Re: Too old?
- From: "Gregory Baxter" <Gregory.Baxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:38:55 -0400
"Jef." <jef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So, Michael Jackson has died. Heart failure, they say. Some hints of an
over use of medication(s)... we'll see how that pans out in the coming
days. It wouldn't surprise me, I suppose, if it turns out to be true.
Bloated, dope-riddled sweaty, Vegas-era Elvis died on the crapper, crammed
with pills and junk food and it didn't particularly upset me. I never was
an Elvis fan, except for Jailhouse Rock. Michael was at least twice as
weird as Elvis, so what do we expect...?
You'd think there was nothing else going on in the world at all, today,
just flipping from one channel to another, except that Michael had died.
The latest Capitol Hill "family values" hypocrite has been left in the
dust, poor old wacky Farah and her death from anal cancer barely got a
mention before being eclipsed by it, and that perennial sidekick and
straight man Ed McMahon sounded his last "Hey-oh!" and has quickly faded
from the news. At least they didn't find him hanging naked in a closet
with a rope tied to his balls. How sad, David Carradine...
Sad about Michael, too. Incredibly talented kid-- but tragically twisted.
I dug "Billy Jean" and "Beat It", and the moonwalking shtick-- and then
sort of lost interest in him. I wouldn't trade having all his fame and
fortune if it necessarily had to include living the sad, freakish and
creepy life he did.
Something about his passing has failed to really strike a chord in me, the
way John Lennon's death did, or even Groucho Marx's. A difference in
style, age, type of entertainer/entertainment? When those guys left, I
felt an absence, a real sense of loss. Not so, today.The difference? My
age now, vs. my age then? I don't know. I actually shed tears when Lennon
was murdered. I felt a kinship, a bond with him. I grew up listening to
Beatles music. Jackson's music was... well, basically just occasional
background noise. My reaction to his untimely demise was "He's so
young..." and then I realized I'm only 7 years older than he was.
Sigh...!
Nothing's forever, though some things (and people) ought to be-- if there
were any real justice out there.
When I'm Intergalactic Overlord, there'll be some changes made, believe
you me...
I just don't understand why people are crying over this guy. Where else can
you be a child molester and get away with it? Oh yeah! The Catholic Church!
And to those that say he was misunderstood and persecuted. I worked with a
guy whom everyone gave the benefit of the doubt, but where there is smoke
there is fire and he ended up getting locked up for child molestation.
Jackson was no different he just had the money to stay out of jail.
GregB
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