Well, I never liked his music but I'm sorry the guy's dead.
Also, I just heard my first offensive Michael Jackson's Death joke. That didn't take long.
Did you hear who died?
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daftbeaker wrote:Well, I never liked his music but I'm sorry the guy's dead.
Also, I just heard my first offensive Michael Jackson's Death joke. That didn't take long.
Not heard any myself...
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~NoodleDemon~ wrote:I admit that excessive coverage will grate on my nerves.
But somehow, I was saddened. Never again will I hear another song like 'Billie Jean' or 'Thriller'...
Yeah, but that has been true for the past 15 years he was still alive.
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PKMKII wrote:I feel sorry for the guy. If he did molest any children, there's no excuse for it, but he had one screwed up childhood. I can't help but think that if he hadn't had such a bastard of a father, he could have done a lot more.
Frankly i can't believe that he was ever cleared of those charges. The security guard smuggled out a schedule of when they were to rotate the children in and out of his bed for FSMs sake!
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I always imagined he was stuck in childhood mentally, and therefor his emotions felt that children were his equals, and therefor romantically appropriate. Probably just talking out my ass, however. Whether or not he was guilty, he was a fucking moron for continuing to put himself in the situation where he could be accused again and again.
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RAmen brother!
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Capellini wrote:~NoodleDemon~ wrote:I admit that excessive coverage will grate on my nerves.
But somehow, I was saddened. Never again will I hear another song like 'Billie Jean' or 'Thriller'...
Yeah, but that has been true for the past 15 years he was still alive.
Haha, that's true.
But there was always a possibility that he could have done some good work again.
Hey, we all thought it was impossible for a black man to turn white, but he proved us wrong there!
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~NoodleDemon~ wrote:Capellini wrote:~NoodleDemon~ wrote:I admit that excessive coverage will grate on my nerves.
But somehow, I was saddened. Never again will I hear another song like 'Billie Jean' or 'Thriller'...
Yeah, but that has been true for the past 15 years he was still alive.
Haha, that's true.
But there was always a possibility that he could have done some good work again.
Hey, we all thought it was impossible for a black man to turn white, but he proved us wrong there!
Please desist in thinking for everyone , at least me anyways , our minds are incompatible , thank you .
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My mistake, good sir, and I pray you think of it as an honest one.
I hope you're on the recieving end of an improbability equation wherein something happens to you that's as unlikely as Rob Schneider winning a best actor Oscar on the same day Michael Jackson single handedly captures Osama Bin Laden. ~ Rainswept
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That's pretty much dead on.
Ever notice it's not generally the people who actually know the dead celeb well who do all the talking? I haven't seen Liz Taylor on there, what I've seen is former lawyers and people going "he once rode in my hot air balloon!"
Ever notice it's not generally the people who actually know the dead celeb well who do all the talking? I haven't seen Liz Taylor on there, what I've seen is former lawyers and people going "he once rode in my hot air balloon!"
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I was watching MSNBC Thursday night at 10:30ish, they had his Agent, and then (one of?) his lawyer(s) on, being interviewed by Keith Olbermann. Can't remember exact names except the Lawyer guy's first name was like, Zia.
But yeah, it's sort of silly.
But yeah, it's sort of silly.
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On the bright side, VH1 Classic has spen the last two days playing solid Michael Jackson videos. Which means that at least one of the music channels is playing VIDEOS! When MTV started, they played only videos. You could tune in any hour of the day, and get videos. It was great! Then they started drifting into other stuff, and started VH1 to be playing only videos. Then VH1 started doing shows too. Even VH1 Classic has been drifting off into movies and long concerts. It's nice to be able to tune in to a video channel and actually see videos. I've missed that.
And they are playing old stuff, and obscure songs, and the UbiKids are having fun with it too.
And they are playing old stuff, and obscure songs, and the UbiKids are having fun with it too.
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It turns out my son had never heard the Jackson 5, didn't know anything about Motown, so that's a whole new aspect of his musical education now underway (to be fair to the kid, I rant about music like the worst sort of fundie preacher, so he's been programmed his whole life to just switch off when I start on about it).
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daftbeaker wrote:comic
Yes! I love pictures for sad children
I think I'm in the same boat as Roy's son, MJ's death was sad, but growing up while he was on trial for molestation and stuff, and not while he was being amazing at his music, I don't really know how to feel about it. I can't say I know how big his music really was, and how it affects everything. Now, music is all over myspace, and everyone's split off into little musical cliques instead... the internet changes everything!
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