Post by ERON on Jun 26, 2019 9:10:24 GMT -5
I remember seeing earlier in the day that Farrah Fawcett and Sky Saxon had both passed. Later, at my friend's house, we were discussing the "celebrities die in threes" superstition, jokingly wondering who the third might be, when his roommate, who was on Twitter, said "Here's your third. Michael Jackson just had a heart attack." We immediately turned on the news and started texting everyone we knew.
When texting back and forth with my brother, a studio musician, I made the comment "Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Sky Saxon all in the same day. Can you believe it?" He texted back "Sky Saxon died? WTF? I just had a beer with him last week!" My friend and his roommate thought it was funny that out of the three, that was the one that my brother seemed most upset about, but that's because he knew the guy personally.
My girlfriend at the time was at work and thought I was joking with her. She kept texting me back asking from which sources I was getting my info. A year later, the exact opposite happened when Ronnie James Dio passed.
At the time, I had very recently rediscovered my love for MJ's music after dismissing it for many years, which made his sudden passing all the more jarring for me. Later that same year, a similar thing happened when I randomly got interested in Soupy Sales for the first time in years, looking up YouTube clips of his show one evening, only for him to die about a week later. I commented on those eerie coincidences to my students, how both Jackson and Sales had died shortly after my interest in them was rekindled. One student yelled out, "You killed Michael Jackson!" Another said, "You should start looking up clips of Tony Romo."
It's hard to believe that was ten years ago.
When texting back and forth with my brother, a studio musician, I made the comment "Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Sky Saxon all in the same day. Can you believe it?" He texted back "Sky Saxon died? WTF? I just had a beer with him last week!" My friend and his roommate thought it was funny that out of the three, that was the one that my brother seemed most upset about, but that's because he knew the guy personally.
My girlfriend at the time was at work and thought I was joking with her. She kept texting me back asking from which sources I was getting my info. A year later, the exact opposite happened when Ronnie James Dio passed.
At the time, I had very recently rediscovered my love for MJ's music after dismissing it for many years, which made his sudden passing all the more jarring for me. Later that same year, a similar thing happened when I randomly got interested in Soupy Sales for the first time in years, looking up YouTube clips of his show one evening, only for him to die about a week later. I commented on those eerie coincidences to my students, how both Jackson and Sales had died shortly after my interest in them was rekindled. One student yelled out, "You killed Michael Jackson!" Another said, "You should start looking up clips of Tony Romo."
It's hard to believe that was ten years ago.