Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light
Amazing song and artwork by Chad VanGaalen. Very inspiring. I can’t get this song out of my head. It feels like a marriage between Iron and Wine and Daniel Johnston.
Entries Tagged as 'Zombiphilia'
Hmmm. This could be useful…
Setting aside any considerations of the horsepower needed to adequately chew through bone, cartilage, etc. I must say that this looks pretty tempting. We’re seeing a demonstration of an small arm size chainsaw affixed a la bayonet mounted the barrel of an assault rifle. Pretty much the last gory word (moan?) in up close and personal zombie defense. I can’t help but wonder though, the weight must throw off your rifle targeting? I’ve always been a fan of well wielded scythes and a decent truncheon personally. As far as brain-destroying weapons go, are we really sure we want this on youtube?
The Dead Can’t Run!
Here is an interesting article from Simon Pegg arguing for a return to traditional zombie values. I have to say I agree with him.
The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.
More significantly, the fast zombie is bereft of poetic subtlety. As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.
However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you’re careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares - the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles.
What ever Hollywood tycoon thought Zombie 2.0 was a good idea needs to get out of the business. Not everything needs to get upgraded, death is elemental is does not need to be improved on.
“Don’t be Uncool to the Undead!”
Last night, I was surfing youtube almost by accident (not sure how that happens but believe me it does!) and skipped my way along to this little tidbit…I guess that is how it works sometimes. Isn’t that how most of the greatest discoveries came about? Someone wasn’t looking and then WHAM! BAM! they found something really cool! Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the discovery of peanut butter and pepperoni sandwiches but this made me smile and do the chuckle. It hit the BoL funny bone and it was decided that it must make it’s appearance.
Apparently, the “National Center for the Harassment of Zombies” was founded due to the cruel treatment of our flesh-eating friends by “thrill-seeking teenagers and elderly groundskeepers!” So, remember “Don’t be Uncool to the Undead!” They have their own association now!
I Kill For Blood
Fifth grader Jordan Hood thought his bloody vampire was scary, but he had no idea how scary it really was.
When he returned from his art class, his homeroom teacher was so scared she called the assistant principal and campus security. So much so that poor Jordan couldn’t return to school pending a psychological examination.
Surprisingly it wasn’t the blood and the gore that frightened his teacher, it was her hyper-sensitivity to gang signs. Apparently she projected hidden meaning into the “cryptic” symbolism in the child’s art. For the frightened Savannah, GA elementary school teacher the tears of blood reminded her of gang-related tear drop tattoos often seen on TV. She also read into the “I Kill For Blood” as referring to the famous LA street gang the Bloods, meaning all those tears of blood represent all of the times Jordan’s character had killed for his gang the Bloods. Fear has amazing powers.
While the drawing is rudimentary at best it is a little creepy. I think I would be more concerned if this was what he passed in for an Easter assignment than for Halloween.
Social Unrest and Zombies.
An interesting article regarding the correlation of social upheaval and spikes in zombie movie production.
If you like charts you’ll love this.
In keeping with the premise…
Okay, so I was a bit inspired by what G came upon and remembered I had something in my back pocket that I found a while ago. I figured it was time to share it!
Fashion Zombies
Music video from the Aquabats, very funny!
If only ‘Stacey’ had been this creepy…
Seriously, can’t you just hear her laughing and shrieking “braaaaaaaaaains!”? I do, or perhaps that’s the massive amount of red bull and caffeine it takes to wrest me from my morning slumber and keep me appropriately twitching and paranoid throughout the day. Try it, please. Tell me I’m not alone in this…
Link via Laughing Squid
