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00:00 - 24:00 - I Survived A Japanese Game Show Episode 3!
24:00 - 40:12 - 4th Of July
40:12 - 48:08 - Buck Quit His Job
48:08 - 1:05:46 - Michael Jackson / Sarah Palin

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Check out The Buck & Bobaloo Show this Sunday/Monday when it gets uploaded for the extended play story about what -really- went down between Debbie and myself.

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More pics from this weekend of I Survived A Japanese Game Show Reunion Weekend!

00:00 - 22:09 - Death!!
22:09 - 49:54 - I Survived A Japanese Game Show Reunion!
49:54 - 59:28 - Gloria

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I see that there's a sprinkling of hate and belligerence towards Michael Jackson and his death. While everyone's opinion of the man and the three-ring tabloid circus he lived in is valid, I find it more strange for people shitting on other people's thoughts and memories of someone who changed music and changed pop culture for them. That type of negativity says a lot about a person. Interesting, to say the least.

While his star has clearly faded, and he never recovered from the whole touching kids thing, I look back on his career and his music and still to this day can jam out and boogie down to his music like no one else. I made a pact long ago, when he was showing up with Bubbles the chimp, and Emmanuel Lewis...to separate the man from the music. My standard issue tagline for MJ was "I don't care if he fucks llamas, if he puts out a booty jam, I am buying it!" That mantra stayed intact. I even bought Invincible on the first day it was out, and defended it to people. While yeah, I clearly was not fanatical about him like a Asian teenager, I respected his music and his art to the nth degree. Even his extremely lackluster Blood On The Dance Floor was tolerable.

My memories of MJ are the foundation for my love of pop music. I was raised on MTV. I was 7 years old in 1980, and in 1982 when Thriller was released, I was 9. Michael's music, image, video and explosion into pop culture because of it was an important part of my adolescence. I remember talking with the kids in the neighborhood about the famous moonwalk dance he did on the Motown 25 show. "It was like he was on a conveyor belt," one kid remarked. Billie Jean, to this day, is one of my favorite songs, easily in my top 5 favorite songs, and videos.

Then came Bad. I remember people remarking about how his face and image changed. I remember reading a half page article in the Milwaukee Journal pointing out (with a diagram) the changes he made. It didn't phase me. I was losing my mind jamming to "Another Part Of Me" and to this day, I will unapologetically crank "Dirty Diana" in the car and sing to it at the top of my lungs.

I was working at Musicland when Dangerous was released, and my love his music continued. I bought the 12" vinyl of "Black Or White" because it had a mix on it that shook my spinal cord. That guitar riff shook me. The album was a fun mix of the new 90's Michael, and another decade of fun MJ music was starting for me. I started to love his non-singles with the Bad album, and "Give In To Me" off Dangerous is and was one of my favorite cuts from the album.

When HIStory came out, "Scream" made my head explode. Janet was white hot, and Michael really took a great turn against his critics and the tabloid press. Hearing Michael cuss for the first time was a moment for me. I remember being strangely shocked, yet relieved that he showed that angry side, and it made me feel like he was breaking his own mold. I have fond memories of playing "Scream" on the jukebox at South Water Street Docks in Milwaukee, and my friend Patrick and I doing the breakdown-dance from the video together. Although the new material on the HIStory disc was critically panned, once again, I was blown away by "Earth Song", and to this day, one of top 5 favorite MJ songs is "They Don't Care About Us". Hani's Club Mix of "Earth Song" is still white hot, and I will never get rid of that CD Single.

When Invincible came out, I was ecstatic. Although the CD disappointed a lot of people, I still can listen to it from beginning to end without skipping a track. I felt it had taken a lot of risks, and his collaborations were under appreciated. Notorious B.I.G.? Carlos Santana? Those songs were fresh and showed Michael's need to branch out and not make the same beat-box inspired music. It hammered home my stance on my love for his music, and not his tabloid circus that followed him.

It really still hasn't hit me that he's passed, it just doesn't seem real. While I don't find myself saddened to the point of tears and anguish, I am sort of numbed by the fact that he's gone. I never really expected him to make a full tilt boogie comeback, but secretly, I hoped he would do a rest-of-his-lifetime contract in Las Vegas, and spend the last years of his life giving his fans a Greatest Hits show spectacular. Of course, that will never happen now.

What I come away with from the whole Michael Jackson experience is the music. That's the only thing that mattered to me when all the dust has settled. It's going to be a gossip/speculation/media circus for next few months, but none of it even interests me. I only look forward to unreleased music to come out, if and when that day comes.

To those who share the love for Michael with me, let's get down and boogie to his music.

I'm stunned, and I have a lot to say about him. I was a fan, through the bad and the good. I know it sounds odd, but he was my Elvis. I grew up in the early MTV generation, and he changed everything for me.

More later. Right now....social fun with ISAJGS peeps!

Had to get a new set of frames. My old glasses still work, and my prescription hasn't changed, but for $28 after insurance takes care of exam, office visit, tests, and $155 frames with Transitions lenses that turn dark in UV light for free?

Done and done.

From ABC. com:



My face is a button! ;)

Ummm....

Above are names with LJ names! Mystery solved!

So, as previously mentioned, I will be in Chicago next week for a mini-reunion featuring most of the other contestants. The meat of it will happen Friday and possibly into Saturday. I'm thinking Saturday night might be free, and Sunday will be for sure. I leave Monday afternoon.

I will be heading to Chicago Pride on Sunday with intooutdoors and his bf Joe, and all other plans are a big question mark. Chicago peeps!? What's shaking that weekend? Saturday night? Anything? WORK IT OUT!

WOOO. Well, that was fun. OK, now what? Oh yeah! NEXT WEEK! Woo wooooooOoooOOoOOoOo...

To anyone who had a fear that I would be eliminated first....you're welcome. :) To everyone who watched a cheered me on.... Thank you!

Please hold all questions until after the show is ovah. Yes, you can pretty much assume that Mt. Fuji was AWESOME.

In other news, I will be in SF this weekend for the Frameline festival to see the awesome movie Pornographydirected by zodmicrobe!

I'll be crashing with keanubear and non-LJ Greg for the weekend, and quite possibly, I will be at Bearracuda on Saturday night. No plans Sunday during the day, or even Friday night. Work it out now.

Whut whut!