Too much of the king

So apparently today was Elvis's birthday. I say apparently because there is no way I care enough about that kind of thing to know it without being told.

As I drove from from class tonight there was a 'double-shock!!' of Elvis to begin Joe Hipperson's Hip Nights show on 550. First there was a poor cover of C.C. Rider and then a love version of Hounddog I think. These just weren't very good songs and it reminded me of how I don't understand the obsession our culture has with Elvis. If you have to talk about him at least play the good stuff.

No matter how great the man was, our society (and his estate) have just turned him into a comical caricature of himself. Plus there are two days that we are supposed to 'celebrate' him each year. The day of his birth and day of his death. I don't want to make a religious statement here, but that is the same number of days many of us celebrate Jesus life.