The Tattoo Factory has opened an annex that's an art gallery, and tonight it will unveil ... drum roll ... for one night only ... The World's Largest Velvet Elvis. (Folks, could we make stuff like this up?)Show up at 4443 N Broadway between 7 pm and midnight to see Record-Setting Vel-El and enjoy a musical performance by Ilsabe O'Connell.
For more information, click on the link in the first paragraph for the Tattoo Factory Gallery's myspace page.
Elvis is in Uptown.
ReplyDeleteWhen I look out into your eyes out there,
When I look out into your faces,
You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Elvis
In each and every one of you out there.
Lemme tell ya...
Weeeeeeeeeellllllll...
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere, man!
He's in everything.
He's in everybody...
Elvis is in your jeans.
He's in your cheesburgers
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!
He's in everybody.
He's in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Elvis in 'em too
Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Elvis in them!
Everybody except one person that is...
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis.
The Anti-Elvis
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em,
lemme tell ya.
Helen Shiller has no Elvis in her.
And Elvis is in Mayor Daley
but he's trying to get out, man!
He's trying to get out!
Listen up Richie Baby!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Man, there's a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck's going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is.
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,
people from outer space they come up to me.
They don't look like like Doctor Spock.
They don't look like Klingons,
all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis.
ELVIS!
Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis.
Cause Elvis is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis.
Everything everywhere will be Elvis.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway?
It's really Elvislution!
Elvislution!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
That's right ladies and gentlemen,
The time has come!
Time has come to talk
To that little bit of Elvis inside of you.
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say "Elvis, heal me!"
"Save me, Elvis!"
"Make me be born again
in the perfect Elvis light"
That's right!
You've got that Elvis inside of ya
and he's talkin to ya
He says he wants you to sing!
Everybody's got to sing like the king!
Like the king
Get that leg going now
Get your lip too.
Not no fool Billy Idol lip either
Everybody!
Yeah, we're rockin now!
Elvis is with us.
He's with us and he's speaking to us.
He says "Peoples!"
"Peoples!"
"Everybody!"
"Everybody got to sing!"
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis!
Well there goes this comment thread...
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I are grabbing dinner at The Spot tonight so I believe we will have to drop by and see this!
Leave it to an Uptown Update commenter to link his dislike of Helen Shiller to some kitschy velvet Elvis exhibition.
ReplyDeleteElvis sightings, Tony Fitzpatrick paintings, impersonator parodies, and witless Elvis poems et cetera have nothing to do with the real Elvis Presley and his contribution to modern music.
Maybe Blago will be there.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:00 - where was the link to Helen? I guess I missed that...
ReplyDelete"Helen Shiller has no Elvis in her."
ReplyDeletethanks for that morning pick-me-up, irishpirate.
ReplyDeleteElvis sightings, Tony Fitzpatrick paintings, impersonator parodies, and witless Elvis poems...
ReplyDeleteI think that's actually a song by Mojo Nixon... well, except for the Helen Shiller part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gopc3fgnXDw
First,
ReplyDeleteif you click the link at the top of my insightful and award winning post you will see the Mojo Nixon video of "Elvis is Everywhere".
Second,
anonymous 9:00 am. Lighten up Francis. You take yourself and Elvis way too seriously.
I am not cool enough to rock any tattoos so I figured I'd never have a reason to step into this place. However, this Velvet Elvis exhibit sounds awesome! Too bad it is for one night only & I don't have a babysitter for this evening. Hey, Paul---how about an extended run? :)
ReplyDeletePhone home Elvis. Won't you call me.
ReplyDeleteWhy not? Elvis would have felt right at home in Uptown. Plenty of readily available drugs, cheap hotels with prostitutes, and bushes he can squat and die in and Weiss Hospital to hide the facts from the police, community and press. What more could he have asked for?
ReplyDeleteWhat is Weiss Hospital hiding?
ReplyDeleteBrendon's multiple drug overdoses when he lived with Brenda on Lakeside.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to hold out for the Tattoo Factory art gallery showing of "Dogs Playing Poker" done in glow-in-the-dark (phosphoresce) ink and served up with Velveeta cheese.
ReplyDeleteHey, Paul: 11:41 has another great marketing idea to appeal to Uptown's underserved non-tattooed, crunchy granola female blogger demographic! Damn I wish I hadn't had to miss the biggest Velvet Elvis. Bring it back!
ReplyDeleteAs much as I have enjoyed poking fun at this you must realize that Paul's art gallery event is poking fun at one of the tattoo industry's running joke's - the ubiquitous Velvet Elvis tattoo's of it's cheap and taudry past.
ReplyDeletePaul and the Tattoo Factory team operate at the artist level. In this instance, let's have a laugh with him not just at him.