Pilot's Log

A month and a half before his death, I had This Vision of Michael Jackson's comeback. Now, I still haven't seen This Is It, but I doubt anything in that vision matches. Today my mind came back to "Did You Like My Song?"--as if it had been playing on a radio in the next room.

Describing the video as I am "seeing" it is rather daunting. There are several scene changes as the song plays out. In one, Michael is in the character of Sam Cooke in a setting witnessed by the writer of the companion book to the PBS series Rock N Roll--a Segregation-era basement bar, with Michael dressed to the nines, playing to fans who hadn't had time to change out of their work clothes. Then it's the far future, and he's walking a display hall in a museum, where costumes from his glory days' videos ("Rock With You", "Beat It", "Billy Jean"...both the Teenage Wolfman and Zombie costumes from "Thriller") hang in hallowed silence. Michael sings in a public restroom to his mirror's reflection...which becomes a hall of mirrors and suddenly there's a whole chorus of Michaels, all wearing a different costume. Then back to the basement bar, the show over, and Michael watching the crowd leave him.

There's no way I can believe this video happened. But part of my being knows this exists/would exist/is real in some sense, which is why I have to write about it now. MJ Lives. We just don't know it yet.

The FBI Makes Public Some Of The Files They Had On Michael Jackson.

( Another Back-Of-The-Mind Memory... )

...But the search for it also brought me to THIS.

( Animated Meez Avatar Behind Cut )

PS: At the time of this post, my Meez avatar had been set to dance the MJ Moonwalk. It has since changed.

Just a while ago tonight, RTN showed the episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with the meant-to-be futuristic rock band and the rabble-rouser (played by then-Broadway star and future Law & Order icon Jerry Orbach) who attempts to use them as a front for his subliminal violence-inducing sound wave generation scheme.

While I imagine that Michael Jackson would have likely jumped at the change to play a future space rock star, I also expect he was kind of busy at the moment...as the Scarecrow in The Wiz.

If you haven't seen the episode of Buck Rogers of which I speak, don't worry. The TV episode of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Hotblack Desiato and his band Disaster Area was about five times better.

( But I'm Not Done Yet )

I have this song on a 45 single (at least, last I looked) and for Stagecraft class in high school I tried a lip-sync/breakdance skit to it. I failed 'cause I'm too white.

Farrah's dead, Jacko's in the hospital, and so I don't feel so good myself. (Apologies to Lewis Grizzard.)

Since I Can't Embed It, I'll Link It!

I was supposed to think up a side dish for dinner and my father interrupted me about finding a website from two years ago about my paternal family line. It took a while to find it, and we took other trips around the web, but after that was all over, I found that I still hadn't come up with a good idea about dinner. Bleh. I'm not sure what I want. And we'll probably eat in less than thirty minutes. I guess I'll dive in the fridge and look for leftovers.

I finally got the DVD of Blue Thunder yesterday and may watch it late tonight. Saw the bonus features last night and saw, to my surprise, that Malcolm McDowell was acrophobic--so flying those stunts in his gunship must have been a complete horror to him. But he did a great acting job.

Found my maternal grandfather's old Morse Code training book and have been approaching it on a musical level. You see, the code can become a cadence, and the makers of the soundtrack for the TV show Inspector Morse used Morse Code as a tool for setting melodic rhythms. In fact, the main theme is built around the name "Morse". I've done it before with characters in my own stories, and I've come up with new stories in the time since I last tried it. And I may write a theme song for myself. More on that later.

FP

PS: I should remind everybody that I have NOT been talked out of voting for Brian Moore for President of the United States of America yet. I invite anybody who may have a good reason to come here and participate. I will repeat this message often until I feel adequately pursuaded or Election Day, which ever comes first.