Jackson - Presley: Updated

Some news reports are claiming that they've seen the ghost of Michael Jackson at Neverland Ranch and a number of other different locations. Ridiculous, I know.

But that got me thinking. What if it IS him. No, not his ghost, but Michael Jackson himself.

It's no secret that he has always looked up to Elvis Presley. He stated before that he want to be remembered like Elvis. What is one of the most memorable things about Elvis postmortem? Well I think it's the conspiracy theory that he is still alive and Kicking. Padum-pum. *Vague Elvis dance reference.

So how did Michael do it and what led me to believe he may still be alive? Well. Seemingly out of nowhere Michael returns to the limelight just in time. His proceedings proceed more like a show than anything else. His albums and collection sales skyrocket and are promoted voraciously.

To be brutally honest, how could he not? As many strange fans have proven, replicating his "face" is not an impossible task. The years of band aids and masks led up to this.

So is Michael Jackson still alive? No one but his family will ever know for sure. I don't mean "his" children either. If his kid performs and puts out an album before the end of the year...my suspicions will run high.

Enjoy the concert.

EDIT: Well, his son didn't perform but his "daughter" sure did.

Speaking of Presley, I recently found this old letter Lisa-Marie posted on her MySpace page. It was VERY interesting.

Friday, June 26, 2009

He Knew.

Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.

I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death.

At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, “I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.”

I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.

14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.

A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn’t predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened.

The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his Autopsy.

All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted.

I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.

Our relationship was not “a sham” as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a “Normal life” found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.

I wanted to “save him” I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened.

His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn’t know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then.

At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.

He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.

When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad.

Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson’s being or actions.

I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him.

I was in over my head while trying.

I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision.

The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow.

After the Divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret.

Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation.

At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now.

As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play The exact Scenario I saw happen on August 16th, 1977 happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as he predicted, I am truly, truly gutted.

Any ill experience or words I have felt towards him in the past has just died inside of me along with him.

He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together.

I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now.

He deserves to be free from all of that and I hope he is in a better place or will be.

I also hope that anyone else who feels they have failed to help him can be set free because he hopefully finally is.

The World is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right.

I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening.

~LMP

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Some interesting things in that letter. "...found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part." So she is almost acknowledging here that she believes he courted her out of convenience for the public eye.

The one that REALLY caught my eye was this one..."He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated. When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad."

What the hell is she talking about?

Just some stuff to think about.