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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 26, 2009 0:26:19 GMT 2
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529103,00.html?mrp OK, I never usually do "gasp! Breaking news!" stories, but this one does seem pretty grim. I've never been a big fan, but damn I hope the guy's OK. Reports like this, especially with someone like MJ, will always get blown waaaay out of proportion, so let's hope this is the case. EDIT - updated, obviously.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 26, 2009 1:22:34 GMT 2
The King is dead. I'm not sure whether he deserved it or not, but either way he's brought joy to millions upon millions of people with his music and the world has lost an icon this day. RIP.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 26, 2009 1:44:31 GMT 2
You know, when I was writing this thread originally I had that "feeling" that, maybe, this would be one of those moments you remember when someone famous dies.
Fuck what a shame. Like I said before, I was never the biggest fan, but we've just lost one of our all-time greats. Forget the shell of a man that's been around the last couple of years, and remember him the way he'd like to be remembered.
RIP.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 26, 2009 2:16:26 GMT 2
MJ was the sound of my childhood. He was just massive in my house. We recorded all of his videos and performances on VHS and wore them out watching them. He is my first musical memory. I remember when I was 7 my older sister was trying to record the boroadcast of "We Are the World" on her tape recorder and she got seriously pissed because every single time it showed him I'd get excited and start shouting his name. I haven't been conscious for 2 hours today and I'm already sickened by the media coverage. But that could be because my wife had it on FOX News. Fucking Al Sharpton elbowed his ass in and started blabbing and holding up pictures of him and Jackson like this was all somehow about him. Hate that guy. Then they started showing these really half-ass tribute videos that looked absolutely horrible. Why not just grab something off of Youtube? THose things were embarrassingly low quality. Also, Farrah Fawcett succumbed to cancer today, but nobody gives a fuck. They just mentioned it offhand without cutting from the image of Sharpton flanked by 1000 other idiots blocking the entrance to the hospital just standing there. Fuck you, mainstream media. Carradine, McMahon, Jackson, and Fawcett all gone in a matter of days. Sign of the Apocalypse?
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Post by mackshere on Jun 26, 2009 4:28:14 GMT 2
Damn, it's sad. MJ opened the door to music for me as a kid too. I remember my excitement when the Thriller video came on. Us kids would call each other on the phone so none of us would miss it. I actually wrote my first poem as a kid too called The Black Glove. Silly, I know. Yes I often wore a single black glove and tried to mimic his moves. He was so cool, I idolized him.
I refuse to believe any unproven bullshit stories about him.
R.I.P. Michael.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 26, 2009 8:56:13 GMT 2
The news broadcasts really bug the shit out of me too, I can only watch them for so long before I start hurling things at the TV. Over in the UK, they were reporting his death and talking to people who knew him etc, and this one bitch starts questioning people about the baby dangling episodes and whether there was any truth to the child abuse stories. His body's still fucking warm, you CUNT. Is this really the best time to start asking things like that?
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Post by InvisibleWolfMan on Jun 26, 2009 16:24:34 GMT 2
I mourn the death of Micheal the musician  , but I am counting the days until I can enjoy the death of Wacko-Jacko the media joke spectacular...  |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 26, 2009 16:46:43 GMT 2
What will be interesting is seeing the about-turn of hacks and media whores who've made a fucking career out of hounding and insulting the guy, suddenly declaring him the greatest thing ever. I've got a funny feeling Eminem's "Just Lose It" video, for example, won't be making anyone laugh in the near future. Not that it ever did.
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Post by InvisibleWolfMan on Jun 26, 2009 21:41:44 GMT 2
As far as I'm concerned, there's LOADS of shit creeping up through the cracks...from those that trashed him but suddenly love him to those who are saying even worse shit that now he's not able to answer back in any form. This will go on...you watch....for YEARS. Hell, they'll make a Oscar nominated movie about his life and nothing will be real any more...only more Wacko-Jacko folklore.
He's dead. Let him lie in peace.
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Post by pauless on Jun 27, 2009 16:25:18 GMT 2
Whatever his faults, I think everyone deserves respect in death. The bloke did good for millions as Trashy rightly said, and of all the celebrity scandal trials - his was the one I couldn't really fathom. If he was doing a bit of shrub-rocketeering, surely he'd have been more careful? No-one is as stupid and naive are they? The boy's family who put the claim in, looked like gold-digging trash - but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. MJ settled out of court which again sends out mixed messages. Paying up made him look guilty as fuck, while the boy's family took the cash right quick, suggesting they weren't in the slightest bit interested in justice. I agree with Big C, the media buried the poor sod years before the coronary. On tv last night, intellectuals were abstractly discussing 'which MJ has actually died' - there's that many of him... I settled on the alien outsider becoming the pop culture dominant..Ziggy Stardust anyone? Anyway, this is how I'll remember him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJW_yTbYGoIFor the colonials - yes, that is the guy off 'House'. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 27, 2009 21:50:50 GMT 2
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie - fantastic double team. The most depressing part of that video is the knuckle-headed comments about it (always, ALWAYS the worst part of Youtube). In what possible way is that video "racist and disrespectful"?
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 28, 2009 1:06:16 GMT 2
Well, the thing about the allegations is that after the umpteenth time he faced them, and the little kiddie fingerprints on his liquor and pornos, and the revelations of his staff he continued hosting little boys overnight unsupervised IN HIS BED. Were there any little girls? Doesn't seem like it. Now why would gender preference even play a role if it wasn't actually sexual preference? Then he goes and moves to a country that is notorious for letting rich people do whatever the fuck they want. If he wasn't a child molester then he spent the entire latter part of his life going way out of his way to make us think he is. At this point it doesn't matter so I'm just going to assume he was really Andy Kaufman and the joke's on us.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 29, 2009 23:32:41 GMT 2
I was going to make another thread about this, but screw it, it's about MJ anyway. This weeks music charts made the news because of the sheer volume of MJ albums and individual tracks that swamped the charts after he died. That really, REALLY pisses me off.
Where were these mindless fucking drones when the records came out in the first place? What, someone has to DIE before you'll buy their music? I just don't understand that mentality.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 30, 2009 4:14:40 GMT 2
If it's on TV 24-7, they'll buy it. Simple as that.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jul 20, 2009 19:58:11 GMT 2
Now that the major hoopla has died down, I think it's time we looked back at MJ and how he turned out and the way he looked when he turned 40. No, remove the ghost white face and shades from your minds.. I'm talking about the, ahem, uncanny predictions made by Ebony Magazine in 1985, of how MJ would look in the year 2000..  Like... WOW. Those guys must have been psychic. |
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, but I am counting the days until I can enjoy the death of Wacko-Jacko the media joke spectacular... 
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