I can’t believe it. Michael Jackson is gone. How did I find out? Twitter. Then the internets imploded upon itself. Twitter, Wikipedia, TMZ (the site that scooped it), Facebook, mobile phone networks all crashed and fail whaled in the hours following the news. I know my data stream on my Blackberry got extremely slow, my friends in L.A. couldn’t call out, so I got texts from them, and my Twitter stream was going nuts with all the breaking information. Dead? Alive? Coma? No coma? It changed every minute. It was like watching him die. Almost. Kind of, because I was seeing it all break in real-time.

People will have many different opinions on his character and his personal life, but as a musician force in the music industry, he was it. His influence is in everything from production, to choreography, to fashion statements. You can’t deny it.
In every phase of his career there’s songs that have been associated with significant events in my life. Jackson 5 songs were the only songs that I had to “take back” from my ex. There was no way that he was going to ruin J5 for me. There are so many other songs that I can no longer listen to because of the association of my time with him, but I had to take back Michael.

Pathos aside, here it is, my favorite Michael Jackson video. I love the choreography, the pageantry, the superstar cameos, and his hair looks really great.

RIP Michael Jackson. I can’t believe you are gone.