Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I'm getting a mattress delivered on Monday. How much should I tip the people who deliver it?

Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration

What I thought was a little heartless about the way the whole thing ended was that Margene ditched her in the middle of their hanging out because Bill called from the parking lot--and then she never came back! And Bill's car had to have been left in the parking lot overnight! And they were making ou...

Spooky, there are some new characters that make Roman Grant look like a kindly old grandpa! WSS, I think it's interesting how it seemed like Bill basically backed off the Serbian chick because Margene liked her too much. Although within the internal logic of the show, she's be kind of superfluous, b...

Best restaurant meal of my life was in London. I think the place was called Bengal Village? I took a picture of the front, which I will email to you if I can find it.

Btw, would you know how much the smallest self-contained rooms in NYC cost to rent? Those minute rooms with barely enough room to move just for yourself, where I'm guessing you'd share an external bathroom but might have a stove, a small fridge, a bed and a cupboard. And a window hopefully. Um, pro...

bamboo: Last August, I signed a year lease on a place that, unfortunately, came with a mentally unstable roommate. When it got to the point where I was starting to actually get scared, the landlord let me break the lease. (They ended up in court, but that's a different story.) In December, I found a...

Congratulations, verbal! Both on the chatting up and your impressive show of restraint.

I've started getting into "Buffy," several years later than the rest of the world, apparently. I'm a little of the way into Season 3, and though I like it, I don't really see how it's inspired such slavish devotion. Maybe that happens in Season 4?

Goddamn spoilers! I didn't see the last one yet! Although I wasn't really expecting Bill to get married AGAIN. I think this show is one of the best-written and best-acted things on tv, now that "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood" are both off the air. And despite the patriarchal setup ...

This weekend I'm moving for the third time in under a year. Let's all hope this place works out.

Her new album is pretty good, but I think I like "Let It Die" better... I always skip the first track on "The Reminder," which I don't think I should have to do!

Would any of our non-New Yorkers believe how hard it is to find a decent two-bedroom for $1800? In case you're interested, it is very very hard.

Rough Trade Shops Indiepop compilation... Did somebody here tell me about this?

These are eerily similar to how you all look in real life!

It doesn't hurt that they are both extremely easy on the eyes. I saw the first eppie and liked it, even though the seduction song was kind of a ripoff of Beck's "Debra."

Last night the clock in my gym was broken, and the instructor didn't know it. we ended up doing 20 extra minutes of cardio. Now I just want to sleep all day...

Finally getting around to Everything is Illuminated after buying it for 50 cents at a church. Imagine my surprise upon finding that it is actually quite well written and engaging...

Recently saw La Vie en Rose , the Edith Piaf biopic. Interesting movie, but terribly edited. All the characters but her were sort of this interchangeable mass, and though the film skips around in time, none of the characters age but her. As long as you don't try to keep track of the year or the char...

The weird thing about that article, besides, as Blue noted, flavors of the week trashing rock gods, is the one who hated the ABBA album. Since when do people listen to a whole album of ABBA?

That's awesome! Any other plans while you're up there?

Apparently you can become a minister of the Church of Universal Life on the Internet. You just click the button that says "Ordain Me!"

Chrille wrote:I'm open to most music. I do like Camera Obscura. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have considered seeing them .

Oops, that's what I get for not reading carefully!

But do you write on the package, "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL (DATE HERE)"?

Um... I gave my dad a book (which I will later borrow) and then he helped me finish the Saturday crossword. That is what we do. It is about the same amount of self-serving as when I gave my mom some nice cheese for Mother's Day, which she then invited me to eat with her (I accepted).

"If You Were in My Movie" - Suzanne Vega

She's playing around here soon--unfortunately, that night I'll be teaching people how to take the GRE. Oh well.