Music Mondays: Michael Jackson, Thriller:

When you think of the most influential musicians you instantly think of Michael Jackson, at least I do. The first song I ever heard from Michael Jackson was Black or White then hearing Beat It and Billie Jean. His music is simply amazing and my favorite song of his is Thriller, no surprise there :D The music video is also the best music ever made, seriously they combine my two favorite things in the video. Dancing and zombies what more could you want?! Michael Jackson is a musical genius and it shows when everything he touches turns to gold. Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.

In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs including "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style have influenced numerous hip hop, pop, contemporary R&B and rock artists. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time. His other records, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best-selling. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame as the first (and currently only) dancer from the world of pop and rock 'n' roll.

Some of his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards (as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award); 26 American Music Awards (more than any other artist, including the "Artist of the Century"); 13 number-one singles in the United States in his solo career (more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era); and the estimated sale of over 800 million records worldwide. Jackson won hundreds of awards, which have made him the most-awarded recording artist in the history of music. He was also a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising hundreds of millions of dollars for beneficial causes and supporting more than 39 charities. I chose Thriller for this week's Music Monday because it's my favorite song from Michael Jackson and it's a big part of the horror genre. Everybody knows the song and even the dance, when it comes on the radio or someone plays it on their Ipod you can't help but movie you're head to the music and sing along.

Resident Evil 'After Life':

I just got back from seeing Resident Evil: After Life and I left the theatre still hungry for more. More zombies, more Alice and Claire and more Shawn Roberts mmmmm now he was one sexy mofo. Okay now on to the movie, it starts out in Tokyo Japan with people walking through the town while it's raining and there's one girl just standing there in the middle of the street. The music in this scene and in the whole movie was awesome and well done. The scene continues with the girl just standing there then she looks a some guy walking past her then she jumps on him and begins to feast on him, yes my friends she was a zombie it looks like the virus made it's way to Japan. Four years later Alice shows up to have a one on one show down with the main guy who runs The Umbrella Corporation Albert Wesker. She makes her way all the way under ground where the Tokyo headquarters is located. There she kills all the body guards with clones of herself to help her since there are a butt load of body guards.

She gets upstairs and starts shooting at him but he escapes since he's a smarty pants and he knows what he's doing. He flies away in his pimped out airplane while Alice and her clones are shooting at the plane. My complaint on the whole clones of Alice was that you could totally tell that they were computer generated. I know they were suppose to be computer generated since Milla Jovovich isn't a twin let alone triplet. I just think they could of done it a little better and made it so it didn't look computer generated. After he flies away he sets off a bomb on the building where she was and it blows up. Alice walks up behind him since he only killed her clones and not the real Alice, she puts a gun to his head and he flips around and shoves a needle in her neck infecting her with the T-virus which eliminates all her powers like speed, rapid healing etc and with that it turns her human. While he's getting ready to kill Alice he forgets that he's flying the plane so it alerts him that he's going to crash. The plane crashes and Alice walks away alive and it's now 6 months later and Alice is trying to find survivors. As she's on her search she documents her travel about what's going on.

She finds a plane and flies to a place in Alaska where she finds Claire after leaving her 18 months ago in Nevada. Claire has some sort of ambulant hooked on her chest which makes her have memory loss so she can't remember anything that happened. Alice tries to help her remember what happened and they fly away to L.A. where they find some people on top of a building waving for help. She flies down there and meets everyone and they talk about what they need to do to get out of the building alive since zombies are surrounding the whole building not letting them get out. Alice goes to the basement and to see that they have a guy named Chris locked in a cage since they all think he's a killer. Things start getting worse as the zombies are trying to push their way through the fence to get inside the building so they decide to let Chris out of the cage cause he claims he knows a secret way out of the building. The only way to the other part of the building is through water since some parts of the place is now under water. While Alice and Chris and Crystal is swimming to the other part of the building Claire and Luther are outside trying to block the fence since some big macho guy with an axe is trying to bash the fence down.

Crystal gets eaten by zombies after coming out of the water and Bennett shoots Angel and flies away in a plane heading to Arcadia leaving everyone behind. They find a big hole in the ground that leads through the sewer lanes and out to the street. Chris and Luther head down the hole while Alice and Claire go to jump down but the big macho guy with the axe shows up killing Kim which begins the best fight scene (my opinion) in the whole movie between Claire and the macho guy. The music in that scene was totally bad ass and I didn't want it to end. Alice kills the macho guy and they head down the tunnel and Luther gets taken away by zombies. Alice, Claire and Chris hops in a boat and head over to Arcadia which is a big ship in the sea. They realize that it was a trap and not a place of safety and finds all the people that were captured by Umbrella where their being experimented on with the virus. Alice walks into a room where she sees Albert and Bennett pointing a gun to her head. They all fight each other and they shoot Albert where they think they killed him and walks away leaving Bennett in the room trapped not able to get out. Albert isn't really dead duh and he kills Bennett and flies away in his pimped out plane, man I really want one of those.

Apparently Alice put a bomb in his plane so when Albert pushes the buttons to set it off it blows up his plane, sad to see him go he was really hott and my favorite character in the movie. I always go for the bad guys in movies. They release all of the people captured and Alice sends out an announcement to the city letting everyone know that they have food and shelter. They look up to the sky and see all these planes flying towards them and they know it's trouble. In the plane there's all the Umbrella soldiers suited up for battle while some chick is talking about what they have to do and she has that same ambulant on her chest that Claire did then the movie is over. I liked the movie but I think they could of added a lot more stuff to it. I felt like it was rushed and it left me feeling hungry for more which bummed me out. After the movie was over I was like "That was it?!" The movie went by way too fast for my liking and I really think it should of been longer with more bad ass fight scenes. Milla Jovovich was mono tone and I think she needed more personality in her character and she was just blah. Oh well all was not lost I did like the movie and I would see it again and it could of been a lot better but it wasn't terrible.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 Skulls

Zombie Fridays Ep. 3, Detection:

Every undead outbreak, regardless of it's class, has a beginning. Now that the enemy and I use enemy loosely cause I don't think their the enemy has been defined, the next step is early warning. Knowing what a zombie is will not help if you are unable to recognize an outbreak before it's too late. This does not entail building a "zombie command post" in your basement, sticking pins in a map, and huddling around the shortwave radio. All it requires is looking for signs that would slip by the untrained mind. These signs include:

1: Homicides in which the victims were executed by head shots or decapitation. It has happened many times: People recognize an outbreak for what it is and try to take matters into their own hands. Almost always, these people are declared murderers by the local authorities and prosecuted as such.

2: Missing persons, particularly in wilderness or uninhabited areas. Pay careful attention if one or more of the search members end up missing. If the story is televised or photographed, watch to see what level of armament the search parties carry. Any more than one rifle per group could mean that this is more than just a simple rescue operation.

3: Cases of "violent insanity" in which the subject attacked friends or family without the use of weapons. Find out if the attacker bit or tried to bite his victims. If so, are any of the victims still in the hospital? Try to discover if any of these victims mysteriously died within days of their bite.

4: Riots or other civil disturbances that began without provocation or other logical cause. Common sense will dictate that violence on any group level does not simply occur without a catalyst such as racial tension, political actions, or legal decisions. Even so-called "mass hysteria" can always be traced to a root source. If none can be found, the answer may lie elsewhere.

5: Disease-based deaths in which either the cause is undetermined or seems highly suspect. Deaths from infectious disease are rare in the industrialized world, compared to a century ago. For this reason, new outbreaks always make the news. Look for those cases in which the exact nature of the disease is unexplained. Also, be on the alert for suspicious explanations such as West Nile virus or "mad cow" disease. Either could be examples of a cover-up.

6: Any of the above in which media coverage was forbidden. A total press blackout is rare in the United States. The occurrence of one should be regarded as an immediate red flag. Of course, there may be many reasons other than an attack of the living dead. Then again, any event causing a government as media-conscious as out own to clamp down merits close attention. The truth, no matter what it is, cannot be good.

Once an event has tripped your sensors, keep track of it. Note the location, and it's distance from you. Watch for similar incidents around or near the original site. If, within a few days or weeks, these incidents do occur, study them carefully. Note the response of law enforcement and other government agencies. If they react more forcefully with each occurrence, chances are that an outbreak is unfolding.

Rob Zombie's Superbeast:

The Zombie Rabbit Award!! Yay!!!:

I just won the Zombie Rabbit award from Pete over at deadly serious. This is my first award and I'm very honored to be recognized by someone like Pete who by the way has a awesome blog! Thanks a million Pete!! :D

"ZOMBIE RABBIT AWARD""

I am giving this award to [10] of my favorite blogs and places i believe need some well deserved attention. I thought it might be fun to shake it up a bit, sort of a "Pay It Forward" move... let me explain.

01) Give the award to [10] who you like, but give a couple the "Next Blog" slider button on top... so random blogger people can feel the love from a stranger.

02) Post those you gave the award to, so fans of your site can see the places you like and Paid It Forward too.

*If we are not careful there will be "Zombie Rabbits" everywhere..."

So, here is my list of 10 recipients:

1.) http://www.livingdeadgirlnicoleart.blogspot.com/

2.)http://www.horrorland.com-johnnyhorror.blogspot.com

3.) http://80shorrormovies.blogspot.com

4.) http://horrorsnark.blogspot.com

5.) http://www.scaresarah.com

6.) http://www.planetofterror.com

7.) http://www.zombiesdontrun.blogspot.com

8.) http://www.dayofwoman.blogspot.com

9.) http://www.jinx-totallyjinxed.blogspot.com

10.) http://www.thevaultofhorror.blogspot.com

*sorry for posting the full blog sites but I haven't figured out how you can just click on their name and it brings you to their blog*

Zombie Fridays Ep. 2, Outbreaks:

Outbreaks:

Although each zombie attack is different, given the number, terrain, reaction of the general populace, etc., it's level of intensity can be measured in four distinct classes.

*At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.

CLASS 1: This is a low-level outbreak, usually in a Third World country or First World rural area. The number of zombies in this class of outbreak ranges between one and twenty. Total human casualties (including those infected) range from one to fifty. The total duration, from the first case to the last (known), will range between twenty-four hours and fourteen days. The infested area will be small, no larger than a twenty-mile radius. In many cases, natural boundaries will determine it's limits. Response will be light, either exclusively civilian or with some additional help from local law enforcement. Media coverage will be light, if present at all. If the media is present, look for common stories like homicides or "accidents." This is the most common type of out-break and also the easiest to go unnoticed.

CLASS 2: Urban or densely populated rural areas are included in this level of out-break. Total zombies will range between twenty and one hundred. Total human casualties may reach as high as several hundred. The duration of a Class 2 attack may last no longer than a Class 1 outbreak, In some cases, the larger number of zombies will spark a more immediate response. A rural, sparsely populated outbreak may extend to a several blocks. Suppression will almost certainly be organized. Bands of civilians will be replaced by local, state, even federal law enforcement. Look for an additional, if low-level, military response, the National Guard in the United States or it's equivalent abroad. Most often, so as to ease panic, these units will take a more noncombatant role, providing medical assistance, crowd control, and logistical support. Class 2 outbreaks almost always attract the press. Unless the attack occurs in a truly isolated area of the world, or one where the media is strictly controlled, the story will be reported. This does not mean, however, that it will be reported accurately.

CLASS 3: A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles. The duration of the attack and a possible lengthy mop-up process could last as long as several months. There will be no chance for a press blackout or cover-up. Even without media attention, the sheer magnitude of the attack will leave too many eyewitnesses. This is a full-blown battle, with law enforcement replaced by units of the regular military. A state of emergency will be declared for the infested zone, as well as the neighboring areas. Expect martial law, restricted travel, rationed supplies, federalized services, and strictly monitored communication. All these measures, however, will take time to implement. The initial phase will be one of chaos as those in power come to grips with the crisis. Riots, looting, and widespread panic will add to their difficulties, further delaying an effective response. While this is happening, those living within the infested area will be at the mercy of the undead. Isolated, abandoned, and surrounded by ghouls, they will have only themselves to depend on.

*Information from the book "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks

Music video: Dragula by Rob Zombie