Goodbye Michael.

Are You Ok Annie
You've Been Hit By
You've Been Hit By-
A Smooth Criminal

I was going to write about the Concave Scream's performance I attended with Lulu and KenC last night at Timbre, but then I think it's more apt to write about the death of Michael Jackson. No doubt every newspaper in the world tomorrow will carry the story of his death by cardiac arrest. I am not jumping on the bandwagon. Like many of my contemporaries, the news shocked and saddened me. Jaime broke the news to me this afternoon, and I couldn't believe it. I think perhaps, because he had always been around, I had come to believe that he would always be around, amusing us with ever more weird antics. Many of us, we moved up to secondary school in the early nineties where we started listening to music on the radio. We started with Pop and Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, the Moonwalker. He was by far the biggest name in music then. We all tried to moon walk at school. I remember being mesmerized the first time I saw the MTV of "Smooth Criminal". I remember buying his cassette tape and listening to Thriller over and over again. I remember playing his video game on the Sega games console at Burong's place. He was Wacko Jacko, but we grew up with him, we grew up as he grew old and despite all the negative publicity later on, I always carried a slight admiration for him.

Goodbye Michael, you will be missed.