Michael Jackson- The original Benjamin Button

Michael Jackson- The original Benjamin Button





"...The other brothers were laughing and goofing off, chasing young girls. But little Michael would sit for hours and study tapes of James Brown and Wilson Picket. He was like an old man trapped in a boy’s body..."

Rare video of Wilson Picket: "Mustang Sally"





I have not yet watched the movie: "The curious case of Benjamin Button", but if I understand the premise; Brad Pitt’s character starts out as an old man and ages backward, until he dies of old age: as a baby.

This is the best way that I can explain: Michael Jackson.

As a teenage boy, Michael spent his time doing things and taking on more responsibility than most adults carry in their lifetime.

Yet, as a forty year old man; Michael was living in an amusement park, surrounded by animals and children. Spending his days playing children’s games.

Michael Jackson aged backwards.



A few years back, (when Michael Jackson was having his "legal" problems), I made a sad prediction...

I said: "..Michael Jackson will end up like Elvis Presley. Jackson will die young from a drug overdose or die secluded like Howard Hughs..."

(My last such prediction was in a post on this web site, called: "Bailout Fever- (bail baby bail)." It is the second story in that post and I wrote the following:

"...Maybe what Michael Jackson needs right now is religion? (Any religion.) I have always worried that Jackson was heading for self- destruction, and possible suicide. Religion could possible straighten Jackson out? (No pun intended.).."

Link:


http://www.blogster.com/angryrepublican/bailout-fever-bail-baby-bail-221108112044

Has there ever been a sadder story than Michael Jackson..??

(With the exception of all of the other famous people who die "way too young" from drugs and depression.)

I am hopeful that the Jackson family do NOT try and hide the conditions surrounding Michael’s death. There are many lessons to be learned.

The one lesson that I need to learn from the MJ story is that money (and fame) do not solve all of your problems and make you happy.

No one can say that Michael Jackson was "happy." At one time, Jackson had plenty of money and no one was more famous.

I constantly fight the feeling that if I just had more money, I could buy "more stuff" and I would be "more happy" with all of this new stuff.

But once I obtain this "stuff", (new car, swimming pool, motorcycle, new fancy phone, etc) the happiness is short lived and it becomes another thing to care for, fix, and sink money into.

The second lesson, (which I learned many years ago) is that drugs do not make you happy. They cause you to be more depressed.

I thought about talking about Michael Jackson’s career. How great he was and how far he fell...

But I am not going to do that.

(Besides, TV and the Internet are doing a great job of reviewing MJ’s career.)

I just wanted to point out a couple of points that I had noticed in his life.

Having been a Disc Jockey during my 20's and 30's, I had a bird’s eye view of Michael Jackson’s career.

No one can deny that MJ had talent.



For me, Michael’s downfall started around the release of the "Bad" album.



This is when MJ started grabbing his crotch, spitting on the ground, and chasing women. (As opposed to having women chase him.)

It was as if some producer told Michael that people didn’t think that he was "manly enough."

So Michael started singing songs about how "Bad" he was, or how "Dangerous" he is. Guys grab their crotches, right..!!

So naturally the "manly Michael Jackson" started to spit, grab is "stuff" and bust car windows out with a club.

That’s what men do, right..??

But this wasn’t Michael Jackson.

That is when he started wearing a mask.

Michael never let us see behind that mask that he wore, ever again.

What a shame.

If I had to pick the Michael Jackson video that means the most to me, right now; I would pick- "Scream."

Thriller was good, (but being a night club disc jockey, I had to play that video 2 times a night, every night, for freaking ever.) Billy Jean was good, Smooth Criminal was great, Black and White was a come back. Jackson had so many great videos.



"Scream" is the one video that means the most to me, now that Michael is gone.

I wanted to embed the video here, but the Jackson Family have the Embed function off, so I will leave a link to it.

LINK to "Scream"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl2Pm9-7Vk

"Scream" features Michael and Janet Jackson together. It is the MOST expensive video ever made (7 million dollars.)

"Scream" is filmed in black and white. It is shot on a spaceship. Both Michael and Janet have fancy games and toys that you would only find in a science fiction movie. From art that magically transforms into something else, to games that allow you to bust up vases, to dancing on the ceiling.

The Jackson’s have all this stuff...

And yet they seem bored to tears.

They seem lonely and lost. Just trying to fill their time.

In this "spaceship", isolated from the rest of the world; the Jackson’s are singing about all the "pressure" in their life.

So much pressure that it makes them want to "Scream."

That is the way I view Michael Jackson. A boy that was "cut off from the rest of the world", who had more money than he knew what to do with it; who had more talent then many, who died lonely and poor.

One would hope that the Michael Jackson story would teach future generations that you can make it if you try, and that drugs and depression can kill.

In one of Michael Jackson’s songs (Black or White), one lyric states that MJ is not: "going to spend his life being a ‘color."

He didn’t..!!

Michael Jackson transcended race, color, gender, and just about everything else.

Everything is fixed

It was about this time last year, that we were all blogging like crazy.

We had a mission...



Our mission:

To keep those bastards: The ________ Party out of the White House. (You can insert the political party in which you currently hate right now, into the BLANK space I have provided.)

I too, was busy like a bee. Building a demented beehive where we MUST destroy the “other guys.”

Today, things have all changed. We can relax.

The Democrats are fixing all of the messes that the Republicans left behind.

Sure, Barney Frank is pissed off at President Obama’s current wording in a bill concerning marriage.

(But hey, when ISN’T Barney Frank pissed off..??)

And Bill Maher isn’t too happy with President Obama either. Bill wishes that Obama was MORE like President Bush. (Aaahh, that would be the GOOD side of Bush. Not that EVIL side of Bush that we conservatives seemed to like.)

But all and all, things are running smooth.

Iran is on the verge of revolution.

North Korea is firing off a missile almost every day and are promising to marry their missile with a nuclear warhead.

The economy is fixed up real good. (NOTE) The masses of unemployed people should look into becoming Gay and hooking up with a Gay government worker, so they can utilize President Obama’s new benefits for Gay Associate Government Active Workers. (Or: G.A. G.A.W., as they like to be called.)

With the Democrats and President Obama fixing all of this stuff, it has left me with more time to reflect on my own life. Today, I ponder BIGGER questions.
Much bigger questions than politics.

Questions like:

Why is it so freaking cold in June, in Pennsylvania..??

Come on...

I still have a redneck suntan in June.

(Note) No offence to any rednecks reading this. (Like rednecks can read.)

(Also note) A redneck tan is when only your arms and face are tan, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN TOO FREAKING COLD TO GET A TAN ELSEWHERE.

Then it dawns on me...

The Democrats have fixed global warming too.

Barack Obama has only been in the White House for 6 months, and somehow he managed to fix global warming..??

(If you asked me, he fixed it TOO GOOD.) I wouldn’t mind a little sunshine, now and then.



With Global Warming fixed, Al Gore is now free to invest in a new car company, instead of spending all his time saving you, from yourself.

Would that be an electric car company that Al Gore is investing in..??

No.

Would that be some kind of fuel cell or hybrid car..??

No.

Al Gore is sinking tons of cash in a car company that makes gasoline powered cars.

To Gore’s credit, this car (which has no name or any details at this point) is said to get 65 mpg.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/06/17/in-midst-of-auto-crisis-al-gore-backs-a-new-car-company-in-loui/

A small metal box with wheels, doors, and a motorcycle motor.

A car that could fit into the back of my truck.

Which leads me to another question I have been pondering...

“What will be the classic cars of the future..??”

It cannot be these little tin boxes that the current government has planned for you and I.



I was thinking of this while watching Clint Eastwood’s movie “Gran Torino.”

Who would ever take one of these egg shaped boxes on wheels and call them “classic”..??

Try and tell Americans that they can’t have something..??

Tell Gay Americans that they cannot get married...

Tell Black Americans that they cannot become president...

Tell inventive Americans that they have to drive these little metal boxes...

Not going to happen..!!

Just like in the 1950's and 60's; I can see guys raiding junk yards and building “hot rods.”

They will take an old frame from here; mount a rebuilt Ford 350 “gas guzzling” motor on it, and place fiberglass replica bodies on top.

I can imagine some really wild rides buzzing by all these little metal “eggs on wheels” that Obama wants us to drive.

But I digress; that is the future.

Today...

I no longer have to worry about little things like America, the economy, polar bears, and War.

The democrats have fixed this stuff.

Today, I can continplate the big issues, like:

Was David Letterman really sincere in his apology..??

(That would be the second apology, not the first apology that was more of a joke about the joke that he wanted to apologize about...)