Elvis Costello Fan Forum

My dad's birthday is today. I called him and asked if Thurmond's death was the best birthday present he could ever wish for. He said yes. But I think he likes the Calexico record I got him, too.

I think it was Faith, by George Michael. Whose birthday it is today, incidentally. Happy fortieth, George.

Bambooneedle looks like a matinee idol. WIll you be coming to a theater near me anytime soon?

Last night was the Fête de la Musique here in Paris: music everywhere, free concerts, girls playing the triangle outside the Comédie Française, etc. No street corner was without the requisite guy selling beer out of a cooler (you know that in New York, those guys would have been arrested in...a New ...

ReadyToHearTheWorst wrote:wonder when they will reappear?

I hope never.

I have to say, I tried to convert someone for three years, and it wasn't until "You Belong to Me" on the AF bonus disc that the boy looked up and said, "You're right, he does rock out." But I don't know if it's my favorite.

Huzzah! El Vez is back! Nothing could make me happier! Well, maybe if I had all my books read and certain boys would call me more often...

You can say a letter is a letter is a letter, whether it be email or posts on a message board, but I wrote a real letter the other day (to someone all of you know), and it is different. I write differently with pen in hand.

I cannot figure out how to do the posting picture nonsense, so you're just going to have to bear with me.

http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=67b ... 31&notag=1

Some are of me, some are pictures I took in Paris. I'm sure you can tell which is which.

I cannot stand it when people talk about prison as if it's some sort of Disneyland dream vacation. Have you ever been to jail, Sweet Pear, or talked to someone who's served time, or worked in the prison system? It's not fun, it's not a reward for breaking the law. And even if there were all the amen...

I miss handwritten letters. So much nicer than emails; the heft, the handwriting, the delayed gratification. And letters always seem so much more coherent than emails, they seem to encourage paragraphs, rather than disconnected sentences. You know what I mean? All of my friends have proven to be ver...

Okay, I'm not exactly in love anymore. He's very lukewarm (is that an oxymoron?) on the subject of Elvis. And he snores, but won't admit it. "It's more of a purring sound," he says. ("Je ronfle pas, je ronronne.") But I still like him a lot.

oily slick wrote:on my 30th birthday i went to key west, got a hotel room and didn't come out.

Then why does your location say St. Louis? I think someone's pants are on fire.

I got hit by a car when I was 14. It was horribly traumatic; I broke my tibia and my fibula, had to get a metal rod put down the middle of my tibia (leaving me with a six-inch scar on my knee), stayed out of school for four months and was on crutches for six. I was picking glass out of my hair and m...

I just finally finished "Swann's Way" How long did it take? I've been reading that for months and I'm not past page 100... some other books got in the way, like Jorge Luis Borges complete works Vols I II and III. Books are soo cheap in Buenos Aires. It took me about a week. But I've got a...

so lacklustre wrote:Top Ten Belgians.

1 ummmmmmmmmm

Dude, René Magritte.

sulkygirl wrote:

Poppet wrote:

PlaythingOrPet wrote:I'm aka UBunny by the way.....

dude, will you STOP changing your name already???? i am so confused!

As I recall, PlaythingOrPet is a SHE, poppet (or, the artist formerly known as Leah)...

Dude, it's just an interjection.

You guys are making me so jealous. Worst of all is, were I in the States this summer, I could parlay this into a visit to my aunt and grandfather, both of whom I adore, both of whom would provide me with plane fare and a place to stay... Excuse me while I go beat my head against a wall.

There was some kind of odd glitch on the other site: the date got changed to September, 1999, which meant no one could post "so soon after their last post," and new posts (by people like costellopunk!! and bambooneedle.) got bumped to the top of old threads. Very annoying. But taz was kind...

I just finally finished "Swann's Way" (volume one of In Search of Lost Time ) and am working my way through several versions of the Tristan and Yseut legend. The next week is all about Medieval Lit (the exam looms a bit more dreadfully each day). Before bed, I read a little bit of this boo...

This is getting ridiculous. I had another dream about it last night, where I was in a nightclub, and it turned out that rats carried the virus, and they started to crawl out of the sink and everyone started panicking and running in the streets. Madonna was there, trying to get in with some of the ba...

Remember when I made a haiku thread, and Rope challenged me to write a sonnet? And then I did? Well, I asked for one in return. So I guess this is all my fault, sorry, guys.

My aunt got a dragon tattooed on her left boob for her fortieth--I forget how old she is now, maybe 53 or something, but I think she's still into it. I refuse to get a tattoo, because the only cool one I've ever thought of (think of "Le Violon d'Ingres" by Man Ray), I saw it on this girl a...

I am very, very sure that he isn't gay. I can't tell you how I know this, but I do. Very, very sure.

A Rope Leash is not in trouble, I don't think, not any more than usual. He told me he wouldn't post until his sonnet was done.