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Michael Jackson — Live in Concert? Not Exactly

Posted Jan 26th 2010 1:45AM by TMZ Staff

Michael Jackson is back … at least according to a Ticketmaster email.

The email above sure makes it seem like Michael is performing in San Diego on Valentine’s Day. But the show is actually a laser light show set to Michael’s music. It’s an hour and a half long and tickets are around $40. The show starts at 5:00 PM and there is a Pink Floyd one at 7:30 PM.

Plenty of good seats still available. Shocker.

RBTL people!

This is extremely interesting.  First of all for the obvious reasons: Michael is back!

I truly believe they are testing the waters for when they actually announce he is back.

Secondly, they mention Pink Floyd. Well this takes me back to a post of mine from Nov 4th when I used another well known Alternate Reality Game as a reference.  I was hoping that if I read about how one actually played out that it may help me to identify if we were now part of the biggest longest ARG.  It was for Pink Floyd’s Publis Enigma.

http://lilwendy.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/other-arg-for-reference/

And here’s another earlier one from Oct

http://lilwendy.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/a-game-2/

Anyway, it has me thinking.. I’m just going to throw some thoughts out in point form.

• Arguably the granddaddy of the genre. Although it was preceded by the “Publius Enigma,” a promotion for the Division Bell album by Pink Floyd, the Beast was more successful in attracting a mainstream and diverse audience. This alternate reality game was set in the A.I. movie universe and centered around the mysterious death of Evan Chan.
• Don’t you think Evan Chan and Evan Chandler are pretty darn close? Hmm interesting.

• Is this an ARG to promo This is It DVD, CD, movie, etc.
• If so, people would hit the roof thinking this anguish was all for marketing.  They would have to do something to avoid a massive uproar from people – like adding massive value into the people’s tits lives.
• I believe mjawakening and thisisalsoit played key roles in us understanding about the world we live in and about what we need to do to make a change.  This is a big big value add.
• Everyone has a role to play: from Karen heading up This is Not it to someone heading up This is also it, to family members, friends, certain people on Twitter, etc.
• Oh also I think it’s very interesting there is an instructional video out for “The Drill” and then there are a few fan events where we need to learn this and then do our stuff at the event.
• Then on YouTube comes out from the Philippines a huge amount of inmates doing the drill (absolutely phenomenal by the way… see below)
• What I can envision?  Pods of people/fans from all over the planet… in every country… learning the drill, wearing the shirt and orange pants.  (Except MJ will wear his gold pants – woo hoo!) and on one day at a particular hour we perform the largest ever simultaneous dance routine… all for L.O.V.E… putting MJ once again into the Guinness Book of World Records.
• This is also an opportunity to clear MJ’s name.  Oh everything comes out after someone is dead and gone.  True colours shine through.  So it is an important mandate of this game to get in  there and dispel all the rumors so when MJ comes back, it will be to a positive opinion of him, and who he is as a person.  They need to deposit into the media all the good Michael did and educate the public.
• They will also need to keep a pulse on how that public opinion is changing.  Enter TMZ.  TMZ is a great way to get the low down, to comment (ie give feedback on public opinion) and to be a medium for giving clues for those looking for them.  I could be looking way too far into this but everything on TMZ that is bolded seems to be a clue to me – from Paula’s “dancing with the stars” which parallels “The Drill” practices we see happening to Steven Tyler singing two songs “Dude looks like a lady” (is MJ disguised as a lady?) and “I don’t wanna miss a thing” (hinting that if we don’t wanna miss a thing look for a dude who looks like a lady.)
• I believe we are going to be graced by MJ’s presence however we won’t know it because we’ve had so many fakes that we don’t know who is who and MJ can just walk on the scene and blend in with all those fakes.  We probably have been talking to some guy or girl and we don’t even realize it’s him!
• If I have any additional thoughts I’ll add it on here.. but for now I leave you with the dancing inmates!

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