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Mon Aug-15-05 01:57 PM
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28 years later, and Elvis is still dead |
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January 8, 1935 — August 16, 1977Rest in Peace, you big fat fsck.
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Mon Aug-15-05 01:58 PM
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1. Shit you really depressed me now |
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The idiot I was with for almost 8 years, his birthday is today
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Mon Aug-15-05 01:58 PM
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Mon Aug-15-05 01:59 PM
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3. Parents of 14 yr old girls everywhere breathe a sigh of relief! |
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:51 PM
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20. Yes, but Ted Nugent is still alive |
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so parents of 14-year old girls better keep track!
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Mon Aug-15-05 01:59 PM
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:05 PM
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9. You know what they say |
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:07 PM
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10. Yeah, well the "Dukes of Hazzard" also made 58 million bucks |
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People aren't always right.
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:09 PM
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11. And I plan to see that this weekend! |
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People are never wrong when it comes to taste. 50 mil have different taste than you. Didn't make 'em wrong.
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:22 PM
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15. Well I'm not going to get into a spat about it. |
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I just think he sucks/ed. lol.
You can listen to whatever you want. :toast:
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:24 PM
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16. That's okay. I hated Lord of the Rings |
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So I know how it goes. :-)
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Mon Aug-15-05 01:59 PM
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5. Wow, I'm all shook up. |
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:01 PM
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6. I was on a train w/ my kids |
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and there was a conductor complaining that the many tickets he bought in hopes of making extra money was now gone. His elvis futures had vanished!
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:01 PM
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In Memoriam
Elvis, what happened? What happened was you died You showed us how to live and then you died And it was not a pretty sight
And you made us feel like fools for believing what we saw Like how you loved religion and how you loved your ma And Dr. Nick, that evil prick, for all that thorazine And Colonel Parker kept his hand at making things look clean Your acting out a public life was better than your films Colonel Parker took your hand, and he catered to your whims You let him be your teddy bear and he made you Frankenstein And then you died, you stupid ass, and left it all behind
Well, Elvis, what happened? What happened was you died But thanks to RCA we still get pieces of the pie You multiplied
It must have done your dad some good, 'cause he seemed to egg you on 'Til you tantalize in glory until all of you was gone And adoration was a burden, and the public was a wraith You must have died one tortured soul for having so much faith
Elvis, what happened? What happened was you died You showed us how to live and then you died And it was not a pretty sight
But I still visit Graceland whenever I'm in town And up the walk and through the gates and I lay my flowers down Among the thousand million garlands that are laying on the ground And wish that you could be here with us to see what we're going through When we read that Goldman book and we think we misread you And then you died like Lenny Bruce after he'd given up his chase I only wish you were around to see the look on all the faces
When they say
Elvis, what happened? What happened was you died You showed us how to live and then you died And it was not a pretty sight
Elvis, what happened? What happened was you died You showed us how to live and then you died And it was not a pretty sight
Song written 1985 by "Mr. Bonus", appeared on the compilation album Luxury Condos Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon.
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:18 PM
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Elvis died on my 8th birthday. back at school that fall, damn near every kid was wearing a new "Elvis-- The King Lives On" t-shirt.
of course, we barely knew who he was, most of us being members in good standing of the KISS ARMY :silly:
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:02 PM
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He's still got a better career than most living singers.
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:13 PM
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12. no longer respirating? |
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at least that's the clinical definition, IIRC :+
and i agree, i'd take a crappy record by Elvis over a "good" record by Britney Spears
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:31 PM
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18. Yeah, well, by THAT definition, I guess |
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:15 PM
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13. Elvis died in the army... |
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Said John Lennon on hearing the news...but Early Sun Records Elvis; he was a killer!
She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust And put her little boy on a Greyhound Bus Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand On a one-way ticket to the promised land Hey little girl with the red dress on There's party tonight down in Memphis down I'll be going down there if you need a ride The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died
We drove down into Memphis, the sky was hard and black Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac They'd drawn out all his money and they laid him in the back A woman cried from the roadside "Ah he's gone, he's gone" They found him slumped up against the drain With a whole lot of trouble running through his veins Bye-bye Johnny Johnny bye-bye You didn't have to die You didn't have to die
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:28 PM
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17. He did two of my favorites after the army |
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In the Ghetto, and Suspicious Minds. But I know what you mean.
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Mon Aug-15-05 02:50 PM
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19. Poster child for sqandered talent |
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Think of what he could have done if he'd never net Col. Parker or drugs.
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Mon Aug-15-05 10:24 PM
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21. so true. so freaking true. |
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and a :kick: for the King. Rest In Peace.
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Tue Aug-16-05 12:25 PM
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22. one last dead Elvis kick |
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Tue Aug-16-05 12:28 PM
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23. A poem I wrote about that day... |
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Albin's Drugs
This I recall from a day in August of 'seventy-seven: Hollywood Way and Magnolia Boulevard meet a few blocks from here, in the city of Burbank. Now there's a Thrifty, but once the name of the store on the southeast corner - a drugstore - was Albin's. Then, long ago, in the summer, Danny O'Heron had many flyers he needed delivered. Placing the flyers on people's cars, homes and lawns was my job. I stopped to get lunch at the in-store counter at Albin's. I heard a customer taunting the waitress, "Elvis, your hero, your lover's dead." I cared little, as rock for me had begun with the Beatles. Elvis had seemed like an old-time idol, not unlike Sinatra. That I recall from a day in August of 'seventy-seven.
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