It’s old school friday and by default, and death, Michael Jackson is the theme. Though boggled by the scramble the media does to cover the deaths of celebrities, and my goodness last night they certainly were scrambling to get on this bandwagon, to the relief of the governor of South Carolina and the dismay of Farrah Fawcett’s family, and fans, I understand. Michael Jackson was in a different league. “A league of his own” has never had a more true member.
His music, though not of my generation, made my generation. Music that played as if new through most of my high school years, despite the fact he was already labeled a sad oddity, a man who stayed a child in some ways, speculated on, tried, acquitted, sequestered.
I was stunned when I heard it. One doesn’t really know what to feel but sad.
Rest in peace Michael Jackson.
Oh, and thank you for the music.
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You couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate song.
.-= caseyjake´s last blog ..RIP Michael Jackson. =-.
It does seem so doesn’t it?
I work at a bar, can you imagine what last night was like?
I don’t have time to write anything so I’ll live vicariously through the posting of millions of others.
.-= g´s last blog ..Surfing Liberia =-.
We went to a bar after the movies, because we heard it on the way out, it was pretty early but yea I kind of understand.
His death was definitely a shock to me. Great song :) I forgot about this one, but its probably one of the most appropriate for the occasion.
It does seem so in retrospect.
Love this choice…so apropos.
Made me start crying all over again…dammit.
Happy OSF…
.-= Marvalus´s last blog ..Old School Friday: Michael Jackson =-.
happy osf to yo as well though it can’t be said to be really happy..
Ah, that brought back memories, he was such a sweet, cute kid. (My dad said, at the time, that he thought this was a nice song until he found out that it was about a rat. heh)
Yea but still….
Unfortunately I remember him when is was only thought of as cool. I remember as a kid learning his moon walk, even though I didn’t know how to dance.
I never thought I’d live passed him. I thought he’d be in his 70s still popping pelvic thrusts in an electric fashion that only Michael Jackson could.
I certainly hope he is resting in peace.
As for the media crap spewing the same thing, repeatedly, I swear, this is exactly the kind of think that makes me wish I could shift to living in a parallel dimension. Perhaps in that reality Michael Jackson is Hilter, and everyone is saying:” I wish he were gone, stop enslaving the kids to act like monkeys.”
.-= Bennet´s last blog ..Ejack’s Errational Tempormentations =-.
I understand the feeling. Part of me is still in denial. I decided to remember who my Michael was (as in, who Michael was for me, rather than what the media wanted us to make him out to be).
I remember learning the dances, singing the songs, watching the movies.
For that, I’ll smile through the misty eyes and live.
And may be RIP.
May he rest in peace, and may the continual “beat it” drone coming from the television stop. But, oh wait, here comes Liza Minnelli to tell her story….
The song even though about a rat or mouse or something, is fitting in this case.
.-= john´s last blog ..Health Care For Every Body, The Movie =-.
That is for sure. Every channel.
I also put a video of him on my last post. What’s happened to us? Just because the man who has influenced me as a child died, the man whose still-unaltered face I saw on my bedroom ceiling (my one and only ceiling poster), the man whose Thriller video premier I stayed up to watch, the man whose refusal to grow old I witnessed as I grew up, slightly embarrassed by my earlier fashion choices. Whatever happened to him when he refused to grow up while the rest of the world and his own body moved on, he will always be my childhood.
.-= People in the Sun´s last blog ..This post should have been about my torture device =-.
I suppose if I felt about plastic surgery the way I feel about cracking wise over tragedy, I’d look a little strange by now, too. RIP, Michael.
.-= Doug´s last blog ..Occasional =-.
Cracking wise over tragedy, sometimes it has to be done. “Wronging Rights” is one of my favorite reads.
What I find really sad is that in his adult years, he became a caricature of himself while trying to maintain the celebrity of his youth. The overload coverage on television is really odd. And has buried the death of Farrah Fawcett – a popculture icon in her own right.
.-= sauerkraut´s last blog ..Farrah did not go quietly into that good night. =-.
I guess for me Farrah was done before I was born, no real lasting affect for me or my generation, but his stuff was still out there and had affected my generations pop culture and music forever. Farrah’s didn’t affect me. Though the burning bed was pretty damn good.
oh god, I have heard and/or seen so many tributes and this is the first that has me crying, rather hysterically. Cooper how do you always know the exact music…?
I didn’t watch Charlie’s Angels so to me Farrah Fawcett was all posters for twelve year old boys and I wish I had more to say…
.-= pia´s last blog .. =-.
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Great song, Cooper. Last night, I came across a video of him performing the song “Gone Too Soon” which was about Ryan White. It fit.
And I had the same thoughts about Sanford. I guess this was his Get Out Of The Headlines Free card.
.-= Bone´s last blog .."Some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic" =-.
It’s too bad even though I was already tired of hearing about it.
He was just a year older than I, so I grew up with his sound track. A sad ending to a sad life.
Indeed it was.
Interesting article :)