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MOONWALK: THE ADAPTATION
VINYL IS HEAVY — by Steven Boone It all comes down to what you believe, because none of us knew the man. I believe Michael Jackson was a good guy. I believe he never harmed anyone's child. I believe he was one of those rare people who tried to apply his otherworldly talent to healing some of the basic, eternal problems of humanity. I believe he was a great man of strong constitution and boundless vision. I believe that the incessant lies told about him were his indirect murderer. Moonwalk is the autobiography he wrote in 1988. I believe David Lynch is the filmmaker who should make ...

Link for the Day (November 2nd, 2009): MOONWALK: THE ADAPTATION
The House Next Door — by Ryland Walker Kinght Much like our Editor Emeritus, House contributor Steven Boone is a fine video essayist. He's more of a collage artist than MZS, and he crafts a dense field of sounds and images and words and, yes, negative space. His latest piece, "MOONWALK: THE ADAPTATION," is part advocacy, part fan's enthusiasm, part history project, part speculative research, and wholly original. I think all of us aspiring video artists/essayists can learn from Steve's example. He makes these things on the cheap, with sanctions only from God, as he lets us ...

If David Lynch directed Michael Jackson's life story
scanners — Steven Boone at Big Media Vandalism has composed a mesmerizing collage (OK, montage) using text from Jackson's 1988 biography "Moonwalk," audio interviews with MJ, and footage from some of Lynch's films, notably "The Elephant Man," "Mulholland Dr.," "The Straight Story," "The Grandmother" and "Eraserhead" to imagine a biography of Michael Jackson directed by David Lynch. He calls it "Notes for a David Lynch adaptation of Moonwalk." Boone writes: It all comes down to what you believe, because none of us knew the man....