THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #374 - June 25, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Wednesday, June 25 1997 Volume 01 : Number 374
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
videos?
Good news for S. Floridians and not me.
melodica, website, etc.
Re: influences
Pretty please with sugar on top?
PBS BS
Summer Stage
Subscribe
sorry for being off topic...
Summerstage tix
BFF on the New Music
Who are those other two guys?!?!?
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:16:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: MasterAEPi@aol.com
Subject: videos?
does anyone have any ben folds videos to trade????
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:18:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: KNULPREK@aol.com
Subject: Good news for S. Floridians and not me.
Hey.. well, i've heard from semi-reliable sources that Ben Folds Five and
Soul Coughing will both be playing the West palm beach HORDE show now!!! I'm
not sure if this is definite, and if it is i won't be in town anyway (DOH!!!)
but everyone else, check up on that because it's a possibility!! See ya..
-jason
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:34:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: POP QUEEN <edurand@emerald.tufts.edu>
Subject: melodica, website, etc.
THank you to Rahoolio for enlightening us re: strange wind instrument!
Now that you identify it as a Hooter [saints preserve us] I remember that
I HAD ONE ONCE! I think it was a stockingstuffer @ Xmas, circa 1980. I
remember though that mine was just a little keyoard with a mouthpiece at
one end, whereas Ben's definitely had this weird gooseneck appendage,
with the actual mouthpiece at the end of that, but whatever, clearly the
same family. You go!
ALso, whoever it was that complained about the website [bffweb.com] I
agree, it is totally fritzed out for some reason, and b/c it didn't load
right I neglected to include shipping and handling charges in my t-shirt
order and now I bet it'll never come! >:( Gee, I guess I'll just have to
go to another live show...
In other news, maybe I missed this thread but did anyone catch the boys'
appearance on the ultrastupid Jenny McCarthy Show on MTV? I have it on
tape, sadly: they chat w/ Jenny for like 2 minutes [about Japanese
computerised toilets] and then play "One Angry Dwarf," wearing incredibly
nice clothes, Potsie clothes, but nice clothes nonetheless. Anyone?
Anyone? Bueller?
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emily k. durand
"Sir, you are really going to earn your money today."
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:58:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jfishhead@aol.com
Subject: Re: influences
In a message dated 6/23/97 2:05:41 AM, Hotdoglove@aol.com wrote:
>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 23:11:51 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Hotdoglove@aol.com
>Subject: Influences
>
>I have recently picked up (and borrowed) Joe Jackson and Squeeze CD's simply
>because I have heard that they are BFF influences/sound-alikes. I have to
>say, after a meager 2 listenings to each CD, I love Jackson and Squeeze
>already! I can hear the strong Squeeze connection, but Joe Jackson, except
>for the poignant lyrics and occasional piano insertions in the music, I
>wouldn't really place with BFF. However, all three bands are in that silly
>category that's somewhere in between jazz, pop, rock, and alternative and is
>impossible to describe to people who ask, "What kind of music do they play?"
>
>
>Sara
Please don't take this the wrong way, but PLEASE tell me you've heard of
Squeeze and Joe Jackson before reading about them on this list.
Dustin
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:13:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Punkin12O@aol.com
Subject: Pretty please with sugar on top?
I am desperate for tickets to the HORDE show in Michigan July 27th. If
anyone could help me out, I would be forever in their debt. If anyone has
any extras or knows someone who does....or if anyone has info on if there
will be another show added, please, please, pretty please with sugar on top,
e mail me.
Thanks,
Linnea
P.S. my screen name....O is a letter, not a number.
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:47:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adamweezer@aol.com
Subject: PBS BS
Hello,
What's with this PBS thing?
I heard it was July 5th, but anyone have any idea what time (ie is it on a
weekly show or what? (I don't often watch PBS))
Thanks in advance for any info.
adam
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:02:34 +0000
From: "Arnold S. Rowe" <arowe@pe.net>
Subject: Summer Stage
Bonjour and Hola!
for all you New Yorkers (and the occasional traveling souls, such as
myself) who are going to the concert in Central Park Wednesday:
i'll be wearing a cheezified nametag (Aimee Armchair) so do come up
and say Howdy and to receive your own spify nametag. it would be
lovely to meet any of you armchairites and talk about BFF, etc. i
also put tape on my arm in the outline of BFF, then went sailing all
day, so i have BFF on my arm unburned, with everything around it a nice,
crisp red. i'm branded, so to speak.
be brave, and come visit!
~aimee
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:08:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: PREDAN@aol.com
Subject: Subscribe
auth 8bea204c subscribe armchair PREDAN@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:23:40 +0900
From: chiori-t@ppp.fastnet.or.jp
Subject: sorry for being off topic...
I'll keep it short.
To Michael Bluejay, I tried to mail you but it came back.
Your new(?) address doesn't seem to be able to receive mails.
Maybe that's why you don't hear from Azusa...
Please figure it out. ...Hope you read this...
chiori =)
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:51:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: CLOSERGIRL@aol.com
Subject: Summerstage tix
Hi all,
I am not sure if the tickets sold out for summerstage this Wed in NYC but I
have an extra ticket so if anyone wants to go just E me. See you guys there.
Closergirl@aol.com
Carrolyn
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:42:27 -0400
From: Valerie Hochschild <unter@on-it.net>
Subject: BFF on the New Music
>Hi, Fivers.
> Saw BFF on "The New Music" on CITY-TV, which you can see on Muchmusic
>supposedly on July 8. It was an incredibly goofy segment. Avi Lewis hung
>out with the boys on Queen West and what looks like just out side Lee's for
>pretty much no decent discussion of the music at all but plenty of being
>wacky: see Ben hitchhike for half a block, see Darren do an "interpretive
>dance" while Robert reads from the liner notes, see Ben make nice with
>pubescent Slayer fans, see Ben be amazed when some goth girl says she
>actually knows the band but doesn't want tix to the show cuz she's busy that
>night, see the boys say haltingly nice things about the album while a label
>weasel holds a finger "gun" to their heads. And see interesting things from
>the "electronic press kit" shot at The House (nice paint on the walls, btw).
>It's useless, but fun, as the label and the media continue to struggle with
>what the hell to do with these guys! Again, that's supposed to be July 8 on
>Muchmusic across Canada and DirectTV satellite in some US markets. No, I
>don't have a tape of it, but you may want to make one and bicker about it
>amongst yourselves. Oh, and the highlight for me was I got to see some of
>the "Uncle Walter" video, which at the time I didn't know existed.
>Neato-wicked! Much barely ever shows the Battle video, except maybe on "The
>Wedge" in the afternoon. Sigh.
> Oh, did I mention the fabulously gorgeous CD The Wonderful World of The
>Pursuit of Happiness is out now in the States? Well, now I have. Yay!
>
>Peace,
>Valerie
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:52:12 -0400
From: Zach Walker <bagheera@pipeline.com>
Subject: Who are those other two guys?!?!?
Hey,
I just remembered something. An aquaintance of mine who I don't like very
much has in his possession a Billboard music sampler/compilation CD. I think
it was Billboard. Anyway, the CD has Philosophy on it. Inside the cover was
a picture of the band. However, there were FIVE of them. I was confused but
didn't want to talk to the individual any longer and so I promptly walked
away pondering, "Who are those other two guys?!?!?"
Well....?
- --
"Oh but I send my best. Cause God knows you've seen my worst." -- Ben Folds
Keep It Real.
Zach.
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