Frankly this old video of an apparitional Michael Jackson (RIP) and Brett Ratner getting down to R Kelly's "Ignition" is one of the more bizarre things I've seen in my life time--and believe you me I've seen some strange things clogging the tubes on the Internet. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxbOnCZnOk&fmt=18]
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This is the craziest thing I've seen all week. It's a segment from some TV reality show centered around a repo man and his job. In this clip he tries to reclaim a Delorean (!!!), yes that car from Back to the Future. The owner freaks out and throws a tantrum while incorporating and mimicking Michael Jackson dance moves. It starts off a bit slow, but wait for the part where he does a little King of Pop shake and then pops the repo man with a kick. A+ video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_rmQDC_vZg&fmt=18]
Here's the most interesting thing I've seen so far at this week's British Open: golfer John Daly and his girlfriend, a former Hooters waitress, Anna Cladakis in matching outfits.
On the topic of the hagiography and tributes surrounding Michael Jackson's passing, the critic cold-heartedly suggested that everyone just get over it. Well, I for one am glad this Swedish dance group "Bounce" haven't gotten "over it," because they create one hell of a Michael Jackson flash mob. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3dh0HcnBnw&fmt=18]
A brief photo gallery of Megan Fox modeling before she became The Megan Fox who seductively hung around cars all the time.
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Enternal Moonwalk: An interactive site linking videos of people from all over the world of all shape and size moonwalking to create the eternal moonwalk in a tribute to the King of Pop. [Via]
Over 1.6 million people registered for a chance to win one of 8,750 pairs of free tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service which will be held at LA's Staple Center. Winners have until 6 pm today to pick up their tickets.
More Kate Moss by Craig McDean here.
When news of Jackson's death reached Leo Kesting Gallery in New York's meatpacking district, they displayed this painting by Jonny Fenix in their window and "within minutes, the front of our gallery transformed into an impromptu memorial commemorating this iconic pop star's life."
A reverse transformation of later year Michael Jackson to his Jackson Five days before all the plastic surgery and injections.
It's not too soon.
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News of Michael Jackson's death practically crashed the Internet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone stated that MJ's death resulted in "the biggest jump in tweets per second since the U.S. presidential election." The number of Facebook status updates tripled. And AIM crashed for 40 minutes!
Along with being pop culture icons, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, who also passed away today, shared another commonality which centered around the public's fascination with their hair.
Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson: Hair yesterday and gone today. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Andrew Sullivan skips past the hagiograpy and gives his nuanced thoughts on the pop legend's passing:
I loved his music. His young voice was almost a miracle, his poise in retrospect eery, his joy, tempered by pain, often unbearably uplifting. He made the greatest music video of all time; and he made some of the greatest records of all time. He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone.I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours' and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.
Read rest here.
As I tweeted:
"It's okay everyone. MJ will be back...as a ZOMBIE doing the THRILLER DANCE!"
Update: Well that didn't take long.
A Kindle, the popular e-reader, signed recently by David Sedaris at a reading. The New York Times explains:
A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had waited in the book-signing line presented his Kindle, on the back of which Mr. Sedaris, in mock horror, wrote, “This bespells doom.”
Although if you read the article you'll learn that the Kindle might be the most normal thing David Sedaris has signed.
I am a deeply superficial person.
- Andy Warhol
Interesting debate and discussion about the trend of celebrities appearing in fashion magazine editorial spreads sans makeup, photoshopping or retouching as seen in this photograph of Scarlett Johnasson from French Elle.
Matt Yglesias writes at Think Progress:
The “stars sans fards” initiative seems, especially when you consider the meaning of the French idiom, to be a deliberate effort to re-inject the artifice into the conversation under guise of rejecting it. Obviously, artifice hasn’t, in fact, been done away with here. The lighting, the attire, etc. is all being professionally done; vast quantities of film is being shot and only the very best images selected; and the “stars” being presented “sans fards” are extreme outliers in the genetic lottery. All of which is no worse than conventional magazine cover art, but it’s not really any better. And just at a time when public awareness of the fakeness of magazine covers is growing, we get a new artifice presented as unadorned reality.
Discuss.