It’s easy to dismiss his transformative musical force
The most telling line in Baz Luhrmann’s new movie Elvis comes at the very end, in the form of a title card: “His influence on music and culture lives on.” As I left the cinema, exhausted and annoyed, I wondered whether that was true, and whether it would need to be said if it were obvious.
Kathy and I took Mum to the old Sears warehouse in Rexdale not long before it closed for good.
Kathy spied a pair of men’s boxers. They were black satin and liberally sprinkled with a variety of colourful almost neon profiles of the King.
I bought her a pair and they were so comfortable she had me return to hunt down any that remained.
I think she ended up with 4 pairs.
It always brings a smile when I remember how much she enjoyed wearing them.
She liked Elvis.
Full disclosure, I kept a pair to store in Kathy’s trunk.
