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Sad news indeed.
Rest In Peace both
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Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett R.I.P. 25/ 06/ 2009
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Respect.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
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When I was a lad, my understanding of entertainment properties was a little lax.
My brother, my cousin, and I would often play together, teaming up as Han Solo, Lt. Starbuck, and Captain EO to fight Darth Vader and the Cylons.
I always wanted to be Captain EO.
Mr. Jackson, your majesty, you will be missed.
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Wow ... such a shame ... and Ed McMahon earlier this week ...
:-(
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What a day- first Farrah, which was expected but still very sad, and then the shocker of MJ.
Both had an influence on me, and it feels like the end of an era. :-(
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I'm afraid I don't know much about Farrah Fawcett other than the fact that she was an Angel - and I've only seen a few episodes of the series. Michael Jackson, on the other hand...
While I won't comment on his personal life, but he made some pretty awesome music in the eighties. Even my Dad has Thriller - and as far as I know, he's not a pop person. He's more a classic rock dude (which is where I get my tastes). His death is gonna make local news annoying - they cut out World News with Charlie Gibson to show the same old helicopter shots over and over. Plus, traffic is HORRID! He will be missed - I actually hoped to see him one day 
. He will definitely be missed - and such a shocker too. I mean, I remember the tabloids saying he was dying months ago; but those are the tabloids, who believes those?
*waits for the inevitable incosiderate jerk to make a MJ personal life joke*
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Michael Jackson has had such a huge influence on my life and had me captivated by his talent and charisma ever sense I was three.
My heart dropped when my mom called me while I was out with my best friend. No words can descirbe how much he will be missed by my family. I tried to get tickets to his concert that was suppose to begin in a couple weeks unfortunately they all sold out.
RIP to greatest and best selling entertainer in History.
"Every day create your history
Every page you turn you're writing your legacy
Every hero dreams of chivalry
Every child should sing together in harmony"
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I honestly can't believe it. He may of had his problems but he had to go through a lot in his life.
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I think it is fair to critique Michael Jackson's legacy as 'The King of Pop' and a man accused of child molesting several times.
I think post-1993 Michael Jackson is the Wacko Jacko, who changed his appearance almost to being a white guy, slept with little boys, and dangled his child outside a hotel.
Pre-1993 is one of the most influential people to music ever. I equate his impact to Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, and Elvis, they all have stood the test of time, and didn't cater to one market of fans.
I was in elementary school when Thriller came out, and that was all that was talked about from 1983-84. The girls loved Michael Jackson in my class, and I think he won 8 Grammy's that year? For anyone who wasn't alive when MTV started in 1981, Thriller was the first long video as I believe it was 14 minutes long? And in the first few months of 1984, the video was on EVERY hour. Now think of MTV and that they don't even play music anymore!
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CO said:Pre-1993 is one of the most influential people to music ever. I equate his impact to Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, and Elvis, they all have stood the test of time, and didn't cater to one market of fans.
Certainly can't disagree with this. But I do believe a lot of people try to make it out that he was completely normal in his pre-mid-nineties state, and somehow became very stange after that.
You've got to admit, the fellow was always a wee bit odd... I mean, there is the crazy crotch grabbing bit for starters... and you have to admit, as cool as it was back in the day, thriller is pretty fucked up!
I think the guy was always a bit off, it just wasn't until his cool/odd balance began tipping heavier on the odd side than the cool side that people began taking a few steps back, judging, and mercilessly cracking jokes at his expense.
He has certainly earned a dedicated chapter all to himself in America's pop culture history. "He was big in the eighties and nineties" will hardly even begin to explain the half of it to the next generation of kids who grow up and ask, "Who was Michael Jackson?" He was frighteningly beyond big, I don't think a word even exists to justly describe how big he was. I cannot think of a single celebrity before or since who has made an impact and been obsessed over as much as he was.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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C3PX said:CO said:Pre-1993 is one of the most influential people to music ever. I equate his impact to Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, and Elvis, they all have stood the test of time, and didn't cater to one market of fans.
Certainly can't disagree with this. But I do believe a lot of people try to make it out that he was completely normal in his pre-mid-nineties state, and somehow became very stange after that.
You've got to admit, the fellow was always a wee bit odd... I mean, there is the crazy crotch grabbing bit for starters... and you have to admit, as cool as it was back in the day, thriller is pretty fucked up!
I think the guy was always a bit off, it just wasn't until his cool/odd balance began tipping heavier on the odd side than the cool side that people began taking a few steps back, judging, and mercilessly cracking jokes at his expense.
He has certainly earned a dedicated chapter all to himself in America's pop culture history. "He was big in the eighties and nineties" will hardly even begin to explain the half of it to the next generation of kids who grow up and ask, "Who was Michael Jackson?" He was frighteningly beyond big, I don't think a word even exists to justly describe how big he was. I cannot think of a single celebrity before or since who has made an impact and been obsessed over as much as he was.
MJ's obsession with young Macaulay Culkin was an eyebrow lifter back in the day. Wonder if we will ever hear what truly went on with them during the "BAD" days.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
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I have a bit of a feeling that now that he is gone, a lot of stuff is going to start leaking in the next few years.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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I'm sorry guys, I cannot equate him with Elvis at all. I also disagree that any of his stuff was "timeless" it all sounds terribly 70's and 80's to me. But that is just my opinion. He was a good artist and a talent and certainly a standout of his era, but I just pull myself to go any further than that.
I'm sick of hearing about him already, my news has been absolutely hijacked by this whole deal.
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ferris209 said:I'm sick of hearing about him already, my news has been absolutely hijacked by this whole deal.
It's at times like this that I am glad I don't have any T.V. service. Gave it all up over 3 years ago. The only thing I use my T.V. for is pre-recorded video, or the Wii.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
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Yeah, I rarely watch the tele, and have yet to turn the thing on since this happened. I can imagine they are obsessing over it non-stop. Everytime a younger celebrity dies they do that. Man, don't people get sick of hearing the same thing over and over again?
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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ferris209 said:I'm sorry guys, I cannot equate him with Elvis at all. I also disagree that any of his stuff was "timeless" it all sounds terribly 70's and 80's to me. But that is just my opinion. He was a good artist and a talent and certainly a standout of his era, but I just pull myself to go any further than that.
I love Elvis's music, but 'Hound Dog' and 'Dont Be Cruel' sound a bit 50's to me. Elvis also didn't write his own songs, and Michael Jackson did, so I don't think you're giving MJ enough credit.
Elvis was a great entertainer, a great personality, but he didn't write much of his own music. MJ's 'Thriller' I still believe is one of the highest selling albums in the history of music. Now in saying that, MJ is still a pop star, so his music won't compare on the scale of The Beatles.
I'm not saying everyone should love MJ's music, because music is all about opinions, so no one is right or wrong. But for anyone who lived through the 80's, especially through 'Thriller', the guy was the King for that time period.
Oh, and I agree about the excessive coverage on MJ's death, it's enough already with the tributes!!!
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Another celebrity (not at their level, but still), pitchman extraordinaire Billy Mays died Sunday morning. I planned to do a Billy Mays Lego man after seeing him on The Tonight Show earlier this week, but finally decided to make it this afternoon. Now it feels like a tribute more than just a new random Lego man:
Couldn't decide whether to have him with the thumbs up or not, so I made a couple of variations.
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I was way more sad over the death of Billy Mays than over any of the others this past week. :(
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Ripplin said:...I... finally decided to make...a tribute...Lego man:
...I made a couple of ["thumbs up"] variations.
The 'thumbs up' almost looks like 'the finger'.
Star Wars Episode XXX: Erica Strikes Back
If you want Nice, go to France
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Heh, I was thinking the exact same thing. I would have left out the "almost", as my first thought when looking at the thing was, "Wow, that LEGO man is flipping the bird." Guess I am just not used to seeing LEGO men with fingures.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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Billy Mays really got on my nerves with his screaming, obnoxious, commericals. But since he died, I've been reading up on him and he seemed like a really nice, grounded, guy with a good heart. I read somewhere that he was at a trade show picthing some stuff and was drowning out the guy in the booth next to him with his booming voice, the pitchman next to him couldn't muster a crowd at all with Billy booming next door. So Billy turned off his microphone system, gave the other guy his mic, and tried to speak quieter so as not to take so much away from his collegue. Now that was just nice. Rare these days. RIP.
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To be more honest I'm more upset about the death of Mollie Sugden, she was more of a major player in my childhood and I suppose that's the only way we can respond to celebrity deaths. We never meet these talented people but their work and their media profile creates an illusion of familiarity that can place them almost within our familes, especially now that extended families living in the same area for a lifetime is becoming a vanishingly rare phenomena.
Finding out what Gary Glitter was up to felt like finding out that a percieved eccentric uncle had committed a terrible crime, compounding the horror of what he did with a deep seated personal feeling of disappointment.
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Bingowings said:To be more honest I'm more upset about the death of Mollie Sugden, she was more of a major player in my childhood and I suppose that's the only way we can respond to celebrity deaths. We never meet these talented people but their work and their media profile creates an illusion of familiarity that can place them almost within our familes, especially now that extended families living in the same area for a lifetime is becoming a vanishingly rare phenomena.
Finding out what Gary Glitter was up to felt like finding out that a percieved eccentric uncle had committed a terrible crime, compounding the horror of what he did with a deep seated personal feeling of disappointment.
Now I can't ask how Mrs. Slocombe's pussy is without tearing up. Seriously, "Are You Being Served?" was the best comedy ever.
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I wonder if Micheal Jackson's excessive plastic surgery had anything to do with his death. It sounds like he took a drug (forgot what it was called) but that face of his looked so fragile like it would fall off if you touched it. I can't beleive he wanted to look like a white chick. He looked great in thriller, if he would've stopped there he would've aged great.