MJ

Even though i am kind of contradicting what i am about to say by blogging about it in the first place, but its okay because i know i am contradicting myself.

For the past two and a half weeks, the entertainment and paparazzi world has focused their attention to Michael Jackson's death. Every single channel, news feed, paper, magazine, gossip site, radio has either been either covering the story, playing his music, or both and basically amplifying his death. This is probably a "good" thing for other celebrities (i.e. Kate Gosslin) because it means they probably got a 2 week break away from the paparazzi because they all flew to LA to cover the MJ death.

Adding on to some of the points my cousin brought up on the subject of ".....why didn't people appreciate him when he was alive!!??? the same people who are mourning him now were making fun of him when he was alive!" YES, point well made. To top that off, the mediais blowing things out of proportions re: how he died, why he died, is he really the daddy to his children, the content of his will, his memorial, etc. -- the heck?

I was never a MJ fan. I dont know his music, i dont know anything about his career aside from all the tainted negetive gossip that surrounds him. Its quite terrible that I am only interested in him because of all the gossip that the media generates. I don't really careee about it in general but like i said, i am only following this because of all the coverage and gossip that spruce out of the topic.

Moving onto the original reason why i wanted to blog about MJ. Today was his memorial/funeral and people coined it as "Bigger than Elvis & Princess Diana's death". I, would coin it as "Joe-Jackson (his pa)-and-LA's-Money-Making" event more than anything else. Seriously, it was a circus (there were elephants and horses clearing the roads) followed by an awesome concert feat. Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, John Meyer (random!? hes not even black!), Lionel Ritchie, etc. with sidewalk booths selling MJ tshirts, cups and lawn chairs. Tsk tsk, talk about lack of respect. The LA authorities should fine these people for making money off of a FUNERAL event. I dont think people should even compare this event to Princess Di's memorial because from what i remember, hers was classy, tasteful, and respectable. You can actually feel the sadness sweep through the crowd as her casket was driven away. Even though i didnt watch the MJ memorial myself, i can imagine it being like a big concert.

Facebook and CNN did a collaborative "interactive" event again (the first being Obama's Inauguration....which i was part of) where we could have watched the event live and be able to change our status in accordance to the side conversations that went on....as we were suppose to mourn the loss of "the greatest entertainer". According to a few sites, there were 500,000+ status updates and was estimated that it would total one million at the end of the day. Greattttttttt, one million RIP postings.

Perhaps some would think i am contributing to this distasteful coverage by blogging about it but like i mentioned in my first sentence, i know im contridicting myself but its alright because i say so and because from the start i admit im a big gossip girl, and not fake like a lot of those "mourners" out there.

the end of rant. period.

oh and im super excited about Harry Potter 6. tehehehe One week countdown! && my "label" cloud code worked on my first try. YESHH, to me. Now i have a semi-wannabe WordPress blog!