I don't know how I can cry for a celebrity, much less a person I've never met, but I'm doing it right now for Michael. Maybe its because Thriller was one of the first music videos I ever watched. Maybe its because the Moonwalk was the first dance move I ever fell on the floor while trying to learn. Maybe its just because despite all the crap he did to his physical appearance, you couldn't help but appreciate the things that he did.
It was probably one of the worst ways to wake up. I woke up at 4 PM, went outside, turned on the TV and was watching CNN news. I woke up that late because I was pulling an all nighter, writing some plugin code for a project I'm currently attached to as a member. Then, I heard that TMZ reported that Michael was dead, but it was unconfirmed. I hoped that was just some stupid-ass Hollywood rumour. The one time that TMZ should have been wrong, they were right. Why? Why couldn't they have just been reporting some unconfirmed crap that would turn out to be wrong as usual.
It's all over Facebook. All of my friends had statuses that pertained to Michael. A few had pictures of him as their profile picture. I don't intend to change my status until the first of next month, as a mark of respect for him.
It's all over Twitter too. In fact, its all over most social networking sites. From what I've seen, there are at least 10 Twitter channels dedicated to Michael Jackson with thousands of posts on them. In fact, on the one I'm currently on, there were about 5000 new posts in the time it took for me to write the first 3 paragraphs(about 5 minutes).
I wanted to meet him. He was famous. He was great. His songs were cool and creative, and he made some of the best videos of his time (from what I've seen). I was trying to embed some of them that I had on the computer, but I was having problems uploading to blogger, and most MJ videos on Youtube restrict embedding. See below:
This paragraph is written more than 9 hours after I started this post. The video is still uploading. Way to kill the mood Blogger. You can get other videos all over the net. I predict a major surge in the download of Michael Jackson songs from file sharing networks...oh, and album sales too. As I write this paragraph, I'm listening to a feature on the BBC World Service about his death. My mood has improved a lot (who cries for 9 hours straight, really?)
Just because I haven't mention Farah Fawcett yet doesn't mean I don't have any respect for her. Charlie's Angels ROCKED!!!
Check this out before I wrap up:
Rest in Peace Michael and Farah,
Gavin.
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