Declan Patrick MacManus is a talented musician. But, I never really cared for his stage name: Elvis Costello. It wasn’t his idea, actually. He was calling himself D. P. Costello and his manager suggested “Elvis” as a first name.
I never really dislikes his stuff, and actually did buy some of his stuff, but not a lot. He was alright. Or is, I should say. He’s still performing.
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How doesn’t he break his ankle in that video?
Agree in your assessment of Elvis Costello, I put him half a click above Joe Cocker and no higher.
As a dancer?
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?
I was a huge EC fan in his early days and still love his early work. Saw him 3 times – he was a very charismatic performer.
His first eight albums are all excellent and incredibly varied in style. He is a brilliant lyricist with a sly sense of humor. His band in those days – especially keyboardist Steve Nieve and bassist Bruce Thomas – was extremely talented.
Unfortunately he fell into the trap of taking himself too seriously and went all lefty. I haven’t bought one of his albums (except reissues of the early works) in probably 35 years. I’ll try a newer one every now and then but none of them I care to own.
At dawn the telephone rings, “Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house.”
“Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?”
“Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Rod, that your parrot, he is dead”.
“My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?”
“Si, Senor, that’s the one.”
“Damn! That’s a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?”
“From eating the rotten meat, Senor Rod.”
“Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?”
“Nobody, Senor . He ate the meat of the dead horse.”
“Dead horse? What dead horse?”
“The thoroughbred, Senor Rod.”
“My prize thoroughbred is dead?”
“Yes, Senor Rod, he died from all that work pulling the water cart.”
“Are you insane? What water cart?”
“The one we used to put out the fire, Senor.”
“Good Lord! What fire are you talking about, man?”
“The one at your house, Senor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire.”
“What the hell? Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a candle?!”
“Yes, Senor Rod.”
“But there’s electricity at the house! What was the candle for?”
“For the funeral, Senor Rod.”
“WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!”
“Your wife’s, Senor Rod”. She showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I shot her with your new Krieghoff Limited Edition Custom Gold Engraved Trap Special with the custom Wenig Exhibition Grade Stock.
SILENCE… LONG SILENCE…VERY LONG SILENCE.
“Ernesto, if you scratched that shotgun, you’re in deep s**t!”
All-White Democratic Debate Mistaken For KKK Rally
DES MOINES, IA—Many were shocked to turn to CNN last night and see what appeared to be a Ku Klux Klan rally. Airing for two hours was an all-white assembly of people talking about their superior plans for the country. CNN received numerous complaints but explained it was not a Klan rally but in fact a Democratic presidential debate.
This confused many people, as there had been numerous minority candidates in the presidential primary, and this was what appeared to be a “whites only” debate. CNN explained that this was not true and that the debate had nothing to do with white supremacy; the DNC simply had excluded all minority candidates from the debate for being inferior to the white ones.
“And I have many black friends,” explained Joe Biden, an attendee of the not-Klan rally. “Like Barack Obama. And Corn Pop.”
Further confusing the issue was the fact that a cross was burned on stage during the “debate.” The Democrats explained, though, that this was not done in the racist sense that the KKK would do it but instead done simply to express a general disdain for religion. ~ Found at the Babylon Bee.
Has anyone noticed that the whole Biden family creating a company to funnel tax money into their own pockets by getting contracts to build homes in Iraq thing is almost EXACTLY word for word the plot from Arrested Development?
Wouldn’t be Joe’s first time at plagiarizing.
So does this knowledge make you more likely to vote for Joe Biden or more likely not to vote for Donald Trump?