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H Rocco
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If the misanthropy of H Rocco is not yet legendary, then it damn well should be. However, in the past few months, I developed a particular soft spot for Tom Scofield (even when he was yelling at me), and have written him any number of e-mails, hoping he might manifest in some way. It might be that he never sees those e-mails. I will now post my last letter to him, in the hopes that he might drop by and see it, and get the hell back in touch, or online, or whatever. This is what I wrote to him on May 16, under the heading "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"Thomas! Enough already! You are terribly missed at the Boards (well, Board, the FSM one isn't back up and probably never will be again.)
Something occurred to me just a day or two ago: perhaps you don't manifest because of all the Les Baxter CDs you promised to burn, and evidently never did. Hey, buddy, I'd genuinely forgotten about it until that possible correlation popped into my head; and let me assure you that one or another Les Baxter CDR that I don't have isn't a friendship-breaker. I know all about how hard schedules can be, and about what it's like to stretch a dollar so hard that it snaps in your hand. Even offering to make such a disc for nothing, especially for people you didn't really know, was such a generous largesse, only the meanest and most tight-fisted would want to yell at you for not delivering. (I genuinely hope it's as simple as that.)
Don't be a stranger, pal, please. I barely know you, but you seem like a special fellow, and I'd be dismayed if we didn't get to hang out one day and rant about movies in each other's respective direction. Last time you wrote me, you were already looking forward to precisely such a time yourself.
I'm not convinced you even receive these letters, but I'd like to know, one way or the other. I'd hate to think you got mashed by a bus or something.
Did you see BATTLEFIELD EARTH yet? It's the funniest movie of the year, and I highly recommend it. I howled from beginning to end, and frankly can't wait to see it again. If Ed Wood were alive, and had seventy million to blow, this is what he'd have made. Actually, Wood was a better director than Roger Christian, but that's a whole other essay ...
I hope you'll get this, Thomas. You have all my best wishes, either way. I'll be going to the Goldsmith concert in Detroit after all (you know that if you've been lurking); I've been earmarked to write the whole thing up (for the Board, at least, I doubt FSM is too interested since they didn't even MENTION the Detroit concerts in advance.)
PLEASE take care, be well, go on doing good work,
most sincerely,
(my real name, which he knew already, follows, along with e-mail address and even home phone number)
C'mon, Tom.posted 06-10-2000 09:45 PM PT (US) Chris Kinsinger
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Rocco, our virtual world is so fragile that a simple power surge in an electrical wire can take one of us out for months.I KNOW!
I BEEN dere!Tom Scofield is a friend of mine as well...perhaps the circumstances of life have prevented him from being here.
It could be anything.
Maybe his phone company went bankrupt (that'll mess ya' up!).
posted 06-10-2000 09:52 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Sure. Of course. And dat don't stop me worryin, chum.NP: TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE (some guy wrote this, has he done anything else? seems talented)
posted 06-10-2000 09:55 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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I agree. I hope my vile temper hasn't been responsible for the retreat of TS. Not only did he champion Baxter but he loved Frankel and many others and was a wealth of information and good tidings not unlike his H'ness. I hope you are well and would love to see you here again.
posted 06-11-2000 12:42 AM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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That's the problem with online friendships - often, there is no way to find out what's up if the other side doesn't respond. I hope Tom's alright.BTW, you H'ness, FSM did mention the Detroit concerts. From Volume 4, Number 10:
quote:
Goldsmith will be with the Detroit Symphony next June 1-4 for five concerts in all - "Pops Goes Hollywood"; see www.detroitsymphony.com .5 concerts? I thought it was 3?
NP: Donnie Brasco (Doyle)
posted 06-11-2000 05:59 AM PT (US) Timmer
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Yeah c'mon back Tom, You can see your obviously missed.Tim
posted 06-11-2000 06:00 AM PT (US) joan hue
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Ditto here for me, Tom. Miss your insights, wisdom, and fun. I'm thinking about the movie Return To Me. So if you see this, please consider gracing us again with your presence.posted 06-11-2000 08:31 AM PT (US) logied
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Well if there ever was a Les Baxter fan, it
is Tom and I was looking forward to hearing
a Baxter Score from him. (I am yet to hear
a Baxter score) Like other posters who have
introduced me to composers I am not familiar
with his support of Baxter was always a hilite of the FSM board and I assume this one. Let us assume he burnt his fingers when
recording his first CDR,s and can,t type for
awhile.
posted 06-11-2000 10:16 AM PT (US) H Rocco
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Let's just hope he'll be BACK. I ducked out for a year and a half myself, without warning anyone, so who knows what it is in his case.Marian: There were five concerts in Detroit, it's just that none of us except Wedge and a couple of others from the Board attended the first two: an afternoon AND an evening concert on Thursday, June 1. I wondered if that's why Goldsmith seemed a little worn out on Friday night, but he was back in bouncy form by Saturday.
Yes, yes, my Detroit Accounts. Later today, I promise I'll start posting em. Man, in a couple of hours it'll be precisely a week since we sat down for the last of the Concerts ...
posted 06-11-2000 10:37 AM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Just adding my name to the list. Tom, where are you?
posted 06-11-2000 03:37 PM PT (US) Chris Kinsinger
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quote:
I ducked out for a year and a half myself, without warning anyoneYeah, and as I recall, no one ever SCOLDED you for it either!!!
BAD ROCCO!
BAD, BAD ROCCO!!!There.
Take that.posted 06-11-2000 03:53 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Aw, right, like we weren't already fully agreed on what a BAD old boy I happen to be, full-time ALL the time ...NP: BAD BOYS (Mark Mancina) (well, not really, but it would be appropriate) (in fact, you'd have to pay ME to listen to it)
(really NP: BREAKHEART PASS as heard on "The Rocco Files: The Cae of Jerry Goldsmith's Missing Music," produced by one S.R. thanks again chum)
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