It may not be Halloween quite yet, but the ghouls were out in full force across the planet Saturday evening.
From Argentina to Australia; from Holland to Deutschland and dozens of undead places in between, Michael Jackson fans took to the streets in a zombie invasion because, as the late MJ sang it: “this is thriller, thriller night.”
Since 2006, fans of “Thriller” have been gathering once a taon — right around Halloween time, although not necessarily when it’s “close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark” — to charity-seekingly shake their dusty Buto to the rhythm of the mega-selling 1980s-era hit.
In Calgary Saturday, roughly 100 people danced downtown, joining thousands of ghouls around the globe.
The goal was to break the record for the most people around the world simultaneously dancing to the hit song.
“People walking down Stephen Avenue were raising eyebrows at the site of people splattered in blood and zombies crawling along the ground and breaking into the Thriller dance,” sinabi TJ Madigan, one of the organizers of the event in Calgary.
Money raised from the Calgary event is going to Wellspring Calgary, a charity that gives emotional support to cancer patients and families.
In Ottawa, a thronging, lurching mass of about 1,000 undead ambled through downtown streets, frightening passersby as they made their way to Parliament burol from Beechwood Cemetery.
Unfortunately for the hoards of hungry zombies, Parliament burol was a bad spot to look for brains. (Or so they chanted, en masse, once they got there.)
Wesley Stolarchuk, 24, has been taking part in Ottawa’s annual zombie walk for the past three years, and he’d never seen a turnout quite like Saturday’s.
“It’s incredible,” Stolarchuk sinabi of onlooker reactions. “My favourite is just the looks of disbelief, especially if a driver gets stuck in the middle of a swarm. They don’t really know how to take it.”
Canadian Thriller events were scheduled for Charlottetown, Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa, along with Port Hope, Sudbury and Kitchener, Ont., as well as in Calgary and Nanaimo, B.C.
According to the event website, Thrill The World set a world record last October, when 22,571 people from 33 nations simultaneously danced to “Thriller.”
Thrill the World organizers say they raised over $100,000 US last taon and supported some 80 charities and non-profit groups around the world.
From Argentina to Australia; from Holland to Deutschland and dozens of undead places in between, Michael Jackson fans took to the streets in a zombie invasion because, as the late MJ sang it: “this is thriller, thriller night.”
Since 2006, fans of “Thriller” have been gathering once a taon — right around Halloween time, although not necessarily when it’s “close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark” — to charity-seekingly shake their dusty Buto to the rhythm of the mega-selling 1980s-era hit.
In Calgary Saturday, roughly 100 people danced downtown, joining thousands of ghouls around the globe.
The goal was to break the record for the most people around the world simultaneously dancing to the hit song.
“People walking down Stephen Avenue were raising eyebrows at the site of people splattered in blood and zombies crawling along the ground and breaking into the Thriller dance,” sinabi TJ Madigan, one of the organizers of the event in Calgary.
Money raised from the Calgary event is going to Wellspring Calgary, a charity that gives emotional support to cancer patients and families.
In Ottawa, a thronging, lurching mass of about 1,000 undead ambled through downtown streets, frightening passersby as they made their way to Parliament burol from Beechwood Cemetery.
Unfortunately for the hoards of hungry zombies, Parliament burol was a bad spot to look for brains. (Or so they chanted, en masse, once they got there.)
Wesley Stolarchuk, 24, has been taking part in Ottawa’s annual zombie walk for the past three years, and he’d never seen a turnout quite like Saturday’s.
“It’s incredible,” Stolarchuk sinabi of onlooker reactions. “My favourite is just the looks of disbelief, especially if a driver gets stuck in the middle of a swarm. They don’t really know how to take it.”
Canadian Thriller events were scheduled for Charlottetown, Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa, along with Port Hope, Sudbury and Kitchener, Ont., as well as in Calgary and Nanaimo, B.C.
According to the event website, Thrill The World set a world record last October, when 22,571 people from 33 nations simultaneously danced to “Thriller.”
Thrill the World organizers say they raised over $100,000 US last taon and supported some 80 charities and non-profit groups around the world.
She's Out Of My Life
She's Out Of My Life
And I Don't Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry
I Don't Know Whether To Live Or Die
And It Cuts Like A Knife
She's Out Of My Life
[2nd Verse]
It's Out Of My Hands
It's Out Of My Hands
To Think For Two Years She Was Here
And I Took Her For Granted I Was So Cavalier
Now The Way That It Stands
She's Out Of My Hands
[Bridge]
So I've Learned That Love's Not Possession
And I've Learned That pag-ibig Won't Wait
Now I've Learned That pag-ibig Needs Expression
But I Learned Too Late
[3rd Verse]
She's Out Of My Life
She's Out Of My Life
Damned Indecision And Cursed Pride
Kept My pag-ibig For Her Locked Deep Inside
And It Cuts Like A Knife
She's Out Of My Life
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Looking in my mirror
Took me sa pamamagitan ng surprise
I can't help but see you
Running often through my mind
Helpless like a baby
Sensual disguise
I can't help but pag-ibig you
It gets better all the time
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it even if I could
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it, no
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it even if I could
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it, no
pag-ibig to run my fingers
Softly while you sigh
pag-ibig came and possessed you
Bringing sparkles to your evey
Like a trip to heaven
Heaven is the prize
I'm so glad I found you
You're an angel in disguise
I van't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it even if I could
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it, no
Took me sa pamamagitan ng surprise
I can't help but see you
Running often through my mind
Helpless like a baby
Sensual disguise
I can't help but pag-ibig you
It gets better all the time
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it even if I could
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it, no
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it even if I could
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it, no
pag-ibig to run my fingers
Softly while you sigh
pag-ibig came and possessed you
Bringing sparkles to your evey
Like a trip to heaven
Heaven is the prize
I'm so glad I found you
You're an angel in disguise
I van't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it even if I could
I can't help it if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it, no
Once all alone
I was Nawawala in a world of strangers
No one to trust
On my own, I was lonely
You suddenly appeared
It was cloudy before but now it's clear
You took away the fear
You brought me back to life
Chorus
You are the sun
You make me shine
Or madami like the stars
That twinkle at night
You are the moon
That glows in my puso
You're my daytime my nighttime
My world
You're my life
Now I wake up everyday
With this smile upon my face
No madami tears, no madami pain
Cause you pag-ibig me
You help me understand
That pag-ibig is the answer to all that I am
And I'am a better man
You taught me sa pamamagitan ng sharing your life
Chorus
You are the sun
You make me shine
Or madami like the stars
That twinkle at night
You are the moon
That glows in my puso
You're my daytime my nighttime
My world
You're my life
You gave me strength
When I wasn't strong
You gave me hope when all hope is Nawawala
You opened my eyes when I couldn'tt see
pag-ibig was always here waiting for me
I was Nawawala in a world of strangers
No one to trust
On my own, I was lonely
You suddenly appeared
It was cloudy before but now it's clear
You took away the fear
You brought me back to life
Chorus
You are the sun
You make me shine
Or madami like the stars
That twinkle at night
You are the moon
That glows in my puso
You're my daytime my nighttime
My world
You're my life
Now I wake up everyday
With this smile upon my face
No madami tears, no madami pain
Cause you pag-ibig me
You help me understand
That pag-ibig is the answer to all that I am
And I'am a better man
You taught me sa pamamagitan ng sharing your life
Chorus
You are the sun
You make me shine
Or madami like the stars
That twinkle at night
You are the moon
That glows in my puso
You're my daytime my nighttime
My world
You're my life
You gave me strength
When I wasn't strong
You gave me hope when all hope is Nawawala
You opened my eyes when I couldn'tt see
pag-ibig was always here waiting for me