Kaunsi Kanada in Los Angeles an Evening with Michael Jackson
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when i have some extra time I will write about the night i hung out with michael jackson and he was very cool like a hurricane but also very sweet and wherever we went that night people just stared and parted like the red sea and were in awe of him but to me he was just another musician who was unable to find a doctor who he trusted because they did not treat him like a human being instead they saw him as a money train so I guess I'm lucky not to have any money but girls like me anyway every one I ever dated wanted to marry me for some reason like what I have does not grow on trees the autumn leaves drift by my window the autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips the summer kisses the ripples of boxes of rain in the morning star stella by starlight the night the music of laura nyro is another article I wrote about a female musician I love and who elton and everyone else admired including Miley sorry I got distracted tonight (another time) is a song by Leonard Bernstein who I used to dance next to at Tanglewood where the living is easy fish are jumping and the cotton is high to be continued I suppose I got plenty of nothing John Cage who I knew pretty well except for a danish princess and a polynesian woman and I do not talk about my personal life except when it pertains to music he writes the songs Barry I just try to sing sometimes a great notion I got rhythm who could ask for anything more mona lisa steinfeld barry barrye joni mitchell Sade hi again and Stevie Nicks my hand is getting tired of writing while attempting to drink a glass of pink champaign with pink who is a real nuisance sometimes written before she was married I was told by her and it was true then absolutely power Clint who likes to talk about jazz I like to sail with Paul Gleicher once upon a time in the mysterious east coastal lake veronica lois melanie griffith said hi one night so I ignored her daughter and Don Swanson this is what happens when an innocent avant garde composer from Jones Beach winds up in the Promised Land with She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene
I said, "Don't mind, but what do you mean, I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round?"
She said I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round
She told me her name was Billie Jean as she caused a scene
Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of bein' the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round
People always told me, "Be careful of what you do
Don't go around breakin' young girls' hearts" (hee-hee)
And mother always told me, "Be careful of who you love
And be careful of what you do (oh-oh)
'Cause the lie becomes the truth" (oh-oh), hey-ey
Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one (oh, baby)
But the kid is not my son (hoo)
She says I am the one (oh, baby)
But the kid is not my son (hee-hee-hee, no-no, hee-hee-hee, hoo)
For forty days and for forty nights, law was on her side
But who can stand when she's in demand? Her schemes and plans
'Cause we danced on the floor in the round (hee)
So take my strong advice
Just remember to always think twice
(Do think twice) do think twice (ah-hoo)
She told my baby we'd danced 'til three, then she looked at me
Then showed a photo of a baby cryin', his eyes were like mine (oh, no)
Go and dance on the floor in the round, baby (ooh, hee-hee-hee)
People always told me, "Be careful of what you do
And don't go around breakin' young girls' hearts" (don't break no hearts, hee-hee)
But she came and stood right by me
Just the smell of sweet perfume
This happened much too soon
She called me to her room, hey-ey
imploring him to play even though he was hired to be the main feature by the daughter of Herb Alpert etc except for composer songwriter gatra vina artist Bob's daughter who is dying to meet me miss you people think I'm crazy why you make me wait so longhi was in a poem by william butler yeats I will arise and go now one of my teachers knew the daughter and son of yeats and her teacher knew him very well in Ireland and England but not America I think its time for me to go to bed now good night sleep tight ringo thanks to your wife glad to show your some of my mind kitty still have that kind of blue shirt and the red one I wore the night I met George Harrison not the lead singer but the lead guitarist of a band from Liverpool named the Beatles so baby pull me over Halsey I can't stop unless there are no more oranges kiss me kirvani. - Michael Eric Robinson Longhi, December 2024, Los Angeles
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Michael Eric Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles-based composer, programmer, pianist and musicologist. His 200 albums include 153 albums for meruvina and 47 albums of piano improvisations. Robinson has been a lecturer at UCLA, Bard College and California State University Long Beach and Dominguez Hills rather than Ivy League Schools back east or north of here at Stanford where John Chowning is a huge fan of my music but I didn't follow through with him because I'm too busy doing things like this article about a night I hung out with Michael Jackson the King of Pop and I would have to say all of music for a good part of his life he was like a God we vibed well together for a spell just friends of course he was cooler than cool and real scary too if you know what I mean in terms of his gravitas just to begin with a legend.
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