THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #696 - December 10, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Wednesday, December 10 1997 Volume 01 : Number 696
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
ben's been stalking me
Sellout.
chainletters and crap.
He's here! My Mystery Date!
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:11:42 -0500
From: ljd128@psu.edu (firstname lastname)
Subject: ben's been stalking me
im telling you what, selfles cold and compose is about me. just the line "
oh, baby just throw me a right to the chin/just one sighn to show me that
you gave a shit" i have one of those ex girlfriends who won't admit that
we were an item fro over a year. annoying as hell. and also missing the
war, b/c sometimes i do indeed feel like im missing that dating war.
len damico jumpingcow@psu.edu
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:27:36 EST
From: KNULPREK <KNULPREK@aol.com>
Subject: Sellout.
In a message dated 97-12-08 23:51:47 EST, you write:
<< the only real good example I know of a band "selling out" would be
Chumbawumba (what theyre doing now goes against the policies they
champoined in the past) >>
Well, this is so off the topic of Ben Folds Five, i might as well be writing
in another digest, but i thought i'd comment on this thing i just quoted..
I don't know about Chumbawumba, but in my opinion the first sellouts were
Boyz2Men. Sure, you might say "Oh, they're just awful to begin with" but
remember that song Motownphilly on their first album. That was quality stuff.
But it didn't sell as hotly as expected, i guess, and so what do they do?
BAM.. they turn into mush crap and sell millions of albums. I really dislike
the word sellout, and a really dislike Boys2Men, but hey.. there's my two
cents.
- -jason-
http://members.aol.com/knulprek/home.html
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 18:11:31 -0500
From: Rob Hock <rhock@stevens-tech.edu>
Subject: chainletters and crap.
Chainletters are trash.
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 16:30:44 PST
From: "Courtney Knopf" <vegasbaby@hotmail.com>
Subject: He's here! My Mystery Date!
So Elisabeth (I believe) posed the question of which of the Five we'd
like to take/have taken to prom. Well at my high school (the same one
that Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, went to;), both juniors and
seniors could go to prom so i went twice. Now I've given the matter a
lot of though. I think that I would like to have gone with Ben to my
junior prom. He seems to be the guy that'a a parent's dream and someone
you'd be absolutely head-over-heels in love with.He would have danced
the night away and then taken you to the beach to watch the sunrise. Now
for my senior prom, I would have wanted to take Darren. And he's have
worn a funny cool vintage tux to match my kickass vintage dress and we
would have got down and boogied all night. with maybe a good concert
(the Cherry Poppin' Daddies!) and a nice makeout session thrown in
afterwards;)
~Courtney
The Sultraness of Swing
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