From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #33 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 Monday, January 11 1999 Volume 02 : Number 033 Today's Fjordian Filings: -------------------------------------- Re: The Rockford Files V2 #32 Shyte yeah!!! timmy timmy Re: Welcome me, please. Close Encounters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:50:59 EST From: ViSiToRs33@aol.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V2 #32 << Rufus Wainwright is going to be on Sessions at West 54th this weekend. >> k, seeing as how, its now tomorrow :P ...i saw rufus *this morning* and.. AHH. it was so great, even tho i was half asleep....i loved it. rufus is so great. phish did great also..... oh and tori's gunna be on on feb. 13th, not feb 5th..i think.. the 5th is a friday....sessions is on, on saturdays...well, technically sunday.. but whatever... unless you're times are just a WHOLE lot different, in which case... ignore that last sentence, okay? :) anyways, prolly none of u know who i am,cuz i like..never post, so i'll just shut up now. ~micheLe~ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:42:09 PST From: "Markus Kamp" Subject: Shyte yeah!!! Mark your calendars...Saturday, 9 January, 1999 @ 7:15 pm pacific, Sinforosa was played on Seattle radio!!! I'm stuck in traffic on the 5 (on the way to Shakespeare in Love, actually!) when all of a sudden I hear this familiar sound effect & I realize, "Holy Shit, that's us!" I hope someday everyone can experience the goofy, blissful excitement that pulses its way through one's veins upon hearing a project of one's own creation on the radio...the scene in That Thing You Do comes pretty darn close to capturing it. The best part was the timing of it...7:15 on a Saturday night, right after a commercial break. People are either in the cars stuck in traffic (i.e., me!) or @ home getting ready to go out. Then, the DJ talked us up right after the song, so no one had to wait the usual 20 minutes to find out the band's name. He said "Sinforosa", like, 3 times & even pushed our CD release party this coming Friday...woo-feckin-hoo!!! In other news, though not necessarily by my own choosing, fate is selecting an onslaught of gorgeous, quirky redheads with which to entertain me for a while...and I ain't complainin'! OK, rock and or roll w/your bad selves & I'll talk @ ya later! Markus Kamp - Percussionist Sinforosa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:15:35 GMT From: "tavia -" Subject: timmy hello there kiddies I espied this interview in Australian Rolling Stone (1998 Year book p36) yesterday. It's with Tim Freedman the lead singer of the Whitlams, whom several of us seem to know and love. anyway I was pretty rapt with what timmy had to say at one point: Int: How has music changed in the time that you've been playing? Tim: I think the hegemony of the guitar has been chipped away which, as a piano player, I'm glad of. Int: So do you think that it's the piano in your music that makes it stand out at this particular time? Tim: No, I think the only thing we've got going for us that is different is our lyrics. There are plenty of pianos around. I don't know whether I'm pleased or frightened but I've been watching all these really good piano albums come out and it's really raising the stakes: Loudon Wainwright's son [me: Rufus!] is apparently pretty good, and Elliot Smith's new album, and Ben Folds of course. Of course! What taste! I love Timmy for saying that. ;D anyways enuf bentent I think I may possibly, hopefully, if nothing bad happens, mayyyyyybe... have a job. finally. so, does anyone want to buy a dress? got my friends of the whitlams tee today and very sexy it is, I feel very fruity indeed (such fun to have around). that restored my good humour after my personality was again slighted yesterday, this time by my effing dad. it was soooo tempting to reply 'well, you're the git I've copied off since childhood!' but I didn't. because that, unfortunately, would have proven his point. damn parents cried my heart out I did. but some loud bff settled me down. It cant be good to always hold what you're really feeling in. There should be some people who you can be yourself with. even if yourself isnt lovely adn calm all of the time. why is it, if you're trying to improve, people only notice the lapses? oh well, I have pretty t-shirt, it'll be all right I guess. (first piece of clothing I've bought for months....) cheers tavia 'all this breathing in, never breathing out' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:17:09 GMT From: "tavia -" Subject: timmy I deeply apologise if this is the second time I've sent this, but I'm not sure if I posted it properly the first time. hello there kiddies I espied this interview in Australian Rolling Stone (1998 Year book p36) yesterday. It's with Tim Freedman the lead singer of the Whitlams, whom several of us seem to know and love. anyway I was pretty rapt with what timmy had to say at one point: Int: How has music changed in the time that you've been playing? Tim: I think the hegemony of the guitar has been chipped away which, as a piano player, I'm glad of. Int: So do you think that it's the piano in your music that makes it stand out at this particular time? Tim: No, I think the only thing we've got going for us that is different is our lyrics. There are plenty of pianos around. I don't know whether I'm pleased or frightened but I've been watching all these really good piano albums come out and it's really raising the stakes: Loudon Wainwright's son [me: Rufus!] is apparently pretty good, and Elliot Smith's new album, and Ben Folds of course. Of course! What taste! I love Timmy for saying that. ;D anyways enuf bentent I think I may possibly, hopefully, if nothing bad happens, mayyyyyybe... have a job. finally. so, does anyone want to buy a dress? got my friends of the whitlams tee today and very sexy it is, I feel very fruity indeed (such fun to have around). that restored my good humour after my personality was again slighted yesterday, this time by my effing dad. it was soooo tempting to reply 'well, you're the git I've copied off since childhood!' but I didn't. because that, unfortunately, would have proven his point. damn parents cried my heart out I did. but some loud bff settled me down. It cant be good to always hold what you're really feeling in. There should be some people who you can be yourself with. even if yourself isnt lovely adn calm all of the time. why is it, if you're trying to improve, people only notice the lapses? oh well, I have pretty t-shirt, it'll be all right I guess. (first piece of clothing I've bought for months....) cheers tavia 'all this breathing in, never breathing out' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:02:03 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: Re: Welcome me, please. Leigh!!! Hi! So, you finally joined, did you. Everyone, Leigh is great. He is a friend of mine. I met him at the Conan O Brian show when he tapped me on the shoulder and said "Are you on the Armchair?" We hung out a bit after the taping, and have since kept in touch. He met my best friend Jess too at the taping, and Rey, Rey's best friend Jackie, Jess (who lives in New Jersey now, NOT arizona...) and Leigh went to a TMBG show a couple months ago. Anyway, rock on, Leigh, and see you around! Stacy And there's nothing heroic or stoic in being a mime. --Jude "Battered, Broken" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:20:56 -0800 From: Blue Green Olga Subject: Close Encounters so first of all, i just want to say yay that Markus had such a rockin' experience as to hear HIS BAND on the radio. that rules. and i can say i knew him when.... School starts on wednesday and i'm none too happy about it. suck. but at least i don't have any night classes this semester, which is a NICE change. and no more stupid four hour long film theory classes. alas and woe is me, KCET, the PBS station here did NOT air Sessions at West 54th last night when they were supposed to. instead it was Austin City Limits and i whined and threw things at the tv. as per Lucy's inquiry about the Old 97's, i surely couldn't tell you if they're sponge-worthy. okay, so big nutty CELEBRITY FILLED story for you guys: so tonight we went out to go see A Simple Plan (which rocked, by the way), and we were heading towards Century City from Hollywood. We're driving down Santa Monica Blvd. and this brand new black Ferrari turns onto the street and is in front of us. My friend Erik is a total car obsessive, so he wants to pull alongside the car to get a better look at it. so, we end up passing it and i look at the driver and i'm like "hey, that guy looks familliar," but his hair was all blown about and looked like it was thinning and he looked older, and i thought it was Vilmos Zsigmond (who was the Cinemtaographer for Close Encounters and was recently in a really funny L.A. Times ad). but no, it was not. we get to the stop light at Santa Monica and Rodeo Dr. and said old balding man starts combing his hair back, and magically turns into Nicolas Cage!! apparently he and Patricia just needed to go for a drive. so that was really random, and very cool because it was the first celeb sighting since i've been back in L.A. then 5 minutes later we saw a silver pposche Boxter pull into the parking lot at Century City and so we were all like "ooh, i bet it's Matthew Perry!" ('cause that's the kind of car he drives). but alas, it was not. Jon Stewart begins his stint on Yo' Daily tomorrow. i cannot keep my joy in check. i love that man so much. ahhh.... i miss his talk show. i went to a taping of it back in '95. damn my friends for already seeing Playing By Heart. i ramble. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Nobody thinks that you would be capable of doing what you've done." ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V2 #33 ********************************