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Costello Proves He's Not Just Another Elvis the Dirge-.Point, Counterpoint September 19,1983 Page 5 Costello proves he's not just another Elvis by Tony Scbfani ment. Being associated with new wave gave him a does. His cat and mouse game sometimes tires or tag and an audience, but it also limited him to a falls flat in relation to his other works and some When the lights went out I didn't know what smaller, more discriminating audience. His take- of his overambitious ideas don't always gel. to do it-or-leave-it angry young man image didnt help However, it is safe to say that even his relative If I could fool myself I thought maybe I'd fool matters much either. Elvis has also fallen into the failures are more interesting than a good 90 per- you Velvet Underground's and Bob Dylan's bad cent of most pop and rock around today. For -Elvis Costello habit of alienating audiences with unpredictable example, his Armed Forces album (contains LP's, appearances, et al. "Oliver's Army" and "Peace Love & Understand- If Elvis Costello is not the best songwriter He cannot be pigeonholed, as he is obviously ing") is often criticized for being too synth- around now, he is certainly the most interesting. intelligent enough to avoid stereotyping. He is oriented and slick. In relation to EC's work this No one else is as consistent, witty, perceptive, also very, very prolific—did you know that the may be true, but A Flock Of Seagulls later made gripping, catchy, complex, pop, or unique as this average Elvis Costello LP contains 16 songs? a career out of this stuff, as did the Fixx and "other" Elvis. Unfortunately, his involuted, non- Among other things going for him is that The countless others. FM oriented rock is generally overlooked by the Attractions, his backing band, are one of the "Get Happy," a 20 song soul-influenced album mainstream, with a few curious exceptions; he tightest acts in rock today. Any band that can was criticized for being out of step and ridicu- wrote "Girl's Talk" for Linda Rondstadt, and in firmly grasp Costello's ideas with as much con- lous. Yet Madness and Dexy's Midnight the movie E.T., Eliot's brother walks in to the viction as Steve Nieve, Bruce Thomas and Pete Runners attempt the same sort of thing now. house singing "Accidents Will Happen." (Word Thomas do is more than worthy of the praise This is called "being ahead of your time." It may The Dirge-.Point, counterpoint; has it that Steven Spielberg is a big E.C. fan.) that's been laid upon them. not be hip to like Elvis now, but like the best Elvis had both the fortune and misfortune of With all of this said, let it be known that Elvis work of Dylan, the Beach Boys, The Doors and appearing in the thick of the new wave move- Costello is not 100 percent successful at what he The Kinks this is music that is so far ahead of the point, counterpoint; point.. competition that it needs.a good ten years to be absorbed. Whether you appreciate it or not is by Bryan Denson and Bruce Goldfarb Also in the dictionary is the word pogostick. solely a matter of personal choice, but let's bridge But no mention of pogonotrophy. things by saying that Elvis Costello's newest Ernest Hemingway had one. Abraham Lin- I have just concluded a call to Mr. Goldfarb's album Punch the Clock is good, not great, but coln wore one. Hell, Reggie Jackson sometimes address that went like this: one of the year's best LP's and Elvis' most com- wears one too. Beards, mYriends, look where "Goldfarb, you sonofabitch, you made up the mercial yet. they got them. Hemmingway blew his head off words. There's no such thing as a pogonotrophist The best of Costello's work has been the vio- with a shotgun, Lincoln got his blown off by or pogonotrophy. It's bunk. You made it all up lently aggressive and the fleetingly repressive. On John Wilkes Booth, and Jackson...he's already and now IVe got you by the..." Punch the Clock he tries to combine the two and an Angel. "Hold it. Get out your dictionary and look up doesn't quite deliver the knockout punch This week's discussion of beards will introduce pogonotomy, pogonology, pogonotrophy and expected. The artsy ambitions of Imperial Bed- a new concept to The Dirge, one that will hope- pogonotrophist." room (last year's classic) have been welded fully never be repeated again. I will go one on "Like I said, Goldfarb, you made it up. IVe together with the soulful bang of Get Happy. By one, head to head, mono a mano, whisker to looked it all up and it's nonexistent." all reasoning this should have worked, but the shaved peach, with Bruce Goldfarb, a bearded "As nonexistent as your facial hair?" album comes out more unfocused than coherent. scalawag of little literary note who has no chin at "Look you..." On the other hand, if you have never bought a all. "Sorry, sorry, look, I swear to you if you go to Costello album before this is the one to buy. It is This will be a point-counterpoint discussion catchy the first time around, commercial, as deep betwixt myself and the aforementioned brow- as anything else you may listen to and it contains beater. I will offer Mr. Goldfarb first blows, here, the hit single "Every Day I Write The Book." as he has assembled before me a short note which see Elvis, page 6. I will relate without editing, although already I can see by his grinning face (if you could see it behind the pubic fuzz) that he has taken numer- ous potshots at my unshaven face. I give you Mr. Goldfarb (oh that I could): Is Kinski too kinky for North America? A man without a beard is something less than a man, like a hand without thumbs or bread with- by Jon Lasher in Moon in the Gutter. When the new film was in love with Kinski, who, it seems, reminds him out the crust. shown at the festival in Cannes, it was all but of his sister. Curiously, when she returns his Pogonotrophy has a fine and distinguished There is a wise old saying that one might refer booed off the screen. affection, he shuns her. And on it goes. To make history, as we should all well know. There was to in comparing American and European To bring a European flop to America, where matters worse, Beineix throws in a Freudian sur- Bluebeard, who was a famous, fun-loving pirate. cinema: Never the twain shall meet. Europeans, even a success has little chance of succeeding, realistic dream sequence that is completely out of And there is James Beard, who in spite of the whose fascination with things American creates a seems a risk not worth taking. But perhaps in place and does little to advance the plot. popular books, cooks and eats a damn good constant demand for American film, look at such America, Moon will be able to make it on Diva's Despite Beineix' attempts to murder the film, quiche. film as entertainment, not art. American audien- reputation. it manages to avoid total failure through Depar- If you ask me, I think Denson is suffering from ces, on the other hand, find much European film dieu's acting, Kinski's presence, and a lively per- pilus envy. dull, and prefer fast-moving plots, action sequen- formance from Victoria Abril as Depardieu's He will tell you that having a clean-shaven face ces, and the predictable happy ending. jilted, re—established lover. Though her part is a helps cut down wind resistance, and trims time Here lies the obstacle that keeps Nastassia small one, she pours immense energy into it, and off his quarters. Kinski from attaining the same level of stardom the scenes involving her are the best moments of I think that's bull hockey. If Bryan's face were in America the she enjoys in Europe. The enig- the film, pulling the audience out of its dreamlike a little more insulated he probably wouldn 't get matic Kinski—one moment an enchanting child, trance and reminding them there's a movie up on chapped cheeks in the winter. the next a seductive nymph—may never achieve the screen. It's an established fact that beard-wearers are superstar status on this side of the Atlantic. Her virile, witty, intelligent, and masculine. Clearly American films (Tess, Cat People, and Exposed) The plot...may even Denson's perspective is tainted by sour grapes. achieved various levels of success (including Tess' Have you ever seen him? Oscar nomination for best picture), yet none of No moustache. No sideburns. Not evenpeach- these films gained Kinski widespread recogni- have slipped into reverse. fuzz. Nothing. tion. Perhaps her true test with the American Can you blame him for feeling a little audience will come with Unfaithfully Yours, star- Had Beineix played up the love triangle end of inadequate? ring Nastassia and Dudley Moore, scheduled for the story, the film definitely would have profited. But to ripost those of us who take pride in our release next month. Instead, he spent most of his time trying to whiskers, who derive such profound satisfaction a monster dictionary, one of those library jobs, Her roles thus far have included a woman who express the rough texture of the French water- in our growths, is in my estimation a wrongful you 11 find the words.
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