Gone too soon

Michael Jackson is dead.

I will not dwell in the futur conspiracy theories who will be going on probably and the media circus that will spread and take over other news for days to come.

Thoughts of course go to the family and friends and a bit to the fans who lost truly an idol.

Now, what I really want is to express about one's feeling. My feelings.

I do not feel sad. Yes, he was a great musician who changed the world and truly left a mark into the world.
True his life took some changes not for the best but it matters not in death all is not fair as in love and war.

But I digress.

Michael Jackson of course rocked my world for a bunch of years when I was young.
I heard a bit of thriller but I fell for it at BAD. And I drifted out after Dangerous.

But some of his songs still touch me.
Liberian Girl, Man in the Mirror, remember the time.....

I recently saw a show with all his best videos... It was great pop for sure.

Hell I even learned the moonwalk.

I'll probably buy some of his albums because it is part of my youth and memory and because of course it was great stuff worth listening to.

Now i'll probably hum beat it and gone too soon for the rest of the day and let the medias and the insurance and the IRS sort out the pieces of the body but in the end it matters not..."for you'll always be in my heart"

Born To Amuse, To Inspire, To Delight

Here One Day

Gone One Night

Thank you Michael for the kind memories.
They are mine but you were part of it.

The Freak Show

Listening on my shuffle the new live from Pendragon concerto maximo, I shut it down on this song. The album Pure will have it's own post for it is a very good album indeed.
This note is mostly motivated by a small overview of the John Byrne Forum, urging me to write as I said before about the dedicated forum of an artist.

Now you see where I'm getting at....

Officials forums and fan clubs forums are great to find fans, get up to date news, insights or even interact with their favorite creator.
Sure they are great for that.

Sadly in most of the dedicated-to-a-group-(or artist)-fan-forums, there is a golden rule.

The artist IS GOD.

Point.

Even if the artist is a nice person without an inch of surpersized ego, he IS GOD and his Word shall maketh Law.

Just to remember the name " Fan" do come from "Fanatic", a word rarely used in a good way, especially when it comes to religion. And when it comes to art and artists, man sometimes it sure gets religious on your a$$.
The artist becomes God, its work is almost always flawless, everyone daring to criticize even a little is almost always banned or burned alive; whatever is the most handy.
It's amazing how people when they are together brings the worst of themselves, hell it looks like army camp all over again, please leave your brain and your thinking matter outside, you'll have no need in here, we'll think for you.

Of course, the human being human, the more people starts defending a point of view without real criticism, the more the opponent starts bashing more and more the point of view in question.
So quickly, the flame war rages on the forum between the moudjahidine and the infidels.

It is amusing to see these persons barking at each other throat as if they really gonna make the other person change his mind.

In almost all the dedicated forums I saw, you have to face that kind of people, of Fans. And boy does it scare me to see so much lack of open mindess.

That is why I rather very much go to general forum. There you'll find people from different walk of life and most of the time with more open mindness than the one who could come across on the dedicated ones.
And you could criticize, argue, debate and even starts a flame war but most of the times, it is way much more open and in the end, that is better for them, you and the wonderful act of debating and exchanging point of views.

And if you want to see the Freak Show going on....

R.I.P HUGH HOPPER

Hugh just died of cancer... Bassist for Soft Machine and many prog outfits...
I saw him with the polyson people and the friend of my dad and Louis Sclavis frequent drummer François Merville in Saint Germain en laye.
Apparently a benefit concert was to take place in Paris at le Triton on the 27th of June... might not make it but sure gonna have a thought about him.


http://www.letriton.com/fiches%202/0627-HughHopper.html
http://www.hugh-hopper.com/

THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #26

Written by John Rozum, art by Scott Hampton, cover by Michael Wm. Kaluta.

Years ago, The Spectre unleashed his terrible vengeance against predatory killer Ray Walker. But some evil can't be snuffed out so easily, and Walker's ghost continues to haunt the city of Dakota! His victims must turn to David Kim, the Xombi, to right the wrong. Don't miss the Xombi's first footsteps in the DC Universe!

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 19

I'm doing a shameless plug here to celebrate the return of a great comicbook character, David"Xombi" Kim into the DC universe.

David Kim is a character from the Milestone imprint done by DC in the old days ninety-Mbmrmrm something.

But don't let that scare you. Xombi was pretty much a self contained universe.

Running 21 numbers (plus an origin 0 issue drawn by denys Cowan), Xombi chronicles the story of scientist David Kim who enters a world of esoterism and supernatural after becoming ... a kind of undead.

David Kim was brought back to life by his work on nanotechnology, becoming almost immortal since his body regenerates thanks to the nannies in his bloodstream (Bit like Wolverine.. you know him do you ?)

Anyway, David Kim dives after his death and rebirth into a world full of stranges creatures, angels, demons, odd people who are after his work.

Xombi was a great read, praised by lots of people, Alan Moore being the first.

The whole run by John rozum and with pencils painted by JJ Birch was a bit off beat kinda vertigo taste in mainstream super heroes, a truly great run well worth the read.

And now Xombi is back from the dead.

Go buy, pre order that issue. It's self contained, it's by Rozum with art by Scott Hampton and gracing a cover by Kaluta. Enough to buy by itself.

Hopefully it will spark interest so they can do another Xombi run or at least reprint the series in trade forms.

If not go find also the back issues. Very different, a truly magical serie with well written characters that made me cry once.

And not a lot of them comics makes me cry I assure you.

So go preorder, and stop buying that wolverine comics that month... Hell you're pratically sure to find it on back issues later.