THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #528 - October 12, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Sunday, October 12 1997 Volume 01 : Number 528
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
She Don't Use Jelly in Real Audio!
oops....
Obsession
bff on rage
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #525
she don;t use jelly on rage
Happy Happy Joy Joy!
hello armchair...
Airplay
bff-pj
story about girl with cancer is.....
Lounge-A-palooza
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:33:31 PDT
From: "Courtney Knopf" <vegasbaby@hotmail.com>
Subject: She Don't Use Jelly in Real Audio!
>By the way, could someone post (once again) the address of the
RealAudio
>version of "She Don't Use Jelly"?
Here ya go:
www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/features.html
~Courtney
The Sultraness of Swing
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:58:39 PDT
From: "Petra Starke" <naturalselection@hotmail.com>
Subject: oops....
ok, I know it's my third post this edition, I'm sorry, but I promise
this is the last one. And this HAS to be said:
Another reason why we love the wonderful Darren: he is a major part of
the BF5 song-writing talent team!! Where would many of those songs be
without his super-stardom? And I am severly punishing myself for
forgetting to mention him in my post about Brick in the last edition -
both Ben AND Darren should be commended for its creation.
We love Darren, don't we?
Cheers,
Petra
"I like that one"
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:13:37 +1000
From: Sarah <titania@cybergal.com>
Subject: Obsession
Hi all,
I play this game when I am driving that I make up a sentence to go with
number plates that I see... well, the other day I was driving along and
realized that I have a serious BFF obsession. I saw a number plate, ODA,
and immediately thought One Dwarf-Angry. I could have excused it if the
number plate had been OAD, but well... you get the point! I think some
serious therapy sessions are in order! Anyone know of a BFFA meeting
nearby? Need that 12 step plan ;}
See ya,
Sarah
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 23:48:31 +1000
From: Rainy City <ad@healey.com.au>
Subject: bff on rage
AMazing... I am witnessing something amazing... BFF are programming rage and have played heaps of my fave songs. DMB - Crash into Me, Stereo Lab - Ping Pong (a listee sent this on their tape chain tape) REM, elvis costello, john spencer blues explosion, cake. Brilliance. Love it. Many more to come. I just had to tell the world.
Ad.
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 10:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scoota97@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #525
In a message dated 10/10/97 7:56:05 PM, you wrote:
<<So, thankyou for putting up with this resurrection of a somewhat dormant
topic, I hope others out there have been as affected by Brick as I have.
Cheers,
Petra
PS: this may be a dumb question - but where does the quote "shit yeah
it's cool" come from?
>>
Hey Petra,
Great to hear you finally got WAEA....The quote "shit yeah,it's cool" comes
from "For those of ya'll who wear fanny packs" which can be picked up on one
of the "Battle of who could care less" singles. There are 2 different cds,
one has "hava nagila" and "fanny packs" and the other single has "champagne
supernova" and "theme from dr. pyser" on them. They are definitely worth the
ten bucks each if you can find them.
Later all,
~Scott
"Don't know much about birds and bees..." quick, which BFF song is THAT
from??
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:03:00 +1000
From: Rainy City <ad@healey.com.au>
Subject: she don;t use jelly on rage
So, bff program She Don;t Use Jelly on Rage. COOL STUFF!!! Ya gotta love the Flaming Lips.
BYE!!!
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:13:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Patton <shirak@umich.edu>
Subject: Happy Happy Joy Joy!
I'm going to the EMU show!!!!!!!! Finally, I get to lose my live
performance cherry, so to speak. What's even cooler is yesterday, I saw an
INCREDIBLY beautiful girl down in one of our computer labs, and she was
checking out the BFF site! We started a small conversation, and I found
out she's going too! *begins to radiate an aura of happiness* It's good to
be the king. ;) Oh, and to answer Lucy's question about Ben's religious
preferences, he IS God, so how can he follow anything else? ;) Laters all!
ERIC aka "Officer Friendly's Little Boy"
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 12:04:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Znice@aol.com
Subject: hello armchair...
hello folks,
i am a newbie to the armchair (3 days now) and can definately feel a slight
addiction already. it's great to see everyone so excited about young ben and
his travelling piano. (and robert and darren with bass and drums). anyhow,
it was my story that was the first on erik lyons fan stories page. i've read
something about an archive of past issues, if this is true, can somebody tell
me about it??!!?? Also, where is the preshow gathering for Boston on the
4th? talk to you all later.
i do have a few shows to trade if anyone is interested, also if anyone is
doing 2:1's with their bf5 shows, please email me!!
<A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~EZajac/index.html">website</A>
<A HREF="mailto:znice@aol.com">email</A>
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:05:28 PDT
From: "Jerry Maloney" <jerrymaloney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Airplay
Coming from a town where the radio "station for innovation" plays
twenty-three hours of electronic mu-sick a day, and the other stations
are even more boring, i don't have a clue what's popular, and I was
just curious which BFF songs actually get widespread exposure. I write
this hoping to find that the guys get a lot of airtime, since (as all
Armchairphiles will agree) they deserve it. And I have no fear that if
they DO catch on, their loyal fans won't be ostracized by the
overexposure. BOWCCL, the ONE song I hear on the radio here, hasn't
gotten old-- not even close!!! Thus I conclude that we won't get sick
of them. And if they are really as cool as they seem, hopefully they
won't go changing at the request of their A&R (wo)man.
As for Ben's religion (shouldn't Robert and Darren be included here as
well? They *are* part of the creative unit), the impression I get is
that he's not an adherent to any particular one, but maybe takes cues
from a few different ones to make his own nice-happy view of life. But
he does seem to have some religious background, referring as he does to
two separate traditions (Hava Negila and Klezmer on the one hand,
Christmas and "whatever and ever amen," a slight variation on a
widespread Christian (or maybe just Catholic) phrase, on the other). Of
course, I've never heard "Satan is My Master," so maybe that would win
out.
Finally, thanks to Matt for his reminder about the simplicity of life.
The Armchair has resembled Congress lately, what with all the factions.
With love to all those who love,
Jerry
"FREE TIBET! with purchase of a large drink" -- my favorite bumper
sticker
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:51:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Smarshal1@aol.com
Subject: bff-pj
In a message dated 97-10-10 04:59:14 EDT, you write:
<< KNULPREK@aol.com wrote:
But when it comes down to it, Pearl Jam is a monster
compared to BFF, not in talent (obviously), but in fan base. BFF could easily
run a tour without using ticketmaster. >>
Ok-2 things correct:Pearl Jam is huge and yes, BFF could easily run a non-TM
tour.
1 thing incorrect:Pearl Jam is not as talented as BFF? debateable. The
obvious is that Jeff Ament is a far and way better bass player than Robert
Sledge. Im not downin on him, but he doesn't do anything that special. Case
in point-he plays nothing as well as Ament and at that...couldn't do it while
jumping through the air. Darren Jesse(while a very good rudamentary jazz
drummer) could never fill in for any one of PJ's drummers. I could roll of
the list but that would be pointless. Ummm...you can hardly compare Ben
Folds' piano skills to PJ but I will say that I believe he is a very talented
pianist. As for vocals...matter of opinion but I like Vedder. Later,
josh
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:51:35 -0400
From: palmerjr@bellatlantic.net
Subject: story about girl with cancer is.....
Well the story that was submitted about the little girl with cancer
ended up being a hoax. Sorry, I had no idea when it was submitted.
Jackie
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Soapscribe@aol.com
Subject: Lounge-A-palooza
I'm just listening to BFF over and over because I'm too afraid to listen to
the rest of it. It's a stunning production, but I'm just as fond of the
"unplugged" version I heard at their Irving Plaza gig -- in fact, I don't
like the way Darren's (very loungey) voice gets drowned out in the CD
version. Oh, if I ran a record company -- nope, not even close -- I'd
comission "Darren Does Darrin", with Mr. Jessee covering all of Bobby's big
hits -- now THAT would be a lounge-a-palooza!
By the way, anyone else in the tri-state area having a heck of a time just
FINDING Lounga'? The Virgin Megastore looked at me like I was crazy, the
guy at the Wiz said he was sick of people asking for it (especially when it
hadn't arrived there yet), and Tower Records would rather feature the Duran
Duran tribute album (it was bad enough the first time). Where did I find
mine? Barnes and Noble, right across from their "Three Tenors" display. Go
figure.
Jane
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