divbr //divdivI'm a bit late to the game on a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/music/26jackson.html?_r=1amp;hp"this one/a. Paul a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/06/farrah-fawcett-and-michael-jackson.html"beat me to the punch/a, and got in the obviously good quip in the process. I blame the time zones. Or the healthy moderate drinking that a good friend and I partook in last night at my house. It span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"was/span a nice Zin, and also a really nice, proper Chablis, but I digress./divdivbr //divdivI'm both surprised and not, at once. When I woke and heard the news on BBC 6 Music this morning, I went to my itunes collection to put some Jackson on, out of some sort of sentimental obligation or whatever. Fortunately, over the years, cooler heads have prevailed; out of the 95 gig of music in my itunes collection (other pointless stats: 51.7 straight days of music; I don't have 51.7 days to listen to music exclusively) there is strikenot a single Michael Jackson song/strike. [UPDATE: There is. I have a very nice Motown box set that I hadn't imported into itunes for some reason. And I'm kicking myself for missing the obvious temporal link here -- the Jackson 5 were signed to Motown in 1968, the same year Elvis realized that he was irrelevant and had his comeback special. 1969 was when the Jackson 5 released their first singles, the same year Elvis recorded what would become parts of the Memphis Record.]/divdivbr //divdivThat also sort of surprised me -- as, while lapsed in the theological sense, I do maintain a catholic approach to music. I'll admit to an admiration for the man in terms of his pop sensibilities -- he was genius there. But, unlike the King, Jacko never had his return to Memphis moment. Jackson had become utterly irrelevant, and worse, a running joke, but part of me had hoped, in vain, that he would recognize this. Where Elvis had self-awareness, recognized that he had become irrelevant, and even better, did something about it, making perhaps a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/elvispresley/albums/album/222262/review/5942372/the_memphis_record"one of the best records ever/a, Jackson did nothing more than a href="http://www.rwdmag.com/music/indie-pop/news/o2-gig-hits-a-roadblock-before-even-starts"string us along/a./divdivbr //divdivI will state, unequivocally, that Michael Jackson is not a href="http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-mourning-michael-090625,0,7492745.story"my generation's Elvis/a. As far as I am concerned, a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7905406.stm"that man is playing Glastonbury/a this weekend. But with both Jacko and Farrah, strikea href="http://rgmale.blogspot.com/2006/10/death-comes-in-threes.html"who will be the third/a?/strike [readers have correctly pointed out that Ed McMahon was the first of this batch of three . . . and on this one, my excuses are flimsy at best.]/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-1529542774026244711?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
Monday, June 29, 2009
Elvis has Left the Building?
divbr //divdivI'm a bit late to the game on a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/music/26jackson.html?_r=1amp;hp"this one/a. Paul a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/06/farrah-fawcett-and-michael-jackson.html"beat me to the punch/a, and got in the obviously good quip in the process. I blame the time zones. Or the healthy moderate drinking that a good friend and I partook in last night at my house. It span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"was/span a nice Zin, and also a really nice, proper Chablis, but I digress./divdivbr //divdivI'm both surprised and not, at once. When I woke and heard the news on BBC 6 Music this morning, I went to my itunes collection to put some Jackson on, out of some sort of sentimental obligation or whatever. Fortunately, over the years, cooler heads have prevailed; out of the 95 gig of music in my itunes collection (other pointless stats: 51.7 straight days of music; I don't have 51.7 days to listen to music exclusively) there is strikenot a single Michael Jackson song/strike. [UPDATE: There is. I have a very nice Motown box set that I hadn't imported into itunes for some reason. And I'm kicking myself for missing the obvious temporal link here -- the Jackson 5 were signed to Motown in 1968, the same year Elvis realized that he was irrelevant and had his comeback special. 1969 was when the Jackson 5 released their first singles, the same year Elvis recorded what would become parts of the Memphis Record.]/divdivbr //divdivThat also sort of surprised me -- as, while lapsed in the theological sense, I do maintain a catholic approach to music. I'll admit to an admiration for the man in terms of his pop sensibilities -- he was genius there. But, unlike the King, Jacko never had his return to Memphis moment. Jackson had become utterly irrelevant, and worse, a running joke, but part of me had hoped, in vain, that he would recognize this. Where Elvis had self-awareness, recognized that he had become irrelevant, and even better, did something about it, making perhaps a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/elvispresley/albums/album/222262/review/5942372/the_memphis_record"one of the best records ever/a, Jackson did nothing more than a href="http://www.rwdmag.com/music/indie-pop/news/o2-gig-hits-a-roadblock-before-even-starts"string us along/a./divdivbr //divdivI will state, unequivocally, that Michael Jackson is not a href="http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-mourning-michael-090625,0,7492745.story"my generation's Elvis/a. As far as I am concerned, a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7905406.stm"that man is playing Glastonbury/a this weekend. But with both Jacko and Farrah, strikea href="http://rgmale.blogspot.com/2006/10/death-comes-in-threes.html"who will be the third/a?/strike [readers have correctly pointed out that Ed McMahon was the first of this batch of three . . . and on this one, my excuses are flimsy at best.]/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-1529542774026244711?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
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