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Flashback to the Michael Jackson Memorial, Jermaine Jackson is performing "Smile":
The lyrics state - "Smile..Though Your Heart Is Aching..."
Note, Conrad Murray is "All Smiles"...
The lyrics continue: "Smile...Even Tho' It's Breaking..."
We did receive "heartbreaking" news on January 20th..,
The "smile" theme actually began January 19th with the Jason Malachi "hacker" on the website jasonmaluchi.us. Note that the only items remaining from his website are his "help" message and a link to access none other than "smileys":
How coincidental.....
Well, all of this investigation makes one rather thirsty..think I'll have a Coke. Speaking of Coke, remember these images?
TMZ announced a contest entitled "Show Us Your Stems!". The word "stems" is used to mean "legs".
Interesting that they opted for this particular word, with all of the sunflower talk on their site.
The sunflower is fascinating in itself, in that it could grow up to 10ft tall and contain a single flower, often seen growing in rows which give the appearance of them looking like an "army of flowers" marching.
This is an example of such a comparison. Taking the backdrop scene from TDCAU from This Is It with an image of a sunflower field illustrates the commonality between the images. By "morphing" the two together, you can achieve a symbolic image:
The "soldiers" are marching, with the light of the sun behind their backs, bringing forth that light.
House music duo "Basement Jaxx" remixed a Yoko Ono song entitled "Day of The Sunflowers (We March On). During their live concert performance at the O2, we see a backdrop that has a similar theme to the TDCAU backdrop, except using sunflowers:
Michael Jackson himself utilized the symbolism of the sunflower within his own performances, a notable example is during the performance of "Earth Song" in Germany during the HIStory Tour. At the end of the song, a girl presents a soldier with a sunflower, with the idea that perhaps we should be fighting for peace and not perpetuate the violence which is destroying our world.
The scene begins at 8:44 in the below video:
Below are some screen shots from the performance:
Sunflowers can represent a new hope and peace when darkness is present. The wristbands for the MichaelJackson Memorial even included images of sunflowers (see below TMZ article):
There is no denying that sunflowers are playing a part in the symbolism of what represents MJ's message - seeing the light and love in all things, and sharing that with others - being that "Army of Love".
So aside from all of the crazy stories on TMZ, debates on whether images of sunflowers are photoshopped; questioning LMP's intentions, or any other distraction, let's focus on the message, which is powerful in it's simplicity.
As his oldest son Prince stated at the 2010 Grammy Awards: "Through all his songs his message was simple: LOVE".
So let's unite, and not fight, and share the light.
Thanks to "MaryElizabeth73" and "MJHOAXLIVE" for inspiration and assistance for this article.
Love To All
UPDATE!!! Sunflowers were in This Is It! (thank you Adi!)
One of the zombies is wearing a hat with sunflowers!!! Here is the video and a screen shot!
And more sunflowers were found at the GRAVES @23 second mark (thank you hhdavid65!)
For more on the "Thiller" segment, see: http://seeingclues.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-widow-whos-your-mummy.html
Update 5/23: Looks like one of the images in "Lightman" was sunflowers. "ForstAMoon" watched the "Lightman" clip from This Is It and noticed it flash by in the beginning.
Here is the video followed by a screen shot I captured:
As we know, during the memorial service, we heard Andrae Crouch's choir sing "Soon Very Soon We Will See The King":
Below is an interesting video with Rodney Jerkins,aka "Darkchild", a music producer who was interviewed just a couple of days after June 25th. At 1:40 in the video the interviewer asked him if MJ "knew his time was coming". That made Darkchild recall a chilling story of how MJ actually met with Andrae and Sandra Crouch just 3 weeks prior to his passing, which would be the first week of June:
The song that MJ requested they sing was "It Won't Be Long, We'll Be Leaving Here". Here is an audio clip of the song:
Perhaps just an optical illusion as the mind tends to take random patterns and associate them with human faces, but a particular image on the screen caught my eye in the beginning of Jermaine's "Smile" performance at the Memorial.
Here is a screen shot of the screen right at the beginning of the clip:
The imagine within the yellow box looks interesting. It reminded me of someone wearing a mask, so I looked through my image collection and found a photo of Prince wearing a mask - and it does resemble the mystery image a little bit:
This is to follow up on a great post by TruthSeekerMaura on MJHDI. I took her blonde lady photo and put it side by side to MJ at the end of the TDCAU rehearsal. (click to enlarge the photo)
The woman does have many facial similarities to MJ....oh, and of course..the Adam's apple. :) The sunglasses are very large, and are large enough to cover the eyebrows. There does appear to be light makeup applied to the brow bone..hmm..what do you think?
UPDATE: I lined up the jawlines from the profile pic of MJ and the blonde lady..they align perfectly.
In addition, the eyes seem to match the lightened version created by je on MJHDI:
UPDATE 12/30 - A new video by alwaysbelieveMJ has uncovered a photo of "Blonde Lady" that shows what appears to be dark sideburns...take a look and decide!
