Quite unplanned, inspired by a quick doc­u­men­tary on Michael Jackson yes­ter­day, Little B chose „This is it” for her turn at movie night. She is lov­ing the songs and dances and has a bunch of them down pat — face expres­sions and all.
On the other hand, I am no Jackson fan. I like his music and appre­ci­ate his per­for­mances, but would not call myself a fan. Still, I was curi­ous to see what he had planned for the con­cert that never was.

I, like many oth­ers, found him quite odd. And in the later years, freaky. I admit that I have felt pity on him, as I can­not imag­ine some­one happy and com­fort­able in their skin defac­ing them­selves like that. I will not com­ment on the usual con­tro­versy around him, as I have never been privy to his life  or am inter­ested in dis­cussing some­thing I have no knowl­edge about. I will only say that after see­ing his announce­ment about the upcom­ing con­cert I men­tally made a judg­ment that it was not a good idea and he will prob­a­bly flop.

The doc­u­men­tary is done well and goes through most of the songs’ rehearsals in dif­fer­ent stages of devel­op­ment. Some had no footage as they didnt get to them. The scale of the pro­duc­tion was impos­si­ble not to impress — all the peo­ple, all the hopes and dreams, the tech­nol­ogy, the know how, the cre­ativ­ity, the hard work. All of it revolv­ing around one per­son, Jackson.  As much as I dont con­sider myself a fan, every time I actu­ally watch him I am sold. I feel his tal­ent tan­gi­ble in my hands and become fully involved in his per­for­mance. My body tin­gles with the lost urge to move and cre­ate beauty with form and motion.  Creative abil­ity truly inspires me, be it the work and design philoso­phies of Kenji Ekuan or the sub­tle moves of rehears­ing aging pop idol. It leaves me lighter on my feet and with a feel of the world around me that is raised above the tun­nel vision of the gray daily unim­por­tant  details.

So I wanted to apol­o­gize to Michael for jump­ing to a ver­dict about his work. He would have pulled this off and there is not a ques­tion in my mind. Once he is on stage the nose is gone, the funny gig­gle is lost, the dim­ple on his chin is not an issue and his long thin legs do their thing and all that is felt is tal­ent — thick, fill your gut and senses talent.

I am going to bed inspired and with a tune in my head…If they say — Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature…Why, why, does he do me that way…

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