Not Stopping till You get Enough I guess

This weekend has been such a blur. It's amazing how sometimes people think celebrities are untouchable to some things and then before you know it, they are gone. I remember the first time I saw Thriller when I was about 6 or 7 years old, and I was terrified. Seeing the walking dead after all those folk stories my mom and pops told me-not cool. But it wasn't until I looked back on the video and really appreciated how crazy and awesome the whole concept of it was. Michael Jackson was in fact...a revolutionary genius.

But I was thinking about it this weekend, and realized that with that genius, came the inevitable craziness that slips in between the cracks. Think about it. You have Thelonious Monk, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and hundreds of other musical 'geniuses' and icons who all found themselves straddling the world of creative genius and losing touch with themselves and the world. Drugs, Drink, the media, and of course the need to top themselves all got the better part of them.

Especially MJ. I was talking to a friend on facebook the other day who messaged me this:

"No one thought that he would die from heart problems. I always thought he would get eaten by a whale or ride off with a unicorn into the sunset. but never this. Well. that's what happens when the black man makes himself white, has white babies, and takes on white values. He dies before his time. The universe is trying to put things back in order."

And to be quite honest and fair, I agree to some extent. So driven by the need to best himself and pretend he was something he wasn't, mixed in with a childhood that really was anything but, Jackson lost who he was and struggled really hard to find himself. But it didn't quite happen, since he was forever giving himself away and didn't have real people to tell him that he was doing wrong and to help him out. As my sister says "You can't give yourself that way because people will find every way to kill you".

I take this as a lesson to know who you're true crew is made up of, and to not give yourself away like candy and stay true to yourself, no matter how hard.

Side note: is it wrong that me and my sister joked about Michael being outlived by not only Elizabeth Taylor....but William Shatner too? (Yeah??? Too soon??)