Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I've only heard a few songs from the album. I like the simple "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," the solitary life described with brutal honesty. When "American Idiot" comes on the radio it has such great energy and spirit that I naturally turn up the volume. Green Day can be fun to l...

Early Nineties Morrissey.

Here's to all of us who will be spending those family dinners keeping our opinions to ourselves while Uncle Rick goes on and on about Bill O'Reilly telling it like it is. Wow, you got Bill O'Reilly's name exactly right too. That was awesome! I know it's hard for you to cope with people who have dif...

El Vez doesn't really hate you, Bobster. El Vez could never hate you!

Happy holidays.

so lacklustre wrote:Is there such a thing as a retospective abortion kit?

You meant retroactive, not retrospective. Put down the bottle and pick up a dictionary.

pip_52 wrote:Most of Eminem's songs are very un-pc ... but I like them anyway.

Most of Eminem's songs are very un-pc, but I hate them anyway.

Here's Otis's valuable list of the sections and chapters, a great help in keeping things straight. PART 1 TELEMACHIAD 1. Telemachus The Martello tower, 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan' to 'Usurper'. pp. 9-29 2. Nestor Mr Deasy's school, 'You, Cochrane' to 'dancing coins', pp. 30-42 3. Proteus Sandymou...

Con (1896) : swindle; Arty (1901) : showily or pretentiously artistic; Phony (1900) : not genuine or real. Webster's Ninth. Section 2, chapter 11: Sirens One of Joyce's aims was to incorporate music and everyday sounds into prose, which he does throughout the novel and especially in this chapter. &...

I was on hold with their insurance company with the elevator music version of "Everyday I Write the Books". Wasn't that on Punch the Clocks ? While gathering provisions for a possible hurricane weeks ago I heard an instrumental version of 'You Bowed Down' in a supermarket. I was with anot...

The next chapter is comprised of many short sections, and we go from being tangled up in Bloom to seeing a panorama of Dublin and its inhabitants. The idea is that things are happening at the same time and Joyce is attempting to encompass everything within his artistic prism and purlieu. --The war i...

Happy birthday to Pip_52!
We have great expectations for you.

(Please ignore my signiture, it's kind of a downer.)

I liked this telescoped life very much. We would like to have known what he wrote in the diaries, but I believe I understand how he felt.

bobster wrote:That's way wrong...

It's harder to get the correct answer immediately when you don't look it up.

The bonus disc just makes me smile. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" has long been a favourite of mine, so hearing Elvis sing it is a true joy. I love the paradoxical lighthearted sadness of this, and the effortless poetry: "I'll see you in the stars above, in the tall gra...

The wonderful liner notes reveal that EC recorded 'Brilliant Disguise' as one of a series of songs he selected for George Jones, hoping he would broaden his musical horizons. But "George diplomatically failed to mention these recordings." I (trivial, context altering, metaphor-missing Mr. ...

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You are lucky!

EC covers this song on the fantastic new bonus disc for Kojak Variety but I can't conceive of him composing such lyrics. Choices: "So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes." How could she and why should she have to tell him what he sees? What nerve! "We stood at the altar, the G...

I have a lot of time for reading these days, which is always a bad sign. Of the last two chapters discussed (the funeral scene and newspaper headlines) I can't add anything to LJ's brilliant analysis. To say that I agree with it is true but misleading, as I didn't properly understand it before her e...

I also heard someone mention a song called "Thats What Friends Are For." Can anyone give me any info about this? I think it was written but not recorded. The sheet music can be found in "The Singing Dictionary," a collection of guitar and piano notation to early EC songs. Droll ...

Looks nifty. Nice job!

I was ready to bid until you mentioned Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I never knew of the sausage link, as it were, to Ulysses . The great American sausage maker Jimmy Dean shares Joyce's first name but beyond that the two are unrelated. Section 2, chapter 4 (Otis is right, chapters or episodes are not numbered in the text, I was supplying them mentally.) We are intro...

I'm not sure if anyone is still enthusiastic about this project, but I'll give my reading notes on the first section anyway. The myth of The Odyssey is the arc to Joyce's novel and provides the framework, but knowing that story and those figures isn't mandatory, although that information can be usef...

Has Elvis written any songs about lawnmowers? He'd absolutely love that!! :D The closest thing I can think of is from a cover song: "Lawn could stand another mowing, funny I don't even care." That would probably not delight him! Wonderful thread. I recall listening to "Indoor Firewor...

Obviously you can't have peace when you have WHAR, or are being needled by Bamboo, or held at Stanley knife point by Stripped Jack Naked. There is nothing wrong with disagreement, but personal attacks (as distinguished from lighthearted wordplay!) are not a good thing. Of course, it's tempting to in...