michael woulda loooooved all that graffiti aww

I believe in the spirit very much so so I believe he is aware.

NMuzakNSoul said:

That's true too.

NMuzakNSoul said:

NMuzakNSoul said:

EmeraldSkies said:

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Michael Jackson "Extremely Well-Read," Had 10,000 Books

The King of Pop a dweeby book lovin' geek?

Apparently so, and hooray. He was an avid reader who had an appropriately majestic library at Neverland that held 10,000 volumes on its shelves, according to two recent Los Angeles newspaper articles.

In the midst of a lengthy interview in the L.A. Weekly, Jackson attorney Bob Sanger revealed the following as his last of three golden attributes that defined the Gloved One.

"Michael was extremely well-read…I knew Michael, but I got to know him a lot better at the trial. The judge was doing jury selection, and it was time for break. Judge Melville said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to know that jury service is very, very important.' He's trying to convince people not to have stupid excuses to get out of jury service. All judges do this. He says, 'The jury system is a very time-honored system. It's been around for 200 years. We're going to take a break and come back in 15 minutes.'

"We stand up and the judge leaves, and Michael turns to me and says, 'Bob, the jury system is much older than 200 years, isn't it?' I said, 'Well, yeah, it goes back to the Greeks.' He says, 'Oh yeah, Socrates had a jury trial, didn't he?' I said, 'Yeah, well, you know how it turned out for him.' Michael says, 'Yeah, he had to drink the hemlock.' That's just one little tidbit. We talked about psychology, Freud and Jung, Hawthorne, sociology, black history and sociology dealing with race issues. But he was very well read in the classics of psychology and history and literature.

"He loved to read. He had over 10,000 books at his house. And I know that because - and I hate to keep referring to the case, because I don't want the case - the case should not define him. But one of the things that we learned - the DA went through his entire library and found, for instance, a German art book from 1930-something. And it turned out that the guy who was the artist behind the book had been prosecuted by the Nazis. Nobody knew that, but then the cops get up there and say, 'We found this book with pictures of nude people in it.' But it was art, with a lot of text. It was art. And they found some other things, a briefcase that didn't belong to him that had some Playboys in it or something. But they went through the guy's entire house, 10,000 books. And it caused us to do the same thing, and look at it."

"And there were places that he liked to sit, and you could see the books with his bookmarks in it, with notes and everything in it where he liked to sit and read. And I can tell you from talking to him that he had a very - especially for someone who was self-taught, as it were, and had his own reading list - he was very well-read. And I don't want to say that I'm well-read, but I've certainly read a lot, let's put it that way, and I enjoy philosophy and history and everything myself, and it was very nice to talk to him, because he was very intellectual, and he liked to talk about those things. But he didn't flaunt it, and it was very seldom that he would initiate the conversation like that, but if you got into a conversation like that with him, he was there."

I'll Be There
As reported in the L.A. Times. Doug Dutton, proprietor of the legendary and now, alas, defunct, Dutton's Books in Brentwood, was at a dinner with people from Book Soup, Skylight and other L.A. bookstores.

"Someone mentioned that Michael Jackson had been in their store," Dutton recalled. "Everybody said he'd shopped in their store too."

Doug first met Jackson in the early 1980s when the icon came in his shop wearing "very large sunglasses" and a suit of bodyguards. MJ was solitary and quiet. "There was no display of 'I'm Michael Jackson,'" he recalled. "I don't remember him actually saying anything." Jackson bought four-five books during visits.

Doug's brother, Dave, remembers getting a call in the late '80s - early '90s from an MJ minion, who requested that the shop be closed early so Jackson could privately shop. "We did close early," Dave said. Then, "about a quarter to nine he showed up in a big van. Once you got over the initial caution because of those burly guys with him, he was very nice. He loved the poetry section," Dave's son Dirk asserts that Ralph Waldo Emerson was Jackson's favorite author. "I think you would find a great deal of the transcendental, all-accepting philosophy in his lyrics."

I would have bet the farm that, considering his obsession, Michael Jackson would have been a compulsive collector of all things Peter Pan, the collecting completist's completist, acquiring every single edition of the book, every scrap of paper associated with it, and everything from the story's subsequent incarnations.

"He was a longtime and valued customer," a spokesperson for Hennessey + Ingalls, the renowned art and architecture bookstore in Santa Monica, said in the L.A. Times piece.

Turns out that Michael Jackson was a sort of Johnny Appleseed of reading, spreading books to all children. Former Los Angeles resident Cynde Moya remembers that "back when I worked at the Bookstar in Culver City, his people would have us keep the store open after hours, and he'd come in with a vanload of kids, who could buy whatever books they wanted."

As MJ's life got stranger over time, so did his book buying habits. He would wear a surgical mask during his book shop visits, and in a video of him from New Year's Eve 2008, he's at Hennessey + Ingalls browsing for books, a black umbrella, held by an assistant, shielding him from the unflattering glare of florescent lighting.

Or, maybe to prevent his love for books from being exposed.

This is a problem that will never threaten the unread, book-hating and proud singing star Kanye West. It is a fact that intellect and pop entertainment values do not mix well in American culture: A pop star could never mysteriously disappear for a few days, drive family, friends, and the nation crazy with anxiety, then resurface with the rambling confession that he was incognito in Buenos Aires visiting the sultry, irresistible National Library of Argentina, full of hot-blooded Latin-American tomes, because he needed a change of scenery.

Completely unbelievable. There must have been something else, something seamy, going on, perhaps with La Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina's head of special collections, right? I mean, really, is nothing sacred?

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawyer for Michael Jackson's former dermatologist says he now has no plans to petition a court for a role in the lives of the singer's three children.

Mark Vincent Kaplan says Dr. Arnold Klein is satisfied now that an attorney has been appointed to oversee the children's interests.

Kaplan surprised many during a court hearing earlier this month by saying Klein wanted to be involved in the children's lives. A judge ruled that Klein didn't have legal standing to intervene, but told the doctor he could file a motion later if he still had concerns.

Kaplan says the doctor wanted to be sure Jackson's children did not have a show-business upbringing and were afforded a formal education - things Jackson told Klein he wanted for his children.

THE BUSINESS OF THE DEATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON

I purposefully sat out JULY to slowly write and regroup on how I was going to recommit the Terrordome into a true 2-3 times a month Blog . The Michael Jackson death required a month and a mouth of silence. We have lost a lot of SOUL over the past 5-10 years, JAMES BROWN, RAY CHARLES, RUTH BROWN, WILSON PICKETT, but the passing of MICHAEL JACKSON took the cake and has to make us all realize how short life really is here on earth. I was on a DELTA flight flying in from New York to Los Angeles when I saw the beginning of this tragedy from the seat screens that broadcast in the air. CNN showed breaking news and I glanced at it occasionally while I worked on my computer (taking advantage of the power source under the seat and the in-flight internet). It was then I noticed that the Breaking News exceeded a half hour, and I was getting IMs from the ground saying Jackson had passed. This news gradually became a reality for me as Wolf Blitzer made the announcement from the LA Times. I was flying straight there to drive up the coast so I knew to avoid all major highways near the UCLA hospital. Already the frenzy had started and I had an interview when driving up the coastline on PCH. I immediately told the reporter for the newly reduced Atlanta Journal Constitution that I was a bit in a (no big pun intended) STATE OF SHOCK, but knew that everybody was gonna pour out massive emotions in the wake of his death.

DAVEY D COVERED it thoroughly LAST MONTH. And he said it best from Jackson's public Memorial at STAPLES CENTER in Los Angeles:

'Michael Jackson over the past two weeks was a bigger than life figure and in our rediscovering him, many of us rediscovered some long forgotten aspects of ourselves. For many of us Michael was still alive. He was still alive in spite of the incessant news stories about his death and the speculation as to what caused it. With each music or video tribute, television special or retrospective walk down memory lane, MJ was still here. His energy was around. His spirit felt. As I listened to his older material I found myself yearning for him to bust out with new material and resurrect a long lost soulful sound from a bygone era. But alas he was gone.'

Davey D at Michael Jackson's Memorial.

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Michael Jackson and his family had been on my mind as recently as earlier this year. When I started one of my newest ventures, my songwriting company, I wondered about making some songs for the rest of the Jackson brothers, who I thought people would see without Mike. I didn't enjoy the fact that the JACKSON men weren't really in the business anymore. Nor recording. Nor really performing. I know that they'd seen/done it all, but I felt and feel that they are more of an institution that some rumor machine, ready for TMZ or the ENQUIRER, would only mention because of their brother. I was pissed because I knew that the heart and soul of this genius of Mike Jax was hurting and was collapsing under this negative non-stop attacking of his character. And alongside this, knowing that SONY would do anything to get that publishing back.

Still I knew the JACKSONS, Michael included, probably couldn't get a return call from this so-called business of a recording industry. I knew then that Urban and fake-black radio wouldn't play a thing from Mike if he was independent while he was alive. Prompting some fake ass DJs, Program Directors and Music Directors to test the market to see if he was hot, and instead playing some nondescript, nowadays "quick artist" singing nothing for nobody important. Cool, play your flavor of the month, some audio-sewage pumped by what remaining few labels are left. But damn, be open to acknowledge royalty in music when it calls. Or before it dies. Mike and the JAX clan had been doing this before many had a thought about being in the music biz. My thoughts if I was a radio programmer would be let MIKE be Mike and have the label deliver whatever. And play it to death, instead of playing him to his death. Yes, these so called urban powers that be, "played" him, alright, like they play with the masses of blackfolk listening, watching, and tuning and snoozing in.

Oh yeah, BET was a disaster zone waiting to happen when it rushed their so called tribute.

Cheap news for expensive yet broke ass times. ET, Larry King LIVE and every other so called 'news bureau' has been covering, uncovering, cowering, hovering over this for a month and a half. I can see that. But when major news networks become 'nitworks' replacing real, more important news with the aftermath of 'mess' and rumor, there stands a reason for concern.

Well ,myself being around the Jackson generation age where parents doled out ass whippings when crossed,I see where PC white america is shaken by Joe Jackson. While I think he was a bit over the top later on with the disease of 'fame,' his root reasons were to get his family and himself the hell out the hood. All you got to do is check the Jackson mini-series film for some reference. Call it what you want, but I've been witnessing 25 years of black kids killing each other in the midst of absent black fathers and over-flooded one-sided stereotypes in the media. Especialy black boys, as my wife Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson points out. Joe Jackson might be seen a bit crazy to white america, but join the club, many of us loud black men are.

Michael Jackson needed somebody to support him when times seemed a bit low. If not the industry, at least the community. The increased support for prominent black people only when they're dead has to stop. But then again maybe Michael is our version of ELVIS. The business of the death of Michael Jackson has begun, how sad. If that is indeed the case, I'm casting my vote for IKE and NAT Turner week at a mall nearest you.

ChuckD@publicenemy.com
http://publicenemy.com/in...page=page3

babybugz said:

Great article.Thanks for sharing this.

I found my head nodding in agreement on more than one of those points.

ET has learned that the Los Angeles County Coroner's office will announce tomorrow morning the cause and manner of Michael Jackson's death.
A press conference is not expected, but rather a paper statement will be released. This comes on the heels of the unsealing of two more search warrants on what police found in both Michael Jackson's rented home and the abandoned car connected to his former personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray.
In the house, authorities located bags of marijuana, and a quantity of what was described in the warrant as "tar heroin in a bag in the decedent's bedroom located on the 2nd floor."
However, a source tells ET it was not heroin -- it was "a bag of old, rancid marijuana…left to rot."
It was found in "a little bag within an athletic or duffle bag in Michael's bedroom," the source told ET special correspondent Diane Dimond.
Also found in the house, fourteen pill bottles containing sleep and anti-anxiety medications. Also taken by police -- one tube of Benoquin skin bleaching cream, one box of anti-fungal ointment and three vials of a liquid used for glaucoma patients.
The police search of the 2005 BMW connected to Dr. Murray did not yield much evidence. Police expected to find medical records for Jackson and information on prescription medicines. They did not.
The only items taken from the car were a contract in Dr. Murray's name, a business card and an envelope with miscellaneous writing on it.
Entertainment Tonight convinced the court in Los Angeles to release the two search warrants in the Michael Jackson investigation on Thursday

http://www.etonline.com/n.../08/78017/

Superstition said:

your welcome. Alot of truth to it

babybugz said:

it's a little too late.

Dr Gaye Theresa Johnson.

I like how American people can get named owever their parents want. In school she musta been mobbed. You don't call a child Gay(e), how about these names:

Lesbi-Anne, Fagh

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

babybugz said:

O HELL the day before his bday

F*ck TMZ for this report



http://www.tmz.com/2009/0...7#comments

graecophilos said:

suga10 said:

are you really surprise at them posting that

babybugz said:

Not really, but for them jumping the gun and having to retract their bullshit.

suga10 said:

TMZ tries too hard to be smart, lol

Warrant: Jackson family told cops about drugs

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY (AP) – 1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES — A search warrant served at Michael Jackson's house the day after he died says family members told investigators they'd found heroin in the singer's room. But tests later showed the substance wasn't heroin, a person with knowledge of the results told The Associated Press.

The person was not authorized to speak with the media and requested anonymity.

The warrant unsealed Thursday showed that various drugs, including marijuana, the generic form of Valium and other sedatives were found in the singer's rented mansion. A detective also indicated that Jackson's body showed signs of injections.

A second warrant served on the car of Dr. Conrad Murray, the focus of a manslaughter investigation, turned up some documents but no additional drugs.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Timmy84 said:

I think they're just hesitant to state the obivious, and that is Dr Murray is a liar. He had to have administered in excess 25 mgs of Propofol to cause Michael's death.

Copycat said:

Very hesitant. They couldn't just flat out admit Murray's a liar? Makes no sense.

Timmy84 said:

Crazy stuff

babybugz said:

Ain't it?

Timmy84 said:

This whole situation has made me speechless lol

I'm not surprised given the fact that quote Santa Barbara County Sheriff's deputies who raided Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch back in 2003 found quote "a syringe, powerful narcotics, vials and IV bags containing what could be anesthesia".

He had a long-term addiction problem.

Copycat said:

You mean where the detective said something about Michael's injections?