Elvis in book discussion, Brooklyn, July 26 2016 - full recording

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http://observer.com/2016/08/elvis-coste ... -brooklyn/

Elvis Costello and Mary-Louise Parker Sing Each Other’s Praises in Brooklyn

“I’m not being enigmatic,” Elvis Costello said the other night at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, as he took off his trademark dark-framed glasses and slipped on shades. “The lights are just bright.”

“We could turn off the lights…” responded actress Mary-Louise Parker.

On cue, the auditorium darkened. When Mary-Louise Parker asks you to do something, you do it.

Parker and Costello were in Brooklyn on July 26 to shed light on the craft of memoir writing. Parker’s book, a collection of hypothetical “thank you notes” written to men from her past, present and future entitled Dear Mr. You, was released in paperback in June, while Costello published his 674-page autobiography, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, last October to acclaim. “Most rock autobiographies,” wrote Dwight Garner in The New York Times, “seem tossed off and phoned in: tour souvenirs. Not this one.”

The pair had closely read each other’s work; the actress quoted passages back to Costello, surprising the songwriter who “never anticipated anybody would read it.” Why anyone would want to is beyond him: “It’s been hard enough to live this life without anybody else having to live it, too.”

The self-effacing Costello, who sat on the stage folded over, arms and legs crossed, angled away from Parker and moderator Jason Gots (creator of the Big Think podcast), praised Dear Mr. You, describing it as “unstinting in its intimacy, both emotional and physical.” He cited Parker’s letter “Dear Oyster Picker,” which frames her father’s death as an appreciation of the farmer who grew what ended up being his last meal, as encompassing “a whole book’s worth” of emotion and scope.

Parker noted that she doesn’t believe in endings. “Definitive punctuation is completely overrated,” she said, her dark eyes darting around the room. “The moments were cracked open–they weren’t hatched completely.” And framing the book as letters allowed her to not really write about herself—instead, she’s “just the device.”

Indeed, Parker insisted her book isn’t even a memoir. “If it were, it would be a pretty crappy one,” she told the Observer in a phone call after the event, saying that the real story of her life would include more women in it, not to mention accounts of her acting career. “I hated that it was called [memoir], because that’s really all an actress would be expected to write. But you can’t really put it on the table at Barnes and Noble with the sign ‘Epistolaries.’ ”

A rose by any other name. If Parker chooses, Dear Mr. You could someday serve the same purpose for which Costello plans on using Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink: “I’m glad I’ve got it all down there because one day, when I can’t remember any of it, I’ll be glad that someone can read it to me.

“Hopefully,” he added, “somebody kind—and wearing a nice nurse’s uniform.”

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The photographer has tweeted a alternate photo - https://twitter.com/Maslovsaslov/status ... 9395263489


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Interesting. When you go to the link that featured the first photo by Sasha Maslov to appear - SJP leaning forward , hair rather tangled etc - you'll now find this one. It's even , IMHO, more peculiar.

http://observer.com/2016/08/elvis-coste ... -brooklyn/


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St. Francis College Welcomes Mary-Louise Parker & Elvis Costello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYq6aTPeqIY


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJb1Cg_IDIc


56 minute recording of the discussion
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Here's the McCartney part:

Q: Would you ever work with Paul McCartney again?

EC's answer: Well, I sort of am, in a sense, working with him again. I recently saw the package of an edition of the songs that we wrote together. Unbelievably, 25 years ago, we wrote about 15 songs together-- I worked with him on some four songs for s record called "Flowers in the Dirt" -- which it's come time for them to be reviewed. They've made very beautiful, very lavish package, which obviously won't be in everybody's Christmas stocking. It's a very beautiful, you know, they really do a wonderful job and it was wonderful to go to see the -- you know, you very rarely see proofs these days, printed proofs, everything is on a computer screen -- so there were actual high-gloss proofs of the artwork. And they had done a wonderful job. And they included photographs I don't remember being taken. Some of me sitting at the back of the studio, like this, trying to look thoughtful, trying to look like a producer, while he played bass. So, I think they're going to issue, in the package, a whole disc of our collaborative work, which is seven performances that were, I supposed, demos that were made immediately after writing the songs, and six performances with the band, his current band, which I sort of coproduced I suppose -- or I sang on them or featured certainly on the final record. So, that's the answer.
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6 songs with Paul's band? Very nice.
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I trust u can burn an audio copy of this night please doc. Maybe our old friend Coln can use brotherapostle pics to make Artwork too. See u three weeks from tonight at the usual meet up spot. I'll drive
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