steve-O! ([info]xosteve) wrote,
@ 2009-07-07 14:15:00
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i watched the michael jackson memorial. it was tough and i have to admit i broke down a few times in certain spots. especially when jermaine sang. when brooke shields almost lost composure. especially during 'we are the world' and when paris broke down saying "he was the best dad ever."

some of you can't get past the whole child molestation accusation charges, and while understandable, a person, no matter what, is always innocent until proven guilty. and he died an innocent man.

speaking ill of the dead is always wrong, i don't care if you're a religious person or not. on top of that, it makes you look like an insensitive asshole/bitch, and it makes you look blockheaded and immature.

so comment if you must, but those of you who actually decide to post something along those lines in this journal or anywhere else i have you friended, i'm probably going to delete you. not because i think so highly of michael jackson...

...it's because you've proven to me i shouldn't think so highly of you.

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[info]septentrio
2009-07-07 10:56 pm UTC (link)
If I was looking from the outside in, I'd probably look like a jerk, because for years I didn't really talk much about Michael Jackson beyond the occasional, "I don't believe he did that," and I feel very guilty now because clearly he was so amazingly talented that we should have been talking about him all the time.

But the truth is that I was really in love with him when I was about 5. What's unfortunate is I have ceased to tell people that, because I've lost track of how many times I've heard, "HAH, HE WOULD HAVE LOVED YOU BACK THEN, TOO! *WINK WINK*"

I really don't believe he molested any kids. I think he was a man who had a very dysfunctional childhood, and who didn't know how to be an adult. I had a fairly decent childhood, and even I can understand how he never felt like he grew up. I don't think he did.

I remember saying to my mom when he was accused, and I was maybe in junior high... I thought, now wait a minute. I know I'm related to grandma and everything, but I frequently slept next to her in bed when I spent the night, all the way til like age 13 or so, and I never thought anything of it. Is this because Michael Jackson is a guy?

I mean clearly he was odd and not simply "a guy," but I just always felt like, you know... Society tends to sort of sneer at men when it comes to being around childhood, as if there's always some devious plan behind it. I mean, have you heard of a male babysitter? I'm sure there have been some, but it would seem weird, wouldn't it? But why should it be? A woman can be just as dangerous around kids as a man can. Yes, women are supposedly nurturers. But you know what? I can guarantee you, of the two of us, my Steve is much better equipped to take care of children than I am. I don't know how and I don't want to. I can't stand kids; he thinks they're sweet, like, admittedly, every other normal person.

I just always thought that while maybe some other guy would have been weird for sleeping in a bed with a kid, I felt like Michael honestly wasn't capable of that. I think he just wanted to be one of the kids, and he saw it as having a sleepover. An innocent sleepover.

I could be wrong. I guess we'll never know for sure. But I just never got that vibe from him, for all his "weirdness." I felt he was largely misunderstood, and as a little girl I desperately wished I could have gotten to know him. That never really went away. I took it pretty hard when I heard he died, though I hid it from Steve at first because I thought he'd make fun of me. (He ended up understanding, but I still think he thinks he did molest those kids.)

I just think MJ was a really rare talent. I really don't know if we'll get another person like him in my lifetime, and I think the world is a little less bright now that he's gone. I believe he was innocent, I really hope I'm right, and I hope wherever he is now, he's finally happy, because I don't think he was happy here. He always seemed lonely to me. I'm glad he had kids who loved him, at least, because it seems like a lot of people who were around him just wanted some of his money.

I didn't know the memorial was today, but I'm sort of glad I didn't see it. Some channel over here showed that 30th anniversary special with him and the rest of the Jackson 5 and Justin Timberlake and some other people, which I remember watching when it first aired. That was sort of his last performance that anyone had heard of, I think. I definitely cried a bit watching it. He was amazing and I'll miss him. :(

Edited at 2009-07-08 04:09 pm UTC

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[info]imparfait
2009-07-08 04:10 am UTC (link)
Amen.

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[info]jayyy
2009-07-08 09:49 pm UTC (link)
speaking ill of the dead

hitler wut

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[info]jayyy
2009-07-08 09:55 pm UTC (link)
ps i dont hate on teh living or teh dead

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