Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Their first couple of albums (thinks aloud...was it one or two?) on the Bizarre label were interesting if not impressive, and then he/they put out a couple of absolute gems in "Love it to Death" and "Killer" after which they put out some quite acceptable music with "School's...

And a Happy Bidet from over here!!

Fishfinger king wrote:Cricketing nations of the world unite!

I wonder, could this expression be applied to baseball as well... or is it not possible to have a good innings in that game?

Sad (well, not really... he was 83 after all, so he had a good innings). I did manage to see him perform once in a concert in 1974 or 75 along with Fred Frith's band Henry Cow - I think perhaps Robert Wyatt was involved in this performance as well. Can't recall the venue, but it may have been the Ra...

If anything, I think the Oscars have gotten more credible in recent years. Crash may not have been my first choice for Best Picture, but it's by all accounts a very indie-styled film. Loaded with celebrities, certainly, but many of whom worked for way less than they usually do (you can thank Don Ch...

I think the Oscars have almost managed to erode away their own credibility over the years and that they will soon be a thing of the past. It seems to me that events such as Sundance, Cannes, and the Venice Film Festival are becoming more representative of what is really going on in the world of film...

Please refer to the Happt Birthday Red Shoes thread for greeting

Belated bithday greetings Red!! (curse this international dateline!!)

As I was driving, I was listening to a gardening program on our local ABC radio station (our equivalent top the BBC) over the weekend and the hosts who are a couple of fairly "ordinary" gardening show presenters (comon-all-garden variety?) were chatting with a guest who for some reason beg...

bambooneedle wrote:We are getting national ads (Aust.) telling us that soon cigarette packets will have grotesque pictures of what cigarettes cause. Rotting teeth, deteriorating lips, pictures of people cut up et al.

Not to mention the talk of banning smoking in cars.

Spooky... I know exactly how you feel. The pain will pass but hopefully all of the wonderful memories you have of this person won't. I lost both parents to the dreaded Jimmy Dancer; both smoked heavily for a large part of their respective lives, one ended up with liver cancer of all things, and the ...

migdd wrote:Okay, ice, I'll stop now. Even with a BA in English, I've never been able to find my way around a good pun, or a bad one, for that matter.

I'll stick with the day job!

Maybe you should have gone for the BA in Social Sciences?

Congrats!! I trust that the ceremony will be accompanied by the appropriate collection of Costello melodies.

Perhaps that can be the next "Tower of" or similar project for this forum... Tower of EC Melodies for a Blue and Red Wedding?

Looks like some kind of gnocci and a sqid ink pasta dish?

Is that a pre-tat Robbie Williams to Quentin's right? If not he certainly deserves Lookie-likey status.

One thing that seems to have been overlooked while making all of these criticisms regarding the author's comments is the following line: " Through casual interviews with music fans, I've compiled a list of 20 "new classic" albums, in chronological order of release. " I would say ...

Close to the Edit - Art of Noise
Peter Gunn Theme - not the Art of Noise
Zorba's Theme - Mikas Theodorakis(sp?)
Ayatollah harmony - The Members

Maybe not everybody's cup of tea, but all very good instrumentals at the particular time they appeared.

I think it really is an excellent list. I particularly like the fact that he has seen the ABC album "Lexicon of Love" for what it really was... something far more than just another New Romantic pile of poo. I hadn't heard of Rain Tree Crow either, but if it is a David Sylvian project then ...

ice nine wrote:How can Michelle Kwan and Pol Pot appear on the same list? Something is seriously wrong here.

Why... is she Cambodian?

I would say that of all the places I have been, Japan is the place where it is celebrated in absolute over-the-top mode. Yes, MBA is correct in saying that Feb 14th is when females give chocolates to males and March 14th is when the males are supposed to (but rarely do) give something white to the f...

The guy has apparently suffered a minor heart attack now, after some of the birdshot got lodged in his heart. I thought Cheney got him in the head. What a tool. I think with a shotgun there is a good chance the shot would have sprayed everywhere... the interesting (?) thing is that it appears that ...

Tim(e) - Was it in a book by Diana Wynne Jones where the boy writes in his journal, "I got up, I got up, I GOT UP!"? Where "I got up" is a code for how much he hates school? Is that "Witch Week"? I loved that book to death. Also "A Tale of Time City." It may ...

Didn't Lost win an award recently... and that would have to be one of the most dreadful pieces of TV for a long time. Talk about paint by numbers!

I seem to be reading nothing but fantasy for my 6 year old son at the moment. I have been buying a lot of Dianna Wynne Jones (author of Howl's Moving Castle) lately and prior to reading them to my son I always give them a going through first; otherwise each book can last for weeks on end - must be s...

Out goes Paris as Dumb/Brainless/Epitomy of a Bimbo does not necessarily equate to evil. Saddam bologna People who quote from the Davinci Code like it's a work of any historical credibility at all. February Billy Joel head cheese gas-powered weed whackers those "W, the President" bumper st...