THIS IS AWKWARD, AND STILL CATCHY AS HELL

SORRY GUIZ MY HEART JUST COULDNT BEAT IT ANY LONGER

MY NEXT TOUR WAS GOING TO BE GOOD, BUT NOW THAT I’M DEAD IT WILL BE A REAL THRILLER

My first thought when I heard about him being rushed to the hospital: If someone is going to be startin somethin Jacko is hoping that it’s his heart.

/seeing him in hell

Jesus Henry Christ on a pogo-stick, that song has been running through my mind all day, even before I knew he was ill…

Scary.

Anyone who says they did not try the moon walk once is a liar liar with their hair on fire. Oops- too soon?

True Michael Jackson Confessions:
He was my gateway drug from Moonwalking to Breakdancing, from the wearing parachute pants and bandanas for no apparent reason, to popping and locking and looking ridiculous in general in the 80’s, I blame Michael Jackson for the dance moves and Madonna for the fashion disasters.
But “PYT” was the bomb, and my mind was blown watching him hit the never-before-seen “Moonwalk” on the Motown 45 show, I remember the buzz the next day at school and at lunch watching people try to figure out he did it. I was the only one to do it first, and I was like getting request to do it at lunch. It was like a special power. You really had to sell the mechanics you were walking forward whilst moving backwards. A private school with no black kids, and I was the only white kid with rhythm, I had the market cornered on the Moonwalk for about a solid month.

On a sadder note, Shabbadoo is close to 50, and Boogaloo Shrimp is 40.

Going to be an awesome concert in Hell tonight…

Farrah died today. I’m seeing nipples in heaven.

“Drummers as accurate as atomic clocks” is just about right — if that’s not a drum machine I’ll eat my Vic Firth 7A drumsticks.

Was his face considered recyclable? The spare parts could at least be used for a special edition release of Thriller.

Looks like Jacko got enough, and stopped.

I’m not sad he’s gone, but I’m not glad either. He made some great music, but what I’ll remember is the fact that he went from a cute, little black boy to an ugly,noseless white woman.

Jacko has moved up to the children’s playground in the sky.

/I’ll gladly adopt Bubbles

Billy Jean is not my lover, she’s just a girl who let me sleep with her son.

I was in 7th grade the first time I ever saw the moonwalk on some big awards show. I think it was the 1st time most of America saw it too. Seems like Thriller won a bunch of awards, but that damn moonwalk… whoa!!!…. I thought that was the coolest thing I ever saw. That’s all anyone at school talked about the next day.

I stumbled across my Thriller cassette tape in a tool drawer at my parents house a few years ago. I put it back in the drawer. I laughed that I ever bought it and put it back in the drawer.

By the time I was a freshman in high school it was not acceptable to admit that you ever owned Thriller (even now it’s not but I can remain anonymous on the intranets) but at the time it was a kickass album. Hell, Eddie Van Halen played on it!

R.I.P., but all the music he made post-Jackson 5 sucked. Hard.

This was the most electrifying performance ever, The biggest dance move ever. Before the Macarena, Cupid Shuffle, and the Achy Breaky Heart, the MoonWalk rules them all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VASYhabHkM

After this and Thriller, I really didnt know who this guy became, so this is why I mourn, he goes from this to basically a freak who married Elvises daughter.

Other SoCal bred children of the late 70’s/early 80’s might remember when Disney came up with the brilliant idea of putting Michael Jackson in 3-D in a room full of impressionable children (of which I was one).

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2aavw_michael-jackson-captain-eo-disneyla_music

Although at least I got some sense of good music, instead of the racial stereotypes of their animated productions of the time.

Agreed with ’eer. Anyone who knows anything about music knows this is a drum machine.

Guess he missed the memo re if you want to stay alive, better do what you can.

This ain’t no truth or dare.

Bad was the first tape I ever owned and I think the tape wore through after a several months of playing it too much.
There is no doubt he is one of the greatest pop artists of all time. RIP.

Year2, don’t you have a pitchfork column to get back to?

P.D.T.

One of my favorite memories is dancing to Billie Jean at Burning Man. Love the music Hate the man?

I’m with Dirty Diana – if you can listen to Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough without dancing at least a little then
you are not worth shooting. Or you are a paralyzed. Or deaf. At any rate, you get my point.

Pelican Pants,

Thanks for the link. Wow! I can’t believe the moonwalk during that performance was only about 2 seconds. It seems like when I watched it live it lasted much longer. I’m pretty sure anybody (13 years old at the time anyway) that saw it live remembers how awesome it was.

@21:

I don’t know what a pitchfork column is. What I do know is that the vast majority of ’80s music was horrendous. That decade is a terrible stain on what was otherwise a pretty good century for music.

Saw him at the Richfield Coliseum in 1987. Thankfully I was far enough away at age 7 to avoid being spotted.

Caprice Classic? My dad drove one too. Weird.

“Dear Lord, please save me from this media spotlight” – Gov. Mark Sanford on 6/24/2009

“Thank you Lord” -Gov. Mark Sanford on 6/25/2009

OK, here’s my attempt at a tasteless (pun intended) MJ Joke:

I was really looking for to the release of his new album with the remake of an old Elton John song;
“Don’t let your son go down on me.”

I wonder which Elvis is kicking his ass right now for marrying Lisa Marie.

Bet MJ and JC are sippin’ on some Jesus Juice right now. Cause, just like JC, MC “loves” the little children too.

Pepsi? I’m not so sure. Can Bubbles explain his whereabouts yesterday?

Year2 says:

R.I.P., but all the music he made post-Jackson 5 sucked. Hard.

I think I went to high school with you. Oh wait, everybody went to high school with you.

Personally, I was waaaayyyy into RATT to notice Michael Jackson. RATT rocked my face off in 1984ish.

too soon?

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson are standing at the pearly gates. St. Peter looks at them and says…

re: #35

… a drunk, a whore and a pederast. NEXT!

um, he died of a heart attack….

I heard he died from food poisoning, he ate an 8 year old wiener

Ouch, is it too soon??

Doctors believe Michael Jackson’s heart failure was a hereditary problem. They think it is a result of a defective Billy gene.

After his death, Michael noted that he was very disappointed to have been done in by heart failure. Said he would have much preferred a minor stroke.

Thriller was the first full length album I ever bought…and I am proud to admit I still own it. Those songs from that album and Off the Wall and Bad…are like a time capsule of 1980s happiness and my youth.

Ahhh Michael…your passing is the end of an era…makes me feel old.

I actually saw him in a Barnes & Noble once when I lived in L,A. No one was bothering him and he was just shopping with a small entourage of people.

And as for Captain EO…it was not just SoCal kids who got to experience that…it was featured for years at the Journey Into Imagination pavilion at EPCOT. I used to sit in there and think…“MAN…I need this sound system in my house!”

Guess J.C. Penney’s will cancel this weekend’s Micael Jackson Sale.

They were gonna have little boy’s pants 1/2 off.

Since MJ was like 90% plastic, they should melt him down and turn him into a bunch of Leggos. Let the children play with HIM for a change.

Ohhhhhhh.

Why did Michael like twenty eight year-olds so much?

Duh…there were twenty of them.

@19

I’ll see your drum machine and raise you either Bobby Watson or Louis Johnson on Bass…

Now those are chops!

“It is said that celebrities die in 3’s. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett – and now Michael Jackson. Somewhere, Patrick Swayze breathes a sigh of relief.”

they better cremate him quick before the dancing zombies return to feed on the flesh of the living

I heard that just before she died, Farrah Fawcett prayed and asked God to protect her children. Two hours later MJ died.

McDonalds are having a Michael Jackson Memorial Happy Meal.
50 yr old piece of meat sandwiched between two 12 yr old buns……

Coroner announced cause of death….choking on a couple of 12yr old nuts.

For those of you interested, this one’s for you Orson! (Quincy Jones’ special to the LA Times- An Appreciation of Michael Jackson.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/06/25/this-is-awkward-and-still-catchy-as-hell/

What are Ed McMahon, Farrah Faucett, Michael Jackson expecting for Christmas?

Patrick Swayze

…you’ve been hit by

…you’ve been struck by

…a smooth over-dose