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By: Mike’s so relaxed: antinomies, jams « Have a Good Time

Mike’s so relaxed: antinomies, jams « Have a Good Time — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:06:31 +0000

[...] Jackson as a gay black man; sally_bloodbath’s comic on the work of dance and of fandom; Tom Ewing’s insights on dehumanization and the “black swan”; [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:01:44 +0000

Michael Jackson died in the early 1990′s, late last week the ethereal and ghostly form that once contained the great man followed him.

Since his death in the early 90′s the image of the king of pop has represented itself to each of us in various ways. Constructed from the shadowy gangster of Smooth Criminal and the zombie/werecat of Thriller. The figure of Michael Jackson has been set in stone or ‘moulded in plastic’ ever since – unbreakable.

A ghostly white, paedophilic creature has done much to tarnish the image of the long dead star since his death. Yet today, it is apparent that this has been to little success.

MJ will moonwalk into history glimmering in bright, blinding stagelights to the driving beat of Billie Jean.

The ghoul that passed away last week will remain a seperate enigma to the image that is Michael Jackson, mumbling to himself about Blood on the dance floor or somthing as he fades into obscurity…

By: Tim F

Tim F — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:16:40 +0000

I loved this Tom.

By: lonepilgrim

lonepilgrim — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:48:22 +0000

Sadly I have no reliable information on the black swan population here in Northampton – but here’s a link to recordings of Michael Jackson playing for the Sultan of Brunei in 1996:

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities06/ARmjbrunei.html

By: blount

blount — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:59:57 +0000

for most of last night I was in some strange state of incredibly shocked but not at all surprised by his passing, but at the same no sadness beyond the general regret anyone feels. i never forgotten for a second the insane possibly unequaled bright ecstatic brilliance of his music from off the wall thru thriller (with great work before and, more and more intermittantly, after). it didn’t really hit home emotionally until i watched a clip of swv’s ‘right here’, what i remember from the summer this hit was weirdly competing w/ mj’s ‘will you be there’ was how much me and my friends LOVED this track and esp loved reveling in our memory of the man and his music then but deplored the actual shell of the man and the overblown balloons of his music that we were left with (there’s a south park that deals with this feeling pretty much head-on).

anyhow some great graphs here – http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/25/arts/0625-jackson-graphic.html

and here – http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/samples.png

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Don't stop til you get enough. » Didn’t Beat It: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:47:55 +0000

[...] interested in reading a mass of writer’s response to Jackson’s passing, and Tom Ewing’s noting that the paranoid, delusional, wracked 90s-material seemed to be more in tu… now made me go and listen to Earth Song. I gave it a shot and… well, the second I finish this [...]

By: sickmouthy

sickmouthy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:30:09 +0000

I grew up in Dawlish, the first town in England to have black swans (shipped over from Australia). The black swan was the logo on our primary school jumpers, the logo on the town signage, it was everywhere.