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- Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:09 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Did we celebrate this forum's 10th birthday?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 51019
Re: Did we celebrate this forum's 10th birthday?
Blimey, it's like a high school reunion! Well big congrats. Lovely to hear. What's his first name? I guess he hasn't got much choice but to love his middle-nakmesake! I can tell you too ways you've been in my collective mind in recent months, both connected to CDs you kindly sent (back in that pre-...
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 5:31 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Did we celebrate this forum's 10th birthday?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 51019
Re: Did we celebrate this forum's 10th birthday?
Hello darlings! Someone told me I was name-checked on this thread—I'm not, but I'm sure I'm right at the back of your collective mind, no? Anyway, my big news is that I have a three-month-old baby boy whose middle name is Elvis. ("miss buenos aires" was my username on a dating site back in...
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
mood - let's get together and compare notes on list books we are getting rid of. Or--do you do BookMooch? I am reading Pat Barker's Regeneration , which I am finding very good, if disgusting (what is it about World War I? Was it really the most disgusting war ever? WWI novels always have so much gro...
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Quiz Question Appeall!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13876
Re: Quiz Question Appeall!
You could buy an (illegal) cell phone jammer. It's not like you'd get caught if you only use it for an hour a week, right?
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:35 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: well, what do you think of
- Replies: 32
- Views: 40145
Re: well, what do you think of
It seems like a bonus disc to me, maybe because of the inclusion of "Complicated Shadows" and "Hidden Shame."
- Wed May 13, 2009 1:44 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Spectacle on DVD?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5083
Spectacle on DVD?
Anybody know when "Spectacle" is due to come out on DVD? I am sick of waiting!
- Wed May 13, 2009 1:29 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Best of 2009 -so far
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12641
Re: Best of 2009 -so far
I couldn't listen to any of the tracks listed, but I love the new Decemberists album, The Hazards of Love. Love it! Also couldn't stop listening to Franz Ferdinand's Tonight, and I've got the new PJ Harvey waiting for me when I get home.
- Sun May 10, 2009 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054534
Re: Recently viewed films
I've heard God of Carnage is excellent—I've never seen Art , which was also written by Yasmine Reza, but I read it for a class and enjoyed it. I have a friend who can sometimes get discounted theater tickets, so I'm hoping her connection comes through for God of Carnage and the West Side Story reviv...
- Fri May 01, 2009 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
Yes, mood, I agree (that you should take my advice on books to read). Recent listies: The Radiant Way (okay, but I am not terribly interested in the characters, and can only tell them apart with the greatest of difficulty), La porte étroite (so, Gide won a Nobel Prize, eh? For literature, or somethi...
- Fri May 01, 2009 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Random Thoughts
- Replies: 3952
- Views: 3015632
Re: Random Thoughts
I never want to move house again. That is all.
- Fri May 01, 2009 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054534
Re: Recently viewed films
I just saw Sunshine Cleaning in the theater, and enjoyed it. It's a film about two sisters stuck in dead-end jobs who start their own crime scene cleanup business. It's marketed as a comedy, but it's not, really—all the jokes got put in the trailer. Flawed, but worth seeing. By the way, I started a ...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
My favorite Murakami! Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is also worth checking out.Who Shot Sam? wrote:Reading Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the moment. Definitely intriguing.
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Twitter, anyone?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29836
Re: Twitter, anyone?
The annoying aspect to Twitter (i.e. why I feel entitled to be curmudgeonly about it): a couple of months ago, I was at a small party, and one of the guests (who is usually very polite), kept taking time out to tweet about what she was doing at the party. It's like, you're doing something fun! You c...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Random Thoughts
- Replies: 3952
- Views: 3015632
Re: Random Thoughts
Wow, I am SO not looking forward to the prospect of a $103 monthly Metrocard. It makes me want to move back to Jersey out of spite.
And, of course, because New Jersey's where America's at!
And, of course, because New Jersey's where America's at!
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
Been focusing on the List lately... The Black Dahlia , London Fields , In Cold Blood (all about murders, which was kind of a downer). Then I lightened things up by reading Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entry into the World . So very 19th-century, what with the epistolary format and outra...
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Random Thoughts
- Replies: 3952
- Views: 3015632
Re: Random Thoughts
Sad! Well, now that you have the login, you can practice? Everything I know about sports, I learned from crosswords. Especially everything I know about Moises Alou and Mel Ott. I have no idea who they are, but they sure crop up in crosswords a lot.
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
Unfortunately my list is arranged chronologically...Otis Westinghouse wrote:All sections now listed here, but still in their sections (an A-Z of all would be handy to see how it compares to The List!):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/ja ... ks-fiction
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Random Thoughts
- Replies: 3952
- Views: 3015632
Re: Random Thoughts
Straight, but Saturdays are the hardest. If you want to give it a go, I can lend you my password. As if we need more things to compete over!
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:05 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054534
Re: Recently viewed films
First up was Ghost Town (starring Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni) on DVD. Red and I are both big fans of Gervais' work on Extras and The Office , but after seeing the previews for this one we were a bit concerned that it would be a romantic comedy with a majorly toned-down Gervais in the...
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054534
Re: Recently viewed films
Red and I are hoping to catch Frost/Nixon tomorrow, in our annual attempt to see all five best picture nominees (we've already seen Milk and Slumdog Millionaire , which leaves The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on the "to see" list. I saw Slumdog Millionaire and Milk (both...
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Random Thoughts
- Replies: 3952
- Views: 3015632
Re: Random Thoughts
Two random thoughts:
1- I just finished the Saturday NY Times puzzle in 11 minutes, 10 seconds. I am immensely smug about this.
2- I just saw two squirrels out my window, one of whom was trying to stick his face in the other's butt. It was pretty adorable.
1- I just finished the Saturday NY Times puzzle in 11 minutes, 10 seconds. I am immensely smug about this.
2- I just saw two squirrels out my window, one of whom was trying to stick his face in the other's butt. It was pretty adorable.
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
Ooh yeah, that'[s another unread one on my shelf, and all say they love it. Today the Guardian did comedy. Had to write to complain to my friend, chiefly due to the disgraceful omission of any Flann O'Brien, surely way up there as one of the funniest writers ever. Still, their genre based approach ...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:54 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054534
Re: Recently viewed films
Well, imagine you had just bought a camcorder, and you were walking around with it and talking to people, and then you were in the middle of a huge hurricane, and filming that. It was so shaky, I felt like I was on a ship.Otis Westinghouse wrote:In what way?miss buenos aires wrote:the camerawork made me sick to my stomach.
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:52 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054534
Re: Recently viewed films
Saw Trouble the Water last night, a documentary about Katrina... Great story, but I literally had to shut my eyes about 20 minutes in and stay that way, as the camerawork made me sick to my stomach.
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:50 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: books, books, books
- Replies: 1556
- Views: 1549343
Re: books, books, books
Otis, that was a brilliant pitch. You've won me over. Pynchon is next on the list after I finish all I've got. I'm trying to read at least 25 new books this year, so it would be really cool to discover a new author whose catalogue I could devour. Don't feel like you have to like it, though--a lot o...