Elvis Costello Fan Forum

looks like my limited presence on the board is going to be a lot more limited for the next couple days. hurricane (or is it still a tropical storm?) claudette is supposed to make land fall around two pm tomorrow right off the coast here in corpus. this means i am to report directly to work. do not p...

i love the buckley version also. john cale sings the version in the movie and wainwright does the one on the soundtrack. weird i know. plus i have john cale doing it live with strings on a bootleg. good stuff.

conan. can't watch the others.

is it possible to not be a ramones fan? i hope not. the ramones really were the band that turned me on to punk rock. i had a binder in school that had the ramones logo on it and i wrote a punch of other punk bands all over it and wrote on the bottom: e plurabis unom (i can't spell in dead languages ...

i count after the flash of lightning 1 mississippi 2 mississippi 3 mississippi 4 mississ- thunder 4 miles away i'm still such a kid when we get a storm live in south texas long enough you learn how to pray for rain and when it does rain you should be a part of it so i run outside to catch my death e...

this is where i'm at tonight leonard cohen-hallelujah (this is the version john cale sings, i'm really not too clear about wether he rewrote parts or wether cohen wrote it like this for him.) I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for ...

i love the name benjamen. i always knew i'd name my son ben. sigh.

girl's names i like are colleen, katy, penny, suzanne, alison (no suprise there), and i liked the name brianne until i got dumped by one.

elvis mentioned conversing with ringo in the notes for the ib reissue. i'm sure they're well aquainted (sp? dear god i need spellcheck).

i would say something but i'm too busy laughing my ass off. one month shy of being twenty four but still fourteen at heart.

i'm all about can't stand up. it's my favorite cover he ever did and it just always seemed so right for him to coer it. i love the way he does it live and i fully feel it when he sings the "vow that we made..." line. coming in second is accidents will happen. i always thought that his grea...

i watch my smoke dance through the air while stirring my coffee absent mindedly and staring out a window this is my last pack i started smoking when i was fourteen at a friends house it was my birthday and i wanted to celebrate i remember being little and watching my dad smoke camels and i just want...

joan jett does a good rendition of the mary tyler moore show song also.

apologies to blue chair.

on the subject of cover songs me first and the gimie gimmies put out a new album today. all r&b songs. if i had money i'd get it.

Costellopunk, just how young is she? Are we talking Animal House? she's eighteen and i'm gonna be twenty four in august. she just finished high school and a semester of college. high school was five years ago for me and i've been in an out of colege for the past four years. i realize in the long ru...

you noticed that too? chill out everybody. have faith in the man. don't even act like you're not gonna buy the album. if anyone can pull this off it's our man ec.

i've been meaning to put my two cents in on this. i have always thoroughly enjoyed painted from memory. do i listen to it on a regular basis? no. would i use it to get someone into ec? no. it's a mood album. i would be worried if i was in the mood for it very often. it is a dark album that really fo...

otis, i think anyone with ears would love that cover. i love a good cover song and very little is off limits in my mind. i even adore gwen stefani covering almost blue. it's about the music more than any kind of allegiance to specific singers.

i'm trying so hard not to judge this album until i hear it. ec has yet to dissapoint me. who knows, maybe happiness can be contagious.

i'm not about to say these were the best albums, they just came out at the right time for me: 1. jawbreaker-dear you 2. frank black-teenager of the year 3. ec-all this useless beauty 4. kristin hersh-hips and makers 5. elliott smith-either/or 6. weezer-the blue album 7. rem-monster 8. social distort...

not proud of this:

guns and roses-appetite for destruction.

one true thing:

payback's a bitch.

i've been hanging around with the cute girl. nothing serious. i thnk she wants a little more from me, but she'a a lot younger than i thought she was and she's never been in a relationship and i don't want to be her first boyfriend. why fuck up this perfectly good friendship with all the ridiculous b...

i'm always writing rope. well, i'm making little stabs at language anyway. i'm working on the uplifting hopeful thing. trying to get out of that rut. i've been so damn busy. work, school, blah blah blah. writing is always the ulitmate catharsis. i've got today and tomorrow off of everything so i'll ...

if you ever actually get that bored i am smashmypane on aim.

i'm seconding bowie's cactus and cake's i will survive and adding: happiness is a warm gun-the breeders fairytale of new york-no use for a name i can't forget-the pixies trouble-kristen hersh i don't wanna grow up, california sun, and take it as it comes-the ramones needle in the hay-bad astronaut a...

been busy, busy, busy. just dropping this off. be back soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i was born here but it never feels like home no matter how hard i try to make it the city i live in hasn't felt like home in quite a while and when it di...