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RIP

Sad... :(

I wasn't a fan, as I didn't care much about any kind of popular music then (and don't much more now), but still, he was still pretty popular when I was a kid, and knew people who liked his music a lot back then, so yeah, despite all the stuff that's happened to him (or that he did) in the past 15 years or so, this is pretty sad news. I mean, even if the child molestation charges were true, he didn't deserve this. 50 is not that old...

Michael Jackson's story has been a tragedy of some kind for some time now, and this really cements that, doesn't it, sadly. I wonder what he died of... nobody seems to have a clue yet. He was in good health supposedly.

Good health? I had heard he had a myriad of diseases over the years and was incredibly skinny. He died of cardiac arrest, apparently.

I wasn't really a fan myself, but he was the biggest star in the world when I was born and so I grew up knowing him and his songs. Love him or hate him, he is the legendary King of Pop. R.I.P. :(

Good enough health that this didn't seem likely, anyway...

It's too bad, but the guy was in bad shape (not talking physically here), and this was going to happen eventually. From the standpoint of how the world views you, this guy would probably have been better off dying around 3-4 years after his peak, when people wouldn't have cared as much about him anymore and at the same time would still miss him and mourn him and put him up with other unfortunate celebrities who died too young, way before his time, whenever those conversations come up.

Makes you sort of wonder how fucked up some of the celebrities who did die young would have been (or revealed themselves to be, rather) had they lived a fuller life. James Dean caught in lingerie with pictures taken by a former secret boyfriend? River Phoenix found with a kiddie porn stash? (he might have pooled his resources with Jeffrey Jones) Monroe was already kind of sloppy when she passed on, but at least she didn't go the Britney Spears or Joan Rivers route.

BTW, my freshman year of college I had a Mormon room mate named Michael. He enthusiastically told me that he was all about dance music and robot dancing (no lie, though he never showed me much of his moves) and that his favorite artist was Michael Jackson. He said that he was the best dancer in America and that robot dancing was a lot more difficult than any other type of dancing because you need both skill AND style. Damn, never thought of that.

He would also reaffirm with his group of friends how cool it was that they were having fun without drinking and doing drugs. He was a pretty funny guy, sometimes even intentionally.

Sorry to get off on that divergence, but it just came to me.

Just for the occasion, I watched The Simpsons episode Stark Raving Dad, in which Michael Jackson guest voices a man in a mental institution who thinks he's Michael Jackson, and the South Park episode The Jeffersons, in which Michael Jackson (not voiced by himself) moves to South Park under the alias of Martin Jefferson in an attempt to get away from all the scandals and media harassment.

His cosmetic surgeries came from a mental disorder and a long standing hate for his father who he looked exactly a like. The child molesting bullshit came from a mom who's child had been in court previously for a myriad of reasons all resulting in her trying to sue other people and companies. If MJ actually did anything with children, it would have come to the surface and every child he ever would have abused would have come forward with the hopes of getting paid.

He was a guy that never grew up and made his identity to be stranger than fiction. He wanted people to know that he bought a chimp, the elephant man's bones and slept in an iron lung. Put a theme park in his backyard and other oddities. But then it was all used against him... I was excited about his tour, I heard he had worked on some new music and was getting a comeback started. I wonder if there's some new recordings getting ready to hit.

I also wonder where his 3 kids are going.

His first two kids might end up in the custody of their biological mother unless, for some reason, she is deemed unfit to care for children. As for Blanket... who knows? Maybe his surrogate mother (the woman whose womb he was placed in during embryonic state) if she wants him. He's seven years old, so maybe he can decide on a favorite relative he'd like to live with.

The kids are probably gonna be with their mom, Some are now saying his death was caused by a overdose of prescription drugs, His finances were in shambles and he was being pressured to go touring and performing again to recoup desperately needed cash, Obviously these drugs were a result of all the heavy demands put on him.

He has been in frail health for some time now suffering from a weakened immune system and vitiligo.

As for being a pedophile, That's open for debate but unless you got a swath of kids coming forward now, I think in all likeliness he was innocent of that.

I have to agree that Jackson should have passed on soon after he hit his peek,He lived in a sad humiliating state during 1990's and especially the last 9 years of this decade.

Sacred Jellybean Wrote:BTW, my freshman year of college I had a Mormon room mate named Michael. He enthusiastically told me that he was all about dance music and robot dancing (no lie, though he never showed me much of his moves) and that his favorite artist was Michael Jackson. He said that he was the best dancer in America and that robot dancing was a lot more difficult than any other type of dancing because you need both skill AND style. Damn, never thought of that.

He would also reaffirm with his group of friends how cool it was that they were having fun without drinking and doing drugs. He was a pretty funny guy, sometimes even intentionally.

Sorry to get off on that divergence, but it just came to me.

I love him already.

He was a pretty cool guy but he could also be obnoxious. He was very arrogant, the type to put you down if you said something stupid instead of politely laughing and explaining why you were wrong. He was also telling me and a friend (who lived on the same floor) that he always had to prove he was better than everyone by excelling at any given subject and doing it by putting in less effort. He was kind of weird. :psyduck:

He came in handy, though, when he helped that same aforementioned friend cheat by taking his Calc 3 final for him. Mike was a pretty smart guy, so he pretty much breezed it (or the way he put it, he "beasted" it, that was kind of their word back then).

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Mecha Jackson?

Mecha Jackson was in the Moonwalker music video and video game.

They should make a sequel to Moonwalker

Little late for a sequel when the star is dead, unless they just recycle old footage.

Geno Wrote:Little late for a sequel when the star is dead, unless they just recycle old footage.

Not for the video game!

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That could've been the shadow of a crew member or something. I'm not sure how it propelled itself across the hallway though.

alien space marine Wrote:Inserted Video...

WOW! That was pretty cool!! If anything he did a great job of putting the video together.

A random video artifact is now a ghost. Not surprising. It's just crazy that the slightest oddity is immediatly assumed to be supernatural. There's not even a consideration of a more mundane explanation.

Why don't people get that most things are pretty danged boring? Does EVERYTHING need a storyline narrative?

How could you reproduce the ghostly image effect?

I caught most of his memorial service (which was impossible to miss if you watched TV today) and it was a pretty remarkable send-off. His daughter's words to close the service ripped my soul apart.

I wish I could have seen it, but I had to work 1:30-9:30. I'll have to catch a rerun or wait until it's uploaded onto YouTube.