death is serious business.

and as such, it kinda annoys me to see people messing around with it. take michael jackson's passing, for example. now i know a lot of people - and i mean a lot - who mentioned him and his "great contribute to music and to art" in their blogs, who wrote on their i.m. nicknames stuff like "r.i.p. michael jackson" or "you will be missed, m.j." and i think, oh, come on, give me a fucking break. some of them don't even have the most remote idea of what "r.i.p." means, for christ's sake. and most of them (think i could risk say all of them, but let's be optimistic) couldn't care lass about his songs either, for them michael jackson was some singer from the past who became famous as the black guy who tried so hard to become white. people just talk because every god damned soul in the planet is talking about it. and hey, i'm no michael jackson fan or something (don't even like his songs, even though i admit they some of them are quite good), but it kinda annoys me anyway. in the end, what happened was as simple as this: a decadent guy died. period. will happen to all of us. the difference is, no one is gonna talk about us, or make spontaneous gatherings in madison square garden.

but talking about death, i've been willing to write this lately: one thing that annoys me even more in the subject of death is the eulogy. no one ever makes a sincere eulogy. everyone always hides in the safety of the common place: "farewell, you will be missed, you were such a great person", yada yada yada. most of times it is bullshit all along, and if god was paying just a little bit of attention to that display of hypocrisy being played at his own church, he would smite them all to kingdom come (thankfully he has better things to do). i mean, seriously: if i think that x. is a rotten son of a bitch, why on earth do i have to praise him when he dies? don't count on me for that: x. will get something like "farewell, x., i can't say i will miss you because i won't, see you in hell one of these days." and please do the same for me when i'm the one kicking the bucket. don't go all sentimental saying "farewell, john, you were a great person", because i'm not great, nor do i want to be. i'd rather go with "bye bye, have fun, you selfish bastard. you were not hitler or something but hey, no one's perfect and you were definitely far from being perfect". say whatever you like, but please be honest - and crude, and rough, if that's what it takes. in the end, that's the greatest tribute you can give to someone who has died.