Nijinsky may have been the greatest Spectre de la Rose, Nureyev the greatest Corsair, but these two candles pale in the light of Jackson's blazing star. The surprise is not that we have lost him, but that we ever had him at all.
Please tell me that column was a figment of my imagination ... please, please...
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I was completely sickened, too - as I was by the whole sudden replacement of any serious news (such as, like, Iran?) by stuff about Michael Jackson. I mean: have you looked at the Telegraph today?
But this piece by Greer is surely the biggest piece of baloney of the past 24 hours.
Fortunately, it's all an illusion:
http://gcoupe.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!6AA39937A982345B!8351.entry
Pete; actually in the dross Germaine Greer makes a few good points, especially about Madonna. But the whole of this affair does tend, I think, to show why we have laws that prevent people -generally, and with well policed exceptions - from working before they are 16.
The wife; Have you looked at the Telegraph today? Well have you? Why? You'd be better off drinking Spezi - its a trademarked product in Germany, you know.
From the same column:
We haven't lost Michael Jackson, because he cannot disappear.
This on account of him being largely made of plastic, one presumes?
When Joe Strummer died I was shocked and sad but resisted the temptation to hold a vigil in Hammersmith; turn my house into a shrine or weep with abandon in public places. Instead I put London Calling on really loud on the way to work and a friend and I raised a glass to the aul' boy in a sort of self-conscious, semi-ironic way. But that's the sort of cold hearted, emotionally stunted bastard I am. Oh well, I promise to try harder when Paul Weller goes...
The passing of anyone is worth a moment or two of reflection; some, rather more.
These claims were not made by Jackson for himself. They are those made by some who wish to crowd him out at his own death; to get close enough to drench themselves in the attention. Silence, grace and compassion are there none.
1. Lots of black men in America have brief awful lives without being child stars. One data-point doesn't mean anything.
2. Debating popular art in a meaningful way is always going to be a tricky exercise. Michael Jackson sold more records than anyone else, and for many white people will be the only black person in their music collection. Surely that alone makes him worthy of note?
"The passing of anyone is worth a moment or two of reflection; some, rather more."
Fuck off -- no. No again.
Michael Jackson sold more records than anyone else, and for many white people will be the only black person in their music collection. Surely that alone makes him worthy of note?
No. Fuck off. Again. That makes him a cunT. Undoubtedly.
just listened to the last of the 2008 series of 8 out of 10 Cats podcast. Michael Jackson features ... worth listening as a reflection on pre-death opinions. 5 minutes in.
Will - have you er considered er maybe doing one of the Plump's adult education courses?
Actually anonymous, I think Will could do with teaching one of them. Really.
Anyway the post was not about Michael Jackson, but the steaming pile of shit (OK Mike, apart from the bit about Madonna) that Germaine Greer came out with.
I think that she was getting too excited by the thought of young boys dancing myself. Nothing a cool shower couldn't have sorted.
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