From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #14 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, December 23 1998 Volume 02 : Number 014 Today's Fjordian Filings: ----------------- 3 days till christmas and in the end, we'll ALL be cowboys Holiday update... BEST WISHES AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! hello again blah blah blah And then she says... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:32:26 EST From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com Subject: 3 days till christmas and 5 days till the urge! my sister's boyfriend might be able to get me backstage passes, so hopefully i'll be able to meet the band and go backstage and all that stuff. i'm way too excited about this show. the RF was depressing today. Dan - sorry about losing your job, but your boss sounds like a real jackass, so it's probably better you don't work there anymore so you don't snap one day and cuss him out or something Anne - sorry about your sister-in-law. i will keep her in my prayers for you. and i hope she gets better. everyone cheer up! it's christmas! swing class was so fun last night. the normal teacher wasn't there, so we just messed around all hour and learned a bunch of lifts and fun stuff. we got to swing to brian setzer orchestra, so that was a plus too. NRM is having a 20% off everything in the store sale, so i gotta go buy some cds now :) still hoping to see Rufus Wainwright on christmas night, Shan "It's so funny how life runs out so fast. Let's take another drink and here's to the past." ~ Less Than Jake ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:06:52 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: and in the end, we'll ALL be cowboys First off let me thank you all for your support this last day. Anne (who rocks harrd) and Mary (who I don't know, but who presumably rocks harrd as well) took the time to write me with some very appreciated sentiments, and I, well, appreciate it. Today at school was interesting: Secret Santa day in chorale and Erin Bonner got me a chocolate computer...d'oh. Quite the way to rub it in, although I know she wasn't aware of it. I ended up spending far more than I should have on my friend Amy, who I have a minor thing for, although she has a wonderful boyfriend named Gary, a Canadian kid who wears Korn shirts. He's seriously nicer than hell, though. I bought her some perfume-in-a-snow-globe at Bath & Body Works and I assume she liked it, as she was spraying it on everyone all day. Then there came the fateful cast meeting for Fiddler, which I made. However, I'm a Jewish boy in the play, a role otherwise portrayed by freshmen and which requires a tenor (both of which I am not). But it would be really immature to quit because of my role (my friend Kelly, also a former lead, got a Jewish girl and is feeling the same way), so I'm not going to. I don't even have that much to say. Hmm. Oh yes..."Greasin'" by Less Than Jake (the musical Grease, done in ska) is a real treat. We played it at the party today in school. Too much chocolate does bad things to your sleeping habits. Stacy: OK. Not to Anne-alyze, but it sounds like you've achieved something in your life but it's very precarious and/or going to end soon. Possibly your job. As much as you really need someone to help you with it, and have that person, you're inwardly aware that when you're safe and secure in your new position in life you'll realize that the danger was never there to begin with. People go through things like that every day. As far as Conan goes, you feel like a child with Rey, maybe very insecure and small about your relationship, or possibly you're so happy that everything seems big and swell. Kinda like Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" video. And Conan's six-four as it is. ~Dan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:01:19 -0600 From: "Anoop Ranganath" Subject: Holiday update... Boy, home is a crazy place, it's like I come back from school, and I become a different person. Any ideas why? Nothing is new here, my Software Engineering class pissed me off hardcore. The whole class is our project, and a week before classes were over, our group gave our technical presentation, and she said we made an A. A week later, we give our presentation to our clients, and then she told us that our project wasn't complete and she was going to give us an incomplete, and we could finish the project over Christmas and January. As for my outside of school life, things have been pretty crazy. Like I started hanging out with this girl, and we just hit it off really well. Anyways, she just tried to be with me all the time, and I really liked her, so we hung out a lot. Well, after a couple of weeks, we were sitting in the car talking, i told her i liked her, she told me she liked me, we kissed, and that was that. So that night basically killed whatever doubts or uncertainties I had. Two days later I get a phone call, "Hey, I'll be there in a few minutes" So she comes over, and our conversation starts out with her saying, "Back in high school I was in a really bad relationship..." That's all I needed to hear to realize that I was getting the shaft. Anyway, I listen to her talk for like two hours about all the insecurities and problems she has, and she ends the conversation with , "...but we can still go to Charleston together." We had planned to go to Charleston on the 28th, 29th and 30th to see Jump, Little Children at the Dock Street Theater. Of course we planned this trip before we (actually, she) decided that we should just be friends. I was about to cancel, and then her friend told me about how excited she was that we were going, and this and that, and when i said i may not want to go, she basically told me that it'd kill her. So now we're going. Why am I such a pushover? Stacy - Weird dream, might wanna get Anne to look at that one. I haven't dreamt anything that I remembered in a long, long time. Dan - Sorry about the job man. But it's nothing to get too worried about, you're in the computer biz, there's a million people out there waiting to pay out their ears for young talent like yours. Hell, you could even go into business for yourself. I get paid $25 an hour to "administrate" a few machines at this guys lab. This means installing printers and the such. All these lists, all these lists. Not much to say that hasn't already been mentioned. EXCEPT, Three Finger Cowboy. They're a band from Birmingham, mostly graduates of my college, and they are the VERY cool. Their music is about as happy as it gets, and I'll see if I can get you kids a few samples. anoop ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:47:18 EST From: jaedonely@juno.com Subject: BEST WISHES AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! Hey all, Happy Holidays!! I know that I can sing practically the whole squirrel nut zippers christmas album, and I dont even work there, its just all over the gap holiday tape. Apologies to those who deserve cards-my sis + bro arent going to get their presents, im a lazy ass. Anne, I go to catholic school, so prayer wise, i have a direct line to God.=) Sending out positive thoughts. I agree with you there. Shan, GO SEE RUFUS!!! Its an order. Plus, he'd probably do a little Gershwin (how sexy!) for you. I got the promo Rufus April Fools video in the mail and it made my cableless day. I love it; it has a plot and Rufus is gorgeous and the opera divas are fun! Dan, I forsee computer goddom in your future... and you have my sympathies now. Lauryn Hill is doing a tour..shes going to play the Wang Center in Boston the last day of march. That sounds kind of fun. Its annoying though, my lily white irish catholic school (refrence-boys in Good Will Hunting) they say this stuff about her being 'racist'-isnt her stuff for the ladies, anyway? Its so funny- my moms is convinced that I am a cd addict. I own maybe 75, I dont buy them all the time, its so dumb! Anybody with more cds and a habit want to email me??? She even got me a big ass cd tower for christmas. Im a magazine addict, dammittt!!!! Favorite holiday song (hey! NOT on the GAP tape!)-Christmas Wrapping by the waitresses HAPPY HOLIDAYS -I DONT BELIEVE IN THE YEAR 2K "problem" PEACE AND LUCK TO ALL IN THE NEW YEAR METTA ~Elisabeth 'damm look what I forgot!' ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:09:18 EST From: SHAP99@aol.com Subject: hello again today i had nothing to do so i went to the cd store. After to listening to everyone's favs I bought the Elliott Smith cd XO. IT HAS to be one of the best cds I have bought this year!!!!! I think I have another singer to be obsessive over other than ben. hehe I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!! Thanx everyone for the great suggestion! oh yeah i also bought Bat house Betty (bette midler's new cd) for my mom ,which has her singing BFF's Boxing on it. Her version is EXACTLY the same. the cd is pretty good too. ok wellz anywayz.... ... I had a very bad evening. My best friend kris called my house 13 times in a span of 15 min when i wasnt home ( i checked my caller id). I came home when it rang for the 14th time. She asked me to go to the movies... so i could be her chaperon since her parents didnt know the guy she was going on a date with. HOWEVER, I didnt know that until we got to the movies and her newest boyfriend Kirby was there. She has had 4 "serious boyfriends" (kristy's words) in a span of 1 month 1 MONTH. she got pissed cause most of our school started to refer to her as a slut. i have no opinion, i really stopped caring about her little affairs a long time ago. she has cheated on every guy shes dated. geez, shes making herself a nice reputation... shes only 15. I am so annoyed with her. eerrrrrrg, i just had to say something. she owes me big time.. especially since i cant stand Kirby.... I think Jeff Foxworthy bases his redneck jokes on this guy... ok anywayz. i just felt like posting. love you guys!! - ----> jez ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:00:38 EST From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: blah blah blah Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays and all that jazz... Elisabeth wrote: >Its so funny- my moms is convinced that I am a cd addict. I own maybe >75, I dont buy them all the time, its so dumb! Anybody with more cds and >a habit want to email me??? I have around 300...perhaps that will make your mom think you are a little less addicted. :) Got my hair cut today....doesn't look too much different. That's my thrilling thing for the day... Oh, and also, I am looking busty today. (Talk about too much information) Where did it come from? I'm 24, I can't still be growing. Crazy shit. On that note, I better wrap this up or perhaps I'll wind up saying something I shouldn't... Shortcake "So about the room...you don't have to get your own, you can stay in my room. I'll sleep on the floor.... Well, I mean, it'd be cheaper for you to stay with me. I could get a cot and sleep on the cot... but you said you're broke...you can stay with me...it's a big bed. We can both sleep on the bed...it's a big big bed. It's just SLEEP. I mean...it's just sleep, right? And I wouldn't mind at all. Come on. It will be fun. It's just sleep." **Famous last words** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:12:48 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: And then she says... Big bonus points to whoever can tell me who/what that line (my subject line) is from. Ok. Elisabeth - you are not a CD addict. I am. 355 CDs. And since I have been buying for 13 months, thats more than 1 CD every other day. I am addicted. I know this. And I am going to work on it. I'm trying, I really am. Dan - you are smart and resourceful, you'll figure out something, I know you will. Besides, you can probably make lots more money somewhere else, and you won't have to put up with an ass for a boss. Also, nice interpretation for the dream. Here's my dream last night (also very odd...) So I am at this *place* like a mall/dorm combo.. like people live there, but they also work there and shop there, and its very odd. But there is this huge tyranasauras rex running around wreaking havoc and eating people. It is very scary. I am doing a very good job maintainging a fairly normal day while this huge dinosaur is running amuck. Then, I'm at the beach, but the beach is really wide, LOTS of sand before the ocean, and there are these things put together very precariously, like a jungle jim, but made out of wood, and not a jungle jim, but you can climb on them, I suppsose if you wanted to. And there are very weird creatures living on this beach, like aliens... I remember thinking that I was on another planet or something. I go back to the dorm place where the dinasaur is, and then I see it, and it is coming straight for me. I try to avoid it, and I crouch down low. But it finds me. And I lay motionless. My back is bare, and I can feel it breathing on my back, inches from my skin. It makes me want to arch my back because his breathing is very heavy on it, and it feels odd, but I know that if I do, he will know I am there and he will eat me. And all thepeople are silent and motionless watching the events unfold. This lasts a few minutes. Finally the t rex gives up, and I live. The End. I really like perrier. I developed a taste for sparkling water. I mix it with cranberry juice, grape juice, lemonade, ice tea, and drink it plain. I just love it. I used to HATE it. Man, I thought it was disgusting, and now I can't get enough of it. We aren't supposed to drink it at work, but what are they going to do, fire me? HAH! Got my grades... B in my linguistics class, B in my humanities class, A in my Lit class (WOOOHOOOO), and a Big Fat D in French. Damn. damn damn damn. I've never gotten a D in my life. And in college nonetheless when grades really count. And in a classin my minor. damn does this suck. I told my parents, and they are dealng, they know it was a tough class. I'll figure out something. My GPA is still above a 3.0, so thats something. My sister and I got in a huge fight today about radio. I told her radio is crap, and she said "thats just your opinion" and it became a big Thing. And my mom thinks that most of the music I listen to is crap. Except "those guys that sing the brick song, I like the brick song." I listen to crap, HAH! I'll show you! My dad bought a CD player today (yes, go ahead and laugh, we were a CD playerless family until this afternoon - why I have 350 Cds is another story) and so I found like 25 CDs I think my mom would like... classic stuff like Ella Fitzgerald all the way to Jude, Elliot Smith, and Belle and Sebastian. She liked "At My Most Beautiful" and she really liked the Elliot Smith songs I played for her. I just can't wait til my family is gone, and then I can play Radiohead's album The Bends at waaay high volume, esp the song The Bends. ohmygosh. Thats the best. So I haveb;t bought christmas presents yet. I was going to today, but I eneded up working lunch for someone and then getting dinner off so that I could go to Winterhaven (a place all decorated for christmas) with my family. and my puggy got to go too. My dog is the cutest. he gets to sleep in my bed. =-) And then she says... She believes in dreaming. And then she says... She talks to the stars. And then she says... She can see forever, From where we are. K I'll shut up now. 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 #14 ********************************