Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

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http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/324974

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Singers, songwriters, film-makers, authors and comedians 2001–2006

By PETE MILLSON

A dazzling and unique collection of photographs of many of the worlds greatest entertainers and creative geniuses. From Ricky Gervais to Keith Richards, R.E.M. to Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz to Arthur Lee or Ray Davies to Amy Winehouse, they're all here in an incisive and beautiful document from the first years of the 21st Century.


Photos for The Guardian ; probably this -

http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/ ... 0405a.html

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Guardian, 2002-04-05
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Maybe it's not quite as cool as a Gap commercial, but Elvis is now officially on the Pac Sun store playlist. I'm sure he's thrilled beyond belief.
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http://www.palisadespost.com/content/in ... ry_ID=4384

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Left to right: Elvis Costello, Nancy Covey and Richard Thompson at Covey’s farewell concert at McCabe’s, June 30, 1984.
Photo: Ellen Griffith.

Book ‘Em, Nan-O!

Nancy Covey Once Again Organizes Talent For McCabe’s as Guitar Shop Turns 50

October 30, 2008

(extract)

But the best McCabe’s concert ever booked may have been Covey’s June 1984 going-away party.

“All these people showed up: Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon. And then Elvis Costello came,” Covey says. “This is a 150-seat theatre. When Elvis walked onstage, the audience was enthralled.”
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€2 got me this sampler with a unusual E.C. selection -

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I haven't seen this 1991 cover before -

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It and some other antiquities are on this long-thought defunct site-

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/costello/150/
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johnfoyle wrote:€2 got me this sampler with a unusual E.C. selection -

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Jesus and Mary Chain - "From the upcoming reissue...." what the f***!!!

a nice way of saying, here you get the same old track that you already have!!!
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Love this ad.; I don't remember it from the time (1986) -


http://www.walrusmusicblog.com/blog/sin ... lue_chair/

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Elvis Costello and the Imposters: Club Date has been airing regularly on the Ovation channel in a 1-hour (with commercials) cut.

http://www.ovationtv.com/schedules
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Elvis Costello did the slammin I did the jammin


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Recent surfing through my cable channels turned up these TV and movie titles.

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Party Girl
I Want You
Broken
Hi Fidelity
Funny Valentines
American Gangster
North
Watching The Detectives
Blood & Chocolate
Now I'm the invisible man, and you can't see me.
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legman open to offers wrote:Recent surfing through my cable channels turned up these TV and movie titles.

45
Party Girl
I Want You
Broken
Hi Fidelity
Funny Valentines
American Gangster
North
Watching The Detectives
Blood & Chocolate
Wow Legman...that is insignificant :)

Kidding...How's the golf game this year?...I'm really struggling...low 90s...occasional upper 80s.
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Brilliant! I love SLeeveface. The Word has had some good examples of it. I hadn't checked the site, but much of it is LOL funny. The November sleeves, for example, contain some gems: check out Vera Lynn, the two uses of Stewpot's Pop Party and Uriah Heep's 'Very 'Eavy', which remarkable sleeve was part of my collection when I was a 13 year old Heep fanatic.

The YouTube 'how to sleeveface' is also great, check out Low:
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Not sure is this has been reported elsewhere but Watch Your Step was used on The Simpsons episode shown in the UK last Sunday (the one where the story of the Prince and the Pauper is parodied).
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"But [NHS] truly is egalitarian: I once came across Elvis Costello and Diana Krall in an NHS Hospital ER (A&E, as it’s known in the UK)."

http://www.andrewjaffe.net/blog/politics/000379.html
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http://www.knpr.org/psa/detailNEW.cfm?EventID=10428

Dance concert at College of Southern Nevada

Dec 6, 2008



"The Juliet Letters" will highlight the student/faculty dance concert
December 5 and 6 at CSN's Cheyenne campus.

The work was a collaboration between Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet.
This version will have the Sol String Quartet and vocalist Paul Villaluz,
with dancers. Also on the program: the CSN Dance Ensemble performing to Iron
Butterfly's "In-A Gadda-Da-Vida" (light show included), and works by Marko
Westwood and CSN's Kelly Roth.

Performances are December 5 at 7:30 and December 6 at 2:00 and 7:30 in the
Nicholas J. Horn Theater, 3200 East Cheyenne Avenue. There's a reception
after each show. Tickets are $8, $5 for students and seniors. The box office
phone number is 651-5483. Reach the CSN Dance Program at 65
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  • The Origins of the Song : Jacksons, Monk & Rowe (from The Juliet Letters), are explored by BBC Tees, including an audio clip of an interview with Jacqueline Thomas of the Brodsky Quartet.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/artic ... ture.shtml

    She says:

    "The song was actually co-written by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet."

    "We collaborated on an album called the Juliet Letters in 1992 and every song on that album was written by all five of us pretty much.

    "My dad had an office in Queen's Square, which was Linthorpe Insurance Brokers... and they were next door to Jacksons Monk & Rowe and one day when I was about five my dad came home, and because I'm Jackie, he just nicknamed me 'Jacksons Monk & Rowe' and that sort of stuck!

    "Then much later when we started writing this album together my brother Michael, who was in the quartet then, wrote the song.

    "He actually wrote the essence of the song to which we all added little bits and it was all about me and my childhood growing up."

    Curiously no mention of the other Thomas with EC connections and Teesside roots.

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PLU ( Paws , Love 'n Understanding)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g5SBxDV ... nding.html

Another , very assured version of PLU by Emily Bourke, Nanaimo, BC December 13, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31V5haf ... re=related
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Love the Paws version, though it's a shameit's on a lop as I want to know what happens after the cat goes for the pup's jugular, it really looks like it's in for the kill. Either that or it's a vampire cat.
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http://ali-ali-oxen-free.blogspot.com/2 ... acity.html

Sunday, December 28, 2008


Alison
( in Philadelphia , I think) blogs -

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I found about seven cans of house paint and the full Elvis Costello & All the Attractions discography in someone's garbage while on my run this evening.
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http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=19333

Comic fans discussing Watchmen-

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ATOM!: Say! I don't remember that Elvis Costello quote being there!

CARR: You're talking about the final panel in the collected edition? The chapter titles are part of quotations or song lyrics or lines from poems, but the comics did not reprint all the source quotes. The first issue that actually has the quote in the last panel of the issue is chapter IV, "Watchmaker." It's a quote from Albert Einstein and therefore public domain. But the first two titles are from modern songs: "At Midnight, All the Agents" is from the 1960s Bob Dylan song, "Desolation Row," and "Absent Friends" is derived from an Elvis Costello song called "The Comedians." Appropriate since this issue is basically built around the Comedian's funeral and flashback to his life.

My recollection is that it was a legal rights concern that kept the lyrics from being published but eventual permissions were received by the time the issues were collected into trade paperback. "At Midnight All the Agents..." sounded like a reference to something, but even though I was a big Elvis Costello fan, I didn't connect the phrase "Absent Friends" to the song. "The Comedians" was from a lesser Costello album, "Goodbye Cruel World" which was sandwiched between "Imperial Bedroom," which was considered a masterpiece and "Punch the Clock," which contained his first top 40 hit, "Everyday I Write The Book."

ATOM!: Lesser Costello album? Them’s is fightin’ words.

CARR: I have been a Costello fan since "My Aim is True," but let's be honest, "Goodbye Cruel World" is not Mr. McManus's shining moment. I think even he said it was over-produced. "The Comedians" also had some popularity as a Roy Orbison cover during his 1980s comeback. Curiously, the Grateful Dead apparently covered “Desolation Row” regularly. And the Grateful dead is one of the bands that Gibbons has cited as having a symmetrical album cover that he uses in one of the later issues.
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This blog comment had me puzzled -

http://inthespacebetween.blogspot.com/2 ... ht-in.html

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At the perfect moment, I came around a corner on 751 and saw a decrepit old church with the most remarkable light reflecting off its barely functional windows. Parker Palmer was talking on Speaking of Faith about courage and fear and brokenness and they played a clip of Elvis Costello song about cracks letting light in, and though the day felt heavy, the beauty around me felt like a kind of unexpected and unmerited hopefulness.

However , this seems to be whats mistakenly attributed -

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/ ... ript.shtml

(extract)


(Sound bite of music, Leonard Cohen's "Anthem")

Leonard Cohen: (Singing)

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
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The very song that you provided the link to via the excellent Howard Jacobson article on seeing him and being stirred by 'Anthem' here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 40271.html
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http://www.erwsd.cn/article/blog/2009-01-04/2546.html

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..some lyrics of Elvis Costello, matched with collages ..


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He's coming home now and here's the surprise,
You wouldn't believe the lies that he tries,
She cuts him down to his favorite size,
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws.


Song: Pad, Paws and Claws
Collage artist: TheShrinkee


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Georgie grew to hate her name, it sounded like a tiny man,
The one she had told I can't see you, but I'll call you whenever I can.


Song: Georgie and Her Rival
Collage artist: Undersquid

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He's trapped in his own parallel dimension,
That's why I'm so forgiving,
But how can I possibly forget to mention those fifty foot women
Who put the fascination back into my science fiction twin?


Song: My Science Fiction Twin
Collage artist: Trinket999

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I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny,
And slide into the telephone wire that runs under the briny
.

Song: Crawling to the U.S.A.
Collage artist: Undersquid
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-From Steves latest email newsletter

Steve Dawson will be doing a couple of songs at the Old Town School's 'British Invasion' show on
Friday, January 30th. Brit songs from 1964 and 1977. Steve will be joined by Jason Narducy on bass
and Tommi Zender on drums for "Here Comes The Night (Them) and "Blame It On Cain" (E. Costello) Nora O' Connor and Phil Angotti will also play, along with others

http://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2 ... itish.html
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