Farrah and Michael Jackson Dead

[Lakov_Sanite]

Goldblum can't die, I'm pretty sure he's a Q.

[Signe]

And Harrison Ford death rumour, too.  Good Grief!  Of course, they're both in New Zealand making a film together, I think, so maybe a fat sheep fell on them both!  Celebrity death hoaxes abound!

[Lakov_Sanite]

CNN is seriously playing" don't stop till you get enough" right now...and I can't stop laughing.

[rattran]

I guess I'm a minority here, but I never liked any of Jackson's music. And he was a freak/pedo. With no nose. Who used to be black. Color me unsympathetic.

[Numtini]

I guess I'm a minority here, but I never liked any of Jackson's music. And he was a freak/pedo. With no nose. Who used to be black. Color me unsympathetic.

Count me in on the gloat not mourn party please.

[Evildrider]

I liked some of his music.. basically stuff before BAD, but his bizarre antics and have given me no reason to mourn him. 

[stray]

Michael Jackson should have been struck by lightning and killed the day after he finished making Thriller. Imagine how differently he'd be remembered.

This. I still get the willies when I find myself enjoying his music because of what he became (or revealed about himself) later in life. Thriller was a fucking awesome album though.

+1 for Off the Wall

It was his destiny!....   If you're a huge iconic person, then you end up a crackpot, out of shape, or a recluse. Like Elvis or Marilyn. In this case, Michael was probably all three/.

[stray]

Various media and Twitter explosions about Jeff Goldblum also dying All resulting from someone's fakeawish.com fake report.

I believe he is still watching us all poop.

[Signe]

I didn't like one thing he did.  Well, I found the Thriller dance fun but seeing it once was enough.  Like a cute film or something.  I find music like that to be irritating.

I thought Michael Jackson ended up incredibly creepy.  Looks, personality, penchant for little boys, the attention he paid his weenie in front of people... no thanks.  Don't really want to know.  I can get over quirky celebs, sometimes they can be a good laugh.  But not that quirky!  He really turned my stomach.  He is not a person I would have trusted enough to leave alone in a room with my pet rock.  I wonder what will happen to all his money now.  Has he left it all to some bizarre cult charity or maybe to all they little boys he loved so much.      Or has the Jackson family cash cow just vomited a bajillion bazillion dollars all over their Jehovah Witness asses.

[stray]

I like the jackson 5 quite a bit. Pretty groovy band, especially for a bunch of kids. I never once believed he was a pedo though. Weird yes, but probably not a pedo. Just the perfect target to be accused for it.

[Paelos]

He had a very large image problem, and possibly a sexual problem. I'm conflicted about his life, but now that's no more. Farrah was always a glowing beauty and also an acting one-hit-wonder. Still, nobody with that short of an acting career has had their poster grace the walls of millions of men for the last 2 decades.

[schild]

Still, nobody with that short of an acting career has had their poster grace the walls of millions of men for the last 2 decades.

Put more crappy actresses in Playboy and that would change.

[Paelos]

If only Megan Fox would jump all over that.

[schild]

Especially if they airbrush out her stupid tattoo.

[stray]

I was always a Kelly fan myself! Best face and body of the bunch, and the only one who aged gracefully. Jaclyn Smith is still pretty doable... umm.. unless she's dead too now.  

[Trippy]

Especially if they airbrush out her stupid tattoo.

Which one?

[Paelos]

Especially if they airbrush out her stupid tattoo.

Which one?

All of them.

[Sjofn]

Where is the love for Ed McMahon.

I will also remember Michael Jackson for his music fondly, but also remember he was a terribly broken person besides that. That's the thing with art, though. You can be a thoroughly horrible person and still make shit that is worthwhile, shit that transcends your personal shitheelness. Even if you don't personally like anything Jackson ever recorded, he was a big-ass musical influence and that is what he will ultimately be remembered most for.

It's like James Brown. Total douchebag of a dude. But fuck if he won't be remembered, and well, for his contributions to music.

[stray]

Where is the love for Ed McMahon.

Hahahah YES!! You are correct, sir!~

[Feverdream]

I am really sorry to hear about MJ's death.  Reports now are that it was an accidental overdose of demerol, and there are accusations of "enabling" being tossed around by various family members.

Never mind that I think all of them should take a long, hard look in the mirror before applying that label to others.

Andrew Sullivan ticks me off regularly, but lately I'm feeling a lot of respect for him...his coverage of Iran has been outstanding, and the few paragraphs he devotes to Michael Jackson's death are brutally clear and compassionate:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/thinking-about-michael.html

[Nerf]

The whole cardiac arrest/OD thing are just media smokescreens to hide the real cause of death.

I have it from a very good source that he actually died of food poisoning - he ate a nine year old wiener.

[Sjofn]

Where is the love for Ed McMahon.

Hahahah YES!! You are correct, sir!~

Ma'am. :P

[stray]

aww, the joke doesn't work then 

[Ironwood]

The world loses another Kiddy-Fiddler and is the poorer for it.

No, wait, that's not right.

[Sjofn]

aww, the joke doesn't work then 

I know, I ruin everything. :(

ALL THREE DEAD have been referenced in SOME WAY in a Weird Al song (Farah Fawcett is the biggest stretch, but he mentions getting That Farah Fawcett Poster in his eBay song). Yes, I am a huge fucking dork.

[Der Helm]

I am sad.

This fact suprises me quite a bit.

[K9]

ALL THREE DEAD have been referenced in SOME WAY in a Weird Al song (Farah Fawcett is the biggest stretch, but he mentions getting That Farah Fawcett Poster in his eBay song). Yes, I am a huge fucking dork.

 

[Velorath]

I guess I'm a minority here, but I never liked any of Jackson's music. And he was a freak/pedo. With no nose. Who used to be black. Color me unsympathetic.

The guy was odd, there's no way around that, but we'll never know if he was a pedo or not.  You don't need to shed any tears, but given that this is a topic about the guy's death, could you guys at least take the "I don't care/I never liked the guy or his music/he was accused of child molestation and therefore it must be true" douchbaggery to a thread in Politics or something?

[Tale]

This is apparently from a Jacko Pepsi commercial, but it's poignant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5O61yKkdr4

[schild]

I should've gone to see Jackson live when I could've. He's on the short list now of people I'll never get to see that I regret not doing so.

[Broughden]

Especially if they airbrush out her stupid tattoo.

Which one?

All of them.

And her crappy blemish/zit covered trailer park face.

[Tebonas]

I'm kind of sad that Jackson is dead. He was a poor soul, certainly fit for the loony bin at times, but I always saw him more as a nonsexual being than a child molester. I may be wrong but I don't think he realized what he did wrong while trying to recapture his childhood in the creepiest way possible.

[Stewie]

I really can't seem to bring myself to care about this, at all. He hasn't really been relevant for ages. I like his music well enough but I was never a raving fan. Although that being said, I was pretty excited when I got thriller shortly after it came out for my birthday. 
I understand his status and influence but meh, I just want to turn on the news and see real news and cant seem to even think of this as any kind of event even know i know it is.
I would have been ok to just see an item on the news crawler about this. Of course this aint gonna happen and we will be bombarded with tributes and a gafuckenzillion interviews with anyone even remotely associated with him.   

[Cheddar]

Nuking this entire post - I do not want the jackals getting this thread tossed into politics.

[Mrbloodworth]

I don't think anyone can ignore that he made (or at least sang) some of the greatest songs in modern history.

And I don't think anyone, other than a liar, would say they did not enjoy any of his songs, especially this one:




I was hoping for at least one more album.

I really can't seem to bring myself to care about this, at all. He hasn't really been relevant for ages.

Another case of a personal view being used as a catch all for everyone. MJ was and still has been relevant. Every major pop star right now owe most of their style from this man (Looking at you Timberline, Britney, Usher and the rest of the manufactured twits who are performers, not musicians). Regardless of your opinion about their music.