Elvis Presley = Bill Clinton?

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Has anyone noticed the resemblance? I don't think it comes through in photographs, but in early Elvis footage and movies I was immediately reminded of Clinton. What it is? The cocky self-assurace, the goofy smile, the aw, shucks accent? Well, Elvis was born in Tupelo, Miss and Clinton I guess in Little Rock, Arkansas so maybe regionalism can account for their similarities?

― Mary, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

marcus noticed

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

marcus noticed -- Josh (kortbein@ellipsis.cx), August 03, 2002.

Cool, thanks for the link. Have you read this? If so, how is it?

― Mary, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

he talks a lot about pere ubu, sleater kinney, and, uh elvis and bill clinton.

anyone want to buy my copy?

― jess, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry mary I haven't.

jess I find it hard to believe bob dylan does not come up at all. or the mekons. did you just forget to mention them?

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i try to avoid mentioning bob dylan at all times. i have never knowingly heard the mekons. (i have also never been in a riot. coincidence?)

am i really so bored as to be posting to ilm on saturday night?

― jess, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

do you really want an answer to that question?

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Marcus's Dead Elvis is a good read by the way. Includes a quote from Yukio Mishima stating that if he could be anyone else it would be Elvis.

― Mary, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Double Trouble is just a collection of Marcus's '90s essays, with the Elvis/Clinton thing only touched on in a few of them. A lot about Dylan and Pere Ubu, as well as Nirvana, plus the Geto Boys, and probably the Mekons, too. Almost no Sleater-Kinney. If you liked Dead Elvis you'd probably like it.

― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, apparently James Traficant is Bushwick Bill.

― J Blount, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

he talks a lot about pere ubu, sleater kinney, and, uh elvis and bill clinton.
Wait wait wait....maybe Elvis actually became Crocus Behemoth of Pere Ubu!

― Lord Custos IV, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Clinton was born in Hope, not Little Rock. They grow some big watermelons down there.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

the uncanny parallels between elvis and jesus are far more intriguing

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Clinton looked like Robert Redford's hair and eyes put on WC Field's jaw line and nose.

― earlnash, Monday, 16 August 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

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