Elvis when you least expect it
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Driving home from work one day last week I witnessed an incident of road rage. A Ford Explorer from WVa carrying a heavyset guy with a crewcut and a Ford pickup truck with Hillbilly Woodcarving painted on the side driven by an actual Hillbilly, complete with faded overalls, the Hatfield/McCoy hat, the long scary Deliverance hair and a big wooden stick. These guys stopped in the middle of the road and got out of their vehicles and began to scream and threaten each other, almost but not quite coming to blows. Hillbilly dude is shaking his stick at the fat guy, fat guy's got a fist the size of Kansas. It was this strange fighting dance: words, threatening gestures, back off. One of them mouths off and it starts again. I've got my cell thinking, should I call the police and if I do, what do I tell them? I keep waiting for the director to yell "cut!" Then they do start fighting. Fat guy's going to kill Hillbilly Man, so I call 911. Before I can finish punching the numbers, an off duty cop pulls up between them. Anyway, what's playing on my cd player? This Is Hell.
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I walked into a bar in the Lakewood section of Dallas last week just in time to hear Alison starting on the jukebox. Next song was some Waylon Jennings followed by Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds. I was obviously the only one to know the Alison/Suspicious Minds connection. I have been running across alot of EC in jukeboxes around Dallas lately.
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My Jessica, 15, came back from a trip to Nashville with a group from school and said they had been to Hard Rock for dinner. She noticed that one of the tv's playing loudly was showing an extremely old video of Elvis singing Radio Radio. She commented further, "It almost didn't look like him - he was so young and skinny." I told her she might well refer to herself that way one day.
Still, very proud the kids notice Elvis even when we're not around.
Still, very proud the kids notice Elvis even when we're not around.
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A couple of years ago I took part in a tv quiz-show „Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”.
A week or two before the taping of the show I got a phone call from a lady, who asked me about my hobbies, interests etc. When inquired about music I duly said I was absolutely nuts about Elvis Costello, expecting nothing but “who-the-hell-is-he?” silence from the woman. My jaw dropped when she told me that not only did she know a couple of Elvis’ songs but that she also had a t-shirt from one of his tours. I am not sure if I sighed heavily at this point but she somehow felt that I would love to have the t-shirt because she said, “ If you really want it, I will give it to you when you arrive in Warsaw for the taping”.
Well, I am wearing it now – a t-shirt from UK May/June 1989 tour with pictures of Elvis and his support – Nick Lowe.
A week or two before the taping of the show I got a phone call from a lady, who asked me about my hobbies, interests etc. When inquired about music I duly said I was absolutely nuts about Elvis Costello, expecting nothing but “who-the-hell-is-he?” silence from the woman. My jaw dropped when she told me that not only did she know a couple of Elvis’ songs but that she also had a t-shirt from one of his tours. I am not sure if I sighed heavily at this point but she somehow felt that I would love to have the t-shirt because she said, “ If you really want it, I will give it to you when you arrive in Warsaw for the taping”.
Well, I am wearing it now – a t-shirt from UK May/June 1989 tour with pictures of Elvis and his support – Nick Lowe.
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Spooky has posted some about the car that that ended up on its side on our front lawn. My EC when you least expect him moment came yesterday. I was on hold with their insurance company with the elevator music version of "Everyday I Write the Books".
Is there any meaning to this? How should I interpret it? Is the insurance company trying to say that they write the books and we argue?
Is there any meaning to this? How should I interpret it? Is the insurance company trying to say that they write the books and we argue?
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Wasn't that on Punch the Clocks?DrSpooky wrote:I was on hold with their insurance company with the elevator music version of "Everyday I Write the Books".
While gathering provisions for a possible hurricane weeks ago I heard an instrumental version of 'You Bowed Down' in a supermarket. I was with another EC fan and we were both taken aback--it's not a song of his we would have expected to hear! Dreamlike experience.
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Poor DrS - typing Everyday I Write the Books. I know he didn't mean to do that. This has been such a crap filled couple of weeks. He's the long time Elvis fan - not me! Oh well. I'll forgive him.
Almost as funny as Jessica coming back from DrS's ex-wife's house saying she had been talking about dates on the calendar for the next few months and joked about Boxing Day. His ex said, "Yeah, you know, Elvis Costello has a song about Boxing Day." She should know. She took all of DrS's cds when she left town a few years ago. But at least she left the kids. The cd's have been replaced. And I get two more kids who love Elvis.
Almost as funny as Jessica coming back from DrS's ex-wife's house saying she had been talking about dates on the calendar for the next few months and joked about Boxing Day. His ex said, "Yeah, you know, Elvis Costello has a song about Boxing Day." She should know. She took all of DrS's cds when she left town a few years ago. But at least she left the kids. The cd's have been replaced. And I get two more kids who love Elvis.
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Who knows dreaming?
It's a Brain/Hart composition, which somehow makes it attributable to Steve Nieve. What do I know?
I knew it was something The Attractions did without Elvis, so that's why I asked if that was the song. I kind of don't like the song, myself.
What song was he singing?
I knew it was something The Attractions did without Elvis, so that's why I asked if that was the song. I kind of don't like the song, myself.
What song was he singing?
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Thanks for the props DrSpooky. I got so excited I ran to my PC and made the thread seconds after I heard it.DrSpooky wrote:Man Called Uncle was used to introduce a John Kerry segment on David Letterman tonight. Congrats to Brilliant Mistake who managed to start a thread on it in the minutes it took me to confirm the short piece was Man Called Uncle.
As for hearing EC theres a radio station where I live that plays him every once in a while. I heard Shipbuilding in a pool hall the other night.
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake
~Elvis Costello
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake
~Elvis Costello
I can't think of a more unexpectated place to find EC than from the lips of Pat Buchanan....
So I've got MSNBC on...trying to monitor the reactoin to the big celebrity night at the Republican National Convention (or whatever it is "RNC" stands for).
The show is "After Hours with Joe Scarborough and Ron Reagan." Ron at one point introduces a film of Scarborough in rocker mode performing before the RNC in 2000. He's rocking out, after a fashion, wearing squarish horn rim glasses. Scarborough feigns embarrassment as much kidding from the rest of the panel ensues. Then someone said something like, "You look like Elvis Costello" -- and, while I wasn't watching too closely, I could swear it was in that familair genial rasp of Patty-Patty-Buke-Buke. Surprising that he would even be aware of EC's existence...maybe he saw in "De-Lovely" or something. No, that would involve gay people, can't be that....
My love/hate relationship with the crypto-anti-semite-would-be-American Silvio Berlusconi with a heart of gold continues.....
So I've got MSNBC on...trying to monitor the reactoin to the big celebrity night at the Republican National Convention (or whatever it is "RNC" stands for).
The show is "After Hours with Joe Scarborough and Ron Reagan." Ron at one point introduces a film of Scarborough in rocker mode performing before the RNC in 2000. He's rocking out, after a fashion, wearing squarish horn rim glasses. Scarborough feigns embarrassment as much kidding from the rest of the panel ensues. Then someone said something like, "You look like Elvis Costello" -- and, while I wasn't watching too closely, I could swear it was in that familair genial rasp of Patty-Patty-Buke-Buke. Surprising that he would even be aware of EC's existence...maybe he saw in "De-Lovely" or something. No, that would involve gay people, can't be that....
My love/hate relationship with the crypto-anti-semite-would-be-American Silvio Berlusconi with a heart of gold continues.....
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