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The Rockwood Mailbag

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Have you always wanted to let Team Rockwood know just what you were thinking? Do you wonder why the panels of the strip are laid out horizontally instead of vertically? Or do you have sensitive documents that will bring down the government? In any case, we want to know! Just fill out your name and e-mail address, then let 'er rip! No question or comment is too bizarre for Team Rockwood to take a stab at, and if we can get enough mail coming in, this page will be updated weekly! (Unlike the old mailbag page, which got updated about four times in two years.)

So consider this an experiment in web interactivity. Or, consider it a way to artificially inflate our hit count. Either way, just write in!

Updated on February 22, 2005
		February 16, 2005 No this is the real Fifth Estate. --simon Lepik
		Psh. That doesn't count because it's Canadian, and as the Oscar-nominated song goes, they're not even a real country anyway.
		February 17, 2005 So, when do we get to see updated photos of the house? Last pictures I remember seeing you were pretty much living in boxes... --Bad Panda
		Living in boxes? You mean like this? Oh, sorry, that's not us. Perhaps you mean like this? Oops. Again, not us. The truth is, we don't have a lot of pictures of the house, Panda. Heck, we're not even done unpacking everything yet (hey, YOU have knee surgery and see how much YOU feel like unpacking). Remind us again in a month after we've been here for a year and we'll probably have something then.
		February 17, 2005 Actually... I wouldn't mind seeing semi-regular blogs from Brian... I think he has a delightfully skewed sense of humor and I loved reading about his political signs, and his knee repair journey... I should say, however, that he shouldn't go bust his knee just so we can laugh at his blogs... --James
		No need to worry about that knee thing, James. Brian is just as unwilling to damage it again as you are (in related news, he may actually be updating the ACL page again soon, so keep your eyes open). As far as further blog activity goes, who knows what the future holds? The Rockwood site hasn't been redesigned since 2001, way back when blogs were just getting off the ground. A future layout may include some sort of blog, but Team Rockwood will have to work on a way to incorporate that.
		February 20, 2005 Tag! --Dr. Zira
		Hmm... a list, eh? Fine, we'll play along. 1. Total amount of music files on your computer? 1,952 songs, 8.72 GB worth. However, we're in the middle of ripping The Fixx's Greatest Hits, so that total is about to go up by 12 songs. 2. The last CD you bought was... Other than blanks, which we use to burn all of our iTunes songs, the last actual compact disk purchase by Team Rockwood was The Donnas' Gold Medal. The Donnas are the coolest band in the world. Well, at least this year we think they are. 3. What was the last song you listened to before reading this message? Umm... might this fall into embarrassing? "Rainy Days and Mondays" by The Carpenters. Of course, that was followed immediately by "Sleep Now In The Fire" by Rage Against The Machine. Team Rockwood celebrates diversity in its music selection! 4. Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you. Team Rockwood strongly believes that lyrics are highly overrated in rock music, and although they know lyrics to literally thousands of songs, they are often shocked once they realize what they've been singing all of these years. And their main complaint with iTunes is that its randomizer isn't nearly random enough. We have over 1,900 songs! Why is iTunes picking something we just heard yesterday? We don't like to listen to songs a lot. We like the variety. Nonetheless, we don't want to dodge the question entirely, so here are five songs we could listen to a lot because we think they have perfectly matched lyrics and tunes (that is, a sad song has sad lyrics, a happy song has happy lyrics... a BAD example of this would be "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, which sounds like a love song, but has lyrics about a stalker): A. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"--Nirvana. Angry, angry young men, and possibly the best rock song ever. And we say this thinking that Nirvana as a whole was only mediocre. B. "Hotel California"--The Eagles. It sounds haunting and creepy, and what's with this "you can never leave" business? Eeeek! C. "Panama"--Van Halen. What ARE the lyrics exactly? We don't know, even 20 years later, and we don't care. The key thing to take away from "Panama" is that it is proof that there exists a song for which no known speaker system is loud enough. D. "Autumn Wind/Raiders"--NFL Films. Oh sure, it has cheesy lines, but we defy you to not picture yourself running in slow motion and flattening some poor running back in the '70s. E. "Rainy Days and Mondays"--The Carpenters. What? There's a reason it's in our playlist. Shutup! 5. What 3 people are you going to pass this baton onto and why? At this question, we realize we don't know that many bloggers, so... A. Jessica at Ultratart, because we've seen some of her song lists before, and now we're going to see what weird stuff she comes up with when she's put on the spot. B. Christina, because out of all of the blogs that link to Rockwood, we get the most hits from hers. C. Jack at As The Apple Turns, because there's a one-in-a-zillion chance that this will get him to restart his OWN viewer mail. Unlikely, yes, but not impossible.
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