THIS IS IT: THE TRUTH ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON

Original Article here.
finally FACTS--it's long overdue but the media should really start doing this.
like I said we don't need sh!t anymore.

THIS IS IT: THE TRUTH ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON
By Mike Parker||Oct.18, 2009



FROM Los Angeles to London and all points beyond, stories about Michael Jackson have grown wilder almost by the hour in the 114 days since he died from a massive intravenous drug overdose on June 25.

However, for the handful of people who have actually seen his autopsy report, leaked in full to America’s Associated Press, the word the world didn’t want to hear stands out like a sore thumb: normal.

“His overall health was fine,” says Dr Zeev Kain, chairman of the anaesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine, who was shown the Los Angeles County Coroner’s full report and he adds (brace yourself for the biggest non-scandal of the year): “The results are well within normal limits for a 50-year-old man.”

Here, using key findings from the autopsy, is how screaming headlines around the planet have been largely at odds with a reality that is only now beginning to emerge about Jackson.

FICTION: His body was in “grotesque”, malnourished shape.

FACT: He was suffering from arthritis in his back and a mild build-up of plaque on the arteries of his legs. These are ailments associated with normal ageing, says Pittsburgh-based forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht. Jackson’s body weight of 9st 10lb was, Wecht says, “On the low side of normal, suggesting he wasn’t eating properly.” This is confirmed by former TV Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno, who was training Jackson for his This Is It concerts at London’s O2 Arena.

He says: “Michael only ate one meal a day and could maybe have carried a little more meat on his bones but he didn’t look frail to me.”

FICTION: He was suffering from skin cancer.

FACT: He wasn’t. He almost certainly suffered from vitiligo, a skin-discolouring disease he announced he had but most people refused to accept, preferring to believe he was trying to artificially make himself white.

The L.A. Coroner’s report specifically identifies “depigmentation of his skin around his chest, abdomen, face and arms,” consistent with “the effects of vitiligo”.

Jackson did use powerful bleaching agents, including Benoquin and Eldopaque creams, but “only as a means of trying to counter the vitiligo and create a uniform colour”, according to a Jackson family source.

It appears clear that the erroneous “I want to be white” stories stemmed from an affidavit sworn by Blanca Francia, a former maid at Neverland Ranch, during the first child molestation investigation into Jackson in 1993, centring on his relationship with the then 13-year-old Jordan “Jordy” Chandler.

This case was settled out of-court for a sum believed to be in excess of $20million but much of the opinion surrounding it stuck as “fact,” including Francia’s assertion under oath that Jackson bleached his skin because: “He felt blacks are not liked as much as people of other races.”

Her affidavit was leaked by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department but even Jackson’s later, completely accurate, assertion that he suffered from vitiligo was dismissed with disbelief in most quarters.

FICTION: Jackson “disfigured” his body because he hated it.

FACT: This is only partially true and probably by accident. The L.A. Coroner revealed that Jackson’s eyebrows, eyelids, lips and head were tattooed.

Jackson was balding and wore wigs as a result of the 1994 fire that severely burned his scalp during the shooting of a Pepsi Cola commercial.

Having studied the coroner’s findings, Wecht believes the singer’s head tattoo “would have masked entirely the scars on his scalp”. In a strikingly simple and sad further explanation last week, a Jackson family source told me: “Michael couldn’t bear his scars, so he covered them with a dark tattoo, the edge of which he used as a kind of guideline to place his wig.”

As for the eyebrows, eyelids and lips, aside from possibly having them tattooed in the mid-Nineties because it was then considered trendy, Jackson may have had those painful areas inked, speculates Cyril Wecht, because he suffered from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).

This is a condition in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by a perceived defect in his or her physical features. Wecht believes BDD might explain not only the facial tattoos but also Jackson’s obsession with plastic surgery. As far as it was possible to estimate, the L.A. Coroner made reference to “as many as 20 or more procedures” on the singer.

FICTION: He was laid to rest wearing a prosthetic nose.

FACT: Not true, though small scars around his nose indicated to the coroner that Jackson may have undergone as many as four rhinoplasties, not the two “nose jobs” he admitted to while alive.

The coroner’s report also noted that Jackson bore a ¾ inch scar behind his left ear and two three-inch scars at the base of his neck. “These are incisions associated with plastic surgery,” says Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner for New York City.

Some experts have postulated that Jackson may have undergone as many as 30 expensive plastic surgeries but in his new book Unmasked, investigative journalist Ian Halperin quotes a fellow veteran Hollywood reporter, interviewed a month before Jackson’s death, thus: “What’s the harm? Do you really think that makes Michael Jackson different from many other celebrities? Everybody in this town lies about plastic surgery, except maybe Joan Rivers.

“The guy’s an eccentric. He’s obviously got serious psychological issues but, again, who doesn’t around here? I’ve been covering him since he was 13 and he’s also done a lot of good, a lot.”

Asked at the time by Halperin to repeat this to camera for a TV programme he was producing, the reporter shook her head and replied: “I don’t think so. It’s not a great career move to be seen defending Michael Jackson these days, though God knows, he could use somebody to stick up for him.”

Whether or not he suffered from BDD, a condition that could have stemmed from childhood when he was painfully embarrassed by acute acne, it can hardly be denied that a sizeable percentage of household names also reach a certain age before they too, like Peter Pan, want to remain forever young, in looks at least, and turn repeatedly to the plastic surgeon’s scalpel.

FICTION: Jackson’s arms and legs were peppered with needle punctures. He may have been a heroin addict.

FACT: The coroner did find injection marks on both of the singer’s arms and on one knee and one ankle, revealing, says Wecht, “how the drugs in his system got there”.

Those drugs, according to the coroner, were Propofol, acute intoxication of which was determined to be the actual cause of death, and the prescription sedatives Lorazepam, Midazolam, the sedative Lidocaine and the stimulant Ephedrine, commonly used as an appetite suppressant.

All these other drugs were listed as possible contributing factors to the coronary that killed Jackson but there is no evidence that he ever injected or used a “street drug” like heroin.

“He was a chronic insomniac,” a Jackson family source confirmed to me. “He just couldn’t fall asleep normally and this was a constant and obsessive problem he tried to overcome in countless ways.”

One way, if you have the money Jackson did, was to hire a personal physician to use the most extreme method imaginable of being “put under”. That physician, Dr Conrad Murray, was paid $130,000 a month by Jackson and has admitted administering the fatal dose of Propofol. Police did not, however, find the resuscitation equipment at Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion that any hospital anaesthetist would normally use.

Dr Murray’s attorney, Edward Chernoff, has pointedly insisted that his client “was not the only physician who prescribed or administered this drug to Mr Jackson”.

Indeed, the Sunday Express has confirmed that the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is examining evidence against a number of other doctors in what spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons describes as a “far-reaching” investigation that “covers Mr Jackson’s entire drug history, as far as that is possible”.

Jackson’s older sister La Toya, 53, remains convinced, as do his parents and other siblings, that the singer surrounded himself with sycophants who would pander to his every medical demand. These “enablers,” she claims, simply did what they were told to either feed her brother stimulants, especially as he was rehearsing up to 15 hours a day for the O2 gigs, or put him to sleep in the most extreme manner imaginable.

It appears there is much truth in this, as every family member reports virtually no contact with him in the months leading to his death. An impeccable source, who has known the Jackson clan for more than two decades, says: “Getting anywhere near him, towards the end, was a virtual impossibility and I think it was because he felt ashamed in front of his family for two reasons.

“The first was the extent of his prescription drug taking, fuelled largely by his insomnia and nervousness. The second was that he’d surrounded himself with people who slavishly gave him what he wanted, when he wanted, in return for enormous salaries.

“There were, in the end, two Michaels; the one who amazed his fellow professionals at rehearsals with his seemingly boundless energy and the one who slunk away afterwards needing the strongest drugs imaginable to put him to sleep.

“Michael was always the showman and never cared too much what anyone wrote as long as he was up there in the glare of publicity. He even made up the story about sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber himself to create a stir.

“Then, there was the human side; the one that didn’t want his family to know he was being in turn propped up and put to sleep by incredibly powerful drugs he knew they’d disapprove of.

“The Michael we all thought we knew isn’t who Michael Jackson was when he went home at night, trying to beat whatever demons wouldn’t let him sleep with potent, dangerous drugs so he’d be able to find the energy to perform the following day.

“He wasn’t a freak, not that he cared too much about the ‘Wacko Jacko’ headlines. He was a sad man who was ashamed of the way he ended up living but couldn’t figure a way out.

“It is an enduring tragedy that the enablers who surrounded him at the end didn’t steer him towards therapy or real professional help to overcome the issues of sleeplessness and whatever else bedevilled his mind. They were too busy lining their own pockets.”

Various News on the "Worldwide Sell-outs of Michael Jackson's This Is It"

This is no surprise when it comes to Michael Jackson lol but this is AMAZING. who can sell this much?? and still create much hype over a rehearsal footage? and it's months before the actual release!! well that's Michael f*cking Jackson to you! Everything's still MJ Magic baby ;)

• with that I've compiled various news reports regarding this unprecedented event!
• I'll "quote & bold" lines from each article, just click on the title to read the whole article.

Here's the first report of the sell-out.

'Michael Jackson's This Is It' Preview Tickets Sell Out Within Two Hours
source: MTV || by James Dinh

"all 3,000 tickets for Los Angeles advance screenings of the music documentary sold out within two hours early Sunday"

then the following reports...

'Michael Jackson's This Is It' Ticket Sales Break International Records
source: Vh1

"Documentary has sold out hundreds of screenings across U.S., a month before its release. "

" "Michael Jackson's This Is It," has broken advance ticket sales records for a movie."

Michael Jackson Still Selling Tickets
source: IGN.com

"Record-breaking sales for This Is It leading up to limited engagement."

"Domestically, an unprecedented number of shows for the two-week engagement have sold out in the first 24 hours of ticket availability in locations from coast-to-coast, including such cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Nashville and New York, among others. Internationally, exhibitors from London and Sydney to Bangkok and Tokyo have experienced the same epic demand. "

In London, Vue Entertainment's Film Buying Director Stuart Boreman said Michael Jackson's This Is It sold more than 30,000 tickets in its first 24-hours, setting the biggest ever one-day sales record in the UK, eclipsing advance buying for films including Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. "I've never seen anything like it in the 25 years I have been film buying," Boreman said. "It's a true phenomenon and sales show no sign of slowing down." (side comment: I agree! it's a f*cking phenomenon, why wasn't I born in the 80s??hate this lol)

"...In Japan, more than $1 million in ticket sales were recorded within the first 24 hours of their release, setting an advanced-sales record unmatched by any movie in history.

Staggering advance sales were reported in Australia, where tickets for Michael Jackson's This Is It purchased through Village Cinemas exceeded the lifetime pre-sales of such blockbusters as Transformers and X-Men Origins. "

** I suggest you read IGN's article**

'This Is It' sales strong worldwide
By Carl DiOrio

"With reports still coming in from nations around the world, it is believed no movie in history has generated so many ticket sales so far in advance of its release," Sony said.

Michael Jackson's This Is It movie poised for huge ticket sales
source: metrolyrics.com

"Michael Jackson's This Is It was the hottest movie of the weekend - and it isn't even out yet."


Tickets For Michael Jackson's This Is It Already Sold Out
source: cinemablend.com || By Josh Tyler

I have issue regarding this post. it's true we're celebrity obsessed but I don't like how he used the context in his post. because watching this film ain't a sign of 'obsession' coz' for one I want to see a genius at work. I'm intrigued to see 'what could have been', For one & I'm absolutely certain of this, when Michael Jackson says he's gonna put on the greatest performance of all performance that will be sealed and done! sadly it's not happening however Michael Jackson already fulfilled & delivered his "I'm gonna blow their mind"--The Trailer! a mere tariler! already blew my mind got my jaw dropped to the floor! I've been saying this, I'm gonna say this again "THIS IS IT" WAS BOUND TO BLOW EVERYONE'S FUCKING MIND OFF!!

btw, I'm going to disagree on #3 spot! but won't say much we still got a month to find out.

**anyways he stated some neat stats percentage**

over 160 showings sold out

Unprecedented Number of Sell-Outs Reported Worldwide for First Showings of 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' Highly Anticipated Motion Picture Generates
source: Yahoo Finance

"With reports still coming in from nations around the world, it is believed no movie in history has generated so many ticket sales so far in advance of its release."

Michael Jackson 'This is It' Pre-Sales Skyrocket
source: ETonline.com || Entertainment Tonight

oooOOOooo

Reported Sell-Outs in: Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York, London, Sydney, Bangkok and TokyoFrance, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Belgium and New Zealand

oooOOOooo

Last Note:
Haters ya'll could talk,
won't bother me anymore,
I'll just let facts speak for itself,
what's the point of arguing
if ya'll don't even know
the difference between
FACTS & OPINION!

oooOOOooo

Michael Jackson's This Is It: whatever 'it' was, it looks impressive

great article click title to read full article.

"It looks like the biggest, spangliest most incredible spectacle you can imagine. Seriously. From the looks of these things, U2, Madonna, Britney, all those "I've got a great big live arena show" people … this makes them look like "I've got a little gig down the pub if you're interested" people instead. And these are only the rehearsals for the show that the world will never see."

LOL!ha! best quote from the article read it!

10 Reasons Michael Jackson Was a Geek

10 Reasons Michael Jackson Was a Geek

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King of Pop a Geek?

Regardless of his legal troubles, the world lost a cultural icon recently in Michael Jackson. He ruled the pop world with a gloved fist and his musical genius will be missed by the world. No matter what your personal opinion of the man himself was, his music and influence on future music spoke volumes about his creativity. There were things about him though, that would suggest there was a geek buried behind the veil and plastic surgery. Here’s 10 reasons that Michael Jackson was a geek.

10. He wore one sequined white glove. How is this any different than the grown men who show up at the Lord of the Rings premiere wearing cloaks and carrying staffs made out of PVC? There is even a website devoted to isolating every white glove in each of the 10,060 frames of Jackson’s famous Billie Jean television performance.

9. He was Captain EO. The Disney attraction was produced by George Lucas, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and cost more than any other movie at the time (per minute of film.) The sci-fi fantasy musical used over 150 sci-fi effects, produced by Lucasfilm. It can still be viewed online, part one and part two.


8. Filed a patent for anti-gravity shoes. Along with his long time costumers Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush, Jackson filed a patent for shoes that would give the illusion of him leaning far past his center of gravity. From the patent:

“A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface.”

7. He’s in the Guinness Book of World Records. While there are a lot of records in the book that aren’t geeky, his dedication to his music and legacy made Jackson a true music geek. He’s got 13 World Records (and countless other awards) to show for his dedication.

6. Had a personal arcade and geek den. We all know Jackson didn’t like to go out much, so he built a personal video game arcade in his house. It’s to be noted, that in this geek den he had life size Star Wars characters, including a Han Solo in carbonite and many other movie & geek memorabilia. Gizmodo recently did a post on it here.

5. He wanted to build a robot. Not just any robot, but a giant 50 foot robot of himself to roam the streets of Las Vegas doing promotional bits. One could only assume that eventually it would be called upon to fight the Decepticons.

4. He was a gamer. Aside from his video arcade (see #6), he was involved in many video game projects. He starred in the Sega Genesis game “Moonwalker” and was featured as a hidden character in “Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2.” He also made a cameo appearances in the “Space Channel 5″ games, where he used his voice to take on a singing robot. It’s also rumored that he contributed music to a couple Sonic games, but was never credited. He recently had put his arcade game collection up for auction.

3. Moonwalker. Jackson spent seven million dollars making this fantasy picture featuring Joe Pesci, Mick Jagger, claymation and the fantastic song, “Smooth Criminal.” As mentioned above, there was also a “Moonwalker” video game starring Jackson. There are still some available on Ebay, if you happen to have a Sega Genesis laying around to play it.


2. He was a collector. From circus animals, to strange artifacts (his attempt to purchase Joseph Merricks’ skeleton for example,) Star Wars items and the very expensive purchase of the Beatles catalog, Jackson liked to collect things.

1. He made a Zombie movie. It’s undeniable that Thriller is one of the greatest pop rock albums ever produced. It’s also undeniable that it was a zombie movie. Not only did Jackson make a zombie movie, but he was a werewolf within the zombie movie. Now that’s geeky.

Black or White: Wasn't nothin strange 'bout Michael Jackson

THIS IS A FRAKIN' GREAT READ!

i'm putting a link on my heed.
I suggest ya'll spread this article and
credit the man link it through his page.

Black or White: Wasn't nothin strange 'bout Michael Jackson
by @whatrickythinks

As soon as Michael Jackson had the bad luck to have his first tribute handled by the nincompoops at BET, I knew that this issue would start falling along racial fault lines. As soon as Jamie Foxx said "he's ours..a black man" and Al Sharpton smelled the spotlight I knew this would get OJ-ey real quick. I'm okay with that. I know that in my lifetime whites and blacks won't get along. Fuck it. I'm comfortable enough with my white friends to have semi-intelligent conversations about race.

So as I saw Bill O'Reilly trending on Twitter I looked and saw black folks really railing against Bill O's comments on MJ. An uncomfortable amount of the talk was really ignorant and uninformed. I wanted to "snatch the microphone" from them like McCain did when that stupid old lady said Barack was an Arab. Remember how McCain winced and shook his head like "No, no, no you stupid old hillbilly, stop, please, you're embarassing my campaign with this idiocy?" In his mind there were viable arguments against Barack Obama that didn't involve her rural stupidity. In my mind there are viable arguments against the Michael Jackson haters that don't involve ghetto stupidity. So I'd like to proceed with those. Now, I don't think the opposition to Michael Jackson as I've heard it could be called racist, even though it's coming almost uniformly from whites. I just think it's stupid and hypocritical.

Michael Jackson appeals to black people just like Frank Sinatra appeals to Italians or Manny Pacquiao appeals to Filipinos. Having a hero based on ethnicity is nothing new. People say Michael bleached his skin white, and had three white kids. He also had the blackest of upbringings. Look up Gary, Indiana and tell me Michael Jackson's not a black icon. I'm not a shrink and I can't analyze why Michael did what he did. Maybe he despised being black. He wouldn't be the first person. Who gives a fuck? Obviously not us black folk.

I've heard people say Michael Jackson was "strange" because, among other things, he "hated the skin in which he lived" and had so much plastic surgery. A celebrity had plastic surgery? That's as shocking as a sunrise. Michael Jackson was vain and was insecure about the way he looked. Yea, I don't know anyone like that.

If you aren't vain and insecure then I would ask women to please go to a social event without makeup. Don't cover up those bags under your eyes or those blemishes. I'd ask gentlemen to not try to comb over their bald spot. Or try to tease their hair in such a way that it hides their thinning locks. What hair you have left, please don't try to hide the greys with color. Girdles and wonderbras have to go as well. Those unnatural fat burners surely must be eliminated.

Michael Jackson was weird because he slept in a hyperbaric chamber? If that's weird what do you call laying in a tanning bed?

Is it weird to drastically increase the chances of getting cancer just so you can get a little darker? I guess about as weird as someone bleaching their skin.

On the "He's a pedophile" issue, my opinion is this: 60% of me thinks Michael Jackson did something beyond sleeping in the same bed as children. That's my opinion, however. Personally, I wouldn't let my young child sleep in the same bed as a 40 year old man and I wouldn't let my kids stay with Michael Jackson. But sleeping in the same bed as kids is not a criminal act. He was found not guilty of child molestation. And lest anyone think that his trial was hijacked by "dumb niggers" like the O.J. Trial, the racial makeup of the trial was as follows: 7 Whites, 4 Hispanics, and 1 Asian. No Blacks. I imagine they had a much more informed opinion about the allegations than you did, right? Not guilty.

It's not like anyone hasn't made up being sexually assaulted and everyone just assumed the accused was guilty. Duke Lacrosse Team, anyone?

I can tell you who definitely was a pedophile: Elvis Aaron Presley. When he started messing with Priscilla Presley she was 14 and he was 24. No one disputes this. Priscilla said that they didn't have actual intercourse until they were married, but they did other things that were sexual. So assuming that's true, Elvis was 69ing with a 14 year old girl. That's absolutely a criminal act, even in Kentucky. So if you're not into supporting child molesters, you need to burn those Elvis records. I didn't hear anyone telling the Honky Tonk Man to stop impersonating a pedophile.

Drugs? Really? We're upset that an entertainer abused drugs? The Beatles did every drug known to man and probably made the best music known to man because of it. The "greatest songwriter that ever lived" Bob Dylan, introduced marijuana to them. Elvis? Please. Marilyn Monroe is without question the biggest icon of American beauty and she was a drug-addled homewrecker. I'm not asking you to take down their posters or pictures from your office. Don't ask me why I'm interested in MJ.

In addition, let me ask you some questions. Are you addicted to porn? Jack off much? Do you have a vibrator or dildo or maybe a vibrating dildo? That's basically what drug addiction is: searching for that "by yourself buzz" It's often a victimless crime. However, how about drinking? When was the last time you've driven drunk? I go to bars all the time and I damn sure don't see every person getting into cabs or having designated drivers. What's worse: a drunk driver or a person who is addicted to painkillers?

Michael Jackson's death was a monumental event. Easily the biggest event of the Internet era. There is no better indicator of what's inside a person's mind than what they search for on the Internet when no one's around. Yahoo said MJ's death was the most searched item in history. The non-stop coverage was commensurate to the level of interest. And if you believe in some hokey "code of journalism" wake up and smell the capitalism, please.

If you really cared about what was going on in the world, you know where to find it. Every single link on cnn.com wasn't devoted to Michael Jackson. In newspapers every article wasn't devoted to him. In no way did his death stop "more important" news from being reported, except on the aptly named "idiot box." Do you only want to see news on the "idiot box?" If you're illiterate, I understand. But if you are, you need to stop wasting time complaining about Michael Jackson coverage and learn to fuckin read.

Apparently you didn't realize this already, so let me tell you again. Arguably the most famous person who EVER LIVED died; someone who sold 750 million records. Perspective: That's like if everyone in America had 2.5 Michael Jackson records. Basically Michael Jackson sold more records than there are hands in America. Can you imagine how much money Michael Jackson's talent generated and will continue to generate? 1 billion people watched the memorial. How many people in the history of mankind have ever had 1 billion people watch anything they did? You cannot diminish Michael Jackson. If you try you might as well call Mt. Everest a hill.

So everything about the Michael Jackson death that you loathe, likely makes up a large part of who you are. To paraphrase the great Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre "When you dis Mike you dis yourself...Hell, yeah"

Top Ten Questions Everyone SHOULD Be Asking About Michael Jackson

Top Ten Questions Everyone SHOULD Be Asking About Michael Jackson
by Brenna Chase

I'd love to post the whole thing but it's long for this blog post so go on just move your mouse then click the link. it's a must read article. I repeat A MUST READ ARTICLE.

and after you've read it well here are some of my thoughts...

#10.
oh do I agree with that message content? I say amen! that's exactly the reason why I'm a Michael Jackson fan he just lured me in like no other. I say goosebumps every time he's on stage. Here's a playlist with all the songs the author posted and I added my own Michael Jackson sexiness-- The Way You Make Me Feel 30th anniversary celebration without Britney, I tell you the intro is the sexiest thing I've ever scene that vocals alone is pure sex!

MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com

#9
now that's a sad fact. just go on and read the post.

#8
okay I have no issue regarding that I've seen fathers who toss their kids up in the air since the incident happened it was no biggie for me, yes I can say that the it should be talked about but not like make it a big BIG deal out of it. like I said I've seen things a lot more dangerous from what he did.

#7
this topic regrading his health has gone way out of board. The media shoud shut up!Now everybody becomes a doctor now with their own diagnosis when it comes to Michael. Let the facts speak for itself! shees go and google VITILIGO and LUPUS read about the effects of the disease! Ignorant scumbags!

#6
Regarding Joe Jackson. I have no comment I don't know the man and him on interviews, Michael on his dad just gives me one side of the story and mini clips in which I cannot comment on the man for who he really is. Pass on this one.

#5
Now, I totally understand why Mike hid his kids from the public...because anything that has MJ or anything related to MJ by blood or just plainly anything that has to deal with Michael Jackson equals to paparazzis and the media so I don't blame the man for doing this. Here's the thing now that the public knows their faces the already got pics all over them on the net. sad!

to those who still question this act from Michael! F*ck you! you don't have paps or people all over you when you shop or just by merely walking the street so SHUT THE F*CK UP!

#4
Oh this is nice! another HIStory from the man breaking reacords after records after records.....infinity.lol some interesting facts too.

"The fact is that Michael Jackson album sales are not only breaking all kinds of records, but he has posthumously breathed life into the long-time suffering music industry. Interestingly enough, when Thriller was first released in 1982, it single-handedly resurrected Epic Records, and the music industry as a whole, as they had been in a major slump for the past three years. History is repeating itself, and Thriller continues to maintain its title as the Best Selling Album of All Time in the Guinness Book of World Records as people are once again going out in droves (to real, physical stores, too!) to buy Michael Jackson albums."

#3
this was an interesting thing for me 'only in the US'. personal note and I don't want to elaborate on my statement.

#2
I may disagree on this remark, I want and Idol that is so human with full of mistakes and other sh!t like that and still be the best he can be--this is subjective--I believe that there's pure evil in us but also good in nature that if we choose the good side we can better ourselves...okay I maybe looking at this a lil' too much..but that's how I see it.

Show me flaws, I won't judge you're human, we all have flaws.

#1
Michael Jackson is timeless.
so True! *bow*

MJ| Michael Jackson, The Philippines, and Me

a good article and a great read -- gaadd how I wish I was born in the 80's! *sigh*
Opinion: Michael Jackson, The Philippines, and Me
Published Jun 29, 2009 by ■ Paul Bright

As a military brat growing up in the Philippines, Michael Jackson's moonwalk had more than just an entertainment effect on my life.
It was 1984. I'm living in a third-world country. I have a nice house, but my neighbors live in straw huts. Our neighborhood is nice and clean, but some of the streets a few blocks over smell of garbage. I'm 10 years old and have almost infinitely more money than the boy next door, but by American standards our family is middle class. The differences on paper between my family and most in the neighborhood are staggering.
But one thing we had in common was Michael Jackson.
When "Thriller" hit it big, there were no more races left in the world. There were no more colors, no more classes, no more money. All you knew is that everyone was either going to learn all the moves to "Thriller", buy a jacket like the one he war in "Beat It", or figure out how to moonwalk. Many of us tried to sing like Michael Jackson. Every street vendor sold a "minus one" tape of Michael Jackson songs with no vocals so you could perfect your act. Books of lyrics to all the "Thriller" songs were hot, too. I spent many days lining out the bad English and correcting spellings and off-lyrics. You see where THAT got me!
Michael Jackson wasn't just music. When you lived in the Philippines as a military brat, it was a strange mix of being ahead and behind at once. We were close to Japan, so CDs and other neat technology was in our hands before the States. But the States knew what was hot six months before we did. There was no internet or cell phone technology to keep people in the loop. Yet Michael Jackson was hot at every time, all the time. He was our "connect". There wasn't anyone who wasn't a fan. There wasn't a boy who didn't twist an ankle or break his momma's vase practicing the moonwalk.
In fact, you've probably watched so many MJ videos by now and didn't realize you were tapping your feet. Your legs have spasmed a few times to "Smooth Criminal". Even the kids are high-kicking that left leg, tossing Skechers across the kitchen. You all, once again, have no colors or class. You are all quietly mourning in your heart, maybe not shedding a tear, but on the outside you are paying tribute by singing along and tapping that foot. Whatever you believe about him, whatever you think he did or didn't do, however he died, whatever his issues, remember that as magic as Michael was, he was human just like you. Yet his gift from God was to entertain, enlighten, perform, and give like no other. You all know it. That's why you are tapping that foot.
It is 1984 again.

MJ| World Without Michael Jackson Has A Lot Less Magic In It

really nice article really great read
pointed out the reason why I grieved so much.lol
brighter side, I had a taste.

could someone please invent a time machine...like, now! hahah *sigh*

**click to read article**

A World Without Michael Jackson Has A Lot Less Magic In It
Future generations will never know what they missed, in Bigger Than the Sound.

By James Montgomery

MJ| Nice Article

Why We’ll Miss Michael

Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:49pm PDT by David Marchese in The Spin Blog

Last Sunday morning on Meet the Press, host David Gregory asked Presidential advisor David Axelrod whether or not Obama planned to make any public statement about Michael Jackson's death. Axelrod explained that the President had reached out to the Jackson family privately. What current pop star's death will merit discussion about an Oval Office response? Probably not Lady Gaga's.

There is much that will be missed about Michael Jackson, but the Axelrod/Gregory exchange made me think about something specific underlying our collective grief: MJ was the last pop star we will all share. He was the last one to garner so much genre-, race, and class-transcending popularity that it feels appropriate for his death to register as a tragedy of Presidential importance. We have lost a common bond.

Changes in the music industry will ensure that bond stays broken. Due to increased genre fragmentation, the proliferation of illegal downloading, and the ongoing extinction of brick-and-mortar record stores, music simply doesn't sell like it did during Jackson's '80s heyday. For instance, last year's biggest selling album was Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which moved 2.88 million copies in the U.S. Josh Groban's Noel was 2007's top seller. It sold 3.7 million. By comparison, 1982's Thriller sold 28 million copies. Five years later Bad sold eight million. 1991's Dangerous, at seven million, was considered a mild sales disappointment.

But it wasn't business that made Jackson a cross-cultural icon--it was, of course, his music. At their best (think of "Billie Jean" or "Bad"), the songs were as catchy as the flu and funkier than a Bonnaroo port-a-potty. Their playful melodies made them approachable enough for the parents while their innovative production and stealthily paranoid sentiments made them radical enough for the kids. If you didn't like Michael Jackson, the problem wasn't with him.

Now, though, with the music world splintered into different radio formats, and blogs and websites making it easier for people to burrow into the hermetic hole of stuff they already enjoy, it's hard to imagine anyone again approaching Jacksonian levels of appeal. The conditions just aren't there.

I think that's unfortunate. Having a pop star we can all watch and talk about and listen to makes music feel more vital. Michael Jackson was living proof that music meant something--to me, to you, to everyone. That proof is gone now. And now we are all living a little further apart from one another.

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