Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

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I havent seen this 1991 poster before -

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Yes, Teacher!

http://herlihy12apclasses.blogspot.com/ ... of-92.html

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Homework for week of 9/2

Tuesday: Read Elvis Costello article "Rockin' Around the Clock" and annotate for diction and tone. Think about how Costello tells us about himself through his subject.


This blog is for students and parents who want to have up-to-date information on my 12 AP literature class. On this site, you will find homework posted on a weekly basis, as well as any explanation of longer assignments.
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johnfoyle wrote:Yes, Teacher!

http://herlihy12apclasses.blogspot.com/ ... of-92.html

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Homework for week of 9/2

Tuesday: Read Elvis Costello article "Rockin' Around the Clock" and annotate for diction and tone. Think about how Costello tells us about himself through his subject.


This blog is for students and parents who want to have up-to-date information on my 12 AP literature class. On this site, you will find homework posted on a weekly basis, as well as any explanation of longer assignments.
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The students have to wade through this -

http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/ ... 1101a.html


Since it was written in mid.2002 I wonder if any of them will spot if, in what Elvis 'tells us about himself ', his then collapsing relationship and starting of a new one is apparent.
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I bet you've sent Ms Herlihy an email, John! I imagine she looks a bit like Christina Hendricks...

What a great assignment, I want to be in her class!
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The Jonas Brothers name-check Elvis again -



http://www.latimes.com/features/lifesty ... 8037.story


September 7, 2008

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This summer the Jonas Brothers -- Kevin, 20, Joe, 19, and Nick, 15 -- were hard to ignore even if you never tuned in to the Disney Channel, home to the trio's reality show and original movie, " Camp Rock." The New Jersey-bred siblings appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, were named in Vanity Fair's "Hollywood's Next Wave" and performed on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "Live With Regis and Kelly.

Which musicians do you admire who you also think have a great look?

NJ: A music influence as well as a style influence is Elvis Costello -- he was always true to who he was as an artist, and he's never lost that. From then until now, he's always incredible.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but EC's dad didn't really appear in the advert for R White's, did he? Ross sang the catchy song, and I believe a young EC was on backing vocals. The man in the advert wore glasses and I assume that is where the rumour about it being EC's dad began. He was a proper actor.
Ross Mc Manus supplied the music, with a young EC on backing vocals.
The actor in the clip is actually Julian Chagrin.

I'm sure I've seen a version of this ad, probably on one of those Channel 4 "100 greatest Adverts" shows, where at the end it reveals the the band performing including a young Elvis during his 'longish hair & dungarees' pre-fame phase.
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Is there a video of this ad ? I would like to see a young Elvis Was his dad in the ad or just wrote the music?
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Is this the one sung by Ross McManus?

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That's the one.
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http://prge.blogspot.com/2008/09/song-contest_24.html

Punk Rock Gift Exchange

....a like minded gift exchange for those who knit & crochet in a punk state of mind...


Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Song Contest

I am sorry it has taken me so long to post, life just goes by so fast sometimes before you know it the month is done.

1. Watching the Detective-Elvis Costello - For this song I chose the Lady Detective Hat.

http://kneuroticknitter.blogspot.com/20 ... es-q1.html

2. My shoes Keep Walking Back to You-Elvis Costello - For this song I chose these knitted boots.

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/na_knitti ... 84,00.html

3.Green Shirt-Elvis Costello - And for my last song I chose this sweater.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall08/PATTretrofit.html

This contest was fun, but much harder then I thought it was going to be.
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Some interesting EC items on sale here:

http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/elvi ... er/0/false
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The Undertones have released an anthology with a some unreleased demos. One track is called Party Party - they were asked to record a song for the film of that name, but were beaten by Elvis! A bit of trivia there for you!
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http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liv ... -21926665/

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David Knopov with his Hilda Ogden prints


Who wants Marilyn Monroe when there’s our Hilda?

Sep 30 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post



A FAMILIAR face in an unfamiliar guise will be greeting diners at one of the city’s best restaurants.

Ta-ra Chuck, three silk screen prints of classic Coronation Street character Hilda Ogden, is now brightening up the walls of 60 Hope Street, as part of the Independents strand of the Biennial.

The prints mark the 25th anniversary edition of David Knopov’s series of silk prints featuring some of the show’s most classic characters – and the artist says Lenny Henry, Bill Nighy and Elvis Costello are among the famous names who have bought a Hilda.

Knopov, from Sefton Park, said he had the idea to revive the piece after taking a look back on his favourite work spanning his career.

He studied at Liverpool Art College in the 1980s and came up with the Corrie idea while still a student.

At the same time, he was pursuing a second career as the singer with leading tribute act Perfectly Frank, which he still runs to this day.

“It’s very linear in here, it needed a bit of camp and kitsch,” he smiles, nodding to the usually sensible surroundings of the restaurant.

“It was a joke, like everything else I do in life, that I took to another level.

“It was an antidote to the whole Warhol, Marilyn thing.

“I wanted people to take them down and stick up Hilda and be proud of their cultural heritage.

“Even though the characters are not on the programme any more, they’ve still got a place in British people’s hearts.”
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I can't see Diana going for that one hanging on the wall next to the grand piano
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The film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People came dangerously close to being hit by the Curse of Costello

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicbl ... oundtracks
Producer Stephen Woolley and I almost fell out over the soundtrack to How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. At an earlier stage in its life, the film featured several classic tracks, including Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols and Alison by Elvis Costello. Stephen, who produced the film along with Elizabeth Karlson, was not convinced these songs were right and replaced them with For Reasons Unknown by the Killers and Enough Love by Duffy.

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Listening to the album, I think Stephen was probably right about Alison. The female lead, played by Kirsten Dunst, is called Alison and it might have been a bit too "on the nose" to have Elvis Costello crooning out her name. Of all the contemporary songs in the film, the Duffy track that replaces it has the best chance of becoming a classic.
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http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008 ... sh-emmons/

October 1, 2008, 11:13 am
Living With Music: A Playlist by Josh Emmons
By Dwight Garner



Josh Emmons’s October 2008 Playlist:

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The following songs have all helped me to more fully enter into or escape from various emotional conditions, depending on what’s been needed at the time. It’s funny how music can do this — calibrate one’s mood up or down, like nicotine and religion — and, I suspect, mysterious despite all the claims made by mystics and scientists.

5) Big Sister’s Clothes, Elvis Costello. “She’s got eyes like saucers / Oh, you think she’s a dish.” The Shakespeare of pop music, Elvis Costello warns us again that love involves so many masks and forces us to play so many parts that we’d be well advised to bypass the whole charade if such a thing were possible. As with the Fall, I could have chosen any of hundreds of Costello songs but went with this one because it’s a particularly good example of his poetic genius, veering masterfully between joy and melancholy.

Josh Emmons’s most recent novel is “Prescription for a Superior Existence.”
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... e1005.html

Q&A: Nick Lowe

by Ed Masley - Oct. 5, 2008
The Arizona Republic

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Q: Did you and Elvis set out to make a New Wave-flavored record with Armed Forces?


A: When we did his first album, and to a certain extent his second one, I was the producer, he was this kid that had been signed and had to sort of do what I said. But after a while, it was clear that Elvis wasn't just some goon who was going to have 10 minutes in the spotlight, maybe have a couple hits and then clear off. And I became more a facilitator and a sort of cheerleader.

Q: Those changing roles didn't seem to hurt your friendship any.


A: We were and still are very good friends. He was a great fan of the band I was in, Brinsley Schwarz. He used to come and see us, especially when we played up in Liverpool and the northwest of England, because that's where he came from. We were playing in the Cavern Club one night, the Brinsleys, and Elvis came in, or Declan as his name is, and I said, "Look, there's that bloke. I'm going to buy him a drink and see what his story is." He's quite a bit younger than I am, and I don't know, I always felt a bit of a big-brotherly thing toward him, a sort of slightly disapproving older brother.
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http://www.steamboatpilot.com/photos/2008/oct/05/14904/

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Record albums may be a thing of the past, but Elvis Costello still is a favorite on the TV at Noddles & More in Steam­boat Springs.

Buy a print of this photo-

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"here lie the records that she scratched..." Just watched the video for SLC this weekend (pretty slick circa '90 type video, all monochrome and tastefully styled). Watching and listening I couldn't help but think that if it wasn't for the scary hair it might have been big it's so full of hooks. Now I'm determined to check to see if it was a different take as the single, and it seemed longer.
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Vern posts to listerv-

On tonight's episode of The Simpsons , a sequence devoted to Marge and Homer's tracking Bart
via GPS featured the recording of EC's "Watch Your Step."
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johnfoyle wrote:Vern posts to listerv-

On tonight's episode of The Simpsons , a sequence devoted to Marge and Homer's tracking Bart
via GPS featured the recording of EC's "Watch Your Step."
Yeah I heard that from the other room - a good 20 seconds or so.
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EC got a shout-out during the intro to Daniel Levitin's appearance on CBC's The Hour last night.
Dr. Levitin in a former record producer turned neuroscientist (and my former prof at McGill!), author of This Is Your Brain on Music. Interesting book, interesting interview re. his latest book, The World in Six Songs, especially if you liked Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia.
Watch it here:

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=880018690
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http://www.onmilwaukee.com/music/articl ... s1008.html

Bobby Tanzilo writes

(extract)

Sonny Clark's "Leapin' and Lopin'" has the inimitable Billy Higgins behind the kit and trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, and tenor saxophonists Charlie Rouse and Ike Quebec sweetening things on this session led by one of Blue Note's premier pianists. Elvis Costello fans, be sure to listen closely to "Deep in a Dream," you just might hear a significant section of the melody from "Peace in Our Time."

http://www.amazon.com/Leapin-Lopin-Sonn ... 408&sr=8-1

Leapin' & Lopin'
Sonny Clark
1961
Latest re-issue September 16, 2008
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