Goodbye Michael
I haven’t got much work done with Michael’s memorial going on. What did you think?
This is a little twisted (like Michael’s life) but I was waiting for him to pop out of the coffin and yell, “Surprise bitches! It’s me I’m back! I knew y’all still loved me.” Talk about the best comeback ever…. And it would be perfect timing with his concerts set to start in a week.
I felt like it was all pretty somber, sad stuff. Couldn’t it have been held at an outdoor venue? I don’t know why Kobe Bryant had to be a part of it as well?
Personally, I find caskets to be really creepy and it reminded me how I want to be cremated.
And what was with the E! entertainment commentators speaking about it afterwards? I’m not sure what the other networks did but I found it a little weird hearing from the same dbags that took such pleasure in mocking him, and talk about whether it was right to have his daughter, Paris, speak or not. That’s where I turned that fucker off. Dude is dead, memorial is over. Now you flip to an episode of Cheers that is already underway.
But on a serious note, hearing his daughter speak and his family was some powerful stuff and definitely helped to humanize Michael in a way that Kobe Bryant and Queen Latifah didn’t (for me at least).
This song has come to me. I don’t know why, I’m notorious for misreading things and it probably is about doing too much blow and eating Mars bars, but it somehow spoke to me and my mixed up lil mind.
The Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday
Brooke Shields was such a phony baloney–worst acting I’ve ever seen. MJ’s daughter was refreshing–pretty much the only “genuine” display I saw. Everyone is clamouring to comment on her insistence that he was a good dad, but I found it disturbing that his two boys were so stoic…how come the BOYS didn’t say he was a good father–it would mean more coming from them. Sorry, I couldn’t help but think it.
I once knew a guy named ‘Tree’. He never really thought much of his parents being given that name.
One of MJ’s boys is named ‘Blanket’.
I have nothing further.
haha his real name isn’t blanket is it? I thought that was just the name the press gave him / the phony name his father gave him to “protect” him from the public / try to turn him into the next meme. That was some fucked up shit though
I was really impressed by the staging of it all on such short notice. Kenny Ortega, legend in the promoting biz, put on a show that rivaled at least the BET or Country Music Awards for quality. And he did it in less than a week! I would have liked to see more celebrities but I guess everybody there was really close to him personally so that’s better maybe. I liked the casket there; Michael got a front row seat to his farewell.
Who was that british kid? Shaheen Jafargholi? Why do we have to have him sing?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6654002.ece
Thanks for the embedded advertising, britains got talent / time warner / sony bmg. does one company own the world yet? shameless. Im surprised they didn’t have mcaulay culkin out to promote a film or drink pepsi as well
Gong show
“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
For me I’ll try and remember him fondly as the first artist I could call him my own over the music played by my parents but I fear we’ll never be able to discount the circus that followed him for the last 20 years.
Good riddance to shite. Always hated him and the level of hysteria on the drug-induced early death of a freak who admitted sleeping with children is almost bizarre as his fucked up face.
Music for wankers.
hatred is for wankers.
I watched the memorial on tv last year. My brother kept going, “watch, he’s going to come out of the casket right now” and i could totally almost imagine it happening … but it didn’t, of course.