Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Um, I forget. One of them. He had a bigger role in House of Games.

Danny wrote:And Ronan Keating could still be the one to take Alison global.

This is way off-topic, but Ronan Keating's song "If Tomorrow Never Comes" is in my Top Five of Songs That I Hate So Much I Would Rather Flay Myself Than Sit Through.

I saw Things Change. My grandpa plays a mobster in it.

Yes, I am leaving Paris. A contre-coeur. Going home, specifically, to my parents' house.

How do you feel about being deemed "nonessential"?

Study. Close bank accounts. Clean my apartment. Pack. Say goodbye to Paris. Mope.

I think it's cute; she's got to be, what, fifteen? Sixteen? She's allowed to be dumb in her journal. However, I think online journals are the worst idea in the world and anyone who keeps deserves any comments they get.

I'm actually kind of sad that I missed this. I like chaos. Although I don't think I'd like being stuck in an elevator for however many hours.

Can you imagine being in New York City and seeing stars?

bobster wrote:I even love "A Boy Named Sue"!

What do you mean, you even love "A Boy Named Sue"? Shel Silverstein is one of my favorite poets!

I must take a moment to praise the greatest condiment ever invented: mustard butter. You take a stick of butter, two or three minced cloves of garlic, and a tablespoon or two of mustard. Mush it all together. You can put it on bread, or use it to sautée things...but I'm telling you, three young wome...

Um, I just signed up, but with my special spam address, where no spam actually goes. It likes my real account. I can't believe spam is smarter than I am.

I am also glad you're fine, Spooky. Or, you know, not fine, but with sore muscles and not a broken bone or eight. My grandfather insisted on driving into his eighties. My mother pointed out that he had cataracts and couldn't read stop signs. "It's okay," he said. "Mary Ruth tells me w...

Maybe Pangloss has syphilis because Voltaire agrees with Locke. Locke depends on a sensual experience of the world, i.e., he only takes into account what he can perceive with his senses. Pangloss, who refuses to believe the vidence of his senses, comes down with syphilis, and what does he lose? One ...

El Vez, I love my husband very much, and most of the time we get along wonderfully, but his mother is a total witch! (To use a polite word!) She insists on coming over for lunch every Sunday, and she always makes me feel like my cooking isn't good enough. She insists that my husband thinks my cookin...

See? I knew you'd all come around, even Rope. I now have several very satisfying handwritten correspondances going on; I think I'd forgotten how nice it is to get a little something in the mail, as it is even nicer than I remembered. My offer still stands. I'm sure there's a limit, but I haven't rea...

But Vogue, you haven't mentioned the candy! I think England's candy is so much better than America's. And you can get Cadbury Creme Eggs all year long!

My grandmother died recently, after a long struggle with Parkinson's, which robbed her of her mobility and memory, but never her kindness or wit. "Veronica," which I've always liked (somehow missed the time when it was a hit), was a huge comfort to me in the last few years of her life. May...

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Maybe it's because they have such a melodic accent, they always sound like they're singing anyway. I have a rough time understanding it, but I could listen for hours.

Are you saying that Voltaire identifies with Martin? I think he's saying constant pessimism, no matter how founded it may be, is ultimately just as useless as baseless optimism, because it's just another way of avoiding engaging with the question of evil. Martin's Manicheanism lets him just sink int...

The other day there was a girl in the post office who was trying to buy a postcard stamp, and I stepped in to translate for her, because the guy just shrugged whenever she said, "POSTCARD STAMP." So I tell the guy what she wants, and he says, "quel pays?" so I say, "what cou...

I really liked Adaptation, too. The part where Donald is trying to think of movies about flowers and says, "What about Flowers for Algernon?" cracked me up the next day as I was walking down the street by myself.

I said, fuck Descartes, he's too boring, and so is Pascal. So I'm just hoping they don't come up on the exam. And as a special treat to myself, I started the 18th century with Voltaire's Candide . I know there are Voltaire fans out there, and if you aren't, you should be, so I'd like to invite all o...

In any case, glad to see you're not one of those "lips-that-beef-shall-never-touch-mine" types! Do you mean lips that touch beef? Because if lips that beef shall never touch mine, I'd be staring down a lifetime of celibacy. All lips beef now and again. I beefed about a stupid, bratty Amer...

-hitchhiking, getting a ride from someone who steers with his elbows because he has to keep relighting his joint -meeting someone from the Internet for the first time at two am in the back of a taxi -sharing a hotel room with a guy you met in the lobby because only double rooms are available and nei...

how's the ravonettes cd miss b.a.? i've never heard anything by them but the cover is so damn cool i want to buy it. I wish I could tell you. It won't play in my CD player, despite all of my ministrations. And neither will the Jayhawks' "Hollywood Town Hall," which is the CD I forgot befo...