the Ben Folds Remasters: Another Folds Love Story?

Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Eccojedi

Okay, so this thread is only a little bit about the remasters, but it does relate. I've had something I've wanted to share with the boards for a long time, but really didn't know how. Right now I'm in a very open mood, so here it goes:

I'm in Boston now, due to a series of events partially started because of the results of my [shoddy-ish] work on the beginnings. I could do a much better job now, but that's not the point - A little over a year ago, May 2005, I released those tracks to the community, some good, some alright, some horrifically mutilated to the point they actually sounded worse. I didn't care, it was really just something to keep me busy one morning when I couldn't sleep. Either way, the tracks somehow ended up all over the internet, including the main page of Thesuburbs.org.uk, where they were happened upon by what turned out to be an audience of thousands. Out of those thousands, a few e-mailed or IM'ed me, one of which being a girl named Melissa with whom I ended up staying in contact with.

Periodic messages became nightly, nightly became nearly continuous, and soon we were calling each other. I kept my guard up as I did not want to fall for someone 500 miles away, but I knew she was someone very different from the people I was used to. Melissa went away for a while to Hawaii on vacation, all while I tried to convince myself that it was a stupid internet crush (shut up, you know you've had them from time to time, too) until she "borrowed" her dad's business cellphone and called me from there. Things kind of went from there, though we never talked about it directly for many months until it came up in conversation. Turns out she was going through pretty much the same thing, though also trying to avoid the inevitably failing concept of long distance relationship. Things changed somewhat when we met up by chance while I was on the Jersey coast, and I realized how perfect she actually was for me.

Skip ahead a few months: I had decided that I needed to leave Ohio, but I did not know where. I had friends here in Boston, and it had been one of my considerations. This was cemented when I realized that Melissa would be here, too, along with all of the engineering and music students I could ever hope to collaborate with.

I'm writing this because I just got back from spending another weekend with her, and I already want to make the 25 minute trek through traffic to see her again.

All of this because I decided to stay up and fuck with a few old Ben Folds tracks.

This is what Hydrogen atoms are capable of if you give them 15 billion years to evolve.

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Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: melanor_rigby

Awww! Congrats to you both ecco!

All the best, n'stuff!

:-)

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Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

i thought this was about a Ben Folds boxed set or something

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you have known that mayer sucks the tap?

HEY WHAT DID THE PPL SAY WHEN THEY SAW A BLACK GUY WAS THE CAPTAIN? "UH OH I HOPE HE IS NOT OUR CAPTAIn, HE IS BLACK!!" LOLOLOL

Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: ben_freak

ohhh adam.

maybe you should kiss someone nice, or lick a rock, or both.

Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

. Things changed somewhat when we met up by chance while I was on the Jersey coast...

oh come the fuck on, that's too serendipitous. to me it sound like you planned it to me.

Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Tuberculosis

yeah I'm trying to figure that bit out.

however, congrats also ecco. It's a good feeling. Plus, Boston is a pretty awesome town. Is she an .orger?

X:If you could be a superhero, which one would you be?
TB: Jesus...
X: Jesus wasn't a superhero.
TB: He wasn't?
X: No.
TB: Ok then....uh....Teen Wolf
X: nevermind

Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: guiltywhiteboy

i got drunk and woke up with gf

this is not a joke

her name in my phone is "courtney...u r dating her"

"You can't arrest Willie Nelson for doing drugs. That's like arresting Aretha Franklin for being fat, or James Brown for any of the various crimes he's committed."

Oct 2nd (4 years ago)

Posted by: bobbielou

haha. wha?

I'm not sayin' I'm just sayin'.

"NOT
EVEN
THE
BENFOLDS
CAN
HELP
YOU
NOW."
-Chazm

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Eccojedi

oh come the fuck on, that's too serendipitous. to me it sound like you planned it to me.

I was on the coast for an unrelated reason - I decided to drive my friend Diana back to her house as an excuse to get out of Ohio. When I was talking to Melissa one night from Diana's house, I was telling her where in Jersey I was and we realized we were less than 30 minutes apart. She called me from school that day and had me pick her up from the parking lod that afternoon. It was only somewhat planned. Our first date was to an art museum :D

This is what Hydrogen atoms are capable of if you give them 15 billion years to evolve.

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Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

oh i see, you meant that it just so happened that she was in new jersey at the same time as you, and not at home in boston?

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Liebs

She called me from school that day and had me pick her up from the parking lod that afternoon.

How did the Elementary school let you get on her "pick-up" list??

Giddyup.

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Eccojedi

No, she used to live in Delaware. It wasn't even on my mind at the time when I was going to jersey that she was nearby, though I had planned to make a trip up there from my uncle's house eventually when I was to visit my uncle. She came to Boston for college, and I came here to get away from Ohio, though as I said, my choice of cities was definitely influenced by the fact that she was here.

This is what Hydrogen atoms are capable of if you give them 15 billion years to evolve.

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Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Jimbob

i got drunk and woke up with gf

this is not a joke

her name in my phone is "courtney...u r dating her"

I hope to god that's a true story.

"better than hitler fisting a sheep, anyways"
Nikki

"who's jim?"
yonnermark

"who the fuck is jim?"
!gas!panic!

seods

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: guiltywhiteboy

it really is

im talking to her right now

"You can't arrest Willie Nelson for doing drugs. That's like arresting Aretha Franklin for being fat, or James Brown for any of the various crimes he's committed."

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: LifeOnaPlate

just tell me she's older than 16

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Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: guiltywhiteboy

you sound just like the judge

"You can't arrest Willie Nelson for doing drugs. That's like arresting Aretha Franklin for being fat, or James Brown for any of the various crimes he's committed."

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

THE BEN FOLDS REMASTERS
ANOTHER FOLDS LOVE STORY?
career spanning boxset of BFF/BF
TRACKLIST

DISC ONE
1. Rock This Bitch
2. Uncle Walter
3. Brick
4. Rockin' the Suburbs
5. Rent-a-Cop
6. Barrytown
7. All Shook Up
8. The Luckiest
9. Champagne Supernova
10. In Love
11. Jennifer's Always on Call
12. Girl
13. Kate (with strings)
14. Uncle Walter (cassette version)

DISC TWO: ALL ROCK THIS BITCH
19 versions of Rock This Bitch

DISC THREE: BEN FOLDS RARITIES!
1. Uncle Walter (timbaland remix)
2. Boxing (Bette Midler version)
3. Emaline (Majosha version)
4. Uncle Walter (darren sings lead)
5. Song for the Dumped (japanese)
6. Gimme Shelter (secret RTS outtake)
7. One Down
8. One Down (edit)
9. One Down (extended version)
10. Narcolepsy (instrumental)
11. Your Redneck Past (karaoke version)
12. Your Most Valuable Possession (17-minute version)
13. Hospital Song (34-minute version)

$69.99 @ TOWER!!

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you have known that mayer sucks the tap?

HEY WHAT DID THE PPL SAY WHEN THEY SAW A BLACK GUY WAS THE CAPTAIN? "UH OH I HOPE HE IS NOT OUR CAPTAIn, HE IS BLACK!!" LOLOLOL

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

(frally sings backup on Gimme Shelter)

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you have known that mayer sucks the tap?

HEY WHAT DID THE PPL SAY WHEN THEY SAW A BLACK GUY WAS THE CAPTAIN? "UH OH I HOPE HE IS NOT OUR CAPTAIn, HE IS BLACK!!" LOLOLOL

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

ILAT

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: UnpaintedSunset

wow, some of you people should write for the Tony Danza show.

mmmmmmmm, Crapcicles.

if I were you and you were she and she was we, what would "it" be?

Really? It's an industry of ass kissing?

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Edwin

ILAT2

In the land of the skunks, the man with half a nose is king.

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: UnpaintedSunset

ILA dirty birds.

mmmmmmmm, Crapcicles.

if I were you and you were she and she was we, what would "it" be?

Really? It's an industry of ass kissing?

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: +Ill

I kept my guard up as I did not want to fall for someone 500 miles away

Damn, you too, huh?

Noel's up there next to John Lennon in my book.

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: UnpaintedSunset

Yeah, as if you couldn't figure out how to be closer to eachother.

mmmmmmmm, Crapcicles.

if I were you and you were she and she was we, what would "it" be?

Really? It's an industry of ass kissing?

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: +Ill

Dude, moving interstate isn't exactly so convenient.

Noel's up there next to John Lennon in my book.

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: UnpaintedSunset

it is if the person is worth it.

mmmmmmmm, Crapcicles.

if I were you and you were she and she was we, what would "it" be?

Really? It's an industry of ass kissing?

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: +Ill

Which is why you (unsuccessfully) keep your guard up to try and avoid that person being the one who is worth it. And then fail at that attempt and realise you're probably moving interstate.

Noel's up there next to John Lennon in my book.

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: UnpaintedSunset

What if you pass up the love of a lifetime? I guess you'd never know.

mmmmmmmm, Crapcicles.

if I were you and you were she and she was we, what would "it" be?

Really? It's an industry of ass kissing?

Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: Emaline Jones

Well Ecco didn't, and Ill didn't, so that is that, hugs and smiles!

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Oct 3rd (4 years ago)

Posted by: +DrewMG

12. Your Most Valuable Possession (17-minute version)

i laughed at that.

what you got?