I Had No Choice: More MJ

Last Time I Posted Vintage Music

. . . 'Cuz We Feel Like It, MJ died. If Brian Wilson dies any time soon, don't look for more vintage music here.

Thriller Headphones

Via Gizmodo (thanks, Ben!)

I Like MJ's Final Face

Here's the best collection I've seen lately of before-and-after pics; you also get good face in the documentary referred to in my previous post; and here's someone's idea of what he might have looked like if he'd left well enough alone.

I agree, he'd have been handsome without any surgery,etc.

But I also think the face he bought is cool.

The music was great, and he understood the importance of the visual. His face was another of his creations. It may have ended up half Phantom of the Opera; but I like it. And I can't think of many besides his final face that will remain more recognizable, or more interesting, longer.

His music video masterpiece, Thriller (embedded below), now seems prescient of both his and our realities.

PS: Apparently face et al. are destined for plastination à la von Hagens – the authorities' or someone's requirement for an autopsy kibboshed MJ's first choice, cryogenic freezing – more here.

UPDATE: Apparently not; MJ's body was buried, though sans his brain, which is still undergoing analysis re- drugs, etc.; more here.

More MJ

The young MJ on the Dating Game:



Documentary with a number of interviews with MJ at age 44; here's the first segment:



Some segments seem to be being taken down, so go see them now if you're interested.

M.J.

Do not stop watching bef. ca. 3.16 min., when they drag her off.



(Thanks, Kalup!)

See also my May 11 post, inspired by friends who hosted an M.J.-themed party – funny how he's been in the air – I and entourage went as M.J.'s plastic surgeons (tho' there were only 3 of us). (To be clear, I love M.J's music.)

'Cuz We Feel Like It.

Another version here with the original Jacksons and Carol Burnett; start at 6:29 if you'd rather skip the lead-in.

UPDATE 2009-06-25: R.I.P. M.J.