The Boy That No One Knows
June 26, 2009
I’d like to think of this picture…instead of this one:
Hard to believe these are the same people. I don’t really understand what happened to Michael Jackson, but I have a feeling that his childhood kind of ruined the rest of his life. He was not a normal person. It’s a sad thing, but I don’t feel personally sad. It’s just very weird because he’s been around for all of our lives, as a singer and entertainer, and now he’s not. I should feel just as sad about Farrah Fawcett but you know, these are people who are posters and tv shows. I didn’t love Michael Jackson’s music but it’s always been there, and I respect some of it. I know that “Thriller” is a classic, and I have the album…I’m just writing now to try and figure out how I feel.
The biggest thing to me is that I recently wrote something, fictional, that was based on an abandoned “Neverland” type of estate. Hard to describe or put into context, but let’s just say that Jackson’s amusement park fantasyland was the inspiration for a chapter. It may be sadder now than even intentioned originally, but I’ll have to see.
In retrospect, I think that Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson were two of the most unhappiest millionaires there ever was. Billionaires? They had lots of money, yes they did. What else?
June 26th, 2009 on 7:02 am
I concur Danny, I’m not sure how to feel. One part of me feels sad for the dude. The other part of me feels sad for, well, me. Sad that for the next month all I’m going to hear about is the death of MJ.
Going to buy my beer yesterday at my much visited convenience store, the usual clerk asked me how I was doing. I said that I was a little sad because Michael Jackson died. He said “so, who cares, another child molester off the street.” I said, come on, Thriller, didn’t you have that album? The clerk said he never had the album but had heard some of the songs. Come to find out the cat never owned a single record in his life.
As for Farrah, I’m glad that whore is dead.
Strange days indeed, most peculiar Mamma.
Say you love Billie Jean!
June 28th, 2009 on 8:57 pm
It seems to me he became too famous and too wealthy too young. His Pa not letting him have a childhood probably was part of his detour to NeverLand and there was no one to tell him “that is not how to behave”