the mood for pants!" --Precious Roy I would do anything to hear you speak of it. Why not smile? You've been sad for a while. --Micheal Stipe, R.E.M. ___________________________________________________________________ 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, 21 Dec 1998 11:57:04 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: Don't ever work at a toy store during Christmas! Jess: I go to Otterbein College which is down by Columbus. When I'm not in school, like now I reside(much against my will) in Hudson. Hmmm...I just realized, that other than answering this question for Jess, I have absolutely nothing else to say. Damn. Sorry. (rock) John I would do anything to hear you speak of it. Why not smile? You've been sad for a while. --Micheal Stipe, R.E.M. ___________________________________________________________________ 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, 21 Dec 1998 12:58:10 -0500 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: It's the twentieth of December... A cold rain is fallin' down Kenmore Square's deserted The college kids have left town Sure don't feel like Christmas time Sure doesn't feel like Christmas time Sure don't feel like Christmas time Sure doesn't feel like Christmas time... ...to me Hey all! Long time, no post, eh? I just checked and I have not posted in 21 days... which I think is a new record for me! But I tell ya... it's been one interesting holiday season. First things first: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO THE ROCKFORD FILES! I too remember V1, Issue 0 where Erik* invited all of us to play. Someone, sometime in the last 21 issues of the RF, mentioned being signed up "against their will" (was that you, Eric?) -- and I must plead guilty to that. I think I signed up a whole bunch of people against their will... Eric, Kristin, Dave, Lance (who seems to have fallen by the wayside)... and maybe even Matthew? But I had the very best of intentions... I swear it! = ) Anyway... THANK YOU, Erik, for bringing us together in this virtual sandbox. I, for one, am grateful. I must also thank all of YOU for being such a fun bunch of guys and dolls... There've been memorable posts from each and every one of you... but I feel I must recognize some of you by name -- for sending me a smile or forcing me to ponder or just making me laugh out loud. So... Matthew, Markus, Carrie, Tina, Eric, Spencer, Jay, Sandi, Emily, Scott, Hannah, Ginger, Kristin, Elisabeth, Dave, Calvin, Courtney, Stacy, Jess, Kathryn, Dan, Jordan, Anoop, Jen, Shan -- THANK YOU for the music suggestions and the laughter and the private e-mail and the Bentent and the ConBENtion memories -- basically -- thanks for making some of my days a little brighter. = ) Oh yeah -- and did I forget to thank Princess Jon? That guy really could make me laugh... except I think it wasn't the "laughing *with* you" type... *grin* End-of-year-best-of-lists: I'm liking them. And after much deliberation, I have created my own. I'm pretty sure that these are all '98 releases -- but don't quote me on that! Anyway... in honor of the twelve days of Christmas... here are Anne's Twelve** Picks For '98: 12.) Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs 11.) Ben Folds Five - Naked Baby Photos 10.) Squirrel Nut Zippers - (tie) Perennial Favorites & Christmas Caravan 9.) Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart, The Drunk 8.) R.E.M. - Up 7.) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Eponymous 6.) Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets 5.) Garbage - v2.0 4.) Hole - Celebrity Skin 3.) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Live from the Middle East 2.) U2 - Best of 1980-1990 (Limited Edition with B-sides) 1.) Elliott Smith - XO Numbers 2-12*** are not especially firm -- but XO is hands down my pick for Album of the Year. It continues to blow my mind. Now, in the spirit of the season of giving... I am going to give you some ideas for future music purchases. These are albums that get consistent play from me. Some are old, some are new -- some you know, some you don't... but they all rock me right down to a nub. Oh yeah... and they're all chick bands. = ) Here are a few that are worth picking up: Aimee Mann - Whatever Bjork - Homogenic & Post Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out Mary-Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight in the Dark, Come On Come On & Stones in the Road Heather Nova - Siren Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart & whitechocolatespaceegg Belly - Star Tanya Donnelly - Lovesongs for Underdogs Happy Holidays, from me to you. Now... briefly... here is the reason why I have been absent of late. My sister-in-law, Lee, was diagnosed with a brain tumor -- she had brain surgery two weeks ago. While they were able to get about 95% of the tumor, we did learn that she has cancer (lymphoma of the brain). Lee will be undergoing chemo shortly. Right now, she is in a rehab facility working on her speech and on exercising the left side of her body (she has very limited motion on that side). Lee is 36 years old. I'm writing about this because I know a lot of you on this list are caring people. I hope I am not being intrusive if I ask you to remember her in your thoughts and prayers (That is, if you pray. If you don't -- then positive thoughts will do just fine.) I truly believe in the power of positive energy - -- and I thank you in advance for funneling a bit of your positivity her way. Nothing like an illness in the family to smack you upside the head with what is important. Here's hoping that all of your family & friends are healthy & happy this holiday season... - -Anne * And yes, he was simply known as Erik back then... although the 'Fearless Leader' moniker was not long in coming... ** Yep, there's actually thirteen... so sue me. = ) *** And Honorable mentions go to Beastie Boys, Lauryn Hill & Liz Phair... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:52:46 -0500 (EST) From: Ginger Nance Subject: Re: 3 discs in 1998. Hello all. The holiday spirit has inspired me to post. And Scott left last night so there's no one to occupy my attention anymore. Hrmpf. > favorite album of the year...unless of course the new BFF in April knocks > me off my ass...but if it's more of the same-o, same-o...it probably will > only be in my top 5 and not #1. New Radiohead in 1999 too which could be Well, Ben said that the new album will be a surprise. I belive he went so far as to say he wasn't sure Sony was going to let them make this album the way they want to, but that they are. His word for it was "dramatic"...think Spiritualized or a sound similar to that. Lots more instruments--lots of strings, some keyboards and stuff. Should be quite interesting. Also, look for a funny cameo by Ben's dad. :) I also got my hands on a copy of the WAEA songbook. Well. I think. Not only is this one japanese, but it's also the band score which means it has *all* the parts. LIke, on SLNIT, it has the various klezmer instruments parts on it. So...I have no idea if that's the one that's for sale on the official page. It's kinda cool just playing the music, but I have to admit that some versions w/melody would be fun, too...because I can't sing worth shit. Anyway. Those are just my humble opinions. Books. Heh. Watch out for the English majors. :) Personally, I am continually in awe of Cormac McCarthy. His border trilogy, wow. I also love most Southern female writers like Lee Smith, Doris Betts, Jill McCorkle, etc. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier is beautiful...Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald...I could go on but I'll shut up now. Oh, I can't forget Anne Tyler, either. Her characters are great. I'll really shut up now. Happy Holidays, everyone!* Ginger :) *--anxiously awaiting the DSDT reunion in CH on New Year's! :) **--there weren't double asteriks anywhere, but I had to give props to Anne for, as usual, being cool as hell. Anne rocks! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:01:34 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: Mistake? This got sent to me by Ginger...I was wondering if this is a mistake or if everyone on the list got a personal e-mail from Ginger...so I decided to just foward it to the list and make sure. Either way here it is. - ------BEGIN HERE------ Hello all. The holiday spirit has inspired me to post. And Scott left last night so there's no one to occupy my attention anymore. Hrmpf. > favorite album of the year...unless of course the new BFF in April knocks > me off my ass...but if it's more of the same-o, same-o...it probably will > only be in my top 5 and not #1. New Radiohead in 1999 too which could be Well, Ben said that the new album will be a surprise. I belive he went so far as to say he wasn't sure Sony was going to let them make this album the way they want to, but that they are. His word for it was "dramatic"...think Spiritualized or a sound similar to that. Lots more instruments--lots of strings, some keyboards and stuff. Should be quite interesting. Also, look for a funny cameo by Ben's dad. :) I also got my hands on a copy of the WAEA songbook. Well. I think. Not only is this one japanese, but it's also the band score which means it has *all* the parts. LIke, on SLNIT, it has the various klezmer instruments parts on it. So...I have no idea if that's the one that's for sale on the official page. It's kinda cool just playing the music, but I have to admit that some versions w/melody would be fun, too...because I can't sing worth shit. Anyway. Those are just my humble opinions. Books. Heh. Watch out for the English majors. :) Personally, I am continually in awe of Cormac McCarthy. His border trilogy, wow. I also love most Southern female writers like Lee Smith, Doris Betts, Jill McCorkle, etc. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier is beautiful...Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald...I could go on but I'll shut up now. Oh, I can't forget Anne Tyler, either. Her characters are great. I'll really shut up now. Happy Holidays, everyone!* Ginger :) *--anxiously awaiting the DSDT reunion in CH on New Year's! :) **--there weren't double asteriks anywhere, but I had to give props to Anne for, as usual, being cool as hell. Anne rocks! ___________________________________________________________________ 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, 21 Dec 1998 18:38:39 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: i have nothing left to say you'll notice that i no longer have a sig file. i was fired today from work. i got in at three and my boss pulled me aside and told me that a computer i'd built had had a screw loose connecting the parallel port, that it was the latest in a string of half-assed incidents which i'd fucked up, and that he had no choice but to let me go. i didn't tell him off. i didn't say that when you sell an AMD K6-2/350 with a ten gig hard drive, 128 MB RAM, 17 inch monitor, and 16 meg AGP video, there's no way to justify not adding a cheap modem so that you can keep costs under $1,000. i didn't say that i resented the way he acted condescendingly to the customers. i didn't say that i hated the way he made every customer support case the customer's fault. i didn't say that i hated the way he mocked my religion and perceived sexual preferences. i didn't say that it showed a lot of tact and maturity to do something like this three days before christmas. i didn't say that i had a problem with being paid under the table and forced to do the shitty jobs no one else wanted to. i didn't say that he treated his employees like shit. i didn't say that i was glad he'd taken the time to do something like this in such a holly jolly season. i didn't say that i was the only one who actually cared about not pestering customers. i didn't say any of that. and now i have nothing to say. i'm without a job; i have no money and no foreseeable options. i turn sixteen in two weeks and my mom's insurance rates are going to go up accordingly, and now i have no way to cover the $1200 a year, let alone the fee for my permit test. i'm not even sure if he's going to pay me for the last week i worked. i wish you all a merry christmas if i don't post again before then. a bientot! dan cohen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:23:20 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: I had a dream but I just can't remember it salut, tout le monde, Stacy is back (from a what, 2 day absence?. And actually, I do rememnber my dream. It was weird. I was climbing a mountain, and when I got to the top, I rode my bike down... and the scenery was beautiful, and cruising down the dirt road on my bike was nice and fast, but then I took a wrong turn and was headed down a very dangerous path... I had to stop, and it was like I was falling, or about to fall, and I had to climb, claw, and scratch my way back to the top, and someone was helping me, they grabbed my arms, and pulled me up as I climbed. But I don't know who that was. But then, when I got to safety, I looked at the path I almost fell down, and it wasn't really that scary after all. It wasn't even that dangerous. It wasn't really a cliff that I should be hangin off of. In fact, people were walking up that path, and it was shorter than the road I would have taken! Sometime later in the dream, I went to the Conan O Brian show with Rey and Leigh. Rey and Leigh, of course, two of the MA people I met at Conan last July Rey being the one who is now my boyfriend. Anyway, so we went to Conan, and Rey and I decided that we would find Conan and tell him how we met... and of course, you know how everything is different fron real life in your dream... well, the whole place was waaaay different, and when we met Conan, he was VERY VERY VERY tall. Like over 7 feet tall. It was weird, like Rey and I were kids looking at an adult. Anyway, thats really all I remmber. Care to disect, anyone? I hope people's vacations have been treating them well if they are on vacation, and if they aren't, well, I still hope life has been good. I just Rialto in the mail, and I can I say, this CD rocks! I can't believe what I did, I found a link to 10 dollars off, and I used it. I know, I know, I promised, but I couldn't help it. I got Unbelievable Truth for only 7 bucks, incl shipping! I have had people on 2 mailing lists I am on tell me I would love this album, so what could I do, I had to buy it. I was practically forced to. Besides, I had a little celebratin' to do... I don't know for sure, but it looks like I will have some sort of cash flow in Jan/Feb!! I got a call from the UA bookstore, and I will have an interview when I get back from NYC. Its perfect, I work there, get my 30% discount on textbooks when it is time to buy them, and then hopefully by Feb or so, I will either get this job back, or find a better job. I went to the bank, and I will even have enough money to pay off my bills and stuff, and even have a little left over in case a job doesn't happen. But Dan, I feel your pain. I'm really sorry, losing your job stinks. Today I was like almost in tears. I will be quitting 2 years, 6 months, and 1 day after my first day there. Thats a long time. I'll get all my friend's numbers and so on, its really not a big deal... ehhhhh I'm such a... I dunno, I keep going back and forth about this whole thing. Its just such an ordeal for me. I've worked there longer than I went to any one high school... *sigh* I found out when I will be graduating if I get all the classes I want and I take at least 12 credits a semester... MAy 2001!!! Not bad... Not bad at all! I graduted from HS in 96, took a year off and worked to save up money and went part time to a comm. college, and then fall of 97 I entered the UA full time. So, I'm still graduating in 4 years of attending the UA!! At the lastes, I figure I'll graduate dec 2001, which is only 4.5 years, and not bad at all either!! I also got a minor figured out that will cater to my love of languages and the music industry. Its a "create-a-minor" and I am creating one called "Bussiness in an International Enviornment." Its going to be my french classes, some international bussiness classes, some other forieng lang, and then a nice amount of econmics, marketing, and mangement informational systems type stuff. With a major in ling, and a minor in that, my options as far as careers and grad school are wide open. Also, I wont be taking too many clases at once so I will be able to concentrate on my studies. Get good grades, have an internship, whatever. And if I can afford it, and it works out maybe even an internship or study-abroad. But I am not certain about that, and that has a lot of other things that must be thought about, so we'll see about that. Anyway, I don't know what else to say. I guess I do have one more thing to say. Thanks for reading my emails. I dunno, its like theraputic to write out my frustrations, my happiness, the day to day goings-ons in my life, and just the fact that you guys read this and care, and then mention me in your emails and aknowlege me as being someone who you like to read emails from, its just a very special feeling, so thank you all very much. I guess I will go now. I'll try to write once more before I go to NYC.... and 2 more shopping days til Christmas Eve (the day my family and I are celebrating due to the fact I am working a TRIPLE on Christmas.. I am going out with a bang!) btw, I say "yikes" waaaaay too much. Love yas. Stacy And there's nothing heroic or stoic in being a mime. --Jude "Battered, Broken" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V2 #13 ********************************