From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #44 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 Friday, January 22 1999 Volume 02 : Number 044 Today's Fjordian Filings: -------------------------------------- Sara, Sara, Sara my name is shannon...and i like ska Do you have an opinion... ugh Will you be there? Future Plans Re: Future Plans Yay!!! holy eff! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 03:30:01 -0600 From: "Anoop Ranganath" Subject: Sara, Sara, Sara Just got back from the Jump, Little Children show in Tuscaloosa, AL, and I just thought I'd tell all of you how much Sara rocks. First time I actually talked with her at a show, and i had a blast. I don't know if I said before, but my ICQ # is 649395 for all you guys who wanna bug me at four in the morning. And to catch up on some of the music talk. I got the Belle & Sebastian EP the other day. Absolutely incredible. Just Another Modern Rock Song is my song. I mean, i listened to that album driving from home to school (30 minute album, 2 hour drive). I also picked up the Rufus Wainright album. Sorry guys, does NOT do it for me. I can barely listen to it for more than 10 minutes. I'll give it a few more chances, but i doubt it'll hold up. Weezer's first album has worked it's way into my rotation. That album just never gets old. I really need to pick up Pinkerton some time. Robots, Robots, Everywhere Robots is starting to take over my life. Each of the robots we build has to perform a set number of tasks and then when it's done, it beeps three times. Last night I had a nightmare or a dream or something, but I was restless in bed in the morning, after my roommate had gotten up. After I got up, he told me that the instant before I got up, I said, "Beep, beep, beep." How scary is that? Courtney - Sara and I were talking about people on the RF, and we decided (well, I've decided) that you must be one sexy, sexy woman. Later gators, Anoop ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:42:12 EST From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com Subject: my name is shannon...and i like ska i'm a ska lover and proud of it. i like less than jake. but goldfinger is my favorite. not a rap fan though. closest i get to rap is beasties and they're not even close. i love that fatboy slim remix of body movin. i could listen to that all day. i can't study while i have music on. my mind sings the lyrics while my eyes keep reading and i can't remember anything i read. i hate that. i read the great gatsby while listening to music and i have no idea what the entire book is about. elizabeth mentioned something about lyrics...it amazes me (being someone who has no musical ability whatsoever) that musicians can play this wonderful music and also write these beautiful words to go with the music. people like jude, elliott, rufus, and bff amaze me. am i the only one who wants to kill britney spears (sp?). i watched MTV total request at my friend's house last night and she was like #2 i think. it's so sad when the top 5 involve backstreet boys, n sync, 98, and britney spears (i forget the other one). the people that call in don't even care about the music. they say "please play backstreet boys because nick is so hot. i can't even describe how hot he is." people like that tend to annoy me. shan "She don't beleive me. Why should she? I hurt her." ~ Liz Phair ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:28:21 -0500 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: Do you have an opinion... A mind of your own I thought you were special I thought you should know... Hey all! Not with a bang, but with a whimper... That is how I passed my birthday yesterday. = ) Yep. Anne has hit the big two-niner. Whew! A year away from 30... and now I've got to get my schedule together. I need to cut my hair and get a tattoo sometime in the next twelve months! *grin* How I Spent My Birthday, by Anne Lyons: I spent the early hours on a flight from San Jose to Boston... luckily I got three seats across to myself so I was able to doze a bit without disturbing anyone else. And my boss was nice enough to give me my birthday off... so after I got home at about 6:30am, I crashed hard for about five hours. Then I spent the rest of "my" day doing errands like renewing my driver's license and getting the oil changed in my car. Hubby did take me out for dinner -- which was nice. And the cards I got from my family were sweet enough to make me cry. (Let's hear it... "awwwwwww"!) And I did also get a "Happy Birthday E-mail" from E-online... did you know that I have the same birthdate as Skeet Ulrich? I didn't think you did. And Melissa Rivers is a full year older'n me... But I digress... Actually, the nights leading up to my b-day were fun, too. It's always nice to get to know people that you work with better.* Went out drinkin' with (new) work friends on Sunday and Monday nights, and then the sub-department in which I work went out for dinner on Tuesday before my 9:30 flight -- they surprised me with a "birthday dessert" which was very sweet of them, and would have been nicer had I been able to stay and have some... but unfortunately I had to leave after one bite and run to catch my plane. (I made it with 30 seconds to spare). Not that you are required to care... *smile* Other random stuff: Markus: The check for Sinforosa's Deadly Faerie Tales is now officially in the mail. With all the running around in the ice storm on Friday, I had forgotten the letter on my desk. I have remedied that and it is merrily winging its way to you across this fair land! Sandi: You've left/are leaving? Say it ain't so! My posts are horrendously banal... but yours are the cayenne pepper in the fjordian gumbo! Besides, Matthew really will send the militia after you... and since we've only been trained to bring cloth dummies back from the jungle, I'd hate to see anything happen to you (there've been some ugly incidents involving our bayonets catching on the seams of the dummies...). Jess: If Sandi is the Voice of Reason... can I be the Voice of Democracy? Or at least Vox Et Praeterea Nihil** (which is probably closer to me, anyway) *grin* Matthew: Happy Belated to Meg -- I sent vibes, I swear it. And just for you... "Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than by facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods...'" = ) Erik: Feel better soon! Hope the skiing was fun. Elisabeth: FNX rocks. Leftover Lunch is a must-hear every day... And Garbage/Shirley Manson also rocks. My husband wants Shirley SOOOO badly... And finally -- the Princeton Review Word of the Day for my birthday was "succubus" -- think that means anything? *grin* Welp. I'd hate to have a two-parter -- so I will sign off anon. Take care, all! - -Anne (vox et praeterea nihil) * Please excuse my horrific grammar -- I do believe that poor grammar is a sign of senility! ** HA! You think I'll translate for you here? That'd be too easy! It should be in the back of your standard Webster's... and if you can't find it, I'll translate for you tomorrow. = D ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:07:32 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: ugh My life is so wierd. A few weeks ago, my biggest problem was that I didn't have a job. Now my biggest problem is that I have 2 jobs... What to do?? I am thinking, I .... quit one of them.... after a month maybe... I dunno. Stacy And there's nothing heroic or stoic in being a mime. --Jude "Battered, Broken" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:47:49 -0500 From: "Leigh Nelson" Subject: Will you be there? Hi, I'm going to see the taping of Conan O'Brien tomorrow with Fear of Pop. Is anyone else going? Let me know and we can meet up, if you're interested... Oh come on! It'll be fun! - - Leigh 13 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:44:38 -0500 From: Ben Bradshaw Subject: Future Plans Hey, this is my first post ever to this list, considering that this is maybe the second digest I've actually received. I say "maybe" because I've only learned to count to one so far. Anyway, this list is a refreshing alternative to the near communism on the magical armchair. Ok, maybe that's a stretch, but you get the gist. Well, what I'm writing this for is to see if you guys who are starting a record label can help me with me little plan for the future. This is how it goes so far: 1) Make a million dollars in astrophysics, or some other sort of profession where you don't have to deal with people with whom you don't want to deal excessively 2)Start a respectable radio station in Richmond, VA which would only play "good" music, with "good" meaning anything I like and anything that includes self-made music and/or doesn't use such words as "bitch, nigga, ho, da shit, mercedes, what the dilly, yo?" ad nauseum 3) Instantly become such a hit that even more money is added to the millions I'd made before and set up similar radio stations in every city or town where the only choices for radio stations are country, urban contemporary, the best hits from the 70's, 80's, and today, and classical (although classical is a very wonderful musical genre) 4)Keep expanding until I become a demigod of music. So, if you have any connections, tell me. Thanks Ben "I was out by myself in the graveyard. I was doing an interpretive dance."-TMBG Take A Gander, part 2 http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/lights/5364 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:52:28 -0800 From: Blue Green Olga Subject: Re: Future Plans > So, if you have any connections, tell me. Thanks > > Ben As long as I don't have to move to Virginia.... Stac? John? ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Oh really? Does he have action figures of *you* on his night stand?" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:48:02 EST From: SHAP99@aol.com Subject: Yay!!! Hey Everybody!!!! I requested a song via email to that Cincinnati station 97X and they played it 10 min. after i requested it!!!! Now that is amazing!!! I requested philosophy and i was amazed enough that they actually played that on the radio cause here in Jax they would never think of playing it. They told me they never heard of Underground when i last requested it... errrrg well thanx for the idea whoever it was!!! lov ya!!!! - ---> jez ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:14:54 GMT From: "tavia -" Subject: holy eff! * * *** *** * * *** *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***** * * * * * * * * * * *** *** * * *** *** . . . . well that looks grand doesnt it? bit overdone maybe but frankly I'm so effing happy that I couldnt care less you know that $25/hour job I told y'all about....? well I rang them up yesterday and said thank you very much but I'm afraid I'll have to un-accept the job... wanna know why? cause I got a REAL teaching job! that's effing why! woo-hoo! on wednesday morning (two days ago, hard to believe)I get rung up about my aplication for this part time drama teaching job and essentially had a mini-phone interview there and then, the guy was happy, asked if I could come in for a real interview in a couple hours (ummmm, geeee let me think......) so I prepare my butt off, get in there almost late, but on time by the seat of my pants and with what I can only describe as holy intervention, then I do an interview with the headmaster which goes well, wait a while, read a prospectus or five, then I do an interview with three other people who run the areas I would be in and this goes for aaaaaaages and it goes really well (really really well since you know what happened) then they make me wait for a good forty minutes. I dont need to tell you that was a long 20 mins. and then one of them comes out looking all serious and trying to make me think 'nah, I didnt get it' and succeeding admirably, and then asks me if I could start tommorrow (which is yesterday, now) blew my mind, I can tell you. so anyway, now i work at a private christian (lutheran) school north of brisbane (in the brisbane area, I am sooooooo lucky not to have to work out in woop-woop!). I'm teaching drama, yr 8 music (which is pretty damn funny considering my level of ability... ) taking a drama troupe and a dance troupe (also amusing, have I mentioned I'm uncoordinated...) and I'm stage manageing their musical of Jesus Christ Superstar. And this is just a part-time job! on the same day I was offered an interview for another job and i had to turn them down, so things have been going pretty well for the last two days! mind you I'm dead tired, I have sooooo much to prepare and school starts in three days. not to mention that as a yr 8 home room teacher I spend my first three days of school on the grade 8 camp! truly scary. they're all lovely people, lots of new and/or young teachers, not grumpy cows like the ones at my prac school. and !!! I share a casual secretary with the other drama teacher. I have a secretary! ha! this is killing me! plus I get free internet access!!!! but not for a couple weeks and I get other cool teachery things mind you in a few weeks I'll prolly be complaining about the horrible students... but right now it's all reeeeeaaal good ('i'm telling you people it's going to be real good...') to lovely people who have mailed me in the last couple days: I have read and enjoyed your emails (leigh, I have no idea who that guy is your talking about...; emily, you have rendered my stunned and since I'm already stunned...that's pretty dang stunned;) stacy- that college thing was actually pretty close to the truth ERIC- thanks for the cool points. What word did you coin? lyn- who wrote the sign off poem you used? I like it a lot. as for shirts on the rf, well yeh! as for the chaos on the MA - I'm too scared to look I love you all I love everyone everything is pretty life is sweet we apologise for this temporary delay in your regularly scheduled whinging and bitterness give me a week to get back to my normal snarling self (I have a job) hee-hee! (me, employed in a respectable profession...) yay! bye tavia 'daisies in her footsteps, dandelions, butterflies...' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V2 #44 ********************************