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The King's Still Dead, Long Live The King
 Today is the 25th Anniversary of Elvis dropping dead on his porcelain throne. It seems like yesterday when I was watching the news with my dad and the top story was "Elvis, Dead at 42". My father, a huge fan, was sitting in our living room in total shock. He had tears in his eyes when he yelled to my mother to come in the living room to see the news. It was quite the event in our household.
That's probably why Elvis has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. His music and especially his movies remind me of being a kid and getting together with my family. I've probably heard just about every Elvis song in my lifetime, including (unfortunately) his religious and Xmas songs. My favourite Elvis song has always been Suspicious Minds. I've probably seen the movie Blue Hawaii 10 times (it was my mom's favourite ). A couple of months ago, I saw a half hour of Kissin' Cousins - what a hokey pile of shit film that was. Apparently, thousands of people were expected to file past Elvis' grave at Graceland today. My friend Ron and I went six years ago. We wanted to go to what we considered the trashiest place in the U.S. (perhaps even the world). We took pictures of ourselves pretending to cry at his grave and made fun of all the trailer trash there. That tour sucks balls, by the way - they make you wear headphones and you don't even get to see the toilet Elvis dropped dead on - we were very disappointed.
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