A Good Night's Sleep

[poliphilo]

I was so dog-tired I went to bed at nine. Nakisha next door was having a birthday party- and she and her friends were still playing on the street. It was like being a little kid again, going to bed with the sun still up.

Carl was here fixing things yesterday. One of the things he fixed was the hole in the woodwork that Trash the rat made burrowing out of the kitchen when I inadvertently locked him in.  I'd done such a good job blocking all his passages- gaps left in the brickwork when old pipeing was removed- that he had to dig himself a new one. I haven't seen him for a while now. I hope he's told all his cousins that this house is just one, enormous rat trap.

You don't want to hear my views on Michael Jackson.

Comments

[happydog.livejournal.com]

I suspect your views on Michael Jackson are a lot like mine. I put my feelings on a blog that nobody else can read but me, but I will say this - some people need to get a grip. It's not like he was a John Lennon or a Bob Marley. His music was cheesy 80's pop and very symbolic of a very poor time for music.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I hold no brief for Jackson, but I think sometimes John Lennon wasn't exactly a John Lennon. "Watching the Wheels" is an example of the latter.

[happydog.livejournal.com]

Lennon had his off days, definitely. But when he was on, he was really on, and nobody else could do what he did. I am pretty convinced that all of Michael Jackson's music could have been done by anybody with a good voice and a reasonable talent for dancing, what with all the help from Quincy Jones and studio musicians and producers. Lennon could do it on his own, and though he did write some truly awful songs once in a while, he did it all, good and bad, banging on his J-160 or his old piano or his Epiphone Casino.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think that's fair. I admire one or two of the songs- and, to a certain extent, the energy and showmanship. I feel little emotional connection to anything he did.