I'LL BE THERE

13 hours of work has just about done me in. I do not have the mental stamina to put out any good thoughts. I am going to grab some beer and watch Top Chef until I pass out. I will be back strong tomorrow.
Enjoy this key song.

NEED THIS DOLL

This is the 68 Comeback doll from the 1993 Hasbro collection of Elvis dolls. I have the other two the offered, Teen Idol and Jailhouse Rock. So I really want to get this to have all three. These are my favorite of all the Elvis dolls/toys I have seen. Actually when I got the dolls I do have I was very young and did not know better, and took them out the box. So I would really like to have all three. Though the run anywhere from $40-$80 each from the looking I have done. Hopefully I can get around to getting these. They are very cool.

Vince's Flippy 5

1. Don't Be Cruel
2. Tryin' To Get To You
3. After Loving You
4. Just Pretend
5. Only The Strong Survive

IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Mike's Top 5

My favorite Elvis songs of the moment.

1.Love Me
2.Shake,Rattle,&Roll(alt take)
3.Paralyzed
4.(Such An) Easy Question
5.My Baby Left Me

Still The King

I ranted in an earlier blog on how people who arent die hard Elvis fans didnt recognize what good he had actually done. As I said in the other blog, Elvis was famous for giving away Cadillacs, cash and jewelryusually on the spur of the moment. But his true generosity and community involvement is not so widely known. In 1961, Elvis gave a benefit concert at Bloch Arena in Hawaii that raised over $65,000 toward the building of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. The resulting publicity gave life to the fund raising effort, which had lost its momentum. The memorial opened a year later. Audience tickets for his 1973 Aloha from Hawaii television special and its rehearsal show was free but each audience member was asked to pay whatever he or she could. The performances and concert merchandise sales were a benefit raising $75,000 for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in Hawaii. Each year, for many years, Elvis gave $1,000 or more to each of fifty Memphis charities, but also made other charitable donations in Memphis and around the country. Most of Elvis’ contributions received no publicity at all. Throughout his life, for his friends, family, and even total strangers, he quietly paid hospital bills, bought homes, supported families, paid off debts, and much more. So for all the people that portray Elvis as being a monster, read this blog over really good and rethink your conclusion on what type of man he REALLY was and not what the media and bitter former employees or a crazy step mother and step brothers portrayed him to be.

Poll Results

Looks like it was a tie this week between West Side Story and Thunder Road for which movie you wished Elvis would have been a part of.

New blog

Vince and I have started a new blog about cooking shows. I have got him hooked on them and we are going to start blogging a few times a week about the shows we watch. Have A Clambake is still top priority but we are going to try to get the food blog going. It is called Mike and Vince's Kitchen Heat. We have a link in our blog links section. It is a work in process, so check it out from time to time.

Cool picture of Dale in his Elvis suite from last year

I ran across this picture a little while ago. I thought it was pretty cool. Dale Jr is the coolest.

Dale was so close to a win last night but got spun out with a few laps to go and finished 15th. He is still holding down the third spot in points though which is good. Needs a win or two though because he would start a ways back if the chase started today because of a lack on wins.

Lisa wins lawsuit

Britain's Daily Mail newspaper has been forced to apologize to Lisa Marie Presley – who is pregnant – over claims she was pursuing a poor diet like her late father, Elvis. Last month the newspaper published a photo of Presley, dressed down and without makeup, eating with friends in Los Angeles, and the accompanying article said she was "growing just like her dad." Presley's lawyers sued for libel, and on Friday the newspaper printed an apology: "On March 4 we published a photograph of Lisa Marie Presley while she was dining with friends. We suggested she might have an unhealthy appetite similar to her late father. We now accept that the suggestion is untrue and apologize to Ms. Presley for any distress caused." In fact, Presley, 40, felt forced to reveal her pregnancy secret two days after the article appeared. "I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant," she wrote on her MySpace Celebrity blog. "My client is deeply upset and offended by this article, especially as it was widely published just as she and her family were meant to be celebrating her happy news," her legal rep, Simon Smith, said at the time.

I am glad, the article was very disrespectful of her and her father. This freaking rag needs to be put out of business. UK papers are nothing but trash that prints total and utter nonsense.

DOLL OF THE WEEK

Ann Helm is my doll this week. She played in the 1962 movie Fallow That Dream. I have always had a thing for her. She was very cute. Not a knock out like say Ann, or Raquel. She still is very attractive and one of the many reason why I watch Fallow over and over. She dated Elvis some during the filming and came to his home a few times from what sources say. I really cant say if that is true or not though. She played in a few other movies and apperad on several TV shows. She pretty much stopped acting when she had her second child in the seventies. Anna always had nice things to say about Elvis. It is interesting that while filming the movie The Magic Sword in 62 she dated co star Gary Lockwood(IT and Wild In The Country) and double dated with Tuesday Weld. I have seen Fallow about 4 times this past week, but I am thinking it might be worth seeing again just to see Anne.

No blog tonight

I am too tired to put much thought into anything tonight. I have worked fourteen hours today and I am tired and highly agitated. I am off to enjoy five or six bottles of New Castle and a pack of Basics. I am going to watch Blue Hawaii. Nothing settles me more then that movie. I love this whole damn movie, the soundtrack is the coolest as well. The song below has always been a favorite and a underrated track from the album.