Here's another Buffy moment:
Willow, explaining her joy in her newly discovered talent in witchcraft: "It's like chemistry, only with more newt."
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- Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:06 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Classic Seinfeld Lines
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39086
- Fri Aug 01, 2003 7:47 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: HOW he sings things
- Replies: 52
- Views: 45874
I'm sorry to say that I knew all along . . . .
In the final verse of the album version of "Sulky Girl," I love the way he spits out the line, "Your money's no good in here!"
- Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:11 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Bruce Thomas` On The Road Again - ordering info.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9571
what's a git anyway?
Dear Mr Foyle, Due to some unforeseen delays On the Road Again will not be published until September. We will send your signed copy as soon as it has been published. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Kind regards Cathrin Kihl Bentwyck Henry Publishers I just love corporate-speak. Shall we ...
- Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: the lost epistolary art
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24003
not fish and chip paper
I dredge up this old thread because I have three observations about correspondence on paper. 1. My mother and father met just a short time before his employer sent him overseas for an indefinite period that ended up being almost two years. Each of them had survived a failed marriage, and each was so...
- Thu Jul 31, 2003 10:44 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Happy Father's Day
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13688
Big Suit memories
A lot of time has elapsed since Father's Day (or is it Fathers' Day?), but I'm just catching up on these posts now. So how did you like the SMS DVD, noise? I'm especialy fond of some of the bonuses. "Big Business"/"I Zimbra" is very fine!
- Thu Jul 31, 2003 10:33 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 58930
book shopping this weekend I think
Picked up Carl Hiaasen's, "Basket Case" for the plane ride home. It's proving to be a quick read, but he loses credibility early on having the fictitous band The Slut Puppies winning a Grammy. C'mon !! With Hiaasen, you have to suspend disbelief, and in my estimation you will be amply rew...
- Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: EC appears in 'Mighty Wind'
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11218
I laughed and laughed at the Folksmen
Isn't it funny that Spinal Tap grew up and became the Folksmen? Actually, given the respective timeframes, what happened is that The Folksmen got younger, grew hair and morphed into Spinal Tap. Oh, and I expect Derek Smalls somehow got his penis back in the process.
- Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:17 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Just got back from Vegas
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12475
LV Review
Costello pulls out all stops, delivers a classic By Spencer Patterson, LAS VEGAS SUN When: Friday. Where: The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel. Rating (out of 5 stars): Five Twenty-two minutes into his performance Friday night at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, Elvis Costello took a sip from his coff...
- Wed Jul 30, 2003 1:18 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Calgary report/setlist! Calgary loves Elvis!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16308
Yes, I could too call it unexpected!
What! He did "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"???? It appears from the shows and setlists I've seen so far that "Brilliant Mistake" (a/k/a "King of America" - I know I know, nitpicking a favourable review is unkind) and "Shot with His Own Gun" only make appe...
- Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:30 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Edmonton report/setlist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10887
AND "Brilliant Mistake"?!?!?!?!?!?!
What a wonderful show that sounds like indeed. "Shot with His Own Gun" is not only a "strange, grand, Kurt Weill-like song," but when sung in a "voice dropped to a cracked whisper," I'll bet it was awesome. Those of you who don't know Trust yet are in for a real treat!
- Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:02 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: that was EC? i had no clue.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21327
and I haven't even mentioned "Lip Service"
That's one of the few negatives of producing a masterpiece like TYM: absolutely wonderful songs like "The Beat" get short shrift just because they're not "Pump It Up" or "Lipstick Vogue." "Little Triggers," "The Beat," "(IDWtGt) Chelsea," o...
- Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:38 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Lyric to new Elvis song
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11736
and "Everybody's Crying mercy" is another concert
"Either Side. . . ." is great song! I hope we get an EC version of it someday, maybe on one of the many live albums that are in our future.
- Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:42 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: If you met EC and you could ask him ONE question...
- Replies: 47
- Views: 44528
. . . as long as you pay my wage
So what you're saying is that lip service is all you'll ever get from him?pip_52 wrote:I was happy with my contrived, unspontaneous kiss from Elvis because its the only kind of kiss Im likely to ever get from him . . .
- Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:17 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: EC Reissues latest
- Replies: 68
- Views: 75357
no CD but . . . .
Soooo, do some of you have TL &/or TBMATHYF on CD? I have never been able to find copies :( I was hoping they'd reissue so I'd finally have an opportunity to pick these on up discs. Alas, it looks bad for me, non? <----------------------------- I have TL on CD, but the TBMATHYF CD I have never ...
- Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:37 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: ICE feature on re-issues
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12399
I never heard him do "Danger Zone"!
So "Big Sister"/"Stand Down Margaret" and "King Horse"/"Backstabbers" finally get an official release, and I will hear EC's "Slow Down" at last! I am loving this mightily. Those of you who get the UK versions way before the rest of us should have the...
- Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:48 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis interviews in Rocky Mountain News
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11883
great article - thanks mr. jfoyle!
Costello has breathed renewed life into older songs, whether it's an acoustic version of the early Little Triggers or especially the 1986 betrayal ballad, I Want You, which has become increasingly frightening and paranoid in each performance. I've heard the latter, but where the hell's my acoustic ...
- Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:14 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis when you least expect it
- Replies: 746
- Views: 902302
"I wouldn't live like that, nosiree. . . ."
LessThanZero said Here in Kalamazoo, Spooky Girlfriend would and will never ever get played on any radio station. . . around here, country, pop, "alternative", rock, and easy listening all PLAY THE SAME FREAKING SONGS!!! and no song is an elvis song. why do i live here? Why does anyone? an...
- Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:07 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Summerstage show, NYC
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15758
but the new "Pump It Up" arrangement kinda sucked
It was indeed the SBW song: "Help me now, I can't do it all by myself!"stormwarning: I think Help Me is the old Sonny Boy Williamson song. Elvis used to tag this onto Detectives in '82/83....if my memory serves me well.
- Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:47 pm
- Forum: From the management
- Topic: Where's Hungup?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18027
is that a tear in your eye?
Thanks folks! I missed you lot as well. Every once in a while it's nice to test out the old adage, "How can I miss you if you won't go away?" Otis, I saw the Summerstage show in Central Park and the one at FleetPavillion in Boston, on consecutive days. I was supposed to see Tom Tom Club th...
- Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:38 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album review
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22204
at least "Party Party" was on the album Party Part
Actually, there was no such thing as a "bonus track" when "Imperial Bedroom" (the song) was released. It was the B-side of a single, and when I say single, I mean a 45-rpm record, not a CDEP. Long before it became a bonus track, it showed up on the Out of Our Idiot collection.
- Sat Jul 26, 2003 12:29 pm
- Forum: From the management
- Topic: Where's Hungup?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18027
in the flesh (more or less)
Yep, it's me. Thanks for your kind words, folks, for your concern and for noticing my absence. I was indeed hoping the Narby board would get fixed, and then I just decided to take a wee break. But I saw The Man twice, I'm looking forward to the next set of Rhinos and a new album, and I'm in an EC ki...