THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #132 - August 22, 1996
THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #132
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Topics for Today:
BF5 discs in the UK
Re: THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #131
Ziggy's/Linkage/Pix
Chat
Tenuous Links to BF5
Re: THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #131
Strange connections with BFF
Apology
My request for cover song.
BFF on Party of Five!
BF5 in PO5
Ben Folds Five Sighting!
BFF as background music...
Party Of Five & Ben Folds 5
Re: BF5 on Party of 5
Party of Five
BFF on PO5
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:57:17 GMT
From: "A GARBI REG:00263121" <GARBIA-U@m4-arts.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: BF5 discs in the UK
To Tim who was wondering about the UK Underground single: Don't
worry about it, the tracks were Underground, Sports & Wine and
Boxing, all the same versions as on the album. BUT it's being re-
released in a couple of weeks, and apparently there are some live
tracks with it.
To everyone: Don't know if you've heard of a guy called Jonny
Polonsky. British music paper NME described him as 'Ben Folds Five
meet Superchunk'. Very excited at this prospect, I found a copy of
his single 'Love, Lovely Love' (song title of the year?), and sure
enough it sounds like BF5 but on guitars. There's also a cover of
Nirvana's In Bloom on the CD, and it's gorgeous. If anyone's heard his
album ('Hello, My name is Jonny' - album title of the year?) let us
know what it's like.
Later,
Andy.
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:42:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Donna L. Hokanson" <hokansod@goldey.gbc.edu>
Subject: Re: THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #131
The Philadelphia Inqurirer gave Ben and Neil plus second stage local boys
-- Buzz Zeemer (who I think is great) a great review. The only
negativity to the review dealt with the Gin Blossoms.
Donna
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:45:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: THE YANKEE <mcdonpj3@mail.wfu.edu>
Subject: Ziggy's/Linkage/Pix
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Frank Maynard wrote:
> PS. Did Geezer Lake suck or what?
Yes. Truckloads of suck. Far and away the worst band I've ever seen.
As my roommate said, "Damn, BFF was good, but those guys(Geezer Lake) made
you REALLY want to see BFF, and fast!"
> Subject: How tenuously can we link ourselves to the BF5?
> Any offers which can beat that on the pathetic linkage front would be worth
> reading.
As I said, he's had my cooking. (brownies and chocolate chip cookies) On
another note, I saw someone here who wanted to trade bootlegs. I have no
bootlegs, but I should have several GOOD pictures from Ziggy's. Would
anyone want to trade bootlegs for pictures? I will try to put any pix on
my website for Armchairites as soon as I can, but the only scanner I have
access to is iffy.
Bootleggers-pics for tapes?
Patrick(mcdonpj3@wfu.edu)
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:38:11 EDT
From: Ruprecht Jee <superuprecht@juno.com>
Subject: Chat
I've been to the #benfoldsfive IRC channel quite a few times and
there never seems to be anyone there, so if anyone thinks it a good idea
I'd like to propose a meeting time for Armchair readers. My initial idea
is for it to be at 20:00 EDT Saturdays on Undernet.
Another option is for us to meet at a telnet talker. A
particularly good one is blacktape.cs.uchicago.edu 3000 ... We could have
a semi-official meeting on Saturdays (same time) and since there is
almost always some one on there, there will usually be someone to talk to
while you wait for other Armchair readers... The reason I suggest that
particular talker is that it is frequented by members of the They Might
Be Giants list... If people think a talker is a good idea I can give
specific help for people who don't know how to do that sort of thing...
=========================a spooky man named Ike=========================
The Web: http://www.inca.de/user/ruprecht/
The E-mail: superuprecht@juno.com
The Annoying Quote: "I've got a crush, copy shop clerk, but she won't
look up at me" -TMBG "Sleeping in the Flowers"
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:26:09 -0400
From: PowerVegan@aol.com
Subject: Tenuous Links to BF5
Kymberleyh wrote:
>>Take your hand, either one, and leave your pinky and index finger up. Put
the two middle ones down with your palm and put your thumb over those two
fingers. Now raise your devil hand in the air and wave it round like you
don't care. And don't forget to scream. You have now given the "devil
sign", the "goats", the "hand of rock"!!
Here in Austin, home of the Univ. of TX at Austin where the mascot is the
Texas Longhorn, students make the longhorn sign the exact same way as the
devil sign. So when BF5 played here in March and Ben made the devil sign, I
thought he was parodying the "hook 'em horns" sign, as it's called!
Tim Young wrote:
>> Secondly, I would like to see who can link themselves most tenuously with
BF5. I shall begin...
Well, I just interviewed Robert Sledge on my radio show, but it was a
different Robert Sledge than the one in BF5, but the radio station is on San
Jacinto St., and so is Scholtz' Beer Garden, which is where BF5 played the
last time they played here, and the organization that my interviewee belongs
to had a meeting at Scholtz'.
/.MBJ.\
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:22:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sally A Gowen <sagowen@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #131
just gotta know:
when is the new album coming out?
and...
do these guys have girlfriends?
thanks
sally
[New album: late this year or early next. Girlfriends: All we
know is Darren's girlfriend is going with Joe Caparo. -fjm]
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:15:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: ian s fay <ifay@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
Subject: Strange connections with BFF
I showed them where to eat when the went to Boston...
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 20:32:37 -0400
From: Tom Cooper <bigt11@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Apology
I would like to apologize to everyone who was offended by my personal
attempt to gain international fame & endless riches by tenuously linking
myself to Ben Folds Five. Shame, Shame Shame! I am truly sorry. And to
think it started out so innocently. At first I just enjoyed the great
songwriting, great playing & great singin'. But then it became an
obsession. I became a pawn for the pathetic linkage front(the
non-militant faction). Staying up all night putting piano strings on my
guitar(hurt like hell to play but sounded really cool when struck by a
mallet). I even had a SONY engineer build a CD player that played
backwards so I could REALLY understand the meaning of the lyrics. Then
one day it hit me! JOIN THE BEN FOLD'S INTERNET DISCUSSION GROUP, LINK
YOURSELF THERE AND BECOME THE DARLING OF THE ARAB WORLD. Rumor has it I
am gonna be on the cover of the Rolling Stone and.......................
Lighten up Toot Toot, It's only music.............
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From tkuri@usa.pipeline.comThu Aug 22 00:20:55 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 03:33:36 GMT
From: Toru Kurihara <tkuri@usa.pipeline.com>
To: Frank Maynard <maynard@mail.oeonline.com>
Subject: My request for cover song.
Hi Frank, and folks, how it going?
I went to G-CON (convention for Godzilla) in Chicago and wore a BFF t-shirt
on Sunday, but nobody mentioned the shirt I was wearing. Everybody was only
talking about Godzilla suit to the real Japanese 2 Godzilla actors (they
were special guest from Japan)
I'd like them to cover...well, I think I can't decide only one song. I
believe everybody else must think so too. so, my feeling today, how about
"She's a rainbow" by the Rolling Stones? When I thought of other song, I'll
post it.
Thanks,
Kuri
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:01:00 -0400
From: KatieKamm@aol.com
Subject: BFF on Party of Five!
I was just watching the season premier of Party of Five. During one scene
Alice Childress was playing in the background! If you already know this
then, nevermind.
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alfred Antonangeli <fantonan@bcn.net>
Subject: BF5 in PO5
A mere coincidence..Ben Folds Five, Party of Five? Maybe it's something with
the five..I dunno. Anyhow, as I was watching the season opener of PO5
tonight, between my sniffling, it was an emotional episode, the sounds of
Ben Folds Five filled my living room. "Alice Childress" was played while
Bailey and Will talked about their friendship and how it wasn't going to
change when they were at this bonfire thing..pretty cool, eh?
-Sarah :)
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:05:49 +0000
From: Jamberdino <jdinoz@earthlink.net>
Subject: Ben Folds Five Sighting!
Hello!
Well, I guess I haven't found an MTV sighting, (well, hearing
actually,) but "Alice Childress" was on Party of Five about three
minutes ago. They have this bonfire thing on every season opener, and
it was playing in the background of something between the youngest
girl and her boyfriend. I was going to stick around until the show was
over to write, but I just had to write it. Hee. It was cute. :)
Bye,
Kristin
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:07:13 -0400
From: MandelI@aol.com
Subject: BFF as background music...
Well, my little sister came knocking on my door tonight saying, "Put the TV
to 'Party of Five!' Put it to 'Party of Five!'" and lo and behold, playing
in the faint background of a nighttime beach party was "Alice Childress!"
Granted, it's nothing like gettting exposure through a video or an
appearance on a late-night talk show and you could hardly hear the song, but
hey, it was nice hearing the song on the tube. Has any other Ben Folds Five
songs been used in this capacity? I only know of the couple of times that
they used "Underground" for some of their "news" reports.
Mandel "Nagali Lednam" Ilagan
(954) 434-4894
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ilagan <--look for an update soon!
mandeli@aol.com
ilagan@fas.harvard.edu
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"Like I said, if cleaning the connections
doesn't work try jump starting it or maybe just
buy a new car."
- Some auto advice from Ben Folds(8/4/96)
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:08:47 -0400
From: zerocool@magg.net
Subject: Party Of Five & Ben Folds 5
F Y I
Yea! Party of Five has musical taste! Tonight during a scene on the beach
featuring Claudia and her crush, Alice Childress was playing in the
background. In fact they played almost all of the song. : )
Gina
Quote of the day
" You who fall on calvary. had you wings of butterflies."
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:16:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Donna L. Hokanson" <hokansod@goldey.gbc.edu>
Subject: Re: BF5 on Party of 5
Tonight on my favorite tv show--Party of Five-- they played Alex
Childress on the show. Does anyone else watch the show? Its a great
show with lots of cool music. Catch it sometime--I can pretty much bet
you'll like it.
Donna
Since people have been talking about coincidences
BF5
PO5
Two letters followed by 5, hey its a coincidence even if it ain't a big deal.
Donna
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 22:36 EDT
From: amie <amie@argo.net>
Subject: Party of Five
Hi all!
I was watching the show Party of Five tonight and in the background
of one of the scenes, they were playing "Alice Childress"! Did anyone else
hear it? I was so excited. I thought you would all be excited too!
-Amie
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"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part
that isn't thinking isn't thinking of."-TMBG
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:38:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: pprociss@tir.com
Subject: BFF on PO5
That says: Ben Folds Five on "Party Of Five"!! Yes! Woo-hoo! "Alice
Childress" was played on the show "Party of Five"'s season premere this
Wendesday night on Fox. I'd say about half of it was played towards the end
of the show...at a good time that actually tied in with the lines of the song.
This is a great show and even if you don't like the show, it's worth
it to watch just to hear the great music they play and the most perfect times.
Shannon
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[Party of Ben Folds Five: I was wondering if anyone would notice!
Guess we have more than a few Fivers on the list. If, for some reason,
you missed the show and plan to catch it in reruns, or you taped it and
haven't watched it yet, it's the beach bonfire party scene at about
:50 minutes in, where first Claudia and her new boyfriend Byron are
talking, and then a scene with Bailey and Will. There's about two minutes
of the song, up to the "No, it didn't work out..." part. -fjm]
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