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This list is based on some of the outright disturbing items recently put up for auction from Michael Jackson’s estate. The auction was meant to raise funds to pay off some of his debts and it was scheduled before he died. Many of these items were gifts but the fact that he kept them testifies to the bizarre character that was Michael Jackson. As always, click the image for a larger view.
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Items 1 – 5
1. Ice-cream Girl [Source]
2. Speechless [Source]
3. WTF?! [Source]
4. Such Humility [Source]
5. Chucky’s Sister [Source]
Just paying the bills...
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Items 6 – 10
6. Car Hood [Source]
7. His Royal Highness [Source]
8. Coffee Machine [Source]
9. Lifesize Superman [Source]
10. Scary [Source]
Bonus
Virtual Boy
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August 1st, 2009 at 1:31 am
What a weirdo
August 1st, 2009 at 1:32 am
The coffee machine looks perfectly reasonable to me.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:38 am
@astraya: agreed
August 1st, 2009 at 1:40 am
ok the little kid paintings and stuff are weird and same with the car hood and him as a king or whatever. but seriously, if you had as much money as him then why the f***k wouldnt you buy a life sized super man???
and i actually kinda like the painting with einstein and washington and the mona lisa with the glasses on haha idk maybe its just me.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:43 am
Whats the bonus supposed to be? Im confused.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:44 am
I notice that this was a collection for sale to pay for debts. No doubt because of many of the legal costs in order to defend him against the depictions in the paintings.
PS. I offer $5 for the coffee machine.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:48 am
The kids paintings are a bit weird but I agree with optimus_grim: why wouldn’t you get a lifesize superman?!
I want that coffee machine.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:56 am
So modest.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:56 am
dude what about the painting of him at the last supper?? that one is nuts and yes it is real and was in his house
August 1st, 2009 at 2:24 am
Ahhh, the Virtual Boy. A very bad console.
I wonder if they’re auctioning a signed copy of Micheal Jackson’s Moonwalker. I loved that game.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:28 am
He was a strange strange man. Most talented people have thier quirks mind you!
August 1st, 2009 at 2:58 am
hehe cool list on a weird guy
August 1st, 2009 at 3:02 am
A strange, strange life.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:05 am
Nice list. never thought that MJ collected weird things.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:09 am
2 and 3 are wierd, nothing to bad about the rest
August 1st, 2009 at 3:11 am
i think E.T is more out of place in number 4 than michael jackson
August 1st, 2009 at 3:13 am
i want to be like him!
a man that have a extra ordinary brain!
August 1st, 2009 at 3:52 am
The coffee machine and the Superman aren’t too weird, but the rest are very odd.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:53 am
Virtual Boy….haaaa
wtf?
if i had his money i would buy a virtual Jessica Simpson
August 1st, 2009 at 3:54 am
What I want to know is who painted pictures 2 & 3?
August 1st, 2009 at 4:17 am
@Handrejka (18): Hey, I agree with you. although the coffee machine is kinda cool.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:18 am
I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It’s not on any chart,
You must find it with your heart.
Never Never Land.
It might be miles beyond the moon,
Or right there where you stand.
Just keep an open mind,
And then suddenly you’ll find
Never Never Land.
You’ll have a treasure if you stay there,
More precious far than gold.
For once you have found your way there,
You can never, never grow old.
And that’s my home where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
Just think of lovely things.
And your heart will fly on wings,
Forever in Never Never Land.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:30 am
Somehow I don’t think he was expecting a video game system when he bought the “Virtual Boy”.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:47 am
He had a Virtual Boy model that made sense for what it was used for? Holy Hell.
That coffee machine is bad ass, too.
He probably didn’t keep all those paintings up, I’m sure the man had some semblance of taste.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:53 am
Haha, good one ScubaSteve.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:58 am
@astraya (2): “The coffee machine looks perfectly reasonable to me.” Yeah, all my friends have coffee machines like that! ;D (Great comment BTW)
August 1st, 2009 at 4:59 am
That coffee machine looks like something right out of the Weimar Republic.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:00 am
Interesting list. I can’t imagine that someone else would want to buy some of this stuff at auction, but still, each to his own I say!! Great list. Thanks. D
August 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am
Does nothing for me…Holiday list quickly put together.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:04 am
i dont find the paintings weird except for the painting of monalisa and the aliens with shade, i would love to have the
coffee maker
chucky sister
lifesize superman
the grandma looks scary
and what is the virtual boy?
August 1st, 2009 at 5:06 am
#2 is a bit queer.
#1 & #3 is just your dirty mind.
The rest is about what you’d expect for someone so famous. I’m actually disappointed. These items aren’t really all THAT weird. Where’s the elephant man skeleton and the oxygen tent?
August 1st, 2009 at 5:08 am
The only one I could understand on this list is the Lifesize Superman
August 1st, 2009 at 5:44 am
I want that espresso machine. That’s restaurant caliber!
August 1st, 2009 at 5:50 am
hey there. I like most of these, as art. Even the art of making coffee. The fortune telling granny is the only real ’sideshow’ piece, and even that isn’t so freaky to me. I’ve never even heard of the virtual boy; it looks like a gameboy with a headset. Surely the whole point of the gameboy was that it was portable?
Just in case anyone else has keen eyes, I’m pretty sure items 2 & 3 are either parts of the same picture or are a two part set. Note the man with the child on his back appears to the right of 2 and to the left of 3. Perhaps the top three items make a huge spread?
I suspect the author wanted to stir the feelings of the readership with this list, but I don’t think this one is going to explode with anything more than curiosity/apathy.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:55 am
Oh my! o.O
I am sitting seeing these items with my mouth hanging open. What was he thinking? Ok, we know what he was thinking but … Holy Hell! Several more reasons why he was an oddball.
However, the only exception is that coffee maker. It’s just elaborate.
@ScubaSteve (23): *clap, clap* Brilliant!
August 1st, 2009 at 5:56 am
Fcha – the paintings look like they’re in the style of the way paradise is typically depicted in the Jehovah’s Witness’ publication “The Watchtower”. Its always creepy.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:56 am
Actually, how did you keep it down to ten?
The Fortune Telling machine at #10 looks like an old carnival arcade unit. Those things are insanely collectible and could very well go at auction for much more than he paid.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:59 am
I forgot to add that the fortune telling machine is kinda cool. Remember the one from the movie “Big”? I have a mini version of it on my desk at work. It’s functional as well and gives out a little fortune.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:07 am
The first three look like they are all from the same painting
August 1st, 2009 at 6:11 am
@oouchan (38): I was just going to mention ‘Big’.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:19 am
Even though I loath coffee, I wouldn’t turn down the coffee machine. I’d display it as a piece of art.
The fortune telling machine is cool, but I want the life sized Superman.
The rest of it is just creepy.
After watching that British documentary on Michael I learned that his tastes were insane. Remember that shopping trip? He was like those stories you hear of a hick who wins the lottery & fills his house with random crap only caring that it’s expensive.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:20 am
You’d have to be crazy to buy a Virtual Boy!
CRAAAAAAAAAAZY!
August 1st, 2009 at 6:24 am
I think the girl with the messed up face that approaches the camera in in the Aphex Twin video Windowlicker was inspired by No.5. Anyone know the girl I am talking about?
August 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
Statues he owns:
Little boy w/ turquoise overalls on stand
Boy with accordion
Boy sitting on bricks
Boy w/ baton and hat w/ feathers
Two boys on swing bar
Two boys with ladder
Boys sleeping on bench
Boys milking goat
Boy on a toy car with girl
Boy pulling 2 boys on bike
Boy lifting girl
2 Boys sitting on a sunflower
August 1st, 2009 at 6:37 am
haha i want these!!! specially the car hood ahaha…
RIP! i know its been a while…but i still miss him =[[
August 1st, 2009 at 6:42 am
@moonbeam (26): There was a degree of sarcasm about my original comment that seems to have been lost in the plain text format. While the coffee machine is considerably less weird than some other items, it is still w-a-a-a-a-y in excess of anything that might be thought reasonably necessary to make a cup of coffee.
I wonder what the coffee tasted like? Like you’d get from a $20 kettle?
August 1st, 2009 at 6:44 am
@Rising Falls(44): Do you think there’s some common theme connecting all those statues. Let me see, um, boys, boys, boys, boys. Well, um, maybe.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:52 am
@43 ImElvis: I was thinking the same thing, only from Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy” video (where it’s all children with that face). Not inspired by that statue, though- they’re actually warps of the face of Richard David James, the guy behind Aphex Twin.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:55 am
this is a waste of a list. If you gave someone a GIFT you would wnt them to keep it as well…
We all have our own little quirks.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:03 am
He also owned one of those ice cream bicycles, that you peddle around the streets selling lolly pops and such.
If my memory serves me correctly it was a gift from Liz Taylor.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:08 am
Interesting. But the strangest minds are the brilliant ones.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:20 am
Really, there was more bizarre items than these owned by Jackson. And #2 and #3 are apart of the same picture, if you’d look carefully.
Sorry JFrater, but this list is a thumbs down. It wasn’t interesting and there wasn’t anything I could learn from it.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:28 am
er Oxygen Tent, NEVERLAND!, his nose?
August 1st, 2009 at 7:41 am
meh, nothing new, nothing really unexpected. In fact, all stuff that I would expect a 12 year old boy (ok, there would be more boobs in the paintings) to buy if he had no guidance and tons of bucks. I think he bought them to please himself – not as a lure.
The arcade fortune teller isn’t scary – it’s cool and worth tons of money. The samovar (fancy ass coffee machine/hot water urn) is not that wild – we’ve rented the exact one for fancy banquets/weddings.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:48 am
aside from the “wtf painting” and “chucky’s sister” I really dont see nothin weird about none of this shit….the dude was a bit eccentric yes but what the hell. most people who our special in some way are misunderstood and out of sync with the rest of the world. I personally think he wore his heart on his sleeve. If more people did the same, I’M PRETTY SURE Michael wouldnt seem so odd afterall.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:51 am
dude, have some respect for the dead.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:05 am
i don’t find anything on this list exceptionally weird. there’s some quirky stuff, but he did have a lot of money to spend.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:12 am
I think the 3 paintings are part of a larger painting.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:19 am
That Superman is awesome!!
August 1st, 2009 at 8:20 am
Number 5 is just scary>
August 1st, 2009 at 8:20 am
I don’t see how any of these are weird. A lot of incredibly famous people have similar paintings.
Also, the first few paintings are only weird if you have a dirty mind.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:29 am
Yeah, I’ve got to agree. Sure, the coffee maker and the Superman are perhaps a bit excessive, but they aren’t weird in and of themselves.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:48 am
It would be great to have a copy of the auction catalog!!!
I want one–NOW!!! Is the sale still going to happen??
Use the buck$ to pay LA for the funeral!!
August 1st, 2009 at 8:49 am
Sheesh. I guess everyone wants to get in on the bash fest when it comes to Michael Jackson.
There isn’t a damn thing wrong with the items you have shown. What is wrong is YOUR mind and how it is twisted and perverted. Not the mind of Michael Jackson.
This was Neverland. A place where a man had enough money to make his lost childhood come true again for him.
Why don’t you stop picking his bones just for once?
August 1st, 2009 at 8:54 am
people need to relax. this list was in no way meant to make fun of michael, just to display a few of the many bizarre things he owned
August 1st, 2009 at 9:04 am
This just confirms what a very strange and disturbed individual he was.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:05 am
But they aren’t bizarre to everyone yet that is how it is presented in the title. Just because someone has much more money than most to by the trinkets they want does not make those possessions bizarre because other people don’t have money like he did to buy their own. Many celebs and millionaires have unusual items in their homes.
And the Lords Supper has been done in many renditions over the years. Not just by Jackson and he didn’t commission someone to have that picture painted either.
Michael had people sending him paintings from all across the world. I highly doubt he thought he should just throw them out as if they meant nothing.
Neverland wasn’t just filled with statues of little boy children, he had both boy and girl mannequins and statues throughout Neverland even on the outside grounds.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:10 am
Maybe they are things given to him as gifts, how do we know that he purchased all of the items himself.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
And some need to catch up. Jackson went to court to fight this auction of his personal possessions. The action was never held and now that he has passed away if any of them are sold they will go into a trust for his children.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
He wasn’t a genius-
He wasn’t a philanthropist-
He was just pathetic.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:20 am
70 Beth
August 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
He wasn’t a genius-
He wasn’t a philanthropist-
He was just pathetic.
Baloney. You will never sell that bill of goods. Whether you like it or not he was a musical genius and the greatest entertainer in the world. No other person has had tribute after tribute paid to them all across this globe like Michael Jackson has had in a month and it is still happening. No one can even come close.
His music is still the Number One selling album and has been since the day after his death. He was amazing and millions upon millions of devoted fans all across this planet knows it and will see that his musical legacy goes on forever.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:22 am
I bet he owned way weirder shit than just that
August 1st, 2009 at 9:47 am
The Superman statue is not that weird at all. They were sold through Sharper Image. When the store change went bankrupt recently, a friend of mine bought an identical statue–for much less than the $5,000.00 it retailed for, I might add. The store had Spiderman statues as well.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:48 am
That should read “store chain.” Apparently, I haven’t consumed enough coffee yet this morning.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:49 am
@Dallas Taylor (71): And appologists like you will continue to excuse his bizzare and possibly illegal behavior forever as well.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:50 am
@ 70 , Beth, Never thought that i would have to say this but..” go Fuck yourself!”
there you go.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am
Michael Jackson was a child in a man’s body, a victim of our sex (and lawsuit) obsessed culture who probably went to his grave thinking there was something wrong with us for interpreting his relationships with those children as sexual.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:28 am
#4 actually gave me a good laugh. If anybody had a right to be arrogant. He should have laughed more.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:31 am
@astraya (46): I did pick up on your sarcasm, that’s why I thought it was a great comment. Plus the fact that most people might have been more likely to comment on the more obviously whacked out stuff made it that much more humorous to me.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:32 am
@Skrillah (76): Yikes – a little harsh don’t you think?
August 1st, 2009 at 10:40 am
#2 and #3 are from one painting, so this was obviously thrown together with little care
August 1st, 2009 at 10:46 am
IMHO this is a pretty weak list.
Nothing to be learned here, just a cynical and lazy list of pictures.
We get it. Michael Jackson was weird and creepy. Get over it already.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:26 am
well, thses don’t seem THAT weird when your talkiong about MJ hahah! BTW i loooooooove that superman! and the coffee machine is crazy awesome, nothing weird with most of these. rest in peace MJ, you’ll be missed, you weird but very talented man
August 1st, 2009 at 11:26 am
*talking
lol
August 1st, 2009 at 11:50 am
Dont tell me they are’nt selling the elephant man’s skeleton!
August 1st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Hey maybe we’re looking too much into the items. I mean, he probably didn’t think much of it at the start.. and even if he did… we’re probably taking it in the wrong way… or it could just be an observation that he finds interesting or funny.
All I can get out of this is that he’s got a sense of humour!
August 1st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Okay, explain to me how having a life-sized statue of Superman and an original Nintendo Virtual Boy, complete with the stand, is anything but absolutely awesome.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
A few of these items would be cool to have. The pics are weird and eccentric. The guy had the money to get what he wanted. Unfortunately, judging form the pics of the kids, I guess we all know what he wanted.
@Dallas Taylor (67): Its people like you that are blinded by fame that do not realize that these people are not perfect. They are performers. Nothing more, nothing less. Some are weird some or not. Some are sickos some are not. Just like everybody else, but they have their fame and money to do what they want. And to reel the suckers in to apologize for them.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Now I am wondering what I have in my house that people will find bizarre after I die. Better go check.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:32 pm
And oh btw, jfrater if your intention was to ridicule M.Jackson, u failed. Hes a Legend and u would never ever reach that status through having your own damn website( u know it).. I love this site very much, but this has to be the most weakest, ”OK Magazine-like”, uneducational and retarded list ever. Very Dissapointing.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
#1 and #9 aren’t that bizarre (hey, if you want something weird and huge I own, like that life-size Superman, check out my huge “Mask of Zorro” (1999) poster I got with permission from the movie theater I was working at. Yep, I’m still lovin’ Antonio Banderas. It’s stuffed in a closet, though). MJ really seemed to have had a big ego, though. You won’t see me making paintings of myself like that, even if I had a ton of money.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:11 pm
let him rest or else
August 1st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
i have politley asked you to put up a good micheal jackson list. Now u must pay. If there is not a good micheal jackson list tomorrow, i will crash this site.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
well…..sigh not exactly but im pretty pissed, i just want a good list
August 1st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
well…..not really i lied, but i do want a good list
August 1st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Yawn!
August 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Why wouldn’t you get a life size Superman ? Because you are $400 million in debt, that’s why.
A few years ago I saw the documentary about Micheal Jackson. He use to go on these mad shopping sprees and buy all kinds of junk he thought was valuable art. All I could think while watching, was how sad that a person with his talent filled up his days blowing money on useless crap.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:12 pm
redcaboose, no, it is people like you who ASSUME your ass off. First, I am not a fan of MJ although I have come to realize after his passing that I should have been and listen to the meaningful words of his music much more closely.
You are the type that would rather believe the trash in the tabloids and ASSUME they are correct. There is no evidence that Mr. Jackson was weird or a wacko but there is a whole lot of ch^t in the media/rags trying to convince people that he was and a certain groups will eat that up all day long. They tell people like YOU what to believe and oh yeah, ya believe every word of it without question.
Your ignorance and others like you made Jackson a persecuted man when he was here because YOU determined him different than the norm and think he deserved banishing just like what has been done in other dark periods of our history, when the majority took it upon themselves to determine who was acceptable and who was not. To know it still happens in 2009 makes me want to puke.
Michael Jackson does not need my help. No one can compete with his popularity and he has made an indelible mark as a musical genius and his legacy will live on forever. No longer can anyone hurt him with their stinging caustic words anymore.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Some of the stuff near the bottom of the list isn’t weird at all. Any serious Superman fan would love a full sized model. And the coffee machine looks expensive, but you could find that practically anywhere where someone could afford it.
I admit the Peter Pan thing and the pictures are creepy. But in #3, haven’t you ever heard of Friday Flip-Up Day?
August 1st, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I get the feeling listverse isn’t a fan of MJ? And that makes me sad.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
This list here doesn’t even make a dent in Jackson’s vast collectibles.
He also owns Johnny Depp’s Edward Scissorhands and so much more.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
haha i like em all i must say excluding 5 thats just kinda lame an scary i must say ha
August 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pm
@Beth (70): @Dallas Taylor (71): He was a philanthropist and an artist and pathetic – these characteristics are NOT mutually exclusive. He gave heavily to many charities – aids/hiv and children’s causes (obviously)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mjdec2.html – here’s the proof that he was pathetic – of course the victim’s parents likely did him more damage than MJ ever did – they’re the ones who prostituted him for the 22 million dollars.
@LoveLife57 (94): Just because you don’t like the list today (read my first comment; I agree it’s lame) you resort to extortion? How pathetic is that – not to mention illegal? How about some spirited defense of MJ instead? Disprove the smoking gun link or something similar.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
The only thing on the list that I would ever want is the old fortuneteller’s booth. It’s spooky and cool.
Why would anyone want a picture of himself on the hood of his car? Self-absorbed… or so unsure of himself that he needed constant reminders of his achievements?
I think MJ was a great entertainer and I loved to watch him dance. But as time went on, he got to be a little bit too eccentric for my tastes. He ruined his own nose with all the plastic surgery. That’s just sad.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:05 pm
hahahaha I especially like # 4, the fact that he put ET as essentially one of the 6 most prominent individuals ever…
August 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pm
@Beth …agreed, his fans are more pathethic tho. He could have been a good dancer.. but wtf a dancer? its next in status and merit to street sweeper and whore. His tunes are just well enginereed cookie-cutter garbage.. nothing genius about his music designed to please the brainless societies’ cattle.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I agree with both of Ag’s comments
I was more “wtf” about ET haha
August 1st, 2009 at 5:36 pm
That Virtual Boy raised my respect for that man a notch. The paintings lowered it about 1,207 notches.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
For come odd reason, I find #3 to be pretty hot.
There’s a lucky boy.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
JFater. You need to get out more & broaden your mind/knowledge. I’m guessing you don’t know much about the world of collectors & artists based on what you think is bizarre. Also, if you go into something predisposed to thinking it’s bizarre because you think the owner’s bizarre, you’re going to find everything bizarre. And if you were interested in being fair/accurate instead of taking cheap shots, you’d include the catalogue description of the auction items.
#8. Espresso Machine (you’ve heard of those, haven’t you), looks antique/vintage, from the eagle & other decorations I’m guessing it could be Turkish/Italian/Russian/German.
#10. Haven’t you ever seen a vintage/antique fortune teller machine? There was a similar one in the movie Big. There’s a bunch @ the Musee Mechanique in San Francisco. Scare easily, do you?
#9. OMG, do you know how common life-size statues of super-heroes are in collectors’ homes? Especially @ Nic Cage’s & Michael Jackson’s level where money’s no object. There has to be something unique about this particular statue to be part of MJ’s collection. I’m a Star Wars & Star Trek collector.
#4. No sense of humor @ all the icons with MJ’s trademark white glove & shades? Lots of people I know, not just artists and not just in the SF Bay Area, see the funny – loosen up!
#6. Gorgeous low-rider art. Wonder if MJ commissioned it, or if a fan did it and got it to MJ somehow. Shows MJ dressed as Peter Pan with the ship in the background.
#7. Millions of Americans & others around the world share MJ’s fascination with the British Royalty (some prefer French or Russian Royalty). The only difference is that Michael had enough money to make his role-playing come true in his costumes, portraits, etc. It wasn’t just the royalty he loved, it was the whole age of knights, he & Katherine also loved the Tudor architectural style.
#1,2,3 & 5. This is the classic technique of taking things out of context – it’s easier to make a specious point when you don’t have the goods to back it up. These photos are details of a larger picfure. It would have been fair to show the whole picture, then 4 pictures of the details.
It’s a picture of Neverland. In it, Michael commissioned (I assume) himself at the center of happy children of all races, ages, nationalities (the Peruvian boy with the panpipes is from a famous photography book called the Family of Man), including disabled kids, doing things like eating ice cream, playing with animals. This is how Michael saw himself. He had such a brutal childhood – he had no childhood at all, he was trying to recapture it by giving kids happiness for a few hours at Neverland.
#1. The ice cream scene is too cute. Ice Cream Girl is distracted by the bunnies, so the boy sneaks some licks. Bizarre!?!
#5. The girl has red hair & buck teeth, so did Opie; but you saw a resemblance to Chucky, so that makes it bizarre!?!
#2. Maybe a bit idealized, but go to Appalachia and there are definitely kids who dress like that & are dirt poor (watch 2008 American Idol Gives Back). And watch some clips of MJ hosting kids @ Neverland, maybe they don’t look quite so adoringly at him, but it’s clear he’s like Santa Claus.
#3. No, it’s not admission/hint/clue that Michael Jackson is a pedophile. It depicts what children do naturally. Unless you haven’t ever been around babies/toddlers or been completely unobservant, you recognize that upside-down stance that they do all the time. As for the little boy looking under the little girl’s dress, that’s done all the time – from curiosity, on a dare, to do something ‘shocking’ (See girl in braids.)
I’m an incest survivor & I don’t take this matter lightly. I’m also bipolar & it’s helped to be in therapy for 20 years – over which time I’ve met many survivors of child sexual abuse. Here are the facts: Michael Jackson was acquitted in the only case that went to trial (which many said wouldn’t have gone to trial except for the politically ambitious D.A.). There was only one other case that was even investigated. And the authorities searched hard for other cases to prosecute – zilch. Mr. Jackson does not fit the profile of a pedophile. Pedophiles prey on hundreds of victims, they escalate their methods. Compare the case against Roman Catholic priests vs. MJ’s. Of all the hundreds of boys who participate in sleepovers, only 2 allegations surfaced. Of course, sleeping with young boys, even non-sexually, was inappropriate; he needed psychiatric help – he needed it a long time before Neverland, probably as soon as he was of legal age. But just because people thought he was ‘wacko’ that didn’t automatically make him a child molester.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pm
103 mom424
August 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pm
@Beth (70): @Dallas Taylor (71): He was a philanthropist and an artist and pathetic – these characteristics are NOT mutually exclusive. He gave heavily to many charities – aids/hiv and children’s causes (obviously)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mjdec2.html – here’s the proof that he was pathetic – of course the victim’s parents likely did him more damage than MJ ever did – they’re the ones who prostituted him for the 22 million dollars.
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Yeah, right, and two Grand Juries failed to return an indictment on Jackson. Maybe they heard this taped conversation betweem Evan Chandler the extortionist and Schwartz.
http://www.buttonmonkey.com/misc/maryfischer.html
Mary Fischer
GQ Magazine
“Admitting to Schwartz that he had “been rehearsed” about what to say and what not to say, Chandler never mentioned money during their conversation. When Schwartz asked what Jackson had done that made Chandler so upset, Chandler alleged only that “he broke up the family. [The boy] has been seduced by this guy’s power and money.” Both men repeatedly berated themselves as poor fathers to the boy.
Elsewhere on the tape, Chandler indicated he was prepared to move against Jackson: “It’s already set,” Chandler told Schwartz. “There are other people involved that are waiting for my phone call that are in certain positions. I’ve paid them to do it. Everything’s going according to a certain plan that isn’t just mine. Once I make that phone call, this guy [his attorney, Barry K. Rothman, presumably] is going to destroy everybody in sight in any devious, nasty, cruel way that he can do it. And I’ve given him full authority to do that.”
Chandler then predicted what would, in fact, transpire six weeks later: “And if I go through with this, I win big-time. There’s no way I lose. I’ve checked that inside out. I will get everything I want, and they will be destroyed forever. June will lose [custody of the son]…and Michael’s career will be over.”
“Does that help [the boy]?” Schwartz asked.
“That’s irrelevant to me,” Chandler replied. “It’s going to be bigger than all of us put together. The whole thing is going to crash down on everybody and destroy everybody in sight. It will be a massacre if I don’t get what I want.”
Yeah, he had a plan alright and as he said “I have paid them to do it.”
August 1st, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Nothing in this list was weird at all.
These items were collected by a man who never got enjoy a childhood or be regular kid….RIP Michael Jackson….
August 1st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
The funniest one to me is the life size superman. That’s hilarious! Very weird and random items up there, im sure he had loads of other obscure crap
also,i read that he had a sculpture of himself as batman???
August 1st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Placing judgment on someones character by scrutinizing their possessions does not give a whole or true perspective of their personality. Many times people go through phases in their lives and different stages, where they end up getting things or presents from people that go along with these stages. Collecting is the same way, with many people having many different types of collections at the same time, especially if they have the money to pay for it all. Just like looking at an ink blot, you can view the articles as if they were in the possession of different people you know about and according to what you have heard or know about each person, you will come out with a different viewpoint of each article for each person. This list proves nothing about Michael Jackson in any way shape or form, or anyone else for that matter. Now show me ten items that all correlate to something in common, like being gory or bad and then you might have something. Until then, just like Elvis and I wasn’t a big fan of his stuff either, Let him rest in peace.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
@ asdf 106 ; Your comment alone shows what an aesthatically retarded soul you possess. This is what you said ;
”@Beth …agreed, his fans are more pathethic tho. He could have been a good dancer.. but wtf a dancer? its next in status and merit to street sweeper and whore. His tunes are just well enginereed cookie-cutter garbage.. nothing genius about his music designed to please the brainless societies’ cattle.”
So a dancer is next in status to a whore??? is this how your immature little brain engineer hollow, illiterate and precarious statements?
”nothing genius about his music?” so why dont you make some music yourself, make it more genius since you know so much about music. lets see how much you sell.
look here, only legend status ull ever reach is ”the cheapest fuck who does plumkins for an apple, in your area”
August 1st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
The coffee machine seems fairly normal, but the rest… whacked out.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
he deserved to die, what a freak pedo
August 1st, 2009 at 10:06 pm
lol, chucky’s sister looks like a neighbour of mine.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Chucky’s Sister is freaking ugly.
Anyways those thing are really cool. Who freaking cares what you think is “Bizarre”.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:27 pm
#1, #2 & #3 are all parts of this picture.
http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/study-for-field-of-dreams_0.jpg
The painting is egocentric but not really bizarre.
These items aren’t bizarre for someone with expendable cash and an eccentric mind. Not the best list, sorry.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
ah that wacko jacko..
August 1st, 2009 at 10:36 pm
@Dallas Taylor (111): They did get an indictment in the first count – and then the parents settled out of court for 22 million dollars or some such huge amount. Like I said – the parent’s of the boy are worse than MJ.
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:43 am
Ewww…. Virtual-boy…
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:23 am
Actually the first few painting remind me of …. 1940s or ’50s Rockwell.
Yes, my internet is working and yes I am lazy.
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am
Well, I’ll certainly skip reading any comments about this list. I’m sure there are the usual jokes that are oh so funny that never get old.
MJ is pretty cool once you get past the time the jealous father had his son under the influence of a drug admit false things that lead MJ being accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 am
Why was the coffee machine on this list…. Although I would also like a portrait of myself in king-like outfit hanging in my walls….
Does this make me a bizzare person?
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 am
Why was the coffee machine on this list…. Although I would also like a portrait of myself in royal clothing hanging on my wall….
Does this make me a bizzare person?
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 am
the car was nice, but would not in mine.
Dany
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 am
Just did not like the girl with strange guy, it was horrible, but the rest found it legal.
Pamela
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 am
fun and beautiful
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:08 am
@Skydiver (120): Finally! 90 comments after my initial doubt and we have a result. Great find skydiver!
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:26 am
the man was a weirdo with a bbig ego, what a surprise.
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Those first three paintings are heart-breaking… what a sad guy he was… These are what he imagines the world would be like if he could change it?
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
#5: Am I alone in being confused?
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
…interesting
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Go to the flickr sight where the pictures came from. There’s a bizarre cartoon of MJ shooting a sling shot at various Disney & Looney Toons characters. Next to it there’s a poster that says “‘Admiral Honey’s’ all-girl navy has Dick up a tree!”
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
picture 2 and 3 are from the same painting.. just look at the left side of picture # 2 and the left of picture #3
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:50 pm
the guy was a peadophile!!!! long may he serve his penance in hell. Many parents must be happy that such a beast got what they deserve.
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Next I suggest a list of the top ten bizarre items owned by marilyn manson. O.O
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Everyone can fuck off Michael Jackson was the king, so what if he was eccentric he was a great man so every hater needs to lay the fuck off let him rest in peace.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
None of these items were that bad. it seems to me that anyone throughout history who has had exceptional talent at something tends to be a little on the quirky side, and it’s unfair to judge him for owning items that aren’t blatantly offensive. in short, get over it!!! And let the man own his self-portraits =)
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I don’t see anything odd with children paintings #1 & #2? Can someone explain why they are bizzare?#3 was def. wierd!
With respect to Coffee Machine & Superman, i don’t think they are bizzare, just plain different!
The remaining ones, i agree are pretty bizzare & self-serving.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 am
michael is the best and i dont care if he owns weird stuff it is his style!
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 am
What the hell is Virtual boy!!!???
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 am
I googled Virtual Boy – it’s Nintendo 3-D game system. Don’t know if it’s current or vintage.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 am
what the!!!
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 am
145 ligaya2
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 am
I googled Virtual Boy – it’s Nintendo 3-D game system. Don’t know if it’s current or vintage.
certainly nobody can be this retarded?
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:30 am
I think that having that fortune teller machine as decor is just like having one of those 50s or 60s jukebox machines. It is interesting and unusual but not creepy.
Love the coffee machine
I think the doll is actually a rendition of Pippi Longstockings, anyone remembers her?
Paintings 1, 2 and 3 are most likely a tryptich and, although not my taste, not particularly strange.
As for the picture of himself in royal clothes, have you guys been to Universal Studios? My husband go this hillarious pic of himself as Scarface (photo-montage)and we have it as a poster on the wall, not so different!
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 am
If some of this stuff was a gift, maybe he was too nice to just chuck it. I do that a lot, granted, it usually gets stuffed in a box in the garage, but if the person is coming over then I’ll pull it out.
Also, bonus points for having a Virtual Boy. Who cares about blindness when you can play 3D games in all red? I have one and think it’s pretty sweet.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:53 am
The Nintendo Virtual Boy was a system from the mid 1990s. It is has a stand and controller so you can play it at a table, but it’s also got a battery pack and is meant to be portable. This was pretty much their first venture into 3D and it was only one color (red) so the console would flash a message every ten minutes or so encouraging people to rest their eyes for a few seconds. It’s actually pretty fun and there’s no better way to play Mario Tennis if you ask me. Since it wasn’t a huge hit and only has about 22 games, it’s actually a collector’s item.
If you want to see a good picture of what it looks like, just do a Google image search, it’s pretty awesome.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:02 am
i dont think these things are very odd… michael reached a kind of fame that i doubt we will see again in our lifetime.so its expected for someone that brilliant and famous to be a little quirky and strange.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
I have to say that in terms of a top 10 list, it isn’t the best, and this is the first time I’ve ever thought that. If you look at the source Flickr streams and such, there is some really weird shit that didn’t make the list here. Using two panels of the same painting as two items is kinda cheating, especially when you omit the pinheaded baby, the bust of the man who’s mouth is open abnormally wide, and the poem about children on the menu. That is some really weird stuff.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 am
I dare people who are 100% sure Michael Jackson is a pedophile to read:
http://www.buttonmonkey.com/misc/maryfischer.html, a GQ article: Did Michael Do It? Was Michael Jackson Framed? The untold story of the events that brought down a superstar by Mary A. Fischer;
Michael Jackson Conspiracy by Aphrodite Jones – she attended the trial & quotes the actual transcripts. She wrote the book on the true case of Brandon Teena that became the Oscar-winning movie “Boys Don’t Cry.”
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Also, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/bury-the-never-ending-myt_b_228307.html, Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester by Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
JFrater is obviously a Michael Jackson hater. Most of these items are normal to the point of boring (a fucking cooffee maker?!?) Not only is it easy to jump on the bandwagon and kick a man when he’s down, but when he’s dead then you really have free reign. Especially when you have your own website and can say whatever you want.
August 4th, 2009 at 4:36 am
concidering how much stuff he bought, probably every week for years and years, i’m not surprised, im even disapointed since i dont think any of the items are really in the “WTF”-area.. i mean i buy lots of shit that i later regret or wonder what the hell i was thinking, and i dont have a fraction of that money to spend lol.. ok, i dont have superman-figurine of myself, but if i had the money why not.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Can’t say I’m surprised. I could use a nice coffee machine like that though… and a virtual boy.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am
@Rising Falls (44):
That´s a LOT of little boy statues… Your list in kinda creeping me out….
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Now, to all the MJ fans: I´m sorry but yes, some of these items are just a little bit weird. The egocentrism of the paintings? Not the best list I´ve seen but still entertaining. The man had money, he bought weird stuff with it. Get over it.
And just one more thing…. Why is fame and money a measure of his talent as a musician? Britney Spears also has a lot of money and I dare anyone to suggest she is a talented musician. They are acts, entertainers, who use material created by other people. It does not make them creative geniuses by any standard.
August 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
wouldn’t it have been a huge surprise if joseph merrick’s remains were found to have been among MJ’s possesions after all?
a plastic stand-in at the royal london hospital.
To tell the truth, I think a 10, or 20 list of artifacts/artworks made in MJ’s likeness would make for a creepier viewing.
August 4th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
lol…most of those items scream “Pedophile” lol but oh well if he really did something bad he was already judged and I wouldn’t really worry about it I mean we all pay for whatever we do in life.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
some of the items above were given to him..or made for him..he used to buy art..expensive art.. (see martin bashir’s (the d*ckhead interview with MJ)
the portrait with the shades and gloves are funny..he’s a real joker..
the coffee maker looks really nice..
i really miss him.. a real music genius..the real artist..
August 4th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
some of the items above were given to him..or made for him..he used to buy art..expensive art.. (see martin bashir’s (the d*ckhead interview with MJ)
the portrait with the shades and gloves are funny..he’s a real joker..
the coffee maker looks really nice..
i really miss him.. a real music genius (because he created most of his songs that are still a HIT, not just lyrics but the whole song itself) ..the real artist.. and he helped so many children..sick and deprived children..
for those of you saying he’s a molester: u only say that bec u don’t know MJ by heart..that’s what i used to think before,too..but i’ve seen his interviews and observed his character..he’s a kid-at-heart..a really charitable person..he’s a pioneer..
August 5th, 2009 at 6:28 am
To the person that says Brittney has more money. That is hilarious. Michael gave 500 million dollars away to 30 different charities. His estimated worth is expected to be over a billion dollars. The Beatles Catalog which is in a Trust for his children is estimated to be worth 2 BILLION!
Brittney has more money? Ridiculous. I am sure Brit would like to have the number one selling album of all time and be in the Guinness Book of World Records but it wont happen.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:36 am
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August 4th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
lol…most of those items scream “Pedophile” lol but oh well if he really did something bad he was already judged and I wouldn’t really worry about it I mean we all pay for whatever we do in life.
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It is posters like you that scares the hell out of me. How anyone can look at something that is so child like and innocent and immediately see “Pedophile” tells much more about themselves than it ever will about Jackson who is not a pedophile.
Who in the hell are you people that you see everything as a sexual image when it comes to little children?????????????? You frigging freak me out. I hope to hell you don’t even live in the same country I do.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:41 am
He is in Hell now………….Hell.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Yeah right. Playing God are ya? I think you need to let God handle His own business.
For all you know God may have a special place in Hell for those who persecute others while they are here on earth and try to think for God.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:14 am
@Dallas Taylor (166): Ah, a paedophile sympathiser. What the matter, i can’t judge someone who was called a freak every day of his life.the moment he croaks he is a legend and hero?
Gimme a fucking break.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:16 am
@Dallas Taylor (166): “For all you know God may have a special place in Hell for those who persecute”
Shows how little you know about any religion.
Hate to break it to you but, in any faith.
He will be in hell.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Well I dont mind breaking this to you.
Ignorance comes in all faiths. If you are of any faith then you are proof of that.
I think you better be trying to predict where YOU are going to wind up rather than presecuting a man by believing tabloid trash, thinking for God and spewing crap you absolutely have no evidence to back any of it up.
God knows all about how people have been presecuted in many dark periods of our history by ignorant goons, such as yourself.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
@ P.I. Staker: I’m an incest survivor. I don’t have a stake defending pedophiles. Name-calling doesn’t make you right, it just means you take cheap shots. You can judge, that doesn’t make it/you right. You are wrong – Michael Jackson was not called a freak EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE. He wasn’t even called a freak MOST OF HIS LIFE. Facts please, not lazy tabloid generalizations. He was a legend & a hero long before he died – long before he became controversial.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
@GTT
“And just one more thing…. Why is fame and money a measure of his talent as a musician? Britney Spears also has a lot of money and I dare anyone to suggest she is a talented musician. They are acts, entertainers, who use material created by other people. It does not make them creative geniuses by any standard.”
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Fame & money aren’t the measure of Michael Jackson’s talents & significance. If your mind is open to facts, here is the Associated Press article published the day after he died: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=481287
“Jackson was much more than the King of Pop”
August 5th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
@Dallas Taylor (163):
Apparently either reading is not your strong suit OR you were to quick to type up a “come back” that you didnt care to actually read what I wrote.
“Britney Spears also has a lot of money and I dare anyone to suggest she is a talented musician.”
Note the ALSO? Not MORE, just ALSO. It was a point about how making a lot of money does not necessarily mean that person is a “genius” as some people would suggest.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
is bad the paint number 3 get me really hot?
August 6th, 2009 at 5:44 am
122 mom424
August 1st, 2009 at 10:36 pm
@Dallas Taylor (111): They did get an indictment in the first count – and then the parents settled out of court for 22 million dollars or some such huge amount. Like I said – the parent’s of the boy are worse than MJ.
Don’t say parent(s) His mother never asked for one penny of the extortion money. E. Chandler got what he wanted period. He got the millions and he got the boy so he did not have to pay child support but as he said he was going to bring them all down and when asked if all of this would help his son he said that was irrelevant to him. Jordy was just the weapon he used to make the plot work.
Would you please stop putting out these inaccuracies, the GJ failed to indict BOTH times. Believe the tabloids or the lying DA if you must and totally ignore, if you must, the actual words said by the man that set up this entire extortion plot and paid others to help him do it.
Being paid in a civil case does not preclude ANYONE from testifying in a criminal court case. It is two totally different court systems. Never does anyone sign the agreement stating they will not appear in criminal court. It is against the law to prevent anyone from testifying in a criminal case. The DA has the power to subpoena anyone to court. What the DA had though and finally realized was a case that led no where. Just like the case Sneddon had that went belly up and was a farce from the very beginning.
It was all about a down and broke piss poor dentist that couldn’t make a living that wanted millions because he would rather extort money… rather than have to actually work for it or pay child support for a son he thought of as irrelevant.
RIP Michael.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:05 am
@Eros (6): Thats hilarious Eros !!! Its so true too why incriminate yourself!!!
August 7th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Let me put it simple terminology-
MJ was a homosexual pedophile who made a lot of money off of pretty much a hand full of successful recordings mainly from one album and he happened to emerge during the hayday of MTV where he sold himself. Take MTV and Thriller away and he would have been an afterthought in the who’s who of quickly vanishing artists. He’d be right there with The Cars.
Quit defending him. He was a famous child molestor. The man came right out and said he saw nothing wrong with sharing his bed with little boys. Face it, if he was a regular joe living on your street, dressed oddly and had a parade of little boys going in and out of his house, you’d call the cops. At least I hope you would.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Let Michael rest in peace. He was never strange, only how the world viewed how society should be was. I’m pretty sure if everyone in the world didn’t keep all their skeletons in their closets Michael Jackson would have never seemed as odd to outside eyes. He was and is innocent until proven guilty, and the fact that anyone would exploit such a humanitarian (and anyone else like him) is nothing but a wart on the ass of society. The fact that people constantly tried to make a mockery of how he lived was disappointing. To the eyes of his adoring fans he was a brilliant musician and a phenomenal entertainer, and all his fans feel like they’ve lost a good friend. No one could ever get a look inside a mind that bright, and he’ll continue to live on as a musical legend. He was never, ever bizarre. He just was purely honest with himself and everyone else that seemed to cross paths with him. That is more than any of us can say for anyone we know.
August 8th, 2009 at 1:08 am
wow those werent that bad at all..the hood was weird but creative but having et and washington and mona lisa and all them with the same shades as you is preety awesome. why dont poeple just leave him alone?
August 8th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Some of those seem pretty normal to me. JFrater is obviously a bias MJ hater.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
redcaboose
August 1st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
“A few of these items would be cool to have. The pics are weird and eccentric. The guy had the money to get what he wanted. Unfortunately, judging form the pics of the kids, I guess we all know what he wanted.”
You judging people on PAINTINGS is a bit odd if you ask me. I suppose the coppertone people are pedophiles too becuase of this add…http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_coppertone.htm
“@Dallas Taylor (67): Its people like you that are blinded by fame that do not realize that these people are not perfect. They are performers. Nothing more, nothing less. Some are weird some or not. Some are sickos some are not. Just like everybody else, but they have their fame and money to do what they want. And to reel the suckers in to apologize for them.”
I dont think its a matter of defending MJ…. Im sorry but as a parent…there is not enough money IN THE WORLD to make me walk away and allow the person who molested my child to get no time. But these parents thought money would due just fine. Sorry that doesnt sit right with me.
“asdf
August 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pm
@Beth …agreed, his fans are more pathethic tho. He could have been a good dancer.. but wtf a dancer? its next in status and merit to street sweeper and whore. His tunes are just well enginereed cookie-cutter garbage.. nothing genius about his music designed to please the brainless societies’ cattle.”
Only a FEW can LAST in the music industry. And of the ones that LAST… not many last as long as he did. Now I was not a fan…but I must given credit where credit is due and he had talent.
“aspicco
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Those first three paintings are heart-breaking… what a sad guy he was… These are what he imagines the world would be like if he could change it?”
Heart breaking? A PAINTING? Again take a look at coppertone …http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_coppertone.htm Is that heart breaking too? Her a$$ is showing… gimme a break!
As for how odd the things he owns are…. take a look at some other celebs that are deemed ” normal”
The list of celebrities who collect vintage and antique dolls doesn’t come up short: Demi Moore, Morgan Fairchild, Marie Osmond and Richard Simmons. Even controversial singer Courtney Love is rumored to collect Mattel’s Liddle Kiddles dolls from the 1960s. Osmond also designs and sells her own line of dolls, while Moore enjoys adding dolls to her collection while traveling around the globe.
While you don’t usually associate Tom Hanks with communicating through the written word, it’s true that he’s a bona fide vintage typewriter collector. A Country Living online article notes that he keeps one by the phone to jot off notes to friends. Hanks also laments that he often spends $45 on a pre-World War II typing machine only to invest three times that much getting it in working order.
now lets look at your average everyday “joe” and their collections…
http://wbztv.com/seenon/murder.items.online.2.717568.html
People who collect “art” from famous killers.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16006_8-least-impressive-guinness-world-records.html
Biggest collection of TRAFFIC cones! ( whyyy?)
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Lifestyle/Article.aspx?id=811415
celebrity hair…. nothing odd their eh? lol
http://www.museumstuff.com/museums/unusual.php … everything ODD.
Face facts people in general are odd.
August 9th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I’m sorry. I really.. REALLY don’t want to think of this guy as a pedophile, but GOD DAMMIT!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
what a bloody genious and yet,HELL what a bloody freak
R.I.P WACKO
August 12th, 2009 at 9:12 am
There is nothing wrong with any of the paintings, or anything else shown here. I thought based on “wierd” it would be bones or something…get real.
R.I.P MJ
August 12th, 2009 at 11:26 am
The coffee machine. Man that shit is vintage.
August 16th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
wtf is up with number 2 lol rapeist
August 18th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Even though he can effort can effort any stuff still kept such a simple things.
. umm i am impressed with his modesty,simplicity is the true art of beauty … Long Live King of the POP…
August 20th, 2009 at 1:15 am
nothing wrong with the painting. it’s perfectly normal to me. i like the coffee machine though.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Haha, it is Jehova’s witness art. Whoever said that is right. Hideous. Absolutely hideous. You’d have to be AMerican to achtually LIKE that
September 6th, 2009 at 12:42 am
I believe, like most, that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. People can post links to sites that say he was a child molester and others can post just as many saying he wasn’t. Everyone has their own spin on it. I believe he was a child molester. Just because this kid had crappy parents, who whored him out to a celebrity doesn’t mean MJ wasn’t a child molester. He fits the profile of a preferential same sex child molester. MJ was traumatized early on about sex with women. They always talk about stories of him being present while his older brothers were having sex with groupies. It’s not a stretch to say that from that he may have grown to be disgusted by it or even fear it.
I believe he had a horrible childhood and maybe because of that early trauma he became emotionally stunted and believed/felt he was still a child. But that doesn’t give him the right to do what he did. What stuck out to me was when he would respond to accusations by saying he would never harm a child. In his mind, it is quite possible that he didn’t see inappropriate touching as harm. He may have considered it as showing love. I just hate that even after being charged with such crimes he would continue to sleep with children in his bed, and admit it to the world. I believe that he committed these crimes. Why was that first child able to describe certain characteristics pertaining to MJ’s penis? Why were so many of his employees witnessing this happen and doing nothing? It’s infuriating. It can be said that they did it for the money. It could be said that they did nothing because he was rich and they were poor and it was their word against his, and they would lose their jobs. Even if they had said something, a child, especially a boy, finds it very difficult to admit that something like this happened to him. They feel ashamed. Denial comes out naturally and quickly. And suffering from the shame for the rest of your life feels better than suffering from your family, let alone the world, calling you a liar. Which is what happened. I don’t think people should have stood outside that court room and call MJ a child molester but I also don’t think people should have stood outside and called that child a liar. In the end, he paid out a settlement. Let’s face it if they had agreed on jail time, what’s the going rate on a celebrity in jail? uh I’m guessing a day, maybe a week. My last point will be that yes, a cash out of court settlement is not an admission of guilt. But MJ didn’t just pay the money and that was it. If you have ever heard about the details of what that settlement states in writing you would know that is states: “Defendant Michael Jackson negligently had offensive contacts with plaintiff which were both explicitly sexual and otherwise.” There are 2 sides to every story and I would hope I am wrong. We will never know. The truth died with him.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
What proof do you have that Michael Jackson did what you say he did? Why didn’t that grand jury indict him in the Jordan Chandler case? Why did Jordan Chandler have the wrong answer to whether Michael Jackson was circumsized? Why didn’t Jordie testify against Michael until he was drugged with sodium amytal, which has been implicated in implanting false memories? Why didn’t Jordie’s mom cooperate against Michael until she was threatened w/loss of custody of Jordie? Did Michael’s refusal to back Jordie’s dad’s $20M film project have anything to do w/this?
Why did Jordie refuse to testify for the prosecution in the Gavin Arviso trial? Why did Jordie file a complaint of abuse against his father?
Read: Redemption by Geraldine Hughes, legal secretary for Barry Rothman, Dr. Chandler’s lawyer, who witnessed the set-up;
Earl Ofari Hutchison’s Huffington Post’s article “Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester:”
“The charge that Jackson molested the boy was brought by the boy’s father. In interviews the boy repeatedly denied the charges. This changed only after he was administered sodium amytal, an invasive, mind altering drug that medical experts have frowned on and courts have disregarded in witness testimony. Prosecutors, police departments and investigators in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara spent millions of [taxpayer] dollars, convened two grand juries and probed nearly 200 witnesses that included 30 children, who knew Jackson to try to substantiate the charge. Not a single corroborating witness was found. Nonetheless, a motley group of disgruntled Jackson’s former housekeepers, attendants and bodyguards still peddled the story to any media outlet willing to shell out the cash that Jackson had engaged in child sexual wrongdoing. Not one of the charges was confirmed.”
and “Was Michael Jackson Framed? The Untold Story,” Mary A. Fischer, GQ, October 1994, http://www.buttonmonkey.com/misc/maryfischer.html:
“Given the facts about sodium Amytal and a recent landmark case that involved the drug, the boy’s allegations, say several medical experts, must be viewed as unreliable, if not highly questionable.
“It’s a psychiatric medication that cannot be relied on to produce fact,” says Dr. Resnick, the Cleveland psychiatrist. “People are very suggestible under it. People will say things under sodium Amytal that are blatantly untrue.” Sodium Amytal is a barbiturate, an invasive drug that puts people in a hypnotic state when it’s injected intravenously. False memories can be easily implanted in those under its influence. “It is quite possible to implant an idea through the mere asking of a question,” says Resnick. But its effects are apparently even more insidious: “The idea can become their memory, and studies have shown that even when you tell them the truth, they will swear on a stack of Bibles that it happened,” says Resnick.
“This attorney I found, I picked the nastiest son of a bitch I could find,” Chandler said in the recorded conversation with Schwartz. “All he wants to do is get this out in the public as fast as he can, as big as he can, and humiliate as many people as he can. He’s nasty, he’s mean, he’s very smart, and he’s hungry for the publicity.”
As for ‘where’s there’s smoke there’s fire,’ true in most cases but not in every instance. I’ve had lots of billowing smoke in my kitchen in 25 years but never any fires. And there’s been lots of innocent black men on death row.
As for the settlement of widely-reported but never officially confirmed $20M settlement, Michael Jackson’s team was split. Reports say he wanted to fight it in court. But the prevailing side said settle. Michael was worth $700M @ the time & $20M was peanuts to them, they wanted him to get on to making more $ for them. Short-sighted because it opened him up as an easy mark for more extortion which would tarnish his brand & effectiveness as a ‘product.’
Nobody knows Michael Jackson countersued the Chandlers for extortion because the media didn’t bother to report it. Dropping that countersuit was part of the settlement.
As a career legal secretary, I can tell you 80-90% of all cases are settled because trials are so prohibitively expensive for all sides. ALL settlements include language something like agreeing to the settlement doesn’t admit to the charges the other parties brought. I’ve worked for both public/private, plaintiff/defense, bonafide/nuisance lawsuits.
There was a HUGE payoff for the Chandlers’ lawyer – anywhere from $6.67 to $5 million in contingency fees alone, not counting payment for expenses like private investigators, expert witnesses, depositions, etc. So Jordie probably ended up with one half of the settlement money, at most. That’s the way these things go – lawyers (not all) make sharks look good. And the Chandlers’ lawyer would show up in the Arviso case, surprise, surprise.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
@unk_chik: Please produce 2 verifiable, reliable sources & URLs – not tabloids – 4 your statement – “If you have ever heard about the details of what that settlement states in writing you would know that is states: ‘Defendant Michael Jackson negligently had offensive contacts with plaintiff which were both explicitly sexual and otherwise.’”
I have no stake/interest in defending pedophiles. I don’t take it lightly.
I’m a 56 y.o. incest survivor. Been working on it, on/off – more on than off – for 36 yrs. Much better/functional manageable life now, thank you. In that time, I’ve known 100s of other incest/child sexual abuse survivors in a variety of settings – my friends, group therapy, self-help, 12-step, reparenting, transactional analysis, hospitalization, partial hospitalization programs, etc. + I’ve read lots on the subject.
I’m pro-fairness, accuracy, balance & context. I was no more than a casual fan b4 Michael Jackson died – didn’t own a single item of his; an agnostic when it came to the molestation charges, wasn’t convinced 1 way or the other. Only after his death, when I read up more @ his accomplishments & the allegations, did I become a fan.
I don’t believe Michael Jackson molested Jordie Chandler or Gavin Arviso – based on my firsthand + others’ experience, the jury’s ACQUITTAL ON ALL COUNTS OF MICHAEL JACKSON, & readings other than tabloids. Please see my post #190 re the Jordie Chandler case, and my later post below re Gavin Arviso trial.
I don’t believe Michael Jackson is a pedophile. We should remember pedophilia is a crime committed by women & men (straight/gay/lesbian) against children. It’s not just men & boys. It’s Mary Kay Letorneau (sp?), Roman Polanski & Jaycee Lee Dugard’s captor. It starts small & escalates, like peeping Tom to flashing to rape to abduction to all-of-the-above + murder. The frequency escalates. There are hundreds of victims over time. The perpetrators blend in w/the community. They don’t stand out.
Contrast the accusations and record of the Roman Catholic priests with that of Michael Jackson. MJ lived at Neverland for 17 years & hosted thousands of children from hospitals & local schools – surely he had ample opportunity to prey on more than 2. He could also have gone to Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia as many men have done to have sex with underage boys and girls.
D.A. Tom Sneddon was actively trolling for victims between 1993-2003, interviewed 30 potential ‘victims’ – nothing, had an active website socliting tips & leads – nothing.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:07 am
i see nothing wrong with anything really
naaw we all have junk that we dont throw away !
why dont you post something abwt yourselves
abwt “bizarre things you awn”
September 11th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Michael Jackson is amazing, everything he owned showed a reflection of him, may he RIP<3
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
If most of the people in this world took the time to inform themselves of the truth, you would know this……Some of these children represented in the painting are DEAD from illness!!! MJ tried to save them, what is so wrong with that?
Quote from painter David Nordahl “Along the sunlit path in “Field of Dreams,” he leads children of all nationalities (plus sister Janet, AIDS activist Ryan White and actor Macaulay Culkin). His firstborn son snoozes on an oversized golden throne in “Prince, The Boy King.”
He ducked the media for years, “because they wanted to talk about negative stuff, and I don’t know anything bad about Michael,” the soft-spoken Nordahl says, sitting with artist/wife Lori Peterson and frisky cat Scooter in a living room crowded with paintings by the couple. He’s speaking now in hopes of brightening a picture darkened since Jackson’s death June 25.”
You all take it out of context, it is a beautiful painting of love, peace, and harmony, something this world could use.
“I always thought of him as normal,” he says. “He’s the most thoughtful, respectful person I’ve ever met. In 20 years, I never heard him raise his voice.”
September 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I love Michael Jackson. He did nothing but try to entertain you and make you happy, and you continue to attack him after his death?
It’s just art and trinkets people. The perverted innuendos are all in Your mind. You see, the evil one is You. Keep being “normal”, see how far it takes you.
Legends only grow…. MJ’s just getting started…
2009 R.I.P. the media, and R.I.P. “normal”
September 30th, 2009 at 6:14 am
I cant see how any of these things are wierd 1)nothing wrong with having paintings of children on your walls, i have my own paintings and photos of children, theyr cute, pure, innocent and better than having half naked women with titties hangin out all over ur walls. (i am a mother of 1 and nothing brings me more joy than seeing happy children). 2)whats wierd about having a coffee machine? seems perfectly normal to me. if u can afford one like that then why not. 3)sinse when did famous people NOT have fame go to their heads, no1 was more famous then he, and hes no different to u or i, hes human. 4)god damn, if i had money id have a bloody life size superman too! if i were lonely and secluded,i would have statues of people too, if i were told my entire life that i was amazing,so talented, a queen, and treated like i was untouchable id begin to believe it. on the other hand, if i had ppl saying such aweful thing about me like i was whacko,then again id begin to believe it. and yes if my entire life was put under a microscope and i had people accusing me hateful hurtful and disgusting acts, i would also have turned to drugs. hes human, no1 is perfect, not even michael jackson, he succumed to the pressures of fame, but he never hurt anyone, never touched a kid inappriotely and done more good than most of us could in our lifetimes.so let the man rest in peace and leave him the fuk alone. thanks
October 6th, 2009 at 5:24 am
if u were to look in anyone’s home there would no doubt be something odd placed there,but since this was Michael Jackson it is deemed odder? im no fan of his,never had been,and yeah he has some very strange stuff. but it is each to their own i guess!
October 6th, 2009 at 5:26 am
oh and as an after thought …. i guess he was seen as being slightly mad or odd because that is how the people around him made him feel. if u treat a man like he is a god then that man will start to believe he is a god.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:29 am
How is any of this bizzar? Art is art, and art is often eccentric, that is just part of what art is, that is why it is called art. Why not have a royal portrait? He was the king of Pop, the portrait fits him perfectly. Michael was eccentric, but that is what comes with that level of genius.
November 7th, 2009 at 10:14 am
If only he’d been satified with his ‘Virtual Boy’.
November 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
200 shoney
November 7th, 2009 at 10:14 am
If only he’d been satified with his ‘Virtual Boy’.
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If only you had been born with some brains.