Ok, i've been watching this Jackson thing for about 30 minuites now.
I've mentioned this a few times, but american culture seems to be focused on gaining attention by who can have the biggest reaction to something. There are plenty of examples out there, like the "CupChicks Reaction" things.

Ovbously this isn't a statement on all americans, but american culture. Some american culture I like, it's just this aspect of it that pisses me off.

This over-the-top God talk is bullshit too, nobody in that room should be crying more than the kids, who look like they have no reaction at all.

At the end of the day, he was a geezer who sang well and did some good stuff, and probably some bad stuff too.

Plus what's up with the "I've just learnt photoshop, look, filters !" pictures on the projectors?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:03, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

But that's just the point Gonz me love.
Everything has to be BIG, spectacle, hoopla etc...Besides, he was Michael Jackson, so anything less than what's going on now would have been considered to be below par.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:10, Reply)

Yeah', that's true, I just don't like hollywood-emotion for what is probably real to his family.
I bet there are sevral publicists and agents in that crowd, esspeicaly the ones from the people who have been on stage, who at one point were literaly rubbing their thighs.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:22, Reply)

Mind-you, sayin' what I have about american culture.
It's practacly understated compaired to Jade Goodie.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:24, Reply)

Dunno if it's just merkins
or a wider cultural response. Look at when Di and Princess Jade died ... A repugnant outpouring of grief and mawkish faux sentiment. People seem to delight in showing unrestrained grief at events vaguely connected with them .... Makes you wonder what they're like when it's truly personal

I'm reminded of the joke: What's the difference between a tragedy and a cow? A Scouser can't milk a cow.
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:27, Reply)

Maybe it's a transferance?
Like people who switch onto automatic-mode when something real to them happens, and then a few years later when something happens to a stranger, it all comes out?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:32, Reply)

I've thought similar
There seems to be no tangible social taboos left or at least standards of behaviour which society as a whole adheres to. In my Grand Father's day it would have been "Hmmm, Strange chap, liked some of his music but ho hum .... Life goes on".

Now it's shrieking and wailing like professional mourners at a 17th C Cantonese funeral.
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:40, Reply)

The freeways are a fucking
nightmare today. The 405, 101, 5, 10 and 60 were all hideously backed up this morning. Thank fuck I didn't have to go up there today.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:33, Reply)

The thing with Michael Jackson
Is that he has always had crazy fans. Therefore things like this can only be expected.
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:41, Reply)

this
there have always been crazy fans for music icons, The Beatles, Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson wouldn't be any different.
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 20:46, Reply)

Totally.
What?
(Spunky Bumface, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 0:00, Reply)