THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #504 - October 1, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Wednesday, October 1 1997 Volume 01 : Number 504
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Unintelligible Underground Lyrics
Lounge-A-Palooza Parties!
Bad Idea/Retarded
I tried to be nice...
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #501
a weird thing happened...
Non-BFF
I've got this great idea...
Re: Moshing
MOSHPIT!!!
boston date!!
hello
THE POSTURE PERFECT PERCUSSION KAHN, DARREN JESSE
Lyrics...
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:30:45 -0700
From: "Kamp, Marcus S" <Marcus.Kamp@PSS.Boeing.com>
Subject: Unintelligible Underground Lyrics
I think it's "slammin' the pit fantastic", since the song's making fun
of the overly-pretentious underground music scene, but I could be wrong.
(Never happened before:-))
"I could never stand that disingenuous punk ethic that says it's cool
not to be able to play one's instrument."-Robert Smith
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:21:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Lawrence J. Kim" <ljk1@cec.wustl.edu>
Subject: Lounge-A-Palooza Parties!
I got this from the POE Mailing List...just thought I'd pass it on...
Lawrence - Can't wait for November 13
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These are parties to support the album..not all of them are at stores..
Here are the dates of Lounge-a-palooza party dates...
10/14 - Atlanta, GA -- Nomenclature Museum
10/15 - Philadelphia, PA -- Five Spot
10/16 - Cleveland, OH -- Spy
10/17 - Chicago, IL -- Elbo Room
10/18 - Milwaukee, WI -- Shaker's
10/21 - NYC, NY -- Life
10/22 - Detroit, MI -- Clutch Cargo's
10/23 - Boston, MA -- Bill's Bar
10/27 - Los Angeles, CA -- Eden
10/30 - San Francisco, CA -- VSF
11/1 - Dallas, TX -- Club Clearview
11/2 - Tampa, FL -- Masquerade
11/6 - Denver, CO -- Key Club
11/7 - Portland, OR -- Berbati's Pan
11/8 - Seattle, WA -- OK Hotel
11/13 - St. Louis, MO -- Velvet
At thes parties there will be...
DJ's
MC's
Chill-out Room
Gambling for prizes and charity
Raffles
Give-Aways
Video Presentations
Lounge Magazines lying all over the place.
Sponsors
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:31:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rebecca.Cole@mail.cc.trincoll.edu
Subject: Bad Idea/Retarded
Ok, I asked about this before but nobody replied. Maybe by now somebody
knows.
Can someone help me out with the lyrics for "Bad Idea" on the Kate
B-side? I'm NOT talking about the one on the Mr Wrong soundtrack. What I
understand at this point is:
Pull over the car, pull over the car
I think I see some BLAH BLAH BLAH
Pull over the car, pull over the car
I think I feel BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
I have my theories for the latter BLAH BLAHs but not the first. Anyone
know? I would greatly appreciate it.
Oh, and on the topic of lyrical revelations...I could never figure out
why Robert and Darren were singing "My feel!" in the background of
"Philosophy." I realized the other day, however, that they're singing "my
phil.....o...so...phy..." and it all makes sense to me now.
- -Rebby
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:36:58 -0500
From: Paula <meif@ou.edu>
Subject: I tried to be nice...
Hello all. Sorry to disrupt your newsletter with this crap, but I am
fed up. I requested to unsubscribe--see that fucking administration
people??-- like six times. And guess what, I have been getting the
newsletter ever since. So maybe if I post this-- UNSUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!--
they'll take me off the goddamn thing. Sorry to digress from your
topics... I really am a BFF fan, but I don't have time for this right
now.
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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 04:06:00 +1000
From: Sarah <titania@cybergal.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #501
Howdy All,
Replying to a few posts at once here so bear with me....
Dios Darren... at the Monash Gig, I couldn't see Darren very well... But
every time I did, he was groovin along and having a ball. I think he is a
most sensational drummer/percussionist....I have to point out that it
always the front man of any band that
gets the glory... Unfortunate but true, they are the ones people get
crushes on, I guess because they are so much more visible and the ones who
tend to be the most vocal (funny about that!!!) Also it is more difficult
to see drummers behind all that gear!
Perth Show/ Show Reviews/Melbourne Gig....
I must say I am really disappointed that my first BF5 gig was the Monash
one... The Adelaide and Perth shows sound like they were so much better.
As a couple of people have commented, the crowd didn't seem to know BF5
very well, so were pretty dead. They
fired up most for Underground and OAD and 200SF and those songs pump, but
so do a lot of their other stuff and the crowd just stood there and
stared. The rapport between the band and the crowd that people have been
mentioning also seemed not to be there v
ery much, and there was certainly not very much antics from Ben. No
criticism on the guys at all, it was a perfect show on their part, I just
feel that they didn't have much to feed on from the audience.
Or perhaps it was the size of the venue... they could have fitted a lot
more people into the place, so although there were about 1000 people
there, it seemed pretty empty, which is always disheartening as a
performer. It is hard to pump the same amount of
energy into an empty space, when it is full, the audience throws so much
more energy back at you, it doesnt get as lost, and the performers and
crowd feed on each other. So I am looking forward to the Prince of Wales,
as it is a smaller space and being a
second concert, it will hopefully have more of the real FANS, rather than
hangers on (if you know what I mean)
Sorry for rambling so much...
Sarah, who has begged and pleaded all week to get this Friday night off...
(I'm a barmaid) Yes, I'm going to the concert... I feel like Cinderella
before the ball ;-}
titania@cybergal.com
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice,
passion, and love.
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:56:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: c715454@showme.missouri.edu
Subject: a weird thing happened...
okay, someone is out there...here's my story.
my friend maggie lives in chicago and this past weekend when she was
visiting a friend at college, a tony something....she happened to see a
bff sticker on this guy's roommate's folder. so she asked him about it,
knowing how much i, here in columbia, missouri, loved bff. and he said
that it was his roommate's and he is a fanatic. well, if he is truly a
fanatic, then of course, he will be a part of this wonderful armchair,
recognize himself, and then say, cool. like i did.
oh, and to scott, wondering about misheard lyrics...i just sing nonsense
most of the time. especially to beck. and then people see me singing and
they ask me what it says, and i just look at them like, duh. that's my
story. thanks to paul may for making me famous on the people on the
armchair page. come see me if you want to.
- -bess
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:28:33 -0600
From: "Erik C. Lyons" <EPA8820@epa.state.il.us>
Subject: Non-BFF
Gotta send MAJOR kudos to Chuck Folds for such speed with the sending
of his music.
I HIGHLY recommend it. As high as the clouds. I was very impressed.
Have a nice rest of the digest. . .
E, e, E
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 16:05:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Elizbeth Hackett <ehackett@danenet.wicip.org>
Subject: I've got this great idea...
Speaking of Elton John, does anybody else think a cover of "Rocket Man" by
the guys would be any good? IMHO, it's the only good song Elton John
wrote.
Just my two bits' worth.
Beth H.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/2029/
"Stop the bus
I get off here"
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:52:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: KNULPREK@aol.com
Subject: Re: Moshing
Moshing has to be the dumbest thing that concert-goers have ever created.
I've yet to be to a Ben Folds show, but i can imagine that there are plenty
of idiots that don't really know what they're doing that go and mosh. People
mosh at ska shows. It's insane. I could never quite understand why people
have such a lack of respect for other people. I hardly ever am able to be
right up infront or even in the middle of a show because, regardless of the
music, some idiots have to go running into each other like retarded gerbils
and a whole big circle opens up and, well, i enjoy my bones. I don't like
them broken. So i move and let the people who arn't even interested in the
band, and instead are just interested in proving to the rest of the audience
that they have some type of random frustration they need to get out (probably
sexual), and i get to stand at the very side or back trying to get a glimpse
of the band through the circle of nosebleeds that just erupted. It's
unfortunate people are so stupid.
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:10:20 -0700
From: gabsey@juno.com (Gaby M FOUNDOUKIS)
Subject: MOSHPIT!!!
i belive moshpits are the best!!! is there anyone on the list that live
in Florida...if so write me....Gabsey@juno.com.... thanks.... Ben Folds
Five RULES!!!!!!
gaby
a new member!!!
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Date: 30 Sep 97 18:10:08 +0000
From: lou papineau <lpapineau@phx.com>
Subject: boston date!!
The boys will play the Roxy (279 Tremont St.) on Tues., Nov. 4 at 7:30
p.m. The opening acts are Travis and Verbow. Tix are $12.50 and go on
sale Fri., Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. via TicketMaster. Admission is 18-plus.
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:34:21 -0700
From: gabsey@juno.com (Gaby M FOUNDOUKIS)
Subject: hello
HELLO BEN FOLD FIVE FANS!!! I WOULD LIKE TO ASK SOMEONE WHAT THE 2ND AND
3RD C.D. IS, IA MNOT SURE WHAT THEY ARE CALLED SOMEONE PLEASE INFORM
ME....MY NAM IS GABY... GABSEY@EARTHLING.NET... THANK YOU.. GABY
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:28:59 -0400
From: Heather Hurwitz <hhurwitz@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: THE POSTURE PERFECT PERCUSSION KAHN, DARREN JESSE
Hi Fivers,
Idaho is so right!! I always have my eye on Darren. Darren is totally
awesome. Why do they put him in the back? He should be right up front
with Ben and Rob, even if they have to be in a cheesy line across the front
or something. Or, what about suspending the piano, having Ben sit on a
trapese swing, and then have Darren and Rob up front. Then, we could
really see everything. Also, I think that Darren's cymbols should be
lower. Every show I've been to, the damn cymbol blocks my view. Just to
plug Robert too, he is super sexy. Whenever I bring a new BF5 listener to
a show, they usually flip out over Rob's sexiness first and then move
around to admiring the rest of the band. Still, Darren is my fav all the
way. Peace.
Heather
"I feel like a quote out of context" -Ben Folds Five
get your fill of peanutts on the www: http://www.cyberdrive.net/~percystar
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:28:15 -0500
From: Joe Herbster <TBoneGuy@concentric.net>
Subject: Lyrics...
There was a question about lyrics in the song Underground. They go
as follows:
"And we'll be decked in all black,
Slammin' the pit fantastic."
At first I thought it was the big fantastic, but I was corrected by
the dumbest person I know. Kind of humbling, eh?
- -CA
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