I've spent the last ten days watching every Michael Jackson (and Jackson 5) video on YouTube -- and some multiple times -- and doing way too much related web reading, and also listenening to the MJ discography without a break. I began to see that I was developing a real problem when I couldn't speak two sentences without referencing some part of the of the Michael Jackson world. Which meant I was beginning to hurt the ones I love. By annoying the hell out of them.
So I decided yesterday that I needed to shut this crazy down. And then I decided this afternoon to actually do it. And then, nine hours later, I listened to the entirety of Off the Wall. That is, I couldn't make it from brunch to bedtime. I don't know what it's called when you have intermittent obsessive episodes, but I seem to have that.
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This is how I have been mourning as well. Except not to such an extreme. I watched the live Billy Jean performance about 15 times at work on Thursday.
I love that video! What an intense performance.
My roommate came into my room at some point over the weekend, at a moment when I had paused an MJ song on my iPod in order to watch an MJ video on YouTube. And I don't pray very often, but I begged God to keep Charlie from looking over at my multimedia screens and having him make a rash and completely accurate judgement that his summer subletter had gone off the deep end.
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