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Post by Sunnyhorse on Aug 16, 2007 13:03:21 GMT -4
The place is strangely underwhelming, except that you know that Elvis walked the halls and ate in the kitchen and died on the premises, which is kind of eerie. The house is actually nothing special -- it's the kind of place that, as a kid from a working-class family, I would've found big and fancy, but now it's just another house.
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Post by Alexis Machine on Aug 16, 2007 13:10:26 GMT -4
Reese's has a peanut butter and banana cup with Elvis' picture on the wrapper. I wonder how it tastes?
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Aug 16, 2007 13:17:06 GMT -4
One of my husband's friends says it's delicious, but it doesn't appeal to me at all.
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Post by woodchipper on Aug 16, 2007 13:26:44 GMT -4
I went to college in Memphis and went to Graceland on the day I graduated. It's not nearly as ostenatious as I expected. Sure it was dated 70s stuff, but not half as tacky as some of the places you see on Cribs. And it's not that big either. Reese's has a peanut butter and banana cup with Elvis' picture on the wrapper. I wonder how it tastes? That sounds delicious! |
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Post by Lisa Miller on Aug 16, 2007 13:29:47 GMT -4
I always felt bad for Elvis because he died before he could redecorate his house and get rid of the avocado shag carpeting like the rest of ugly-decorating America eventually did. LMAO. Mind if I use this in my sig? ;D What are your favorite Elvis songs? I like "Jailhouse Rock," "Hound Dog," and "Return to Sender." Don't Cry Daddy, Are You Lonesome Tonight? and Kentucky Rain are my favorite Elvis songs. |
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Post by heyalice on Aug 16, 2007 13:33:27 GMT -4
I guess by today's standards it's a pretty small house. He paid $100,000 for it in 1957. Suspicous Minds is my favourite Elvis tune and it's not Christmas without 'Blue Christmas'.
Why is Priscilla considered his widow if they were divorced for six years?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2007 13:40:01 GMT -4
Phew, I saw this thread and thought he was dead! Don't scare me like that, Greecies!
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Post by divasahm on Aug 16, 2007 13:49:09 GMT -4
'Cause she's Lisa Marie's momma, probably. I think Elvis made her trustee of Lisa Marie's inheritance in the event that he died before LM turned 21.
I had an opportunity to see Elvis in March or April of 1977 when he played Palmer Auditorium in Austin. One of my best friends was going with her mom, and they could not believe that I'd rather stay home and watch the Oscars that night. Part of me couldn't believe it, either, but the next day at school, my friend said that her mother had actually wept on the way home because she was so disappointed and upset at the unholy mess that was Elvis right before he died. My friend's take? "You didn't really miss much--he forgot lyrics, wandered around the stage, and just didn't have the voice any more."
I'm happy to live with my mom's stories of seeing Elvis in 1954 at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport, performing for the Louisiana Hayride radio show. She and her friends knew even then that he was going to be a tremendous star.
Favorite songs? "Love Me Tender", the gospel albums, "Burning Love" (hunka, hunka!), and my all-time favorite from Blue Hawaii, "Can't Help Falling In Love".
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Aug 16, 2007 13:54:54 GMT -4
I always felt bad for Elvis because he died before he could redecorate his house and get rid of the avocado shag carpeting like the rest of ugly-decorating America eventually did. LMAO. Mind if I use this in my sig? ;D I'd be honored. Be my guest.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2007 14:03:44 GMT -4
My sister and I went to Graceland in 1992, and we went there to pretty much make fun of it. Funny thing happened. Like another poster said, it is mostly underwhelming but there's also something eerie and I would even say oddly touching about the place. Especially the grounds. He had stables and the whole place was meticulous. I think he was just a country bumpkin at heart and didn't know what to do with fame. Going there made him a real person to me.
The next year at school I took this class called "Elvis as Anthology." It was taught by a Nigerian music professor. This extremely intelligent man had devoted his entire scholarly career to Elvis and dissecting his Freudian issues with his mother, the fact that he was a surviving twin, and how his music was reflective of all of these things and more. I know it sounds funny - an Elvis class -- but it was seriously the most difficult class I took. We had to write a 50 page thesis at the end. The professor was also featured on CNN.
Anyway, Elvis definitely has an effect on people.
My favorites are "Suspicious Minds," "Love Me," and "Kentucky Rain."
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