THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR

The Ben Folds Five Digest

Issue #766 - January 16, 1998



Magical Armchair Digest    Friday, January 16 1998    Volume 01 : Number 766



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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:

    got my tickets!!!
    Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #760
    penis
    Armchairites Concert
    Whoopsies
    Fanny Packs and Piano Bands
    At Home Drawing Pictures of Mountaintops

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:54:20 -0500 (EST)
From: mayns@netcom.ca
Subject: got my tickets!!!

I got my tickets,
do do do.
I got my tickets,
How about you?

- -john (porn star name = Wesley Endsleigh) in toronto

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:55:44 EST
From: BlueJellow <BlueJellow@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #760

Well, my porn name would then be Helen Mescalero. I'm so not liking that!!!!! 
I prefer *juicy lucy* hee hee hee
Stop making yer posts so fucking long!!!!!!!!
BFF rocks in Jackson. I can't get a copy of NBP!!! It's all sold out!
Thanks for listening!
Lucy

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:44:50 -0500
From: Heather Hurwitz <hhurwitz@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: penis

Yo.  To everyone that thought that I was completely nuts when I posted my
interpretation of Philosphy (being about Ben's penis) just check the liner
notes....  my philosophy was right on.  -Heather 

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:45:30 EST
From: SarahBF5 <SarahBF5@aol.com>
Subject: Armchairites Concert

  "I think Ben Folds Five should put on a show for "The Elite
Members of the Magical Armchair ONLY."  And by "the elite" i mean everyone who
is a diehard fan of BFF and who lives for them. It would especially be for
people who haven't gotten a chance to see them"
  i really like that idea! That would be sooo awesome! I also live for them,
and i have never been to a concert! (i know..it S-U-C-K-S!!) I have been close
a bundle of times, but something has always gone wrong last minute. Grrr. But,
know they wont be back to hio for a long time (or so i hear) and Leslie and i
want to roadtrip..we will try,  but it is hard w/o a license! We should take a
bus or convince a friend to drive us. We are working on it. Well, ill shut up
now. BTW, all u aolers should check out my profile. I fit quotes into every
place there was room. Its pretty cool, i like it alot. Feel free to email me.
See ya'll later.
- -Sarah

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:46:59 EST
From: SarahBF5 <SarahBF5@aol.com>
Subject: Whoopsies

Whoops, in my last post..."Armchairites concert", i meant ohio, not hio. 

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:34:05 -0500
From: "R.C." <rchallen@clemson.campus.mci.net>
Subject: Fanny Packs and Piano Bands

One more tidbit about "Fanny Packs" to take this topic to the
appropriate saturation point:
The shout-out to "my man Ernie at the Point" refers to a great club in
Little Five Points in Atlanta (The Point, duh). Hole in the wall place,
but FANTASTIC sound... 'cuz the guy who runs the board (Ernie, duh
again) used to work in a buncha Nashville studios and is FANATICAL about
sound. And yes, he does occasionally get a little anal about his stuff.
("I'm sorry... I can't give you any more monitor... the transistors and
the resistors... it just won't go any higher...")

Also,
FIVE ACTS FEATURING ONLY PIANO, BASS, DRUMS:
- --Tom Waits, circa 1973 (he added a sax later)
- --Elton John, circa 1970 (whoever said to get the "11-17-70" live CD
should be commended... believe it or not, Elton really WAS a rocker at
one point)
- --Thelonious Monk (plus too many other jazz greats to mention)
- --Suddenly Tammy! and Fl. Oz. (2 newer, decent bands mining the same
vein as BF5)
- --Ben Folds Five (of course)
(that's all i could think of for now...)

- --rICH 


Visit The RICH Homepage and check out the brand-new CD, 
LIFE/DEATH... 15 songs of romance and retribution... 
Available independently from Desperate Man Records.
         http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/9035

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:12:33 -0500
From: "R.C." <rchallen@clemson.campus.mci.net>
Subject: At Home Drawing Pictures of Mountaintops

Re:
>        Is "Eddie Walker" the BF5 "Jeremy"?

Only if Jeremy played drums in one of Eddie Vedder's old bands.

- --rICH

 

Visit The RICH Homepage and check out the brand-new CD, 
LIFE/DEATH... 15 songs of romance and retribution... 
Available independently from Desperate Man Records.
         http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/9035

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