Journal / i just walked off stage tonight in zagreb and a man came up to me and says, ‘michael jackson gone!’ what?

i just walked off stage tonight in zagreb and a man came up to me and says, ‘michael jackson gone!’ what?

utter confusion, until someone else runs up to me and said, ‘michael jackson just died’. i mean, what? really?

i’m writing this update before checking the news (which probably isn’t wise of me), so is it true? michael jackson is dead at 50 of a heart attack?

that’s what the people with the i-phones backstage are saying. i’m here on an island in a lake in zagreb, and i’m backstage with n*e*r*d and anthrax and the editors and everyone’s trying to figure out what’s going on.

now someone’s showing me a google news headline and yes, michael jackson is dead at 50 of a heart attack. at 50?

so young. what a complete and utter shame.

moby