6.27.2009

Top Five Childhood Memories: The King of Pop edition

because it really is the end of an era.


1. Taping Moonwalker off of TV [remember those days, eh] and watching the VHS at least once a week, for at least a year:




2. Appreciating every time he pulled off another successful "feature length music video" [and in part inspiring my love of all things epic and over-the-top in pop music/culture]:




3. Watching the Thriller video and watching Lauren be terrified of the "cat cweature" at the end, every time [and eventually accepting that I would never be coordinated enough to teach myself the dance]:




4. Kindling my lifelong sentimentalism for all things stop-motion animated [and all things Elephant Man-related?]:




5. Seeing Captain EO [a film that falls into the inexplicable and oft-neglected "space opera" genre] in 3D at Epcot and trying to catch Fuzzball every time he totally three-dimensionalized in front of my! seat: