THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #659 - November 29, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Saturday, November 29 1997 Volume 01 : Number 659
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #658
Ben Folds Five Posters
Re: uncle plastic bitch
New Mailing List In Setup Process
Japan
????
ATTN: PAUL O' NEIL
Thanks!!!
New Mailing List Detained
old dog, new tricks; or, Ozzy & Ben, together at last!
Net Concert Broadcast Australia Time
timezone crap, homepage 4 the dumped, and a marketing idea for the Five...
OOPS
More info on LA Webcast
RE: On the radio in Detroit
promo posters....
subscribing
opps!
Japanese releases
TMBG and BFF and Monopuff
AHHH
Re: BFF and BNL
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:59:38 -0500
From: Arnulf_Koehncke@woodberry.org (Arnulf Koehncke)
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #658
Sorry, but I am on Thanksgiving break at the moment, so that I will not be
able to reply to your mail until I'll come back on the Wednesday after
Thanksgiving.
Greetings
Arnulf
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST)
From: TalulaLady@aol.com
Subject: Ben Folds Five Posters
Does anyone know where I could get Ben Folds Five posters? If you do, please
e-mail me personally. Thanks.
- -K A T I E-
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:43:28 -0500
From: Lachesis@webtv.net (jerry lewis on speed)
Subject: Re: uncle plastic bitch
when i met robert this summer, he saw my "uncle walter" nametag and we
had a little conversation about it. it went something like this:
him: you should write "uncle plastic bitch" on you nametag. that's
what we were gonna call the band before "ben folds five".
me (being a dumbass): really?
him: no
so there you go. i think it's just something they say to people to be
funny. which it is, of course.
dave
"i'll send you a picture. it is of a man being sick." --.j0n
"i must get out once in a while. everything's starting to die."
- --radiohead
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atropos' lair: http://members.tripod.com/~lastpolka/index.html
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lost child (a radiohead page):
http://members.tripod.com/~lastpolka/rhead.html
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:23:17 -0500 (EST)
From: BenFoldsJ@aol.com
Subject: New Mailing List In Setup Process
Greets Armchairers,
I'm putting together a mailing list which should be up in the next week.
Hopefully it will be similar to the Armchair, but with more to it. The
content won't be moderated, but with a letter of choice from you guys, I
should be able to pull together a mainstream content list. i.e. If you guys
will send me mail telling me what you'd basically like to see in this list,
I'll gear it towards that highway of info.
Thanks,
~Jordan Rodbell
BFF Maniac
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:16:51 +0900
From: mark roberts
Subject: Japan
Hi all, Im new to the list. I live in Japan.
Are the guys coming to Japan next year?
Everyone heard the Japanese version of album#2! Its so funny!!!
thats all.
I like Weezer too.
mark
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:14:18 +0000
From: Shaft
Subject: ????
Haven't written for a while and thought I'd check back in. I picked
up a cheap copy of Verbow's "Chronicles" and am quite happy now that I will
be seeing Travis instead on Sunday. Don't get me wrong, the Verbow CD
wasn't bad - far from it. It was just listless and just overall
forgettable. At least my Travis CD, while somewhat derivative, promises an
energetic opening to the BFF show. Now if I can just find a CD by Old Pike.
If anybody can enlighten me with Old Pike info, just send it privately.
I have to thank those of you out there who months ago raved about
Belle and Sebastian's "If You're Feeling Sinister." Based on your thoughts
(and the rather favorable review in Rolling Stone) I picked up a copy of it
and have been subsequently smitten. It's just so.... soothing. I love
listening to it after a hard day.
Hope to see everybody from LA at the El Rey show! It's only
(woohoo) 3 days away! (Speaking of the El Rey, this happy camper recently
scored tickets to see Bob Dylan there too. I may have an extra ticket, so
LA area fans can mail me privately for info).
Andy #:-)
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 23:31:20 -0500
From: aplauri@juno.com (Philip J. L.)
Subject: ATTN: PAUL O' NEIL
this is for paul o'neil---> we were working out some deal with film and
i lost your address. (i deleted it) just to let you know, i still wanna
trade and wanted to know if
you were still going to get the copies and if the trade was on.....
please e mail me personally. aplauri@juno.com .
thanks, and sorry for the non related bff!
philip
"who's got the looks, who's got the brains. . . who's got everything???"
- -BEN FOLDS
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 23:47:41 -0500 (EST)
From: HiGeary@aol.com
Subject: Thanks!!!
Just a quick note to all the wonderful people who answered a new fan's
questions. I got the CD, was made to feel welcome and am a very happy camper
now. But can anyone tell me why I recieve the armchair's out of order?
Rachael
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:10:33 -0500 (EST)
From: BenFoldsJ@aol.com
Subject: New Mailing List Detained
Till further notice:
The mailing list which was previously noted as soon to open is in stall
mode. Sorry folks, but after rigorous attempts at setup, my ISP has decided
to turn me into "no sir" city. i.e. they don't want me setting up a list on
their server, hence, there will be no list until I can find myself a new
home. I'll keep ya posted though.
~Jordan
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:56:27 +0100
From: Lou Papineau
Subject: old dog, new tricks; or, Ozzy & Ben, together at last!
Excerpted from the Thanksgiving Day New York Times:
"Sony CD Site Takes a CalculateD DisC"
By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
Last week, Sony Music launched ConnecteD, a Web-based system that
enables visitors to a new area of the recording label's site to control
from the onscreen text and graphics an audio-only compact disc loaded
into the CD-ROM drive of their computers.
The first two ConnecteD titles are "Whatever and Ever Amen," the most
recent album by the Ben Folds Five, an alternative-pop trio, and
"Blizzard of Ozz," the heavy-metal classic first released in 1981 by
Ozzy Osbourne.
These are conventional audio CDs that already reside in many homes, but
with a Web browser running and some free software installed, they begin
to behave like enhanced CDs (music discs with supplementary multimedia
material).
The Ben Folds Five site supplies cut-by-cut annotation and sing-along
features, plus a simple, colorfully animated video for the song "Kate"
and a silly version of the game Pong that employs the band members'
heads for paddles.
To run, the ConnecteD system requires both the widely available
Shockwave player and a tiny 65KB plug-in application [Voyager's CDLink].
The plug-in, which allows the browser and CD-ROM player to work
together, takes only a minute or two to download and activate. . . . "
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WHO KNEW what extras lurked in the heart of "Whatever"!? It takes a bit
of busy work to get this thing to work, but it's pretty cool.
if you don't have the latest shockwave, you can access it from the
cdextra site (www.cdextra.com/ConnecteD/) (or go directly to
www.macromedia.com). click "troubleshooting," which points you in the
direction of shockwave and the "CDPro" plug-in extra, which is also a
must to use this feature. AND you need the CDLink, which is at
http://www.voyagerco.com/cdlink/
after you download all the plug-ins, you have to quit out of yr browser,
load the new stuff, and re-launch. then slap "whatever" in your rom and
head back to
http://www.cdextra.com/ConnecteD/
after jumping through the technological hoops, you get what the times
mentioned: the interactive "Kate"; scrolling lyrics for all 12 songs (w/
a few audio intros from ben); the pong game (a truly one-sided affair);
and "(not-so) true confessions," with musings from ben about the quality
of sanitary facilities on the rock & roll road, robert talking about
smelling bad and hating styx, and darren admitting a lack of sexual
experience.
big multi-media fun. patience rewarded, eventually.
lou
(the no-guitar-zone will be violated on 1/13/98: check out "emaline"!!)
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 02:19:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Mansuetude@aol.com
Subject: Net Concert Broadcast Australia Time
The concert is at 2 PM Monday afternoon for you Aussie fans... Hope you
don't miss it because of work! I miss it because I have school in the
morning. I wish you could tape real audio!
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 19:59:57 CST
From: "Petra Starke"
Subject: timezone crap, homepage 4 the dumped, and a marketing idea for the Five...
TIMEZONE CRAP:
Seems as though everyone's divided on the subject of Aussie times in
relation to US ones over this online concert thing. Some people are
saying 3pm for Sydney, others are saying between 12 and 2 am, and that
time zone calculator told me it was about 5:30. Aaaaaagh...time to call
Optus, Yes!
HOMEPAGE FOR THE DUMPED:
Why can I never access this page?? Is it just me? I know it says "best
viewed with Netscape 3.0" but surely that's only a recommendation? Its
summary looks so enticing - "lots of pics!!" yet every time I click on
that 'enter' button all I get is a weird pop up window that seemingly
serves no purpose. Could someone help me, I would really like to access
those pics.
and lastly, A MERCHANDISING IDEA FOR THE BOYS:
how about a petite book a la 'life's little instruction book' called
'The Zen of Ben' filled with quotes from the man himself. The first
entry could be "PENIS A! PENIS A!" :)
Cheers,
Petra
"The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a
mystical experience shared by everybody. Discuss." - Guildenstern
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 03:42:30 -0600 (CST)
From: joshu@umr.edu
Subject: OOPS
>
> Just for informational purposes the song is called
> Battle of who could care less not Whatever and ever,
> thats the name of the album :)
> cheers
> Derek
Okay.. to avoid everyone else mailing me about this.. heh big mistake.. I replied to
handsum dan .. continuing to refer to BOWCCL as whatever and ever amen as he'd
done.. somehow it completely escaped me that I was referring to the wrong thing so that
looks pretty dumb considering that I was correcting him about BF5 information.
Moo,
Josh
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:43:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Frank Maynard
Subject: More info on LA Webcast
Here's some more information on the webcast of the LA show, from Nicole
Sandler, formerly of KSCA-FM:
The first event is happening this Sunday night (11/30)-- Ben Folds Five live
from the El Rey Theater, in a cybercast at www.lalive.com. I'll be hosting
the broadcast, which will include an interview with Ben, Robert and Darren,
and full sets from both BFF and the opening band, Travis.
You'll be able to see and hear everything in RealVideo/RealAudio, beginning
at 8:30. If you're not sure you have all the plug-ins you'll need, you may
want to check in at the site beforehand. The first 250 people to sign in for
the cybercast will receive a limited edition Ben Folds Five European tour
poster.
-fjm
I know it's not your thing to care
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:30:15 -0500
From: cambot@juno.com (Steve! Seck)
Subject: RE: On the radio in Detroit
The station is 105.1 FM. I heard that as well as One Angry Dwarf & Brick.
Oh, & they also have played some of They Might Be Giants (AKA Driver,
Till My Head Falls Off, The Guitar). This station is really cool & as
soon as they get a DJ, I'm calling to request all the songs I can!
Steve!
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:31:06 -0500
From: aplauri@juno.com (Philip J. L.)
Subject: promo posters....
i have already posted about this once before, but i am going to post
again..... my plead:
IF ANYONE HAS ANY BEN FOLDS FIVE PROMOTIONAL POSTERS THAT YOU MAY HAVE
GOT FROM A RECORD STORE, OR CONCERT; I WOULD BE SO GREATFUL OF ANYONE
WILLING ENOUGH TO TRADE ME FOR WHATEVER YOU HAVE. I HAVE GOT QUITE A FEW
BOOTS TO TRADE, AND I WILL PAY FOR POSTAGE, OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU SEE FIT.
PLEASE HELP ME OUT ON THIS ONE!
philip
"who's got the looks, who's got the brains. . . who's got everything???"
- -BEN FOLDS
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:51:16 PST
From: "angela donn"
Subject: subscribing
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:53:30 PST
From: "angela donn"
Subject: opps!
subscribe anastasya mosa
philosophy_no32
sorry, my last messege didn't include my address...
thanks!
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:55:43 PST
From: "wilson lo"
Subject: Japanese releases
Hi this topic has already been discussed but I was stupid and didn't
write down the name...I was wondering if anyone knows the name of a
Japanese BFF release...if I'm not mistaken it's 2 CD and the name is
something like Domo est chau Ben or something like that...I would really
appreciate if someone told me what it's called and on what labels it is
on and so on and so forth...thanks for listening
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:19:32 EST
From: mike.lange@juno.com
Subject: TMBG and BFF and Monopuff
Its kind of hard to like one band and not the other. BFF is alot easier
to listen too, as some TMBG takes a trained and dedicated ear to listen
too, as anyone who ever listened to Apollo 18 with their CD player set to
Shuffle, with little bits of "Fingertips" all over the place. Both bands
are exceptionally talented at having fun, and making their listeners have
fun. BFF is a little bit better at the emotional though.
Go out and by "Unsupervised" the CD by Monopuff, John Flansburgh's( from
TMBG) side band...Its quite exceptional...
Mike
"Who's got the looks, who's got the brains, who's got everything?" - Ben
Folds Five
"Minimum Wage...HHyyyyahhh!!! (crack of whip)" - TMBG
"The Devil went down, to Newport town..." - Monopuff
"Everyone's a little queer, so can't she be a little straight?" - Weezer
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:29:48 -0500 (EST)
From: BlueJellow@aol.com
Subject: AHHH
DEar Armchairites,
Well, as I was flipping through a Martha Stewart (don't think I'm stupid) mag
trying to find out how to wrap a Christmas gift so it's pretty ( I like
pretty gifts) I had my walkman on and BFF in it. Well, I like had a
realization when listening to my fave song Evaporated and it just popped into
my head how much i LOVED Ben, Darren, and Robert. I mean, I have never met,
seen in person, or on televison any of them. All I have is fuzzy pictures. I
just had this feeling like I loved them sooo much. I love this band!!!!!!!!
They are so great. They are my favorite band and I probably will feel that
way for a long time. Does anyone else feel like this? Probably, because
you're here. But I still don't know where to get this fucking wrapping paper
Martha has, and where the hell do I have antique ribbon lying around?
AHHH!!!!! What the hell,
Lucy
P.S. If I had Ben teach me one song, it would be cigarette
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:34:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Shnib10@aol.com
Subject: Re: BFF and BNL
i am also a huge BNL fan, i know a lot of people that like BFF and BNL, okey
there's my two cents
peace, love, and empathy,
sarah
p.s. Hey Vito!
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