If only the world were like Total Recall.

Some things in life are complicated; Michael Jackson's greatness isn't.

understatement of the day: what a fucking killer dancer.

so essentially you're locked up in your own head with no meaningful connection to society

the performance right before his solo act at motown 25. parts awesome, parts painful and one part hilarious - the introduction of Randy at the 2:00 mark.

So what you're saying is that you have no actual defense of Jackson, nor anything to say by way of rebuttal which doesn't include having a run at one of your favorite targets.

I'll listen to any defense of the man and his legacy which don't include personal attacks on the messenger. There will be very, very few of those.

Maybe you should just start a "Bash MJ" thread, guy. You seem to have some anger that needs working out.

link to her page?

No, I couldn't do that. Besides, she's a wickedly tough, attractive, artist in her 50's. She scares me. Ha.

So, let's review:

- ripped off core fans on Victory tour

- invented "King of Pop" tag himself

- tried to bilk people into giving him free pub for his exercise in ego

- appears to have molested kids

And yet I have anger that needs working out simply b/c I won't participate in the collective dick-suck we get into for dead celebrities?

Sure. OK.

she doesn't sound too bright Rob



what i'm saying is the basic reason why you're so bitter and delusional

See, you're kind of proving my point, right here.

In other words, you're jumping to conclusions a bit. A lot of people have a lot of nostalgia regarding the work of this particular performer/artist. It's no skin off of your nose to let them converse about it without unleashing obscenitiy-laced invectives, right?

Trust me, highly intelligent....and acerbic...energetic...cocky...cute...elf like...and a helluva painter. Heavy maintenance girl.

re: Thriller...can everyone agree that 'The Girl is Mine' and 'She's Out of My Life' sucked hard?

So hard, there aren't even words ... especially 'The Girl Is Mine'.

Pretty much made me hate McCartney since childhood.

i remember when james brown died there was this clip going around of brown performing and then calling michael jackson and prince out from the audience to play with him. crazy that i'm now looking for that clip again barely 3 years later.

anyhow, what a damn shame. a brilliant talent and one of the greatest pop stars ever. so many classics to his name but this is my all time favorite:

Brainstorm.

shut up, you miserable piece of old homeless shit.

THIS http://www.eastvillageradio.com:8010/evr.m3u
Is a continuous nonstop mix of classic MJ.
Its the best tribute I can think of right now

excellent tune.

There is a House Rmx of this (Sanchez? Terry? Hmm) that was a fucking floor-burner Summer 95.

See, I'm not proving your point at all. It's a thread about his death (and originally, we didn't even know he was dead...) but nothing in its title implies or states it's only a thread for people to say nice, warm-fuzzy things about it.

I don't care that he's dead, and I really, really don't care if my language offends you. Not trying to take a shit on anyone's grief. Just offering another perspective - one I notice cannot be offered without people getting as personal as I didn't in the OP.

I don't think you've been here very long, so what you cannot possibly know is the reactions are less to what I said and almost entirely to ME saying it. Not that anyone who posted what I did would receive a warm welcome, but there's at least a handful of boarders who could do it w/o having the entire thing become not a referendum on Jackson's career vs. his (more) egregious sins but one more chance to remind me of why I suck in so many crucial ways.

how come you and vamos have the same arrested worldview

how does it feel to be the most miserable person on the SOMB?

er ... you win?

I wanted to mock or slander him when it turned out he was a demented pedophile. But I felt kind of guilty.

asks a man whose username is apparently meant to be a reference to his great love of his own genitalia.

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Dunno - get back to me when you've thought about it awhile.

what

Listening to that east village radio stream.....I don't know how someone can shit on this guy as an aritist.....say what you want about his personal affairs but as an artist this guy was on some higher plane of existence that very few ever reach.

So wait.

kiss_the_floor is/was brainstorm?

I have no dog in that fight, just trying to context some of the back n forth here.

"I know you are but what am I?!" A brilliant comeback in all forms.

yeah, kiss the floor is brainstorm.

aka the homeless dude that spends to much time on SOMB.

but really guys,



awesome.

Srsly guys, you need to get in on this streaming MJ mix.

It's not all Off the Wall and Thriller.

Whoever is doing this is going deep and rich.


http://www.eastvillageradio.com:8010/evr.m3u

coupla boys jacking eachother off here it would seem to this big dick nasty

listening to thriller for my boy jackson

jack them tiny cocks to "baby be mine"

some proof that mj just another bitch:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6416959.stm

3500 for a minute of mjs time back in 07. though if i was mj i would definitely take that offer, so i rescind my calling him a bitch.

also for anybody calling him a pedo, please watch this chappelle stuff:

Bill O'Reilly's show put on hold and he's not taking it well.

Never cared for his music.

Deadophile

Is it possible to dislike "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough"?

I can't stand him. Never could.
But as an 80's child - I acknowledge that he was kind of a legend.
A modern time Elvis if you will.
So WOW! I guess.

remember when dero shat on zevon upon his death and lots of folks got all upset about it. good times.

It's finally safe to send my sons to Neverland Ranch!

8,000 people scored at least 1 point on the Rotten Dead Pool during the last three days.

When Jackson burned his hair doing that Pepsi ad he was 25 years and 5 months old. He died 25 years and 5 months later. When he had that accident his life was half over.

Man, what a day. Had a soccer game tonight that got stopped at half-time due to lightning, and while checking the weather on my phone I got this breaking news flash. I told my kids Michael Jackson died and my 10-year old said, Michael Jordan died! And then I corrected her and she was like, Who? So the wife and I proceeded to sing about a dozen of his most popular songs to mostly blank stares and shrugs. Although she did know ABC and Black and White (solely because Adam Lambert performed it this year on AI).

You want to talk about feeling old. But really, outside of his bizarreness and the child molestation stuff, what has he done since the mid-90s? Last relevant thing I recall is the Black and White video - wasn't that the first time we'd ever seen face-morphing? That was pretty revolutionary as I recall. So he's really not known much to the younger generation. But we spent a good hour on youtube checking out a bunch of videos and stuff. Turned out to be a kinda cool family night, in a way, teaching/explaining to the kids who he was, why he was important, and trying to answer questions about his life. Luckily, they are young enough that the child molestation stuff seemed to fly over their heads when it was briefly brought up on the news.

I definitely don't mean any disrespect to the guy, but I do have to share this - after the Michael Jordan comment from my daughter, I tried to explain who he was, and I called him a black singer/dancer and talked about his family, performing as a child, having the biggest selling album of all-time, then the bizarre crap about Neverland Ranch, etc. So when we get home from my game and turn on the TV, my daughter sees a picture of him for the first time, and says - "Wait, I thought you said he was a man. And black...?"

Family friend hints at prescription drug abuse: