"DANG, garbanzo beans! You really come into your power in water!" ....Please be aware of how much DELIGHT your work brings me! It's a treat, every time.
RIP Brendan, 1981-2024. Witnesses say he expired from sheer tenderness today upon seeing these band photos and stories. "He is very dead," they said, and added, "he died."
I definitely remember seeing you and Ben perform at the RCC coffeehouse in 2004! It's actually my first memory of Ben, and then for years in grad school we would go to parties together and people would ask how we met (they must have thought we were dating) and I would say, "oh, we went to college together, but we weren't friends then," and Ben would say, "you make it sound like we were enemies." I should have said I knew him from The Esplanades.
I also have another friend (and coincidentally coworker, but that happened later) who I met through being groupies of a band Ben was randomly in with people from Craigslist. I was there to see Ben and Jen and my friend/coworker was there to see his friend the drummer. After a few shows we realized that we were the two people who showed up to every show and we started sitting together, and then years later I ran into him at my office and it turned out we both worked there. Now it's 10 years later and we both still work for the same company and SO DOES BEN. I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, but if you would like to take credit, feel free.
this song was exactly what i thought it was going to be in the best way!! and can strongly relate, as someone who was in a fiona apple cover band (singing and playing cello) for two months in college :)
"DANG, garbanzo beans! You really come into your power in water!" ....Please be aware of how much DELIGHT your work brings me! It's a treat, every time.
RIP Brendan, 1981-2024. Witnesses say he expired from sheer tenderness today upon seeing these band photos and stories. "He is very dead," they said, and added, "he died."
bEN FOLDS FOREVER
dear sophie,
another banger! thank you for sharing as always. a real delight! some fave phrases:
"my sole influences were Fiona Apple and Something Corporate"
"My dad was usually doing a jigsaw puzzle of cats."
"DANG, garbanzo beans!"
thank you for sharing!
love
myq
I forgot to vote but I'm SO GLAD THIS PRINT WON!!!! can't wait to add it to my wall of YADAGEJ prints :')
It’s coming in its classic slow fashion!
I definitely remember seeing you and Ben perform at the RCC coffeehouse in 2004! It's actually my first memory of Ben, and then for years in grad school we would go to parties together and people would ask how we met (they must have thought we were dating) and I would say, "oh, we went to college together, but we weren't friends then," and Ben would say, "you make it sound like we were enemies." I should have said I knew him from The Esplanades.
I also have another friend (and coincidentally coworker, but that happened later) who I met through being groupies of a band Ben was randomly in with people from Craigslist. I was there to see Ben and Jen and my friend/coworker was there to see his friend the drummer. After a few shows we realized that we were the two people who showed up to every show and we started sitting together, and then years later I ran into him at my office and it turned out we both worked there. Now it's 10 years later and we both still work for the same company and SO DOES BEN. I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, but if you would like to take credit, feel free.
I mean, I LOVE THIS STORY. Thank you.
The vulnerability, the look backwards, and THE VOICE! I love this
Thank you, I love YOU!
Thank you. I LOVE YOU!
this song was exactly what i thought it was going to be in the best way!! and can strongly relate, as someone who was in a fiona apple cover band (singing and playing cello) for two months in college :)
Another amazing fact from a reader who I GREATLY admire. THANK YOU for sharing! YOU PLAYED CELLO. I am obsessed with that.