THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #366 - June 20, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Friday, June 20 1997 Volume 01 : Number 366
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Religion
Religious themes on WE+E Amen
who is dean folds?
bff and conan's restrooms
A Clear answer 2 all your Bhagavad questions!!
Adam Delisse
this is final
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #364
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #364
ICQ anyone?????
NUVO responds to BFF list
New Ben Folds Five album photo search
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:13:15 -0400
From: Evan Chakroff <chakroff@ee.net>
Subject: Religion
don't forget Hava Nagila, from one flavor of the BoWCCL single.
- -ec
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:35:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jack of All Parades <berlyant@eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Religious themes on WE+E Amen
Hi everybody, my name is Matt. Long time listener (well, not really, only
a month or so), but 1st time caller. Anyway, I'm mostly a lurker on this
here Armchair, but I feel the need to reply to the person who mentioned
the religious themes on the new album. Aside from the aforementioned
"Kate"'s Bhagavad Gita line, the presence of the Klezmatics (whose 1st
album was titled "Jews With Horns", need I say more) on "Steven's Last
Night in Town" would definitely indicate the influence of Jewish music on
the sound of the song. Plus, all of you who have the "Battle of Who Could
Care Less" CD single with the cover of "Hava Nagila" on which Ben says
that it was "a song he heard a lot growing up" (I'm paraphrasing here)
also indicates that he was raised Jewish. When I heard him do "Hava
Nagila", it kinda gave me a feeling of pride since I'm Jewish myself. Not
that it should really matter or anything, but I couldn't help it. Well,
I'm thinking of all the other songs on the album or B-sides and what have
you and I can't think of any other religious connotations, so if you have
any more, please post them.
While I'm at it, I should probably fill you all in on how I got into BFF.
I'd heard a lot about them from friends and from the Joe Jackson mailing
list (an artist who all of you should check out, IMHO), so one day when I
was in a record store not knowing what to buy (I was in the mood for
something new, though), I happened to see WE+E Amen and played it to
finally hear what the hype was about. After listening to parts of about 3
or 4 of the songs, I was floored, bought the album, and haven't gone back
since. That was late March and now I have both CDs and 6 CD singles (I
finally found pt. 1 of "Underground" today; now I just need part 2...) ,
have seen them at Irving Plaza on 4/29 (great show, BTW), am on this here
mailing list (well, duh!), and am going to Central Park to see them with
Morphine (another favorite of mine) next Wed. (6/25). And no, I'm not
gonna post a Top 10, but any of you are curious as to what else I like,
feel free to drop me a line. Sorry for the long post and for babbling, but
I don't do it too often, so....
Matt
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: POP QUEEN <edurand@emerald.tufts.edu>
Subject: who is dean folds?
anyone know the connection of one Dean Folds to (duh) Ben? he is thanked
in the liner notes.
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emily k. durand
"where do all the secrets live?
they travel in the air..."
--- ben folds five
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:31:49 -0400
From: cynthia@people.timeinc.com (Cynthia Wang)
Subject: bff and conan's restrooms
Hi y'all,
Leave it to the People person to know the answer to this one:
Newspaper accounts of the Farrah Fawcett/BFF incident after Conan O'Brien's
show are not accurate. The articles claimed that 2 girfriends of BFFers
were in the stalls ragging on Farrah when she came in. The truth of the
matter is, two women WERE ragging on Farrah when she came into the
bathroom, but according to the band, their significant others weren't
around that night.
Ooohh, Ben Folds Five, getting bigger every day...now involved in random
Hollywood gossip...ooooohhh, aaaahhhh.....
Take care,
Cynthia
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: SunDrop0@aol.com
Subject: A Clear answer 2 all your Bhagavad questions!!
The Bhagavad Gita, is an Indian relgious text:
IT IS NOT THE FOLLOWING, MY HOMIES!!!
>The Bahgvad Gita is the holy book of either the Hindus or the Muslims.
>It's like the Bible. It was written by Mohammed as it was dictated to him
>by God.
>Geoff
Yes it is Hindu, but Islam is a totally different religion from Hinduism. The
Bhagavad Gita is not like the bible. It is a collection of Hindu tales that
present morals. Yeah, the bible (in my belief) is a load of crap, but at
least Hindi don't take all the relgious crap literally like some Christians
do(I don't mean to offend anybody, this is just my belief). The book Geoff is
talking about is the Qur'an, which is indeed like the bible, except it is a
guidebook for the Islamic relgion. It contains Mohammed's revelations. I hope
I cleared this up for everybody. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about! I
received an A+ in Geo-History. Anyhow, I love the new album!!!! BenFoldsFive
4 Ever!!!!!
Ok, If you hate me, that's fine, If you think i kickass, I worship you!!!!
whatever
whatever
whatever
and
ever
ever
ever
Amen!
Evaporated kix ass and so does the bonus track!
whatever
man!
"Where, like the back of a volkswagon??"-Brody, Mallrats
"There are just some things you don't say in public!"-Brody, Mallrats
"Damn the man" -Lucas, Empire Recordz
"In a sane world madness is the only freedom."-I don't know who said that one
but they kickass!
Peace.
Luv Ya!
Sundrop
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:28:18 -0600
From: Pluvius Dope <Policy@Mobsters.com>
Subject: Adam Delisse
Adam Delisse-
I'm sure that in the time you wrote that pathetic rant to whomever was
asking about the Bhaugaud Gita (Nice spelling asshole) you could have
A)Answered my QUESTION about whether or not the magical armchair appears in
any songs besides Uncle Walter, and B)Answered what the Bhaugaud Gita is.
In FACT! By doing those two things, you could have saved everyone on the
armchair reading your pathetic BULLSHIT, and saved your puny brain the
trouble of thinking of all of those long words like 'and' and 'BILLION'. In
the future, keep your fucking bad attitude to yourself.
Pluvius Dope
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:08:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Adam 'DeLicious' DeLisse" <adeliss@comp.uark.edu>
Subject: this is final
the bhagavad gita, once and for all, is an ancient indian text in which
krishna, an avatar of vishnu, takes earthly form to teach arjuna the
archer his duties as a warrior, and he ends up having to kill all of his
evil cousins to save his wife and brothers. no, dope, it was not written
by modammed as god dictated it to him, because a little book known as the
KORAN, or the Quran, if you please. the bhagavad gita pertains ONLY to
the hindu faith and was written to teach moral lessons on performing the
duties of your societal class without looking at the consequences.
i must make apologies for my recent posts as i have been annoyed lately
and decided to take it out on a couple of new fans. i appreciate teh
concern that someof you have shown for other people's feelings, and it
just goes to show that although i'm a very old fan (in the sense that i
have been a fan for a LONG time), i am no longer one of the ONLY fans, and
i am happy that ben's fan base has grown so much.
Adam DeLisse
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 07:02:12 -0400
From: Ben Abo <BenDovr@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #364
Does anyone have any bootlegs?
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:13:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: KingBuzz3@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #364
You know, I used to love the Armchair....but the hostility is too much...So
what if people want to know what Bhaggada Pita whatever means! that's what
this is here for....I know I know, you're supposed to read the achives, but
come on you psychos, don't you enjoy the little break between people's
SELF-GLORIFYING "top ten" lists and the incessesant personal conversations
that only two people understand...Just don't take every single opportunity to
chastise everyone for doing things wrong every now-and-again...damn! I'm
contributing to the hostility now, making me a hippocrite. Oh well....
Relax fans,
Marc a.
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:15:21 EDT
From: jelly_the_bean@juno.com (Jessica J Woletz)
Subject: ICQ anyone?????
Hi everyone.
I just recently downloaded the chat program ICQ. It is really neat!!!
The only problem is that I have no one to chat with. The only way to
find people with common interests is by conducting a search and stuff
like that. (If you have ICQ you know what I am talking about.) Anyways,
I was just wondering what peoples' UINs are. If you have one, then
either email me personally or send it to the list. I'm just afraid
people on the list won't appreciate a thread of ICQ related posts, so
it'd probably be better to send it to me. If you don't have the chat
program but you want to download it or are interested in it...email me
too and I'll send it to you to download. Thanks!
Jessie
PS-My UIN is: 1634775
mail to: jelly_the_bean@juno.com OR bnl_bff_tmbg_fan@rocketmail.com OR
woletz@prodigy.net
you're such a beautiful freak / i bet you are flying inside
- -beautiful freak
sometimes it feels like i'm made of eggshell / and it feels like i'm
gonna crack
- -guest list
~~~~~~~~~~eels~~~~~~~~~~
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:40:39 -0500
From: Steve Hammer <shammer@nuvo.net>
Subject: NUVO responds to BFF list
Hi BFF list,
We've now recieved more than 30 e-mail messages from persons on the list
protesting against Ryan Downey's BFF review. Your viewpoints have been
heard, as well as your insults, threats and suggestions we cram our
review up our butts.
We appreciate all the mail we get, even from people who don't like us or
what we write about, but it's not necessary to send us more e-mail about
the review. Even we dullards understand that fans who are devoted enough
to join a mailing list for a band are usually pretty big fans of a band.
Downey's review may have been snide but was in the realm of fair
comment.. and I can tell you they reflected his viewpoint.
I've never even heard BFF -- I'm more of a hip-hop fiend myself -- but I
hope the group's music is a bit more well-mannered than some of the
people who spammed our mail server with protest notes.
- --
Steve Hammer (shammer@nuvo.net)
Arts/Music Editor, NUVO Newsweekly
811 E. Westfield Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46220
http://www.nuvo.net/hammer/
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:39:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Maynard <maynard@mail.oeonline.com>
Subject: New Ben Folds Five album photo search
[Caroline Records asked me to pass this along to the Armchair. -fjm]
Wanna be in the next Ben Folds Five CD?
Here's your chance to become world famous overnight and leave your mark
for generations to come all because you might have a photo of the Ben
Folds Five. That's right, any photo of the Ben Folds Five that you took
or even you with the band or any band members taken between 1994 and
1996 is what we are looking for. If you've got such a photo or even
several, please PRINT your name clearly on the back and send it to:
Caroline Records
Box: BF5
104 West 29th St.
4th Floor
NY NY 10001
If chosen we will include your photo in the CD booklet of the next Ben
Folds Five CD and print your name in the thank you section!
Unfortunately we will not be able to return your photo so please make
sure you send us a duplicate and not your original. Please PRINT your
name clearly on the back so we can make sure to spell your name
correctly if your photo be chosen.
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN JULY 25
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