Nov. 18 - Robbie Williams mailing list email

'Advertising Space', the second single to be taken from Robbie Williams new album 'Intensive Care' is released on Monday December 12th 2005.

'This is my 'True Romance' song,' Robbie says, 'the one where, like Christian Slater in the film, I like to believe I have direct access to Elvis Presley every now and then.' Elegiac, mournful and profoundly cinematic, it describes a superstar's tragic fall from grace. Robbie jokingly describes it as his own 'Candle In The Wind'.

The amazing video for Advertising Space beautifully directed by David LaChapelle shows Robbie as you've never seen him before in a moving tribute to his hero Elvis Presley! The video is available to view in full for the first time anywhere in the world right now at http://www.robbiewilliams.com, and will be shown for the first time on TV on Sunday Nov 20th on Channel 4 at 5.45pm

You can view exclusive clips from the video right now by selecting your connection speed & prefered format from the links below!!!

Alternatively, visit http://www.whatsyourfuture.com and head to the Insane section to see the video in FULL!!

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The album is available from Amazon or HMV, or digitally from iTunes or the new Robbie Williams Shop

Nov 18 - Gawker headline

Kimberly Stewart’s Fake Wedding Venue To Have Paparazzi Dressed As Elvis

READ MORE: Paris Hilton, fake engagements, kimberly stewart, nicky hilton

It’s Day Three of This Week’s Fake Engagement of the Century, and developments in the Kimberly Stewart-Talan Torriero impending nuptials are flying at us faster than $20 bills at a homeless man willing to humiliate himself for Paris Hilton’s amusement. When last we posted, Stewart was flashing her five-carat engagement zirconia at a Microsoft video game system party. Page Six now tells us that the wedding is not to be some cliffside affair drowned out by the whir of helicopter blades in the distant future. For hot to trot Stewart, reality show husband sex can’t happen soon enough:

KIMBERLY Stewart, 26, is in a hurry to marry Laguna Beach reality show star Talan Torriero, 19. They announced their engagement yesterday. “Talan’s mother is hysterically crying. She is not happy,” said a source. “They are getting their paperwork together to get married in Vegas this weekend. They want to do it right away” — presumably before the passion fades. Stewart, daughter of rock legend Rod, just broke up with Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis.

Nov 18 - Walk the Line Review read on-line

For a long time, the Hollywood biopic was a corny, synthetic, quasi-reputable genre. Recently, though, warts-and-all movies like Ray and Kinsey and Capote, which have had the daring to show how their subjects' human failings were integral to their greatness, have raised the bar for biopics — for their authenticity and dramatic power. Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix as country-music legend Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as his muse, singing partner, and stubborn romantic foil June Carter, is a big, juicy, enjoyable wide-canvas biography with a handful of indelible moments, but it's just compelling enough to make you wish that it had attained the level of artistry of those other films.
That said, I can't stop thinking about scenes like the one in which Cash, as a young singer in Memphis in the mid-'50s, enters the storefront that houses Sun Records and performs a gospel standard for Sam Phillips (played with sly feelers by Dallas Roberts), who dismisses the number as treacle. He then asks Cash: If you had an accident, were dying on the road, and had to sing one song to express how you felt about life, what would it be? With nothing to lose, Cash launches into ''Folsom Prison Blues,'' and suddenly we hear the famous gravity — the ominous lyrics and weirdly overdeliberate bass voice that sounds like it's trying to negotiate its way out of hell. As the band trickles in, Cash's thrilling rockabilly freight train leaves the station.
Phoenix, who did all his own singing, sounds just enough like Cash to make us hear the beauty of his husky reticence, and though he's hardly the singer's physical double — Cash had his trademark crags and furrows even when he was starting out — we can see how nature equipped him to play the Man in Black. His hair is black, his eyebrows are black, and, more than that, his eyes are black — deep coal wells of hidden sorrow. Walk the Line, directed by James Mangold (Cop Land) from a script he co-wrote with Gill Dennis, lays out Cash's demons in a vigorous if standard fashion. Growing up on a farm in Arkansas, young J.R. endures a stern father (Robert Patrick) who makes him feel responsible for his brother's death. Overseas, in the Air Force, he develops an identification with criminals, and Phoenix cultivates a haunted stare that masks a heart of vulnerability. Later, touring with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis (Cash may be showcased as country, but it's a revelation to see how much of a vintage early rocker he really was), Cash, holding his guitar up high as if it were a shield, and then staring the audience down, expiates his sins through music. He could be a preacher whose sermons have gone electric.
As a portrait of Johnny Cash the gravel-voiced country-rock innovator, who projected a private hellfire onto even his jauntiest anthems, Walk the Line is zesty and satisfying. But when it turns to the tale of how Cash, trapped in a miserable marriage, spent year after year courting, seducing, loving, yet never quite winning June Carter, the movie is on shakier ground. On the road, Cash enjoys groupies and pops amphetamines, an addiction that will land him in trouble with the law. Yet he's really a gentle soul who yearns to be loved. He and Carter begin to make eyes at each other the moment they meet backstage, and when Carter's first marriage ends, there appears to be little in the way of their getting together. But Carter, the scion of a famously traditional Christian singing family, feels guilty about her divorce, and Cash, after coercing her into performing a duet she wrote with her ex-husband, makes the mistake of giving her an onstage peck on the cheek. Horrors!
It's a downhill spiral from there. Walk the Line could turn out to be a monster chick flick, because its design is almost mythic: Saintly girl has to wait for country-rock bad boy to purge his demons and settle down. But while Witherspoon, a fine singer herself, makes Carter immensely likable, a fountain of warmth and cheer, given how sweetly she meshes with Phoe-nix her romantic reticence isn't really filled in. June's refusal to countenance Johnny's drug use may be a fair obstacle, but the main reason he's doing drugs is that she keeps spurning him; he's numbing the pain of his devotion. June is made to seem like a high school virgin protecting her honor, and when we see her composing the lyrics to ''Ring of Fire,'' it doesn't compute: As written, this perky, straight-and-narrow woman is the last person on earth who would fall, through love, ''into a burning ring of fire.''
At the famous Folsom Prison concert, Cash performs ''Cocaine Blues,'' and Phoenix's eyes go wild with the pleasure of finally living up to his wrong-side-of-the-law image. Off stage, June beams at him. But do her eyes shine because of his generosity in saluting the humanity of these prisoners, or because of how deep his need is to feel like he's one of them? In Walk the Line, it's the former. In a greater movie, it would have been both.
(Posted:11/16/05)

Nov 17 - 20th Century Fox Loves Elvis

Watched another promo producer's reel with a sales reel for 20th Century Fox -- and of course they included a shot of Elvis from Love Me Tender.

Nov. 17- Wrong Elvis

Only heard the last 10 minutes of Jonesey's Jukebox during lunchtime, in which he stated after playing a song I didn't recognize, "If it's good enough for Elvis, it's good enough for me." Caught the whole show in the 6 O'Clock hour, and it turns out he was talking about a song that Elvis Costello liked. Oh well....it was just Elvis when I first heard it....

Nov 16 - Brandon Davis description

From Gawker Stalker: Stopped by Marquee on the way home. Bumped into Nicky Hilton who is quite a vision in person… Blond long hair, black camisole, jeans and knee hi black boots, cute! Also spotted were Brandon Davis to me looks like he is channeling Elvis!

Nov 13 - Kenny Chesney new CD

Listening to the new Kenny Chesney the Road + the Radio CD on my iPOD, and one of the songs references Elvis shirts. Had to play it twice to make sure I was hearing it right, but it is:

Nov 12 - "Like Elvis."

The director of "Is It So Strange?" (the documentary about Morrissey fans) was doing a Q&A afterwards before the Sweet & Tender Hooligans (the Morrissey tribute band) played, and something he compared to being like Elvis.

Nov. 12 - Thai Elvis restaurant

Driving by the restaurant where Thai Elvis performs, my friend said "That's where Thai Elvis performs."

Nov 11 - old Clark Gable documentary on TCM

"Dear Mr. Gable" on TCM -- a very old documentary with it seems like Burgess Merideth narrating -- at the end talking about how times changed as Mr. Gable (the King) was ending his career -- how it was the time of Elvis Presley.

Nov. 9 - Robert Plant tribute

Today on Jonsey's Jukebox, Steve Jones asked Robert Plant who was "number one" for him, and Plant said Elvis.

Nov. 7 - Carol's Pub Mention

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/mmx-4873_lgcy,1,1251432.htmlstory
From Metromix.com

INSIDE: Carol's Pub

Honky-tonk in the heart of Uptown
By Dan Kening

August 18 2000
Carol's Pub
4659 N. Clark St.
773-334-2402

Sights: It sure doesn't look like much from the outside. A brick corner bar with a sign that says, "Carol's Pub -- Live Country Music/Hot Sandwiches." Things don't look much more inviting in the entryway, where a handwritten sign warns in no uncertain terms that there's no "soliciting" allowed inside. At first glance this may be construed as a warning to itinerant Amway salespersons, but, then again, it's probably aimed at the working girls that ply their trade on Clark St. after midnight. But once inside the door, Carol's is the closest thing Chicago has to a good ol' fashioned honky-tonk, where the music of Hank Williams and Tammy Wynette has yet to be overrun by Clint Black and Shania Twain. And the clientele, who are just as colorful as the bar, likes it that way. Carol's ambiance can best be described as "Kentucky on acid." Indeed, the bar can have a somewhat surrealistic look to it, especially after one too many shot-and-a-beers. From the rebel flag behind the stage to the framed photo of Elvis, longhorn cattle skulls, posters of country star Tim McGraw and the Pillsbury Doughboy and virtually every neon beer sign ever made -- Carol's has everything you'd want in a honky-tonk but the chicken wire in front of the stage. There are about a dozen somewhat battered-looking tables, a decent-sized (and well-used) dancefloor, a pool table in a back room and a large, U-shaped bar filled with regulars like big-bellied, genial "Pickles" and Joanne, a friendly -- if occasionally over-served -- soul with a voice like a foghorn.

Sounds: Under various names, Carol's has been presenting live country music for 30 years in a part of Uptown once known as "Hillbilly Heaven" because of the numbers of southern transplants that used to live there. The resident band, Diamondback, is really the reason to come here. This ace unit plays an exhausting seven sets a night on Fridays and Saturdays beginning at 9 p.m. And best of all, there's no cover charge. While the Carol's jukebox is well-stocked with Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Patty Loveless and the like, you won't hear Diamondback playing any of that stuff. They play classic country: Merle Haggard, George Jones, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, with a bit of Bob Wills-style Western swing and a smidgen of blues and roots rock 'n' roll thrown in. Make special note of lead guitarist Dave Doran: This former Nashville session musician is one of the best pickers in Chicago. The band takes requests -- just attach your dollar bills to the sticky tape in front of the band. A word of advice: Don't ask for anything by the Dixie Chicks. On Sundays the Diamondback rhythm section combines with members of the Country Roads Band to back any and all comers for an eight-hour jam session beginning at 9 p.m. The pickers and singers range from pretty darn good to pretty darn awful. Feel free to come on down and do your best Patsy Cline or Dave Dudley ("Six Days On the Road") imitation!

Smells: Cigarettes and cheap beer (sounds like a country song, doesn't it?). Everybody smokes in Carol's, and I mean everybody. If cigarette smoke is a problem, this probably isn't your kind of place.

Prime time: While Carol's is open nightly, weekends are the best time to come here because of the live music. Because of its 4 a.m. license (5 a.m. on Saturday), the place doesn't really start rockin' until after midnight on weekends. Before then you can enjoy Diamondback's first few sets in relative peace and quiet before the hordes descend from all the joints that just closed. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, 11 a.m.-4 a.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m.-5 a.m. Saturday.


People: One of the greatest things about Carol's is the clientele. While you would expect it to be full of Southern types with John Deere hats and big hair (and you won't be disappointed on that account), the crowd here is mind-numbingly diverse. You'll find fully decked-out swing and rockabilly kids in their 20s, white-belted seventysomethings, biker types who look like they just got out of Stateville, North Side yuppies and people of various ethnic groups. A former member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has also been known to hang out here. For the most part, everyone gets along just fine. Oh, every once in a while there's a minor scuffle, but it's quickly quelled by the efficient (and scary-looking) Carol's doormen.

At the bar: Don't try to order any foo-foo fruit drinks or martinis. This is essentially a beer joint (the usual domestic brands plus imports like Corona and Heineken) that also does a pretty good trade in Jack Daniels. Wine is available -- just order it by the color rather than label and vintage.

At the grill: The word is that Jimmy behind the bar makes a pretty mean cheeseburger. Other sandwiches include veal, chicken, fish and shrimp and, best of all, none costs more than $3.

Essentials, etc.: The neighborhood is a changing one, meaning that while it's relatively safe, keep your eyes open after midnight. Street parking is pretty easy to find on either Clark St. or the block of Leland Ave. just west of Carol's. It's also easy to get a cab, as there's a cab terminal just a block north of the bar. The Clark St. CTA bus stops nearby as well.

Dan Kening is the interactivity editor for metromix.com.

Nov. 6 - John Prine Christmas

In the song A John Prine Christmas, he tells the story of getting his first guitar for Christmas and how he didn't know how to play it but he would stand in front of the mirror and try to look like Elvis.

Nov. 5 - Three sightings at Rhino

Looking in vinyl soundtracks came across the soundtrack for American Pop which has a 70's Era Elvis looking guy on it. Then stumpled across a framed poster which was in fact the Elvis jigsaw puzzle put together and framed. Then when buying CDs, above the register was a black and white glossy of Elvis in GI Blues.

Nov 5 - EW - 2 X!

Not yet done reading this week's Entertainment Weekly, but already in the letter's page someone has written in referencing the "Elvis" quote for the Jack Radio article, and then in the Kate Bush interview, once again her Elvis song gets major coverage:
Q: On your new single, ''King of the Mountain,'' you seem to be suggesting that Elvis Presley is still alive.

A: Yes. This is very good, because a lot of people aren't sure what the song is about. I haven't wanted to interfere with a process that might be a bit of a playful puzzle, which I'm very happy to encourage because I don't think there are enough nowadays. But you seem to have got it. Well done!

Nov 4 - Eighties Music Trivia Game Question

Playing an Eighties Movie Trivia game, one of the questions was which Elvis song was covered by Fine Young Cannibals? Answer, of course, is Suspicious Minds.

Nov. 3 - Christmas Press Release

In preparation for Christmas music playlists, Wildfire Publicity has 3 Christmas songs available: Rustie Blue's version of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree" and Tresa Street's original "Christmas of Love".

With music influences like Patsy Cline and Elvis, it's obvious why Rustie Blue crosses so many barriers. No matter what Rustie sings, her true blue country vocals are very much apparent! Her energetic stage performance and charismatic personality makes Blue a refreshing experience and somebody you won't forget!

Tresa Street is noted for her radio singles Naturally and Ain’t Nothin’ Changed, which gained her international attention. She is a prolific writer and wrote both her singles. Although Tresa is known as one of today’s modern country artists, she does not limit herself to just one style. She writes songs in a modern country style about love, romance, and life. She has known the joy of true love; she has suffered the pain of losing; she has felt the ecstasy of passion. When she writes, it's from the heart; when she sings, it's from her soul. Tresa Street is all about music - all kinds and all styles.

For more information, MP3s, photos, or to schedule a phoner, contact Laura Claffey with Wildfire Publicity at wildfirepublicity@comcast.net or 615-825-0019.

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Nov. 03 - Quentin Tarantino reference

Reading Rebels on the Backlot, in the section on Mr. Tarantino, there was the old stories of him getting cast as an Elvis impersonator in Golden Girls.

Nov 2 - Gawker listing

Found on Gawker.com: You may have missed your chance to sleep with Elvis, but there’s still a huge window on humping the dude who slept with a girl who slept with a ’70s child actor who slept with Ann-Margret who slept with Elvis. [Craigslist]

Nov 1 - iTunes review

In the reviews of the new Jane Monheit Xmas album, a reviewer claims one of the earlier reviewers was Michael Buble, and the subsequent reviewer starts his review by saing, "If that was Michael Buble, I'm Elvis."

Nov 1 - Music piped into iHOP

Eating lunch at IHOP, heard them playing "It's a Sin" as their in-house music.

Oct 30 - Kate Bush article in the paper

Any article about Kate Bush's new album has to highlight her Elvis song:And she made her eighth album, a two-CD set brimming with Bush signifiers: plush production, a sweeping musical mix of symphonic, electronic, exotic and Renaissance, and always that tremulous, dramatic, soaring voice.

The songs on the first disc include a pulsating ode to Elvis called "King of the Mountain" and an enigmatic meditation on a washing machine. Disc two is a unified song cycle, inspired by the songbirds Bush treasures, that traces a day from afternoon to dawn.

Oct 30 - Vegas article in today's Calendar section

In an article about alternative rock bands playing Las Vegas comes the following paragraph:For that very reason, this is a golden era for the sort of classic rock bands that once would have lost credibility by being associated with Las Vegas. After all, their boomer audience is here now and wants to see them. The curse of fat Elvis seems finally to have lifted, and no one worries anymore about the stigma of going Vegas. Among the last famous holdouts was Bruce Springsteen, who finally debuted at the MGM in 2000.

Oct 30 - Kurt Russell interview in LA Times

I'm also catching up on last week's Sunday Calendar section -- and of course anything with Kurt Russell usually has a high Elvis content:
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http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/suncal/cl-ca-brief23oct23,0,6461906.story

MOVIES
Controlled chaos with Kurt Russell

His acting career has been all over the map, just as he likes it.
By Susan King
Times Staff Writer

October 23, 2005
"GO, Moj. Go get him, Moj. Do your job."

Kurt Russell is lounging outside the lush Malibu home he shares with longtime companion Goldie Hawn, watching his 3-year-old English bulldog, Mojo, bark as he runs after any birds that dare land near the beach property.

It's hard to believe that Russell, a still-youthful 54, is a 45-year veteran of show business. The son of late actor Bing Russell, he began his career at 11 playing an obnoxious kid who kicks Elvis Presley in 1963's "It Happened at the World's Fair." He went on to play the King 16 years later in the acclaimed TV movie "Elvis."

Russell's gone from a tweener heartthrob in such Disney movies as "Follow Me, Boys!" and "The Barefoot Executive" to one of Hollywood's most durable, dependable leading men. And between acting gigs in the early '70s, he even played minor league baseball.

He may not be on the receiving end of acting awards, but it's rare that he doesn't deliver a solid performance. And over the years, he's worked with such directors as John Carpenter ("Elvis," "Escape From New York," "The Thing"), Mike Nichols ("Silkwood") and Ron Howard ("Backdraft").

His latest project, "Dreamer," which opened Friday, casts Russell as Ben Crane, an embittered, down-on-his-luck Kentucky horse trainer who, with the help of young daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning), nurses a thoroughbred back to health from a devastating injury to see it race in the Breeders' Cup.


So you are currently filming the remake of "The Poseidon Adventure."

I think of it as a Wolfgang Petersen movie [rather than a remake]. I think the experience of watching the movie will be different, but I don't think there is a big difference in what it's about. It was an opportunity to work with someone like that — he has a great eye.

Are you playing the Gene Hackman part?

Well, we never could figure out if it was Gene Hackman or Shelley Winters!

The first movie I ever saw you in was "Follow Me, Boys!" in 1966. You were the child star, and Fred MacMurray was the seasoned veteran. Now here you are in "Dreamer," the established actor working with Dakota, who started acting at a tender age.

We have a similar look at this whole picture world. It was fun to spend time with Dakota, and I still remain close with her. I never talked with any child actor or any young actor about my past, but I did with Dakota because we look at acting in the same way.

And which way is that?

It's a visceral experience, and you sort of get in there and do it.

Was it your choice to go into acting?

We knew I was going to play baseball. We knew that from a fairly early age on. Acting was something I could do that I enjoyed. I was never in the position where I felt I had to do anything or behave a certain way or do certain things. I despised publicity from a very early age because it had nothing to do with the work. When you are a young person, you don't want to go talk about yourself. You want to make the movie part. I can remember hiding up in the catwalks. I used to love to go up there and see the whole set, but most of all it would get me away from the publicist.

How many horses played the lead in "Dreamer"?

We had quite a few — they just all rotated. I have been around horses all my life, quarter horses and ranch horses, every since I was 9, working with horses in movies. But I had never been involved with thoroughbred racers in the racehorse environment. They know what they are doing. They know why they are there. They are an extremely arrogant animal. I have been around athletes all my life, and when they are good and they know it, they carry that stink on them. And these horses do too. They are not easy to work with. When they don't care to be there anymore, that's it.

Your character, Ben, in "Dreamer" is a complicated, angry guy who has a hard time relating to his young daughter. But then, most of the characters you play seem to have a lot of baggage.

I do think I have a tendency to try to find and infuse in a character conflict, because that is what makes people interesting to look at. I have been fortunate in my life that I read and have done things for me on a personal level that were interesting, funny, dramatic, whatever. I thought I could do something with the characters and play things in the person, a behavior, that made the story more interesting and more worth watching, and therefore hopefully more entertaining.

It wasn't easy turning things down. After I did "Elvis," they wanted me to do more Elvis things. After I did "Escape From New York," they wanted me to be an action star — period. I got scripts for, like, 40 action pictures — some big movies that you saw, I turned down.

I defy you to come up with any actor who has played as many roles as I have — the same guy who did "Elvis" did Rudy Russo in "Used Cars," did "Escape From New York." My career has been what I wanted to do. I have done it, and I am going to continue to do it. Somebody once said, "You know, your career looks like a drunken driver has handled it." I laughed and said, "You're right." I won't deny that. My career has been handled by a drunken driver — me. I was a drunken driver out there, being reckless and having fun.


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Oct 31 - Teri Garr photo in People

Okay, so it takes me two days to read an entire issue of People Magazine.... Also there's a big excerpt from Teri Garr's autobiography, including a photo of her dancing behind Elvis -- the captions reads:"This fits right into my master plan," writes Garr of making the chorus line in her first Elvis movie. She went on to dance in nine of the King's movies, inclluding 1964's Roustabout (pictured above)."

October 29 - James Galdofini description in People

There's a photo of Tony Soprano in this week's People magazine in which he is described as wearing Elvis silver sunglasses.

Oct. 28 - Jarhead / Public Enemy

In the film Jarhead (set during the first Gulf War), there's a scene were all the soldiers are dancing around to Public Enemy's Fight The Power song -- and of course the Elvis refrain is heard time and time again.

Oct 28 - Val Kilmer does Elvis

On today's issue of Jonsey's Jukebox, Val Kilmer was the guest and I missed the first part but came in during the part he and Steve Jones were doing Elvis impersonations and singing Polk Salad Annie and Proud Mary. Val, of course, played Elvis in True Romance. He was probably there pushing Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - -but wasn't pushing it hard as I heard at least 15 minutes and he never mentioned it.

Oct. 28 - iTunes Las Vegas Soundtrack

iTunes had the Las Vegas soundtrack on the main page, so I clicked to check it out - -and of course it has the Elvis Little Less Conversation song on it (twice!).

Oct. 27 - Barnes & Noble CD rack

I had to go to the Barnes & Noble in the Grove to buy a copy of Pride & Prejudice, and walking out, I caught out of the corner of my eye in the CD display racks the Elvis CD with the best of the soundtrack songs.

oct. 27 - Jonesy's Jukebox

As always Steve Jones loves to mention Elvis on his radio show. On today's show, he was complaining that one new band sounded too much like the Strokes to him, and then he added that he supposed it was always that way -- that in Beethoven's day, all the piano players were probably trying to sound like him, and when Elvis was big, sounded like Elvis...

Oct. 24 - Three in an hour

Steve Jones played an Elvis song that didn't sound exactly like Elvis (could have it have been an impersonator?), then Jenny McCarthy dressed up like an Elvis impersonator for a promo for Party at the Palms on E!, and then a promo producer's reel included an old E! promo for the E!Online store that included a shot of Elvis in his black leather suit.

Oct. 22 - Charlie Rose guest mention

On Charlie Rose, the guest was one of those New Yorker writers/book writers (who can ever keep them straight?) and somehow they got talking about the DaVinci Code's popularity and yet it being very radically religously in this time when it seems like people are very conservative religiously and the writer guy said it might be the Elvis factor, how he was into the many different religious ways of thinking and maybe most of America is like that too.

Oct. 20 - Trisha Yearwood Lyrics

Listening to random songs on my IPOD random while driving, suprised to hear Trisha Yearwood claim on a song from her new album called If I Ain't Got You: I've got every eight track that Elvis ever made...

Oct. 19 - Elizabethtown

In Elizabethtown, Orlando Bloom goes on a roadtrip to Memphis, visiting Sun Records. Any surprise that Elvis photos show up there? Then he leaves Memphis wearing a pair of Elvis sunglasses.

Oct. 19 - Amazon homepage

Amazon.com is customized to me so it shouldn't have surprised me but it did to see Elvis Aloha special DVD on the front page when I called Amazon up to look for a non-Elvis related CD.

Oct. 19 - TCM ad

Watching TCM, caught their Oct. ad for all things TCM, and there's a quick bit of Elvis & A-M from Viva Las Vegas.

Oct. 19 - GAC ad for Gospel Special

Watching GAC, caught an ad for the screening of the Elvis He Touched Me special.

Oct. 18 - AMC ad

Watched a promo done for AMC, which used Elvis's "A Little Less Action" song.

Oct. 18 - White Stripes on Charlie Rose

On Charlie Rose last night,Jack White of the White Stripes talked about producing Loretta Lynn's album and said the song "Have Mercy" was originally written for Elvis.

October 16 - Tons of mention in the Bono book

Am reading the Bono interview book which is filled with Elvis references -- not just as a rock star but Elvis used as an icon: "Entering my Fat Elvis period" or "Who's the Elvis in this organization?"

October 14 - Pull quote and review in Ent. Weekly

In the article about satellite radio, there's a pull quote on p. 46 stating "It's harder for local and new artists to get on the air," says an FCC commissioner. "Today I wonder: WIll the next Elvis throw down his guitar in disgust because he can't get on the radio?"

Also there's a review of the new Sam Cooke biography by Peter Guralnick, and it mentions he previous did bios for Elvis Prelsey and Robert Johnson.

October 13 - George Jones in Country Weekly

Good old Country Weekly rarely disappoints! In the interview with George Jones and daughter Georgette he talks about his experiences with Elvis during the Louisana Hayride heyday.

Also there's a review of the latest Elvis CD compilation -- Hitstory.

Oct. 12 - Mark Wills lyrics

Heard on the country radio station Mark Wills's old hit "Nineteen-something" with the lyrics "Well, I was a kid when Elvis died and my momma cried..."

Oct. 10 - Robbie Williams again

In a review of Robbie Williams's recent Berlin gig, a Scottish newspaper reported he performed: complete with Elvis pelvic squiggles.

October 7 - Tennessee

Watching GAC, there was a Tennessee promotional commercial, with images of Elvis in his gold lame suit.

October 6 - Robbie Williams mention

In discussing a song on his new album, Robbie is quoted as saying "This is my ‘True Romance’ song," he says, "the one where, like Christian Slater in the film, I like to believe I have direct access to Elvis Presley every now and then."

October 4 - Tony Joe White on Jonesy's Jukebox

Steve Jones's guest on today's radio show was Tony Joe White, who wrote "Polk Salad Annie." Although I missed the first half of the story, Tony Joe White told about meeting Elvis backstage in Vegas (accompanied by Jim Brolin) and inviting him to go fishing. He said Elvis said "I've sung Polk Salad Annie so much, I feel like I wrote it!" The show ended with Steve playing guitar along with TJW as he sang the song.

October 4 - Neil Diamond concert review in Variety

I found a copy of yesterday's Daily Variety, which I read during lunch and in the midst of the Neil Diamond concert review there was mention of him being the "Jewish Elvis."

October 3 - Hollywood Blvd. shop window

Been on vacation, so I have a whole list of Elvis-spotting to compile -- but to keep up to date, here's today's Elvis moment: walking along Hollywood Blvd. heading to the Egyptian for a screening, caught out of the corner of my eye Elvis's driver's license in the window of a shop selling all sorts of celebrity driver's licenses...