Happy Halloween!

I thought I would share my favorite Halloween themed music video with you.

The director, John Landis, was also responsible for some of my favorite movies of the seventies and eighties like Animal House, An American Werewolf in London and The Blues Brothers.

And the video holds a very special place in my daughter's heart because it was instrumental in getting her interested in theater and movie making.

We had an old VHS tape of "The Making of Thriller" lying around the house that she found when she was two years old. That damn thing played non-stop for weeks, but the interesting thing is that she was just as fascinated with the behind the scenes makeup, choreography, and special effects, as she was with the actual music video itself.

Since then she has been fascinated with the way movies are made, and is now involved in making them herself.

Now if you will excuse me I think there are some scary creatures at my door.

I wonder what they want?

Here is the new Haiti inspired version of "We Are the World". What do you think?

I find myself a little distracted by trying to put names to all of the stars that appear in this video. It is pretty well done though, and isn't it great to see that old footage of Michael Jackson before he completely went over the edge?

Here is the old video for comparison. Or just for your personal enjoyment.

Just speaking for myself I really enjoy seeing all of my favorite singers in the older version.

Michael Jackson has died today.

Once he was not just considered a joke or creep, instead we knew him as an amazing talent who made beautiful music.

This is how I am choosing to remember Mr. Jackson.

Update: I wanted to embed this Thriller video earlier, but the embedding was disabled so I could not. But I just I want to provide this link because it is both my daughter's and my favorite Michael Jackson video. I cannot tell you the number of times my four year old baby girl played this on our VCR, and danced across the living room.

Wow! Well that memory certainly choked me up.