Elvis Costello Fan Forum

reconstruction site is the brand new album by winnipeg's folk/punk band the weakerthans and i cannot recomend it (along with their other two albums) enough. if you haven't heard them than give this album a try. the lyrics read like poetry and john k samson has this incredible tender voice everyone s...

like a lot of the stuff i post this is dated back a couple months ago. i usually solve the problem before posting the poem. in fact looking at this now its not as good as i remember it being. as far as drinking goes, i'm a lot more sober than i let on. anyway, better stuff is coming. i have been rea...

maybe maybe this will break me maybe maybe it already has am i feeling cracks forming in my personality as my moods violently swing fot the fences? this anger pulling itself up inside me i swear it was never there before i swear i will push it back down i will kill it i don't want it but it claws at...

i'm starting to think that perspective builders have to come from negative experiences. if everything is hunky dory we don't feel a need to change our perspectives. than there are idiots like me who just don't learn when their world falls apart. my wife took off. my son of three years turned out to ...

new waits album. excellent. tom waits is a relativley recent discovery of mine. i got in to him probably three years ago and the man is just a genius. how'd you get a hold of that boot blue? i've got a couple songs off it downloaded. he's friggin hilarious doing what's he building in there.

from last october until probably this july i went through my beard most of a year. it got too damn hot for the thing. plus i've almost cheered up a bit. what i got outta ec's beard years was that he was just so pissed at everything that he wanted to look like he just didn't give a fuck.

i don't know what really happened between them but i gotta tell you it really sucks being the last to know that you're getting dumped.

i love the cover of almost blue. tym comes in at a distant second.

i know that the live solo version of motel matches is on one of these reissues. is it the incredible version where ec is playing the electric piano? i hope so.

i can't listen to playboy to a man, sweet pear (go ahead and start crucifying), eisenhower blues, most of ptc (just too happy sounding), and most of gcw.

i thoroughly enjoyed adaptation. i liked the concept and the performances were great. i just felt there was so much going on on so many levels and that last scene, to me anyway, is just so the way things are. brought a tear to my eye.

i'm kinda posting this letter to see if i'm in the right here. i'm the one who volenteered to help bob out when everyone else gave up. can i really give up on him now? i'm not good at these things. drama gives me such a big headahce. any advice?

it was two days ago we were just sitting around in your apartment listening to nick cave drinking just us your apartment was still empty from the robbery they grabbed what they could they left the tv and the stereo too big that big hole where your door knob used to be was staring at us your stupid r...

the pixies
talking heads
jawbreaker (i did get to see jets to brazil and they kicked ass)
the descendents (i saw all. not the same)
devo

went to the used store again:

birthday party-peel sessions
less than jake-anthem
oingo boingo-skeletons in the closet
nada surf-let go

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.

hmmmm.....what does float my boat? let's see: -those pretty girls who don't know (or at least don't care) that they are pretty. -bad movies on hbo at three am. usually starring the likes of eric roberts, gina gershwan(sp?), corben bernsen, or clint howard. -28 days later (it's the best post apocolyp...

saving money for school is keeping me from buying cds at the moment. but i did get a copy of the new joe jackson in a used store. it's pretty good. the bonus live tracks kick ass.

i may be wrong about this but is the new frank black coming out sept 23?

spent three days drunk. we've taken to drinking at the beach late at night. i lost my wallet and my baseball bat in the gulf. why did i have a baseball bat? i don't know. we had a birthday party for a friend of mine and i've been told i spent the whole night hitting on her little sister. we had a dr...

my favorite ec obscurity (that kinda rhymes) at the moment is speak darkly my angel followed by unwanted number. i've got 'em both on a boot and i think they're great songs. i'm sure plenty of people here have heard unwanted number but i wonder if anyone here has heard the original version of speak ...

"is it really that hard for you to just stay married?"

although i realise he is kind of in a constant state of marraige or at least engagement. the man moves quick. like bunny.

i'm gonna try to make it to see rem in austin in september. outside of that i've gotta lotta school and work ahead of me. i can't see myself going to too many concerts.

leonard cohen.


who didn't see that coming?

hurricane claudette didn't hit here. weather men were wrong. big surprise, i know. i still had to stay at work because of flooding. got paid the whole time. bling.

last month i was standing in a pool smoking a cigarette (i have since quit) and drinking a beer at two in the morning. full moon. friends all over. radio blasting joe strummer and mescaleros' global a go-go. i was talking to a pretty girl. she went to talk on her cell phone and i floated on my back ...