Man, I can’t believe he is actually gone.  In a way I feel like it is a good thing.  These times have been really hard on the world lately, and at the least this gives a lot of people the opportunity to celebrate the unbelievable music he gave us.  I was born in 1979, and I remember all those monster hits he gave us in the 80’s, not to mention the stuff that came before that when he was just a kid.  All my current musical interests have roots in different subsections of the musical landscape; New Wave, Hip Hop, Classic Rock, R&B, but a big part of that came from Michael Jackson.  I remember growing up and trying to teach myself how to dance, all I wanted to do was Break Dance and figure out how to move like MJ. I was talking to my wife about his death last night and more about his music.  She grew up totally punk, and has a mild hatred for all things pop.  She refers to most things with a danceable harmony as “Gay”(her word for cheesy).  The way I put it to her was this, “I don’t care what you thought of Michael Jackson’s music, you could have called it gay and cheesy, but I guarantee if it came on the radio and you were dissin it, your feet were tapping, and a little part of you wanted to get up and dance, and thats just the FACTS!”  Anyways, here are some of my fave Michael Jackson moments!

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