THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1120 - July 17, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Friday, July 17 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1120
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1119
I cannot count on MTV
120 mins + new face
Sheet Music
Back to the old topic..
*****warning***** incredibly happy girl
bootlegs/whose singing/BFF on Recovery rumour
defense!!
Steven's on Radio, Sydney Tickets Comp, JJJ
covers
Helmet Heads Forum News
Lazy DJs and the radio phenomenon
fanclub is a good idea
Bad Trader Alert!!
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:47:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Loreta Costa <costalor@polaris.acast.nova.edu>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1119
Ok, Lucy, I must say you really pissed me off with your little comment.
It doesn't matter how long you've listened to the band, or how many shows
you've seen, how many posters you own, how many t-shirts bearing their
name, how many bootlegs you've gotten your hands on, how many imports
you've been lucky enough to find------all these things does not a #1 fan
make! Different people handle their "obsession" with BF5 in different
ways, and i really think it's messed up for you to say that no one could
ever measure up to Scott Schneider. Don't get me wrong, maybe he's a
really nice guy who will kill for the band, but so What? What makes him
better than the rest of us who crack up like mad at the boys freestylin on
"Fanny Packs--OH GODDAMN!" or whose hearts sink when Ben utters "...it
evaporated.....see?" or who listen to them when we're at the lowest in the
day and shoot straight up when Ben yells "KISS MY ASS GOODBYE." A true fan
is one who appreciates the band and respect the music that they put forth.
Sorry if some of us do not have the resources or the time to indulge
ourselves in every possible BF5 venture--that doesn't make us any less
worthy of meeting them. After all, they are regular human beings. I'm
sorry if i'm coming on a bit too strong, I mean, I can see how you'd want
your friend to have a chance to meet them, but you have to admit your
comment was a bit wrong. Sorry to all the good people sitting on the
armrest who had to read this. I love y'all.
Me.
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:58:05 EDT
From: Luna1118@aol.com
Subject: I cannot count on MTV
just a bit ago getting SFTD on total request was mentioned, I think the e-mail
address for that is total@mtvmail.com, I think it's an AWESOME idea, and I was
also wondering if everyone who has seen the video on MTV could say when so I
could get an approximate idea of my best bet for seeing it, I tried to
download it from the site. It didn't work. thanks!
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:38:50 +0000
From: "b. koski" <koskib@mail.portup.com>
Subject: 120 mins + new face
responding to '120 mins' from MFH333@aol.com:
> does anyone possibly know when the rerun of the ben folds five 120 minutes
> will be on? thanks.
i don't think mtv replays episodes of 120 minutes... however, if
anything groundbreaking happened on bff's episode, it'll get replayed
on the end of the year special type thing.
and, for you peoples who care, this is my first post to the magical
armchair. i got into bff after hearing 'battle of who could care
less' and 'one angry dwarf...' (which sold me on them.) i bought
"waea" from the local used cd store and loved it. then i bought the
first cd new in lower michigan and decided it was one of the two
perfect cds in my opinion. i also like radiohead (the bends is the
second perfect cd), the dead milkmen, pavement, weezer, seBADoh, nick
cave, nirvana, black flag, the minutemen, blah. i have a webpage
which is listed in my signature. i spend way too much time online.
and i'll shut up now so the digest isn't too big. blah. bye.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:48:58 EDT
From: XVITower@aol.com
Subject: Sheet Music
Sheet music at http://home.earthlink.net/~redrum29/ for anyone who's
interested.
Just thought I'd mention it.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:30:28 EDT
From: KNULPREK@aol.com
Subject: Back to the old topic..
Hi. Just thought i'd post a little excerpt from a letter from Ken of the SNZ
to my friend Lilli, who talks to him occasionally and went on to mention the
stupid pseudo-conversation that was previously posted on the digest about how
BFF and SNZ are all stuck up. Anyway, i posted a response telling a story of
me meeting BFF and my friend Lilli's contact with SNZ, and Lilli told Ken
about it.. here's what he said:
Excellent work, sticking up for us. No one ever recognizes me, so I
don't have to deal with it. Gotta run now, (I'm stuck up....kidding) really
I'm
ungodly busy. (did you check the news on our website?) By the way, the
BFF are the best group of guys. Now Ben is a bit weird, but I think
that's just the artist in him. Darren and Robert are down to earth and
wonderful.
So there you have it. Take care, folks.
-jason.
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/knulprek/home.html">The Happy Scrappy Page
</A>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:21:25 +1000
From: "Julie 'anti-gavin' Hurst " <julianne@ronscomputers.com.au>
Subject: *****warning***** incredibly happy girl
I should have have told you yesterday not to email me back at this email
address
cos I'm not getting mail....I didn't even think my email would get on the
MA...
so if you wanted to email me (please do!!) email me at:
strasswoman@mailcity.com
and that goes for anyone who emails me at sledgie@mailexcite.com aswell..
cos I never check it!!!
remember that:
strasswoman@mailcity.com
so that also goes for anyone who wants to come to the meet (hehe, changed
my mind) and any australian fans that wanna be on my website...and anyone
who wants to chat...
and my UIN for ICQ is 10538009...I used to be katefolds..but I dunno..got
sick of the bloody name, so I'm still thinking of one...and I don't want to
use 'anti-gavin' because people end up calling me Gavin and that sux...any
suggestions?
ohhhhh, I got a BU$H shirt over the holidays..for $10!!!
Its soo cool...I might make it an anti-bush shirt....if it had gavin on it
I'd make it an anti-gavin shirt...but yeah..
soo...getting dumped was wonderful if anything...:)
That kinda sucks...I wanted to listen to Song For The Dumped feeling that
way..uhhhhhh dammit!
I could have sang "Gimme my 311 stuff back you punk!!"
heh
ohh also I made a Ben folds five ICQ chat room...
and the number is- 15608543
hmmmn...I got my recovery tickets...anyone out there decide they want to
copy me and get tickets?! Cause if you did, I'll find you.....and I'll say
hi..(hehe)
there is a few things i'm after here. there is:
The adelaide show from last year (i know its floating around somewhere)
The radio edit of Underground
Video live...it was a b-side I believe
and that fair remix on the japanese brick import...I wasn't about to cough
up $30 for a cd with one song i didn't have on it, if i had the money i
would have...and if my ex dumped me from the moment he knew he was gonna
instead of letting me continue to buy him 311 stuff I might have had enough
money, I was so damn close to spending $70 on him in one day...thank god I
had spent all my money just before it...:)
Yeh i think I've wrote enough..
- -Julie 'anti-gavin' (controlling her life!! and what a life it is!)
Julie's Australian Ben Folds Five Page
http://www.angelfire.com/me/katefolds/
"C'mon baby, now throw me a right to the chin...don't just
stare like you never cared I know you did.."
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:01:28 PDT
From: "Tavia Seymour" <taves@hotmail.com>
Subject: bootlegs/whose singing/BFF on Recovery rumour
someone asked about bootlegs
I remember reading interviews where the guys said they didn't mind, the
problem can be with the venues, though, which have policies which oppose
bootlegs.
someone asked if it's just Ben singing at the start of Underground
(scroll past if you've always known this)
you're right it's not (don't worry I thought this too when I was first
into the band).
Darren sings: I was never cool in school, I'm sure you don't rememeber
me
Robert sings: And now it's been ten years I'm still wondering who to be
Ben sings: And I'd love to mix in circles, cliques and social coteries
that's me
Darren sings: Hand me my nose ring
Robert sings: Show me the mosh pit
Ben Sings: We can be happy underground
There you go (if I'm wrong i would like to be corrected, honestly)
RUMOUR time - Aussies prepare
the Recovery website (which you can get to through the triple j site)
says that BFF are widely rumoured to be playing on Recovery on Saturday
the 25th.
Stay alert for further updates,
triple j is likely to interview them to, so keep an eye on their
programing schedule thingy
at least we know that BFF won't be on the Midday show this time
one final thing, I take it back about the piano sheet music to Brick
sounding okay, I've tried to play it, and unless my piano is more out of
tune than I thought, I'm going to go back to playing the transcription I
worked out by ear.
taves
'And the Band was known by the name
Ben Folds Five, and verily, their
numbers were not great upon the face
of the earth. Yea, there weren't even
five, but three, and they were kind
of Scrawny, too.'
From the Book of Ben Folds V verse 3
(The Scribe - Grid magazine interview)
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:20:28 +0000
From: "Luke Wilson"<Luke_Wilson@fwuk.fwc.com>
Subject: defense!!
greetings to those who care,
so that's probably no-one.
Anyway, I'd like to defend the idea of the fan-club. I've been
corresponding with John Boyer for a while, and he seems like a decent
upstanding citizen. Also, with out detracting at all from this digest, it
is not a fan club, more of a place to put idea out, to mention up and
coming events. A fan club is a splendid idea, and I urge people to support
it - hell, I'm in England, so I (probably) won't be able to go to any meets
or speical gigs, but I still think it's a good idea. There's far too much
cynicism in the world already, lets leave it out of this. Please?
And em: Ether _are_ that bad. He sounds like the Chipmunks on helium. And
the SFA's are madder and Welshier. If that's a word. And I'd rather have my
green jelly.
Cheers
Luke
"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city,
keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode!
I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'" - Homer.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:43:38 +1000
From: Anna <annab@student.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Steven's on Radio, Sydney Tickets Comp, JJJ
Hey Ben FOlds Fivers
Well what do u know? Steven's Last night in Town is playing on the radio.
Now how cool is that? Absolutley amazing!!
If you still wanna go to the Sydney Concert, you can win the last 2 tickets
for the Sydney Show by buying a copy of WAEA from certain music shops. See
the Revolver paper for which stores. They are on the cover.
Also, JJJ will catch up with the boys this coming Tuesday evening for
Aussie fans on Super Request.
On the Recovery page it says that Ben Folds Five is rumoured to be playing
on the 25th of July so turn your TV's on kids.
Seeya All
Anna
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:53:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tony Flaminio <flaminio@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: covers
ok. they should do a radiohead song...but i have no idea which one they
could get away with..."how i made my millions" is radiohead's only real
piano song...but that doesn't really mean anything...they could do "how
can you be sure"...but, there's a Grant Lee Buffalo song they should
do..now, i'm not a huge GLB fan, but my friend is and he was playing me a
tape and there's this one song that has either the word "dixie" or
"dixieland" in the title and i think it would be a good cover for BF5.
Any Grant Lee Buffalo fans know what song i'm talking about?
tony. master of delayed reaction comedy.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:39:03 +0100
From: David.J.Holloway@student.shu.ac.uk
Subject: Helmet Heads Forum News
Ba humbug!
Bloody uni computers.
Won't even let me access the net, let alone make additions or
alterations to my webpage. Thus, anyone who contributes to
the BF5 Forum is in for one hell of a shock when they discover
that their precious words of wisdom on the matters that matter
aren't materialising.
I'm home in about a week so they'll be a monster update then but
after that I won't be able to do so until my brand spanking new
computer arrives which could be as late as September...
Ba humbug again!
Sorry Forumites
Dave
Ben Folds Five: Helmet Heads
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/lot/5009
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 07:59:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andy <grover918@yahoo.com>
Subject: Lazy DJs and the radio phenomenon
Here in the cultural hub of the world, Tallahassee, FL, we have really
on one radio station that plays BFF on any kind of regular basis.
It's a huge corporate piece of radio conformity, so I try to minimize
my listening time. Then again, I stand more of a chance of hearing
BFF (and some others like Barenaked, Radiohead, the Verve) with them
than with the other poor excuses for radio stations in town.
Anyway, they have a show on weeknights called "the all request 120".
Which, as you may have guessed is two hours (10pm -12am) of requested
stuff. So, I decided, since I'm generally driving home from class
about 10, I'd use this show as a way to hear a BFF song on the radio,
other than Brick or SFTD. So I call.
First, I go optimistic. I ask for Underground. The DJ (a throaty
voiced sexpot, I'm sure) said she couldn't play it, "it's not in
here." Now this, to me, means that they had the CD somewhere in the
station, but she wouldn't get off her lazy ass and get. So I was a
bit peeved, but went on. I moved into Whatever.., and requested 1
Angry Dwarf & 200 Solemn Faces. After repeating the title twice, she
told me she couldn't play that one because it "hadn't been released to
radio" yet. I scoffed in her general direction, informing her that it
had, and I had even heard it played (once) on their station. To no
avail. I sighed and asked for Battle of Who Could..., which she
agreed to. Then, before I hung up, she says.. "Hey, what's their new
one called?" I say, in a questioning tone, "Song for the dumped?"
"You got it," she replies. So I say again, I don't want that one,
though, you always play that one. I wanted Battle... .
"Yeah, Okay, no problem."
So I cruise home, listening to Semisonic's "Closing Time" for the
3,000th time this month, when I hear my voice over the radio. "Hi,"
sayth I, "I've got a request." "Shoot," sayth the throaty lazy DJ.
Now, in the place where I had orginally said "Ben Folds Five,
Underground?" I hear my questioning voice utter, "Song for the
Dumped?" "You got it." And Ben starting counting.
Now, why, I ask, is it such a freakin crime to want to hear a song by
my favorite artist that HASN'T been played to pieces by the corporadio
of the U.S.? If anybody knows anything about the radio industry and
can explain to me who dictates these things, please do.
Cause I'm super pissed.
hand me my FREAKIN nosering,
Andy (the OTHER Grover)
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Member of the Revolution (R)
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:48:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrea Tao <atao@checfs2.ucsd.edu>
Subject: fanclub is a good idea
<<Is it just me, or is this "fan club" pointless..>>
In my humble opinion fanclub's are NOT a rip off. Usually they're a good
way for fans - especially those who don't have access to the internet and
e-mail - to keep in touch with current band news. Plus, well organized
fanclubs that keep in touch with company promotions departments often
offer price discounts on merchandise and rare schtuff. Also, fancluvs
that put out 'zines are usually able to put out reliable information as
well as provide a more persoanl or "inside" look at the band.
andrea =w= 3764
p.s. - I was CBS on Saturday. Lo and Behold!! There was a commercial on
for Dr. Pepper naming their CD of the: Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever
Amen. Their exact words were: "Let's Salute Ben Folds Five. They're
aiding in teh fight against corporate takeover of radio airwaves." or
something close to that. I started laughing...
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:58:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: echap@netcom.ca
Subject: Bad Trader Alert!!
Hello, fellow BFeFans. I would just like to tell everyone that I made a trade with Matt Lacroix (mattl@niagararc.com) around two months ago (5/22/98 to be exact). My Emails to him have gone unnoticed, except for a once in a while "I'll mail it today...sorry, but I ran out of money". If you have a minute, could you just drop him a note and tell him that he owes me a tape!!! Thanks,
Robbie C.
Tapelist--> http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/6626/
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