Death of an Icon

So I know everyone else has written blog entries about MJ...and I wasn't going to, but then I figured..This is MY blog..I can write whatever the hell I want!

At any rate, I'm not the preachy type, and I know people get turned off by the preachy types because I do. I won't say what people should and shouldn't have done for/to Michael Jackson in order for him to have lived a more rewarding life on a personal level, but I will say this...
For every person who says that they are not affected by this in some way, you have to be ignorant or stubborn...which is fine, I'm just pointing it out to you (and I'm not talking about crying your eyes out and balling up on the floor in the fetal position..simply affected is all)..and if you take offense to this, you are exactly of whom I speak. No one should have to say what an incredible human being MJ was because guess what, everyone on the planet knows the name.

From the hardest gangsta in the hood, to the most feeble of children...we've all been affected by this man. Trust me, I'm the first to crack wise about almost any topic, but if you're making jokes this soon for the sake of slandering the name..what's that all about?

I used to say this about super prominent figures in the world: "People like Michael Jackson, James Brown, Elvis Presley, etc, should have checked out in their prime in order to maintain their good names", and of course no, I wouldn't in actuality want them gone by any means, but it seems that for people who entertained the world to such a ridiculously phenomenal extent, they just got slammed later on in life...

...at any given point in time I think we, as people, need to feel that there is someone amongst us that is just beyond us personally... as a form of mental security, in a way, that there is someone out there thinking beyond the norm for the greater good...
to me, that person is gone now...

R.I.P. MJ

Carlos Meglia

Sad news continues to plague the entertainment community, but in terms of hitting closer to home a great loss has been endured with the passing of one of my favorite artists Carlos Meglia. His work was a great influence on me in the way of style and presentation. Lots of life in the work, and it's hard to lose someone who has affected you to the point where it's just a part of your everyday life now...I think it's a little ironic that I just finished a Superman piece being that the first work I saw of his was the Superman/Tarzan crossover, which almost obviously had an affect on my work... You will be missed Carlos...RIP maestro...
~Chad C.