From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #220 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, July 30 1999 Volume 02 : Number 220 Today's Fjordian Filings: -------------------------------------- Bumbershootin' From the Hip i used to think my dad was Elvis. louis frances doesn't sound like a girl name Re: louis frances doesn't sound like a girl name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 07:43:19 PDT From: "Markus Kamp" Subject: Bumbershootin' From the Hip It's that time of year again, kiddies...Bumbershoot!!! (http://www.bumbershoot.org) What in eternal damnation is that, Markus?! Well, it's a big ol' music/arts festival out here in the Far Corner of this fine land of our'n, Seattle, held annually over Labor Day weekend. Among the following bands, this year's highlights include the WORLD PREMIERE OF SINFOROSA'S 1st VIDEO!!! Come for the video, stay for the fun! Here are some of the more compelling bands playing this year: Baaba Maal Beausoleil Billy Bragg Black Anger Built to Spill Cake Cibo Matto Death Cab for Cutie Dusty 45s Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt Everlast Indigo Girls Jai Uttal & the Pagan Love Orchestra Janis Ian Jimmy Cliff Kate & Anna McGarrigle LoJo Los Van Van Loudon Wainwright III Micky Hart's Planet Drum Mojo Nixon & the Toad Liquors Moon Zappa Murder City Devils Pavement Pearl Django Pink Martini REM Robyn Hitchcock Rocket From the Crypt Sinead Lohan Son Volt Sonic Youth Steve Winwood Tab Benoit Taj Mahal & Tumani Diabate (Kulanjan) Tom Tom Club Trilok Gurtu & the Glimpse Tuck & Patti Violent Femmes Willis Free places to stay!!! C'mon out & bring your bumbershoot!Markus Kamp - Sinforosa http://www.sinforosa.com/markus.html _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:56:00 -0700 From: Dig that crazy chick Subject: i used to think my dad was Elvis. i have that damn smashmouth song stuck in my head. argh! why must it be so catchy, yet so WRONG? regardless, i have a major jones to see Mystery Men. holy CRAP. bestill my heart, but KROQ is putting on a festival that could actually rival bumbershoot (except for no Pink Martini :( i *heart* them.) oh my god, i just nearly asphyxiated reading the line up.. i think it was more out of shcok that this was affiliated with kroq than anything else, but my GOD, check out this line up: Beck, Pavement, Jon Spncer Blues Explosion, Cibo Matto, Gus Gus, SPIRITUALIZED, Bis, Ben Harper, Fantastic Plastic Machine, CHemical Brothers, Morrissey (whoa!), Jurassic 5, Modest Mouse, IQU, Esthero, BT, DJ Shadow.... my god. i must go. sure it's out in Indio/palm Springs, but hell... my friends and I drove to Vegas for BFF, and that was hardly the extravaganza that this seems to be. oh my god, it's like Bowlie without B&S! so anyway, before i had this heart attack about this line up i was going to mention that i went home to Portland last week, saw a few bands (the Make-Up, Marine Research, Golden, Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums), and then i spent two days in seattle with my roommate (alas Markus was out of town) and we went to see the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and hot damn, did that kick my ass or what? the Blues is # 1 indeed. then the next night we caught Jude open for Chris Isaak, and that was a lot of fun except for the weird middle ages seattlites with MULLETS. markus, you gotta do something about that. make it your goal. walk around Bumbershoot with a pair of shears and be the mullet fairy. i got back to L.A. on monday only to find that i got screwed by usc's housing office and wouldn't have anywhere to live in the fall. so i cried and whined and called my dad, and then apparently he made some phone calls, and now i DO have place to live, but it's with FOUR other people in a two bedroom apartment. kill me. kill me now. i went to see Jon Spencer again last night in Pomona. pomona is a whacked town. we got carded for the curfew (what the hell?), and then when my friend and i were driving home we herad this really loud punding bass, like a rave or something, and then we turn to get on the freeway, and a cop stops us because he thinks it's US breaking the noise ordinance. meanwhile we were listening to Saint Etienne at half volume. gosh, we're so raucous! so now i have a dream that needs annealyzing: i was in the SportsNight offices (in an actual office building, not the sets on the show), and i was in the office of the blonde chick (who's married to william h. macy in real life), and some transient came in and stole her Emmy. and then we chased him out into the main lobby and he had stolen the other 3 emmys that were kept in the front case, and pretty soon me, her, Josh Charles, Peter Krause and the rest of the cast (except for the dorky guy who was in An American President) are running after him. and even though i know they do sportsnight out of Manhattan, we're running down the portion of Sunset Blvd. that runs through Beverly Hills. and so we keep running and then like, every time we cross a street, Josh Charles takes my hand and we're soing some nifty dance move. and we finally lose steam around Sunset & Crescent Heights where the Virgin Megastore and Wolfgang Puck's is, only it was a vintage car dealership like this one that's on Santa Monica blvd. and Josh dances me across the street and everyone else gets mad that we're frolicking in the middle of Crescent Heights, and then i woke up. i think i may be able to chalk this to to a couple of things; Josh Charles and Peter Krause hosted VH1's rock across america yesterday, and then before i went to sleep last night i was thinking about getting tickets to see a taping of Will & Grace in the fall and then i was like 'aww, why do they have to be on the same time as SportsNight? not fair!' either way i'm insane. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "A high speed chase brings L.A. to a grinding halt. It's like our version of a snow day." - -- The MC Simon Milligan of online magazines: http://www.theshrubbery.com The Chandler Bing of online radio: http://kscr.usc.edu Tuesdays at 9:30pm PDT AOL IM: CourtSpork ICQ: 24901402 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:15:44 EDT From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com Subject: louis frances doesn't sound like a girl name i thought the twins were a boy and girl?? the blair witch project comes out tomorrow, yay! i'm so excited about seeing it. there was a thing on entertainment tonight last night about how all these people are going to the town where it was filmed to try and find the actor's graves. apparently they don't know they weren't killed... i got my senior pics taken today. what a hassle. atleast i got to listen to bff while i got them done. and i got my urge tickets yesterday. i am too excited about seeing them. hopefully i'll get to see REM in august too. that's all for now. shan "You're made of paper aren't you?" ~ Fluid Oz. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:51:03 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: Re: louis frances doesn't sound like a girl name At 03:15 PM 7/29/99 EDT, Vwbugn5890@aol.com wrote: >i thought the twins were a boy and girl?? I don't know, I heard 2 girls, I heard boy and girl, but louis is a boys name, I think anyway. > >the blair witch project comes out tomorrow, yay! i'm so excited about seeing I saw it 2 times already! When I was in NYC. God, I miss the east coast and am in this depression to be home. but anyhow... the movie is soooooo good, but I will say nothing more. >it. there was a thing on entertainment tonight last night about how all >these people are going to the town where it was filmed to try and find the >actor's graves. apparently they don't know they weren't killed... Wow, very stupid people, because even if they *do* believe the elaborate backstory behind the movie, they would know that *the bodies were never found* so there would be no grave... perhaps a marker or monument, but no grave... and it probably would be in the town of their family not burkitsville. BTW, for all you non Marylanders, Burkitsville is a real place and the witch is not real, and they are kinda pissed off about the whole big fan of the blair witch invasion. Its a tiny little town suddenly invaded by blair witch groupies... stacy The best things in life don't make any sense -Odds "The Best Things" Stacy Lynn stacyf@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq: 7641939 ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V2 #220 *********************************