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Reply #360 posted 09/30/10 3:25pm

Marrk

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NMuzakNSoul said:

check it out

No! hmph!

Brian Mckfright is horrible. How that fucking shit cunt has a career escapes me.

Alright. I relented and checked it out. I stand by the above. Pub singer.

[Edited 9/30/10 16:10pm]

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Reply #361 posted 09/30/10 3:59pm

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"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
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Reply #362 posted 09/30/10 4:39pm

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seeingvoices12 said:

One More Chance music video was completed and will be included on the music video boxset excited

Not montage or anything but A complete music video excited

[img:$uid]http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/ll416/alexcat321/MJ-One-More-Chance-michael-jackson-.jpg[/img:$uid]

[Edited 9/30/10 5:01am]

Care to share the source? With so many rumours going round it's hard to know which is which - though you are a more reliable source than some other folk on other forums, lol.

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Reply #363 posted 09/30/10 4:52pm

Zandi5

Rare pic of The Jacksons with Chaka Khan




Sj
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Reply #364 posted 09/30/10 5:53pm

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dag said:

[img:$uid]http://img535.i.../img:$uid]

Everything about this photo is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

"You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD
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Reply #365 posted 09/30/10 5:55pm

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dag said:

[img:$uid]http://img535.i.../img:$uid]

Everything about this photo is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Fucking boss.

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Reply #366 posted 09/30/10 6:04pm

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Swa said:

seeingvoices12 said:

One More Chance music video was completed and will be included on the music video boxset excited

Not montage or anything but A complete music video excited

[img:$uid]http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/ll416/alexcat321/MJ-One-More-Chance-michael-jackson-.jpg[/img:$uid]

[Edited 9/30/10 5:01am]

Care to share the source? With so many rumours going round it's hard to know which is which - though you are a more reliable source than some other folk on other forums, lol.

Sure , The source is mkgenie from MJJC , I don't usually post info provided by insiders , but mkgenie is very reliable and has proved to have very accureate information many times......it was an update from Sony Music Asia

[Edited 9/30/10 18:09pm]

[Edited 9/30/10 18:12pm]

MICHAEL JACKSON
R.I.P
مايكل جاكسون للأبد
1958
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Reply #367 posted 09/30/10 6:41pm

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seeingvoices12 said:

Swa said:

Care to share the source? With so many rumours going round it's hard to know which is which - though you are a more reliable source than some other folk on other forums, lol.

Sure , The source is mkgenie from MJJC , I don't usually post info provided by insiders , but mkgenie is very reliable and has proved to have very accureate information many times......it was an update from Sony Music Asia

[Edited 9/30/10 18:09pm]

[Edited 9/30/10 18:12pm]

Can't wait! lol
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #368 posted 09/30/10 6:58pm

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seeingvoices12 said:

Swa said:

Care to share the source? With so many rumours going round it's hard to know which is which - though you are a more reliable source than some other folk on other forums, lol.

Sure , The source is mkgenie from MJJC , I don't usually post info provided by insiders , but mkgenie is very reliable and has proved to have very accureate information many times......it was an update from Sony Music Asia

[Edited 9/30/10 18:09pm]

[Edited 9/30/10 18:12pm]

Thanks mate. Sounds exciting.

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Reply #369 posted 09/30/10 7:01pm

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seeingvoices12 said:

One More Chance music video was completed and will be included on the music video boxset excited

Not montage or anything but A complete music video excited

[img:$uid]http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/ll416/alexcat321/MJ-One-More-Chance-michael-jackson-.jpg[/img:$uid]

[Edited 9/30/10 5:01am]

excited woot! excited

I love that song!

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
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Reply #370 posted 09/30/10 7:27pm

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"we make our heroes in America only to destroy them"
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Reply #371 posted 09/30/10 7:54pm

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mimi07 said:

Thank you for posting that mimi07. As someone who attended Michael's trial

in May 2005, I can tell you first-hand, Geraldo was the only reporter who reported

accurately what was going on in that trial day by day. (Ironic enough, he wasn't

shown much unless he got an interview) Main reason, the public truly wanted

to sell that story of Michael being a pervert, and when they realized, they

didn't have a chance of getting that goal, they twisted facts on air. Nancy Grace,

Diane Dimond (usual culprits for skeezy news), along with Fox News, and

even the tamer celebrity news shows - all wanted that guilty verdict.

Geraldo was one of the few journalists to be fair to Michael during his lifetime.

So fascinating to hear his private stories now. Michael deserved so much better

then the cards he was dealt by the mainstream public during his lifetime. mad

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Reply #372 posted 09/30/10 10:39pm

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Vanilli said:

mimi07 said:

Thank you for posting that mimi07. As someone who attended Michael's trial

in May 2005, I can tell you first-hand, Geraldo was the only reporter who reported

accurately what was going on in that trial day by day. (Ironic enough, he wasn't

shown much unless he got an interview) Main reason, the public truly wanted

to sell that story of Michael being a pervert, and when they realized, they

didn't have a chance of getting that goal, they twisted facts on air. Nancy Grace,

Diane Dimond (usual culprits for skeezy news), along with Fox News, and

even the tamer celebrity news shows - all wanted that guilty verdict.

Geraldo was one of the few journalists to be fair to Michael during his lifetime.

So fascinating to hear his private stories now. Michael deserved so much better

then the cards he was dealt by the mainstream public during his lifetime. mad

heartbreaking, just heartbreaking. I heard most of that before, geraldo seemed on the fence when he interviewed a doctore who suppossedly confirmed the boys descriptions of mike's body but doesn't even sound possible now. The way the doctor worded shit though, "what I understood to be the boys description" made it sound like mike was guilty when what it really means is the boys description was second hand and the real description was wrong.

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Reply #373 posted 09/30/10 11:25pm

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So since Vision is pretty much confirmed, I'll post Michael's videography for the umpteenth time

NOTE: this includes specially filmed clips there were used on a variety of tv shows. I'll provide a link those particular ones smile

1976

-Enjoy Yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtMEZz5tI5E

-Think Happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtMycf0kSj8

-Good Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjezIOUQpc

-Show You The Way To Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtniGD7ZUHc

1977

-Blues Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZxYENY6Hc

-Dreamer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig2CuYYPszs

-Goin' Places

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVaeVh_cq8

1978

-Even Though You're Gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRpX-I3Bwg

-Blame It On The Boogie

1979

-Shake Your Body Down To The Ground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQmHwALAck

-Destiny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ogBUNqfsY

-Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

-Rock With You

-Off The Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaaa25OpA7Q

1980

She's Out Of My Life

1981

The Triumph

1983

Billie Jean

Beat It

Say Say Say

Thriller

1984

Billie Jean '84

1985

We Are The World

1986

Captain EO

1987

Bad

The Way You Make Me Feel

1988

Man In The Mirror

Dirty Diana

Another part Of Me

Smooth Criminal

Leave Me Alone

Man In The Mirror

Speed Demon

Come Together

1989

Liberian Girl

2300 Jackson Street

1991

Black Or White

1992

Remember The Time

In The Closet

Jam

Who Is It (Original Version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjvoVpOrlbM

Heal The World

1993

Give In To Me

Who Is It (MTV USA Version)

Will You Be There

Will You Be There (Version 2)

Gone Too Soon

Gone Too Soon (Version 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcNamirwTaY&ob=av2e


Whatzupwithu

1995

HIStory Trailer

Megamix

Megaremix

Scream

Scream (Director's Cut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkuy6GMglic

Childhood

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone ("Angel" Version)

1996

They Don't Care About Us (Brazil Version)

They Don't Care About Us (Prison Version)

Earth Song

Stranger In Moscow

Ghosts

1997

HIStory (Remix)

Blood On The Dancefloor

Blood On The Dancefloor (Refugee Camp Remix)

Blood On The Dancefloor (Original Edit)

2001

You Rock My World

Cry

What More Can I Give

2003

What More Can I Give (Version 2)

One More Chance (Montage Version)

2008

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008

2009

This Is It

"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
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Reply #374 posted 10/01/10 12:58am

NMuzakNSoul

Marrk said:

NMuzakNSoul said:

check it out

No! hmph!

Brian Mckfright is horrible. How that fucking shit cunt has a career escapes me.

Alright. I relented and checked it out. I stand by the above. Pub singer.

[Edited 9/30/10 16:10pm]

I bet you have high bloodpressure a lot. lol

You don't like it cool. All the rest is not needed.

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Reply #375 posted 10/01/10 1:01am

tangerine7

bboy87 said:

So since Vision is pretty much confirmed, I'll post Michael's videography for the umpteenth time

NOTE: this includes specially filmed clips there were used on a variety of tv shows. I'll provide a link those particular ones smile

1976

-Enjoy Yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtMEZz5tI5E

-Think Happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtMycf0kSj8

-Good Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjezIOUQpc

-Show You The Way To Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtniGD7ZUHc

1977

-Blues Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZxYENY6Hc

-Dreamer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig2CuYYPszs

-Goin' Places

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVaeVh_cq8

1978

-Even Though You're Gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRpX-I3Bwg

-Blame It On The Boogie

1979

-Shake Your Body Down To The Ground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQmHwALAck

-Destiny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ogBUNqfsY

-Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

-Rock With You

-Off The Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaaa25OpA7Q

1980

She's Out Of My Life

1981

The Triumph

1983

Billie Jean

Beat It

Say Say Say

Thriller

1984

Billie Jean '84

1985

We Are The World

1986

Captain EO

1987

Bad

The Way You Make Me Feel

1988

Man In The Mirror

Dirty Diana

Another part Of Me

Smooth Criminal

Leave Me Alone

Man In The Mirror

Speed Demon

Come Together

1989

Liberian Girl

2300 Jackson Street

1991

Black Or White

1992

Remember The Time

In The Closet

Jam

Who Is It (Original Version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjvoVpOrlbM

Heal The World

1993

Give In To Me

Who Is It (MTV USA Version)

Will You Be There

Will You Be There (Version 2)

Gone Too Soon

Gone Too Soon (Version 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcNamirwTaY&ob=av2e


Whatzupwithu

1995

HIStory Trailer

Megamix

Megaremix

Scream

Scream (Director's Cut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkuy6GMglic

Childhood

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone ("Angel" Version)

1996

They Don't Care About Us (Brazil Version)

They Don't Care About Us (Prison Version)

Earth Song

Stranger In Moscow

Ghosts

1997

HIStory (Remix)

Blood On The Dancefloor

Blood On The Dancefloor (Refugee Camp Remix)

Blood On The Dancefloor (Original Edit)

2001

You Rock My World

Cry

What More Can I Give

2003

What More Can I Give (Version 2)

One More Chance (Montage Version)

2008

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008

2009

This Is It

Yeah.. I've been keeping track of this too (for a loong time) and I enjoy your posts with this...I hope all this and below are released. Just All of Michael Jackson's videos. I just wish to be able to walk into a music store and purchase Michael's Videos,Short Films on DVD for once.

Man In The Mirror - http://www.youtube.com/wa...ivWY9wn5ps

Man In The Mirror - http://www.youtube.com/wa...1HL3dOmr6s

This Is It - http://www.youtube.com/wa..._SLU3m6uCA

They Don't Care About Us (TII Version) - http://www.vh1.com/video/...id=1541352

Human Nature - http://www.youtube.com/wa...T1E1aI95Ro

Why 3T - http://www.youtube.com/wa...Wv5lUugTFU

Billie Jean (Motown 25) - http://www.youtube.com/wa...ipk3kL_soU

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Reply #376 posted 10/01/10 2:26am

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http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/What_We_Do/Conferences/blog.php

Opening statements and Gregory Tate’s presentation

legaspi

It’s an intimate gathering this morning. CBMR’s Executive Director, Monica Hairston O’Connell, welcomes the audience to the Michael Jackson Symposium, which is sold out.

Greg Tate has taken the stage. He re-revised the original title: “The Alchemist: Michael Jackson and His Magical Pursuit of White Power” . He jokes that he forgot part of it. He adds to his initial paper title the words, “A Genius is a Negro Who Dreams of Snow.” The line is echoed through his presentation.

“To be black is to always affirm something,” Tate repeats. It’s one of many lines that sticks from his reading. Soon Tate’s words are flowing like poetry, Tate stream-of-consciousness fires: “I have a dream, I hear a symphony…you make me feel like a natural women…a change is gonna come…I heard it through the grapevine…Revolution of the mind…Mothership connection…off the wall…rapper’s delight….nigger’s with attitude….a tribe called quest…This is it…A genius is a negro who dreams of snow.”

Tate speaks of Jackson’s 40 million albums, and the idea of invisibility. He doesn’t avoid the controversial side of Jackson, either, pondering Jackson’s want to hang out with young kids.

Later, he refers to Michael the gangster and entrepeneur. Killer Mike may have been living in White America, but he carved out his own terms. Tate discusses Jackson’s business savvy, from his Beatles’ catalog purchase to his unprecedented royalty rate at the time. Tate quotes what Jackson said to his lawyer when engineering a new record contract, ”I want more money than anyone’s ever got.” And he did. He received $15 million recoupable advance, a $3 million bonus, a custom label of his own. He earned $1/2 billion in his lifetime. Tate’s words resonate, “A gangster is a negro who dreams of snow.”

He closes with Jackson’s generosity, saying over his lifetime it’s estimated he gave $300 million to charities, and 20% of all future profits from his estate will go to charities.

Tate makes an interesting point of Jackson’s evening and challenging a (and creating a new) playing field that has been rife with racial disparity. From Jackson’s unprecedented pursuit of success beyond his peers to his generosity, he broke boundaries through his perpetual “dreams of snow.”

"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
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Reply #377 posted 10/01/10 8:55am

Unholyalliance

bboy87 said:

http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/What_We_Do/Conferences/blog.php

Opening statements and Gregory Tate’s presentation

legaspi

It’s an intimate gathering this morning. CBMR’s Executive Director, Monica Hairston O’Connell, welcomes the audience to the Michael Jackson Symposium, which is sold out.

Greg Tate has taken the stage. He re-revised the original title: “The Alchemist: Michael Jackson and His Magical Pursuit of White Power” . He jokes that he forgot part of it. He adds to his initial paper title the words, “A Genius is a Negro Who Dreams of Snow.” The line is echoed through his presentation.

“To be black is to always affirm something,” Tate repeats. It’s one of many lines that sticks from his reading. Soon Tate’s words are flowing like poetry, Tate stream-of-consciousness fires: “I have a dream, I hear a symphony…you make me feel like a natural women…a change is gonna come…I heard it through the grapevine…Revolution of the mind…Mothership connection…off the wall…rapper’s delight….nigger’s with attitude….a tribe called quest…This is it…A genius is a negro who dreams of snow.”

Tate speaks of Jackson’s 40 million albums, and the idea of invisibility. He doesn’t avoid the controversial side of Jackson, either, pondering Jackson’s want to hang out with young kids.

Later, he refers to Michael the gangster and entrepeneur. Killer Mike may have been living in White America, but he carved out his own terms. Tate discusses Jackson’s business savvy, from his Beatles’ catalog purchase to his unprecedented royalty rate at the time. Tate quotes what Jackson said to his lawyer when engineering a new record contract, ”I want more money than anyone’s ever got.” And he did. He received $15 million recoupable advance, a $3 million bonus, a custom label of his own. He earned $1/2 billion in his lifetime. Tate’s words resonate, “A gangster is a negro who dreams of snow.”

He closes with Jackson’s generosity, saying over his lifetime it’s estimated he gave $300 million to charities, and 20% of all future profits from his estate will go to charities.

Tate makes an interesting point of Jackson’s evening and challenging a (and creating a new) playing field that has been rife with racial disparity. From Jackson’s unprecedented pursuit of success beyond his peers to his generosity, he broke boundaries through his perpetual “dreams of snow.”

BAH. I was there for that thing and I think that out of everyone's presentation, his was the fucking worst. His paper was superfluous and lacked any real research. During his Q&A he revealed that most of his 'research' came from 'Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness'. So while stumbling throughout the Q&A, Mr.Tate later blurted out 'He [MJ] was broke" and never went into detail why that might have been. (Someone else did later on that day though.) Also, when asked if he would do anything on MJ's music he was like "I'm doing a book on James Brown." Like, yeah thanks, I like James Brown too, but no one asked you that. All in all, he didn't seem to be that interested in the subject of the symposium. Later on he also said "You know, no one was too thrilled with his later works."

=/

I ran into the dude later, but we got into an unrelated discussion so that I wouldn't be compelled to tell him how disappointed I was with his presentation. If you can't be bothered then why even agree in the first place? For publicity? It's not as if you were writing a book, then I can understand being pressed for time. There were some really other great, informative, presentations done during the day, but this one gets any weight simply because it's Greg Tate.

The only thing that anyone even remembered from was the 'Killer Mike' part as it was repeated quite often throughout the symposium. That was the only thing that stuck out from his presentation, for me also. Probably because he repeated it so often.

[Edited 10/1/10 8:58am]

[Edited 10/1/10 8:59am]

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Reply #378 posted 10/01/10 10:25am

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Perfect legs.

[img:$uid]http://img178.i.../img:$uid]

[Edited 10/1/10 10:26am]

"When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all."
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"When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all."
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Reply #380 posted 10/01/10 11:30am

mozfonky

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Marrk said:

NMuzakNSoul said:

check it out

No! hmph!

Brian Mckfright is horrible. How that fucking shit cunt has a career escapes me.

Alright. I relented and checked it out. I stand by the above. Pub singer.

[Edited 9/30/10 16:10pm]

as a pianist, one who can't play nowhere near that well, I respect him. He can play anything he hears pretty much, wish i could do that. never really listened much to his music so don't know if he's good or bad or what.

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Reply #381 posted 10/01/10 11:43am

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Unholyalliance said:

bboy87 said:

http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/What_We_Do/Conferences/blog.php

Opening statements and Gregory Tate’s presentation

legaspi

It’s an intimate gathering this morning. CBMR’s Executive Director, Monica Hairston O’Connell, welcomes the audience to the Michael Jackson Symposium, which is sold out.

Greg Tate has taken the stage. He re-revised the original title: “The Alchemist: Michael Jackson and His Magical Pursuit of White Power” . He jokes that he forgot part of it. He adds to his initial paper title the words, “A Genius is a Negro Who Dreams of Snow.” The line is echoed through his presentation.

“To be black is to always affirm something,” Tate repeats. It’s one of many lines that sticks from his reading. Soon Tate’s words are flowing like poetry, Tate stream-of-consciousness fires: “I have a dream, I hear a symphony…you make me feel like a natural women…a change is gonna come…I heard it through the grapevine…Revolution of the mind…Mothership connection…off the wall…rapper’s delight….nigger’s with attitude….a tribe called quest…This is it…A genius is a negro who dreams of snow.”

Tate speaks of Jackson’s 40 million albums, and the idea of invisibility. He doesn’t avoid the controversial side of Jackson, either, pondering Jackson’s want to hang out with young kids.

Later, he refers to Michael the gangster and entrepeneur. Killer Mike may have been living in White America, but he carved out his own terms. Tate discusses Jackson’s business savvy, from his Beatles’ catalog purchase to his unprecedented royalty rate at the time. Tate quotes what Jackson said to his lawyer when engineering a new record contract, ”I want more money than anyone’s ever got.” And he did. He received $15 million recoupable advance, a $3 million bonus, a custom label of his own. He earned $1/2 billion in his lifetime. Tate’s words resonate, “A gangster is a negro who dreams of snow.”

He closes with Jackson’s generosity, saying over his lifetime it’s estimated he gave $300 million to charities, and 20% of all future profits from his estate will go to charities.

Tate makes an interesting point of Jackson’s evening and challenging a (and creating a new) playing field that has been rife with racial disparity. From Jackson’s unprecedented pursuit of success beyond his peers to his generosity, he broke boundaries through his perpetual “dreams of snow.”

BAH. I was there for that thing and I think that out of everyone's presentation, his was the fucking worst. His paper was superfluous and lacked any real research. During his Q&A he revealed that most of his 'research' came from 'Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness'. So while stumbling throughout the Q&A, Mr.Tate later blurted out 'He [MJ] was broke" and never went into detail why that might have been. (Someone else did later on that day though.) Also, when asked if he would do anything on MJ's music he was like "I'm doing a book on James Brown." Like, yeah thanks, I like James Brown too, but no one asked you that. All in all, he didn't seem to be that interested in the subject of the symposium. Later on he also said "You know, no one was too thrilled with his later works."

=/

I ran into the dude later, but we got into an unrelated discussion so that I wouldn't be compelled to tell him how disappointed I was with his presentation. If you can't be bothered then why even agree in the first place? For publicity? It's not as if you were writing a book, then I can understand being pressed for time. There were some really other great, informative, presentations done during the day, but this one gets any weight simply because it's Greg Tate.

The only thing that anyone even remembered from was the 'Killer Mike' part as it was repeated quite often throughout the symposium. That was the only thing that stuck out from his presentation, for me also. Probably because he repeated it so often.

[Edited 10/1/10 8:58am]

[Edited 10/1/10 8:59am]

wow, that's the second top black journalist to really fail when it comes to michael analysis, the first being Nelson George's book. I don't know, maybe they rush things, and of course, because they are black, they get asked to do stuff like this. This is still early in the game though folks. when elvis died, it took a full 3 years for a decent perspective to come out on his life, a 3 years incidentally, which were rife with books by Hackjob conmen, ex-bodyguards and rumours of how bad things were with Elvis in the end. The junk will come first if Elvis' post-death ruminations are any indication, then we will really start to get to the nitty gritty.

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Reply #382 posted 10/01/10 12:27pm

Marrk

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NMuzakNSoul said:

Marrk said:

No! hmph!

Brian Mckfright is horrible. How that fucking shit cunt has a career escapes me.

Alright. I relented and checked it out. I stand by the above. Pub singer.

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I bet you have high bloodpressure a lot. lol

You don't like it cool. All the rest is not needed.

i felt the need to call him a cunt.

Helps my blood pressure.

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Reply #383 posted 10/01/10 1:06pm

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dag said:

Michael's skin....everything in the last pic is just......perfect broken drool3

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Reply #384 posted 10/01/10 1:19pm

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dag said:

Perfect legs.

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You aint never lied!

YOU DON'T NEED A BUS PASS FOR ME TO BUS YOUR ASS,NIGGA !
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Reply #385 posted 10/01/10 1:49pm

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bboy87 said:

http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/What_We_Do/Conferences/blog.php

Opening statements and Gregory Tate’s presentation

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It’s an intimate gathering this morning. CBMR’s Executive Director, Monica Hairston O’Connell, welcomes the audience to the Michael Jackson Symposium, which is sold out.

Greg Tate has taken the stage. He re-revised the original title: “The Alchemist: Michael Jackson and His Magical Pursuit of White Power” . He jokes that he forgot part of it. He adds to his initial paper title the words, “A Genius is a Negro Who Dreams of Snow.” The line is echoed through his presentation.

“To be black is to always affirm something,” Tate repeats. It’s one of many lines that sticks from his reading. Soon Tate’s words are flowing like poetry, Tate stream-of-consciousness fires: “I have a dream, I hear a symphony…you make me feel like a natural women…a change is gonna come…I heard it through the grapevine…Revolution of the mind…Mothership connection…off the wall…rapper’s delight….nigger’s with attitude….a tribe called quest…This is it…A genius is a negro who dreams of snow.”

Tate speaks of Jackson’s 40 million albums, and the idea of invisibility. He doesn’t avoid the controversial side of Jackson, either, pondering Jackson’s want to hang out with young kids.

Later, he refers to Michael the gangster and entrepeneur. Killer Mike may have been living in White America, but he carved out his own terms. Tate discusses Jackson’s business savvy, from his Beatles’ catalog purchase to his unprecedented royalty rate at the time. Tate quotes what Jackson said to his lawyer when engineering a new record contract, ”I want more money than anyone’s ever got.” And he did. He received $15 million recoupable advance, a $3 million bonus, a custom label of his own. He earned $1/2 billion in his lifetime. Tate’s words resonate, “A gangster is a negro who dreams of snow.”

He closes with Jackson’s generosity, saying over his lifetime it’s estimated he gave $300 million to charities, and 20% of all future profits from his estate will go to charities.

Tate makes an interesting point of Jackson’s evening and challenging a (and creating a new) playing field that has been rife with racial disparity. From Jackson’s unprecedented pursuit of success beyond his peers to his generosity, he broke boundaries through his perpetual “dreams of snow.”

BAH. I was there for that thing and I think that out of everyone's presentation, his was the fucking worst. His paper was superfluous and lacked any real research. During his Q&A he revealed that most of his 'research' came from 'Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness'. So while stumbling throughout the Q&A, Mr.Tate later blurted out 'He [MJ] was broke" and never went into detail why that might have been. (Someone else did later on that day though.) Also, when asked if he would do anything on MJ's music he was like "I'm doing a book on James Brown." Like, yeah thanks, I like James Brown too, but no one asked you that. All in all, he didn't seem to be that interested in the subject of the symposium. Later on he also said "You know, no one was too thrilled with his later works."

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I ran into the dude later, but we got into an unrelated discussion so that I wouldn't be compelled to tell him how disappointed I was with his presentation. If you can't be bothered then why even agree in the first place? For publicity? It's not as if you were writing a book, then I can understand being pressed for time. There were some really other great, informative, presentations done during the day, but this one gets any weight simply because it's Greg Tate.

The only thing that anyone even remembered from was the 'Killer Mike' part as it was repeated quite often throughout the symposium. That was the only thing that stuck out from his presentation, for me also. Probably because he repeated it so often.

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[Edited 10/1/10 8:59am]

How did the J5 cover of "What's So Good About Goodbye" sound? I just found out that was played eek

"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
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Reply #386 posted 10/01/10 1:49pm

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Production of 'Sisterella' to be staged in L.A.

LOS ANGELES – A production of "Sisterella," a pop-rock update of the Cinderella fable that had been backed by Michael Jackson, is being planned for Los Angeles next spring.

Jerry Greenberg and Frank Dileo will produce the Larry Hart-written musical, which first debuted in Los Angeles at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1996. Jackson was the executive producer.

Greenberg was president of Jackson's jointly owned record label with Sony Music for 11 years. Dileo was the pop icon's manager.

Casting and further details were expected later.

Raymond G. del Barrio will be the show's choreographer — the same role he held when the musical debuted.

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, the musical tells the story of a wicked stepmother who tries to steal the fortune her late husband left to his daughter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...isterella/

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Reply #387 posted 10/01/10 2:09pm

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"we make our heroes in America only to destroy them"
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Reply #388 posted 10/01/10 2:44pm

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Marrk said:

NMuzakNSoul said:

I bet you have high bloodpressure a lot. lol

You don't like it cool. All the rest is not needed.

i felt the need to call him a cunt.

Helps my blood pressure.

lol alright man if it helps you that's good.

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Reply #389 posted 10/01/10 2:54pm

NMuzakNSoul

mozfonky said:

Marrk said:

No! hmph!

Brian Mckfright is horrible. How that fucking shit cunt has a career escapes me.

Alright. I relented and checked it out. I stand by the above. Pub singer.

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as a pianist, one who can't play nowhere near that well, I respect him. He can play anything he hears pretty much, wish i could do that. never really listened much to his music so don't know if he's good or bad or what.

Yeah I dug what he played. cool

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