Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Or maybe he'll just be a confectioner of femine marmalade and sweet pears.

It may be out of print, but at the time I thought "The Up Escalator" a pretty credible follow-up to the amazing "Sparks", adjusting for the inevitable post-masterpiece letdown.

No, James Earl Jones IS "The Man"

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To one of our finest and possible distant Eastern European relative....Happy Birthday.

Illy as in Illy coffee?

Nope. Probably some illegal drug. Tragically unhip here.

This sounds SO cool. Have fun, my East coast friends.

(And, Brian-the-new-guy -- I think you and I are the only people on this board to have confessed an affection for "Party, Party." EC himself disowned it himself years ago, but what does he know?)

Good one, Verbal.

One thing about Clinton, I think it's safe to say that he plays saxophone the way the his successor governs.

Hey, I've actually spoken with a soon-to-be Rock and Roller Hall of Famer. (I had a office temp job working with the construction company for a new music publishing Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert were opening in the late eighties/early nineties. In typical fashion, it was Jerry and not Herb that I met.)

In one way or another, I'm guessing that this too may have "involved drink."

I'm so out of touch with both the good and the bad of new music, that this is the first of heard of James Blunt.

I wonder if that was his given name, or if "James Marijuana" just seemed too obvious.

Great photographer, race-bar breaking film-director. "Shaft" may not have been the greatest cop film of all time, but boy did the photography shimmer. That aside, obviously a major league guy. I really need to see "The Learning Tree." I definitely want to revisit his photography ...

Hey, you have the same birthday as my younger nephew. You aren't a good bowler, with a penchant for gross-out comedies, are you?

I didn't think so and, in that case, have an especially great birthday season!

As far as I can tell, you don't lack luster --- but then it's hard to see shine over the internet.

Happy birthday!

I should add that I am definely not married to Tara Reid. Nor have I enjoyed her Tang, as I lean to Orange Crush.

Spooky -- very sorry to hear about all this. I don't know what to say, but it's clear to me that ife is one terribly unfair gifthorse.

He's in Jennifer Jason Leigh's and Alan Cumming's "The Anniversary Party" as Leigh's violinist best pal and much is made of his resemblance to the young Peter Sellers. He's apparently a session violinist (I looked him on up Wikipedia and found him on the musicians listing on a Ryan Adams a...

Glad you're getting back there, if only for a brief time. My regards to your great group of friends up there.

Great, great news. Congratulations!

Now, I'm getting all misty eyed. [Puts on "Sunrise, Sunset" from "Fiddler on the Roof", drinks entire bottle of Manishewitz and wasabi schnapps]...

Wow, they really do seem to come in three's today -- as the inevitable third octagenerian skilled TV character actor, Dennis Weaver known mainly for one TV series passed. All three of these guys were wonderful actors and not to make light of it, but it does sound like the opening of very special &qu...

Carl Kolchak lives!

This just in from today's luncheon for Academy Award nominees... George Clooney: "I am bringing Dick Cheney as my date. He was so nice. He called me and invited me to go hunting." -- http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-02-14T024108Z_01_N...

With any luck, this thing will at least have as much legs as when Jimmy Carter got attacked by that rabbit. I CANNOT WAIT for the next Daily Show. Still, as I'm sure they'll mention, they really don't have to add very much to it. Pure real-life comedy gold, since the guy apparently wasn't too badly ...

Well, there's "Whiter Shade of Pale" (a bit overplayed...like in half the movies made between 1975 and 1989), "Brown-Eyed Girl" (played at every single wedding in the U.S. these days) and "Mellow Yellow"... :? Somewhat better IMO -- Blue Moon/Blue Moon of Kentucky, Say ...

Hollyh --

Uncle! I give. Glad to have Ray in the not-conservative fold! As an EC fan of longstanding, I know what it is to have to explain your favorite artist to others.

Thanks again for the info!

My thanks to Hollyh as well. Though I remain maybe wondering if Ray has maybe turned the corner from being dissapointed in the failings of the welfare state to being completely against it and maybe taking on other trappings of the right. He wouldn't be the first "angry young man" to go ful...