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Bad Boys (1995) IMDB rating: 6.40 Plot: Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies’ man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station’s nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

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Remembering Michael Jackson- a journal entry I wrote about the late singer. Is it good?
Title: Remembering Michael Jackson
Date: 7/08/09

(the intro was kind of long, so I just got down to the main story)……

My earliest memory of Michael Jackson would probably have to be around 1987. This was when he was still in his "Bad" Era. Video Soul was still on air back then on BET at the time and I remember the videos from "Bad" very well, especially the "Bad" video. Michael with his black leather jacket walking at the parking lot with his crew behind him asking us "Who’s Bad?" (laughs). I was only 3 at the time, but I can still remember the video and a sketch at the end when he was arguing with a young Wesley Snipes (way before anybody knew who he was). I remember Mike screaming to Wesley "You’re nothing!" then he sings "You’re doing wrong!" and his gang chant along "You’re doing wrong! " You’re doing wrong!" "You’re doing wrong!"

My father used to own an steroe and a 8 track player that was stored in the garage. One day, he played some cuts from the "Off the wall" album, that was made, like, 8 years prior to the home video. There’s an old video tape around my house of us being out in the backyard garage with my aunt sitting around laughing, talking to my dad as me and my cousin riding bicycles while "It’s the falling in love" was coming from the speakers, and "Get on the floor".

And how could I ever forget Christmas Eve night of 1987 when I was watching "The Way You make me feel" video. My father recorded me on video tape as I sing along and was doing everything MJ was doing in the video. I could hear my mom in the background chanting "Go on, Woob" as I was cutting up, being silly, laying on the ground face down, scooting, doing everything Michael was doing in the video.

Michael was so cool, and I used to love his music. Them saturday mornings, buying the J5, and MJ albums from the flea market just made my day. I remember hearing his songs for the first time and they sounded so beautiful. I began to explore all of his earlier work with the Jackson 5, bought the Destiny album, Off the wall, Thriller (loved Billie Jean & Thriller videos) and I mean, it was just beautiful music.

I remember when I was about 8 or 9, I wanted to write to him one time, and in the letter, I was planning on asking him could he come over to our house to spend the night. I was looking at the back of the Thriller cover and was going to send the letter to Epic Records. My mother jokingly said years later that he’d probably ask me could I come stay with him instead LOL

As a young boy, I loved Michael Jackson because he was unique and I always thought he was cool. I watch him when he was young, and he was just a cool, talented, handsome BLACK man. I would watch these old video tapes, and I’m always talking about him, trying to dance like him, wanting to be like him. He was really, one of the very few singers that I was most familiar with.
Prince, The Tyme, Al B.Sure, Alexander O’neal, Cherrelle and Bobby Brown, were some of the other singers that I remember hearing around the house when I was very young, around 87-88, but Michael was probably the most popular out of all, I thought.

After hearing a Michael Jackson record being played at our house during a get together or something, it felt like he was actually there and when the record is over, it felt like he had just left. He had such a strong impact and prescence that it felt like we knew him personally. After the end of each of his albums, all I could ever think about was Michael. It was like, no other singer could capture my attention like Michael did.

I loved the movies "Moonwalker" and I remember seeing the two part TV movie "Jacksons:An Amercian Dream" which first aired on ABC around November 1992.

During the later years, I still was a fan but not as big of a fan like I used to be. I say somewhere around 94-95, and after, that was when people began to see Mike in a negative light and so did I. I was kind of creeped out about his bizarre behavior and his unusual obsession was little boys. His appearance and his music had changed, and it seemed that he was more of an appeal to white audiences. Not that I have anything against that, but it sorta appeared that he wanted to be white. Comedians were talking about him, the media was bashing him and it was like everyday, he had something going on with him. Things he brought on himself. I never disliked Michael, but my interest in him, musically had faded off just a bit.

All those sketches of Michael in my mind, I never thought about him dying. It seem so impossible, because I thought he would be the type that would live forever. When he passed, it sort of felt like a family member died, and I didnt even know him on a personal level. During his memorial service yesterday, my whole family was crying and he was just a star. It goes to show that deep down, we all loved Michael Jackson.

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Nicely done.
I’m not an MJ fan but your affection for his music without being blind to his long descent into weirdness shows through very well.

Good writing.
rejectedzipper | Nov 18, 2009