Unless you’d been completely comatose since last Friday, you’ll know that MJ passed away. I was receiving messages about that the entire morning so apparantly its no secret that I like the guy.
I really like him until he got too weird. Even then, I feel sad about how he’d turned out rather than being disgusted with him.
When I was about nine or ten, I had a LD of MTVs from his Dangerous album which I’d squirreled away from my uncle’s place (I think I returned it eventually). I watched it on repeat for months, any chance I’d got. It was great.
I just thought that you should watch this full version of the Smooth Criminal video. Its my absolute favourite – the flipping of coin into the jukebox, the crushing of the cue ball, the incredible side-leaning at an impossibe angle.
All these antics that had me so enthralled will no doubt strike kids of today as being totally lame, but that’s really besides the point.
The Straits Times also published an article today on how MJ is likely to be the last ’superstar’. Its a nice read – if you’re a fan 
