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August 04, 2005
He also has a song about a turntable.
When I was in high school, I was a huge Ben Lee fan. In tenth grade, my friend Katrina and I somehow came across a zine called "Someone Loves Me in Ohio," which was made by this cool girl named Jeannette who lived in Columbus (I think). We both ended up writing to Jeannette a couple of times and she sent us more issues of her zine and a mix tape. This was one of the two first, best mix tapes I was ever given (the other came from Jason, who I saw last weekend). It introduced me to Elliott Smith, The Smiths, all kinds of girl punk bands, Liz Phair and, of course, Ben Lee. As a teenage girl, you can't not go crazy for a song that includes the lyrics "in the 7-11 of my soul, you're my red slurpee." We spent that year hatching plans to get Ben Lee to come play at the Elvis Room in Portsmouth, NH. Our best plan was to have a bake sale and sell cupcakes with red cinnamon hearts on them and, in that way, raise money for his flight from Australia (or wherever he was from). I spent lots of time listening to the two Ben Lee records I bought that year (and still the only two I have): Away with the Pixies and Grandpaw Would. Okay, I'll be honest, I have probably made Dave listen to at least part of each of these records at some point in the last year. (Okay, maybe it was last month.) Several weeks ago, Dave and I were walking through one of the antique shops on Market Street when I heard a new Ben Lee song playing on their radio. It was the most boring shit I have ever heard in my life.
Posted by kelseyfrost at August 4, 2005 11:48 AM
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I feel you. Ben Lee ruled back in the day when he was still rocking out, then I think Claire Danes dumped him for some old fart and he's been boring as hell ever since. Glad to hear someone else feels the same way, I was starting to feel kind of guilty for not liking him, I kept holding out, hoping things would improve, that the rocking would start again, but alas, it has not.
Posted by: Marissa at August 8, 2005 02:19 PM
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