Michael’s grave

2009-06-30T17:38:00+02:00

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2009-06-30T11:27:20+02:00

I actually was quite in a dillema before this news about the death of Michael Jackson popped the waves. I kept asking myself, for a long time now, how this man was going to re-invent himself and re establish his supremacy.

It felt quite sad, the way he was being dissed by the media, the way he was kind of lurking within his own shadows, afraid of the wild that once adored him.

On the death of MJ, there are/is no statement that can summarily act as the last word - to close this case-its much bigger than anything we can just forget.

For MJ, for Lennon, for Presley, for Marley, for B.I.G, we are going to just hold on and wait for the return of the son of man and the unveiling of Paradise, so that we can once again, get them to sing for us live.

We are going to talk about MJ for forever, at least some of us. There is nothing for me to say that can prove I am/was more of a fan than the next blog chap you will find. However, what my candid bathroom can testify to is that I have made several of those crisp MJ moves many times in my lifetime.

Many musicians will continue providing the missing link-outcrop music that reminds us of the king of pop.

And of course, In my playlist, the list of dead mens’ music has expanded. Several Kbytes added to the 6GB of music in the Dead Mens’ Section…This man will the join the likes of Hendrix, Lennon, one song by Selena, Miles, Presley, B.I.G, Tupac, Morrison, Marley, Joplin…

As a kid, my favourite scene in the videos was the when the zombies were dancing…well, Salute for the king and shout 15.

Michael Mania

2009-06-27T10:04:00+02:00

The King of Pop is dead. That is a strange thing to say. And yet, it's stranger still for me to think of him as fifty years old. As Christina put it, “He is forever in his mid-twenties to me.” I first heard about it yeasterday, catching an NPR headline on my iGoogle homepage. Then came the subsequent media storm.I am continually confounded by the news and fan frenzy following the death of a superstar. And Michael Jackson certainly makes for a sensational frenzy.Wow,” Michael Harris of New York City says, “It’s like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always remember being in Times Square when Michael Jackson died.” And Harris, who's 36 (so clearly remembers what it was like when Kennedy was assassinated), isn't even close to being the most hyperbolic in his comments.I think that's what bewilders me most—this absurd sense of loss people feel when something like this happens. As reported by TMZ.com, people inside the hospital were screaming “You've got to save him! You've got to save him!” And I'm left asking, “Why?” Why are you sobbing? I don't understand. And that's not to say that I'm laughing maniacally at the news or that I don't feel a little sad myself. Before now, there had never been a moment in my life when Michael Jackson wasn't a huge star. I feel like we did lose something. I just don't know what it was.He was certainly a charitable person, getting in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Charities Supported by a Single Pop Star.” And there is a healthy dose of tragedy mixed in—what with his fifty sold-out shows in England (and possible pop-sensation-comeback) coming up. But I can't seem to tap into this sense of overwhelming despair that some people feel. But perhaps I'm not expressing my grief in the proper way. Maybe I would feel a little more if I joined celebrities on Twitter:“NO OMG,” tweets Lindsay Lohan, her bereavement clearly expressed by the capital letters, “... sending my love and prayers out to Michael and his family ... i feel sick..”Miley Cyrus, too: “michael jackson was my inspiration. love and blessings” - so distraught she couldn't even manage capital letters.Even Arnold Schwarzenegger got on the Tweet-wagon: “We lost a great entertainer and a pop icon. My thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Jackson's family, friends and fans.”Really? This is the forum on which you choose to express your condolences? Twitter—the funereal equivalent to a high school yearbook signature? “MJ – This school year rocked! Have a great summer. Sux that ur dead! Hugs and Kisses!”Sigh . . . I'm death-spiralling into bitterness. . . . It's just so bizarre to read all this, and it's coming from every news site on the web. Did these people give a shit about Michael two days ago? How many of these news sites fed his isolation and neuroses by hounding him all his life? And how many now will continue feeding on his corpse.Like the Belmont Club, who wasted no time in seizing a chance to decry the horrors of plastic surgery.What happened? What does the death of Michael Jackson mean? That's what I wanna know. What did we lose? We're keeping Thriller. All his moves—we got those too. His body will decay, but can Michael Jackson die? Well, he'll have a few more weeks, at least. People will continue ogling the last desperate pictures and videos. And we still have the autopsy reports to look forward to.Of all the times to go, ay, Farrah?

RIP M.J.

2009-06-26T07:09:00+02:00

REY!

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