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~Mars Contents~
~Just kindly click on one of the headings
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I've been a successful eBayer for over four years now with a totally
positive feedback rating (401 positives).
Now, as a seller, I expect to
maintain the same high standards of customer satisfaction being my
chief priority. Naturally -- "good
luck" to all bidding and thanks for
looking! If you have any *questions* please feel free to e-mail me.
:-)
Send an e-mail directly to:
~Marspolaris~
"You have to 'sell to' or 'buy from'
this man! He is the BEST!!!"
- Mcmama (eBay Buyer/Seller)
Of course, you can just click on the
link below to get to my sellers page:
~Current eBay auction items up for sale~
Check out all my auction photos with...
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I've been an eBay member in good standing since:
~September 28, 1999~
To preview the
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Current eBay auction
~Categories~
"Objects de Art"
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Art, Film & Poster Books
- The Rare Books
- Knick-Knacks
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Also featuring...
~Bensonian Books~
Rare Chess Books (OOP) &
Priceless Chess Memorabilia...
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"Tangerine Dream"
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~Shipping & Handling Rates~
I use USPS Media Mail (within the United States) for books.
The USPS First-Class Mail chart is given below (for items
weighing under 14 ounces / small or light weight items). If
USPS Priority Mail is being used instead (because of the
weight exceeding 14 ounces), then an adjustment will be
made depending the final overall weight of the package.
My packing methods are very secure. Using standard pro-
tected plastic inserts and/or sleeves to protect photos and
magazines. Also, using heavy cardboard flats on both sides
of item(s) to protect the contents. Every possible precaution
will be taken to insure that your item reaches you totally un-
harmed and safe. Specialty items are always protected with
bubble-wrap, cardboard inserts and styrofoam shells using
only pound tested boxes. If you are from outside the United
States please contact me first for the adjusted shipping and
handling rates. Please note that I add a little extra to cover
all of my packing cost (for special items it will be so listed).
Special Note: I highly recommend using either UPS (next
day or second day delivery which is all hand processed), or
USPS Registered Mail for "valuable items." In the case
of UPS the item can then be mailed in a secure box. Also,
note using USPS that all paper items that are insured must
be sent by Registered Mail (USPS Domestic Mail Manual
entries: S913.1.2 & S010.2.11). This mail is very carefully
handled and signed for by each postal carrier that handles
it and the items are kept safely in a protected pouch.
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A) Scoresheet Originals:
1) Gould 8 x 10 bubble-wrap: $3
B) Magazines:
1) Small (8 1/2 x 11): $4
2) Large (10 x 13): $6
C) Memorabilia and Oversize items:
1) Small memorabilia items: $4
2) Large memorabilia items: $7
D) Rare Books // Chess, Art, Film,
Poster & Misc Art Collections:
Boxes (pound tested):
1) Under two pounds: $4
2) Over two pounds: $5
(plus the total weight)
Packages (bubble-wrap):
1) Under two pounds: $3
2) Over two pounds: $4
(plus the total weight)
E) USPS // UPS Special Services:
Upon customer request using USPS & UPS Insurance
and any other special services (such as USPS certified
or registered mail, tracking, overnight delivery or any
other special speed of overnight delivery), will gladly
be added at the USPS or UPS standard rates.
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"Objects de Art"
~Satisfaction Guaranteed // Return Policy~
If for any reason (including the dreaded buyer remorse),
I'm allowing a seven day return policy for a full refund
minus all shipping & handling charges and any other
special service cost incurred (USPS & UPS insurance,
USPS certified mail, USPS registered mail, and direct
wire transfers to my bank), etc.
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~Bensonian Books~
The main chess book website is now located at:
~The Alan Benson Chess Book Collection~
For the important supplemental information please
also see my companion chess book webpage:
~Bensonian Books~
~Contact, Payment & Shipping Info~
Note: Now listed as Section Four.
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This followed by the extensive listing pages
for the Alan Benson Chess Book Collection:
Section One:
Tournaments / Matches
Players Games
Game Collections
"Magazines - Tournaments - Matches
Players Games & Game Collections"
Section Two:
- Openings
- Middle Game
& Combinations
- End Games / Problems
"The Openings -- The Middle Game
Combinations - Endgames & Problems"
Section Three:
- Lone Pine Chess Tournament (CA)
(the Original Chess Scoresheets)
- Miscellaneous Chess Book Entries
- Featured Chess Items on eBay
"Lone Pine Chess Tournament (CA) Score-
Sheets - Miscellaneous & Featured on eBay"
Section Four:
- Bensonian Chess Books
- Contact, Payment & Shipping Info
"Contact, Payment & Shipping Info"
Section Five:
- New Listings // Rare Chess Books
- Preview in all Categories
"New Chess Book Listings (Rare OOP)"
Section Six:
- New Listings // Chess Memorabilia
- Preview in all Categories
"New Listings // Chess Memorabilia"
Section Seven:
- New Listings // Lone Pine Original Scoresheets
- Lone Pine Tournament Books & Bulletins
- Preview in all Categories
"New Listings // Lone Pine Original Scoresheets"
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My main Tripod TD website:
"Al's little slice of TD
heaven" is currently hosting all of this info
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~Webpage Updates~
This is the current ~Mars~ update as of:
~June 17th, 2004~
Special Notes:
I've also streamlined the page and paired it down for much faster
efficient reading. The only exception being the Tangerine Dream
info below. That was left intact and the feedback review list now
moved to the bottom of the page (formally it was on the right).
This webpage is optimized for 800 x 600 viewing (main text).
Thanks! - Mars
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Fear
*Not!*
Just~click~ right here:
"Al's little slice of TD heaven ~lol~"
This is where you'll find my Tripod "TD homepage" (it's
always under *heavy* construction). My eBay "About
Me" page is now fully streamlined for all my auctions,
but decided to leave a few diehard posts anyway... ;-)
"TD diehard ~Heaven~ forbid!" ~lol~
A ~classic~ 1976
TD band lineup:
Christoph Franke (top left)
Peter Baumann (center right)
& Edgar Froese (bottom left)
Tangerine Dream mania
~or~
"TD diehards NEVER stop!"
~TD playlist~
~Just kindly click on one of the headings
below~
TD thoughts
TD mottoes
Favorite Links
Special: "Odes to TD",
thoughts & TD mottoes...
Odes to TD:
ODE to TD (#1):
In the
primeval dawn
before time began...
There came
an electrifying mist
originating from a
magical cold blue thunder.
This mist
tenderly nourished a
breathtaking melodic tune.
That tune
meticulously crafted
and perfectly conceived
was always to be
understood and spoken
by one chosen name.
The name
was forevermore
to be known only as
"Tangerine Dream!"
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Composed 03/16/96 and posted in the old TDI guestbook on 03/21/99. Inspired
from inspiration stemming from the line "Magical Cold Blue Thunder" late in
the
first set (Oxford, UK, New Theater, 10/15/81). Which we all now know to be
as: "Bundy Parade!" From: "TD Classic Editions REDONE!" (aka: "SoHoMan"
& "Soundmill Navigator"). Now, I only listen to the FM transcription
masters,
original and the re-broadcast of these classic shows. 'nuff said! ~lol~
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ODE to TD (#2):
Ode to an upcoming gig:
TD diehards never stop.
You all know what I mean.
Shall we just begin with a few strings.
The guitar wings do like to sing.
We have got to get to that music.
It's all about a TD gig.
Sequencers always running free...
ba, da, da -- ba, da, da.
Blasting incessantly and repeatedly.
Shepherds Bush never fails to please.
Time to play another, don't you think?
Will our astonishment never cease!
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Composed 11/10/96 and written in honor of the (then upcoming venue)
Shepherds
Bush Empire TD gig in London, UK (11/30/96). Posted in Tadream OneList
digest
(04/30/99).
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Ode to TD (#3):
Why do we listen?
Could it be that special place
where rollickingly hills
of daffodils play.
Unlocking their myriad of mysteries
with each freshly painted scene
ready to shine
the night into day.
As, the silly old moon
just smiles gently down
always pulsating
in perfect tune.
Yes, this is our cherished place
from Sorcerers to Goblins
shimmering with magical potions.
Dancing ever so effortlessly
with their symphonic melodies
briskly stirring the dawning oasis
in the cool evening air...
Always we long to be there.
With each and every beat
that we feel deep within our hearts
the insatiable "need to know"
no longer plays the part.
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Composed by 01/20/97 -- just for the hell of it! Posted in Majordomo digest
(07/22/99) in response to Fric's query ("Mars Polaris / again").
Reposted
in the old TDI guestbook in honor of their 3rd year on the Internet (09/20/99),
and was posted there on 09/25/99.
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Ode to TD (#4):
Tonight's ripe sunset was all deliciously tangerine...
Very much in full bloom and quite ready to spring.
On this honored TD day we saw and heard an
"antique tangerine" that just fell and blew in our way.
Ba - ba - ba - da... Repeat: Ba - ba - ba - da...
The soothing pleasurable sounds we so long to process,
digest and hear. Each and every band lineup brings us
a different and roaring good cheer. With a single, but
yet solo Stratocaster Fender guitar. Once we might have
said, "Take those golden keyed strings out of Edgar's
hands -- if you please." Besides, we always came back
for more. So, much, much more...
Now, Oedipus Tyrannus and Ultima Thule are both clearly
unique as they form running variations almost completely
cleared of all those Electro Beats. Then, Calymba Caly
and Flock of Bluebirds brings back to us many pleasant
and fond memories of things past and not quite so bleak.
The mighty Speed Dragon -- I always wondered how, what,
and why this would be so devilishly tuned and neat.
The Edinburgh Castle standing so proud and strong with
its massive stone doors already beginning to creak the
powerful blast of the upcoming ferocious electronic storms.
Naturally, the Moorland moat that completely surrounded
us was truly a ~TD classical~ float supreme. And, of course,
Sorcerer & Thief -- well, what a pure found treasure and
jeweled digital bit stream. We see and hear it and very much
want to spin it and quietly set to sublime we all but just scream.
On weekends we always go to Southbend Mall just to feel
the perfectly soothing ebb and flow... Soon to catch the
Cool Breeze of Brighton and proudly say, "Hey there my
old TD buddy M8." Still yet to follow is the regal & proud
Phaedra of Nottingham who clearly knows no earthly, but
yet bandwidth bounds.
Alas, we're all quite ready, willing and able -- as we dip
into the forthcoming sunset with its rain bowed spectrum
of multi colored crayons. As, the House of the Rising Sun
places us once again solidly back to basics for all of us
to revel and cherish in TD's never-ending magical and
binding spells. Finally, as we now peacefully set to pace
and once again set sail upon the seven known seas to
begin quietly drifting away. Blissfully content to dwell
deep within the sweet dream of dreams of all those
precious antique tangerines!
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Composed in honor of "Antique Dreams" (this version slightly adjusted with
supplemented words and corrected at least twice!). ~lol~ The original was
posted in the old TDI guestbook on July 12, 2000.
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Ode to TD (#5):
A peaceful ode to: "TD focus."
No more but just a whispering hearsay rumor --
there really is a TD SBE gig coming right up.
We all can present a thoughtful piece to the puzzle.
So, the ripples can expand and collapse in a flash.
Let peace rejoice and reflection be the name of this page.
All you TD fans & diehards know exactly what I mean...
We've got to get to that music.
Simply put -- it's all about a TD gig.
Only the TD music matters.
It's nothing more and nothing less...
The sleeping giant (USA) is reportedly next...
Aren't we all in for a true TD electronic DM3 treat!
Just ~focus~ on the real electronic legends.
Where 2nd place is only left to the cosmic dust.
Whereupon the TD e-trails never stop dreaming...
Just trust me -- and you will forever be pleased!
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Composed special for the old TDI Guestbook on March 11, 2001
to quiet down some bad vibes there and to restore some basic
TDI order... Note: Changed one word from the original
posting.
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Ode to TD (#6):
"Ode to Mandala"
The mighty force of pure beauty seeking being quite perfected.
Brings forth its raw strength and honor to be never neglected.
A golden magical harpsichord so powered by heavens delight.
Certainly, only J. S. Bach could ever play it with such a fancy flight.
Slowly evolving we see it, feel it, and most of all we want to hear it.
Now here is the power of TD sampled with so many bytes and bits.
Traveling down the road apiece the mighty Streethawk soars to fly.
Only to return to its past classical musical roots of all that stood bye.
Even the grand winding TD staircase leads us following step by step.
We blindly follow this awesome light clearly thinking, "Oh this is so
hep."
For there can only be the one that plays so marvelously and in tune.
That is "Mandala" which is what we shall call it when it's in full
bloom!
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Composed special for the old TDI Guestbook on May 17, 2001.
With a very special dedication to my good friend Heiko Heern.
Note: Made one correction from the original posting.
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TD
thoughts:
- Upon hearing "Quinoa & Parisian Dreams" for the very
first
time my meeting and encounter with Bob (a real TD diehard).
"Getting almost two hours of the most astonishing TD music I've ever
heard
all at once, I'm literally blown away. The only thing left is the smoke
from the
'Tangerine Dream' dust trail. It's only -- just now -- very slowly --
fading away.
Their music is totally pure and polished, powerfully pulsating and smoothly
flowing, continually ever seeking to be contemplating thought provoking
'Tangerine Dreams.' Always running effortlessly -- so loose and fancy free.
That just all came to me remarkably and quite literally -- naturally. Where
they go, we willing follow, eternally and ever so dedicatedly. Doesn't that
TD music ever flow, so incredibly wonderful and completely
free!"
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- Upon the arrival of "Tangents" (10/18/94) just two
days prior to the
KALX (FM 90.7) special TD radio show: "Tangents" is significantly
beyond using mere words to describe it, but I'll try a brief stab at it
anyway...
"Scraps from a master composer's notebook somehow seems to fit, so
appropriately. It's relevant that 'Cloudburst Flight' from the unbeliev-
able album of 'Force Majeure' remained as one of the very few pieces
left virtually untouched. It always has been and always will be--'perfect.'
Decidedly, this complete set is the aficionados choice in the quintes-
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- following composed in a letter just after DJ Minor-Minor visited
me prior to the show being aired. As, I played all of the TD selections
chosen specifically for the KALX FM radio show for him
personally:
"Please feel free to visit me anytime. When we can listen for
hours --
without having to pick or choose just forty minutes of music from a
virtual treasure chest literally overflowing with priceless TD gems.
You haven't heard nothing yet! (in lieu of a threat to someday invite
me back). Seemingly, I have enough TD music within my cherished
collection to play for weeks on end... At the very least, until Winter
breaks and Spring is finally ready to blossom -- all over again!"
"IT'S SHOW TIME!"
(Hehehe... Isn't that the truth!)
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TD
mottoes:
TD motto #1: "TD diehards NEVER stop!"
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TD motto #2: "It's in my top ten, of course you must understand that
I already have one-hundred such TD selections in my top TEN!" ;-)
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TD motto #3: "By virtue of definition a TD diehard is always backlogged!"
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TD motto #4: "As TD diehard individuals we each know one hell of
a lot -- collectively we know just about everything -- TD wise!"
~lol~
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TD motto #6:"And, just_WHO_ was it that said that TD diehards weren't
CRAZY?"
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TD motto #8: "If you see a TD item that you've never seen before...
You should immediately do two things. One: pick it up and hold it
very tight in your hot little TD hands. Two: then take it directly to
the counter and buy it!" ~lol~
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TD motto #10: "Will TD wonders never cease?" ~lol~
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TD motto #12: "Never refuse a gift from another TD
diehard!"
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TD motto #19: "A TD diehards promise is always the very best
kind!"
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Al's often quoted eBay mottoes:
"All's fair in love and war & TD bidding on eBay!" ~lol~
"He/she who bids last with the most money always wins!"
"We all know buyers *have* headaches, but
surely sellers *must* have migraines!" :^)
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Lastly, one of my favorite quotes:
"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connalt point."
(The heart has its reasons for which reason does not understand)
- Blaise Pascal
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Favorite
Links:
~Tangerine
Dream~
The
Tadream homepage
Tangerine Dream
homepage
Tangerine
Dream (unofficial)
Essential TD ~LIVE~ Recordings
Yahoo ~Tangerine Dream ~ webring
TD (The
Unheard Discography)
Really
Cool TD Links
More
Cool TD Links
Voices In The
Net
~Audiophile~
Vintage McIntosh (history page)
Vintage Nakamichi
(unofficial)
Vintage
Stax (products history)
Vintage Marantz (unofficial)
Vintage Headphones
~Chess
Links~
Exter Chess Club: Chess Quotes
Tim Krabbe's: Chess Curiosities
California Chess
History
(ChessDryad.Com)
Chess
Graphics
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