The undead hordes have spread to popular culture. From movies to books to music, zombies have infected every medium and every corner of the world. In this week’s episode we’ll give you the rundown on zombie culture including interviews with James Durham, author and producer of FETIDUS: The Damned Heir, who fills us in on the spin he puts on zombies in his world and Shade Rupe, co-founder of the Deep Red film festival.
Our Geek Week
♦Scene It Box Office Smash. Watch for Shankay and/or Yakboy23 on Xbox Live and maybe we can hook up for a game!
♦See Shannon’s review of Walking With Dinosaurs here
♦Improvise your Own Adventure. This is the last weekend for the show and it is not to be missed!
♦Thanks to the folks at Night Zero for letting us visit their shoot on Saturday. We got some great behind-the-scenes pictures that are up on our Flickr page as well as this short video of the lead scratcher getting more blood.
♦The Innocent Seraphim convention is coming in August, check their website for information on the pre-registraton special! Pictures from the InnoSera swap meet this Saturday are also up on our Flickr page.
♦Puppet TV at the Historic University Theater. Only two shows left and this is also not to be missed.
Zombie Madness
♦White Zombie movie
♦The Serpent and the Rainbow book and movie
♦George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead
♦Michael Jackson’s Thriller video
♦Walking Dead comic
♦Zach Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead
♦World War Z by Max Brooks
♦South Park’s Pinkeye episode
♦Dead Set – We just got this on DVD and we’ll be reviewing it hopefully next week!
♦Fido movie
♦The Book of Zombie movie
♦Dead of Night movie and comic.
♦Night of the Living Dead Reanimated
♦Dead Snow showing at Crypticon in Seattle this June.
♦The Living Dead short story collection, published by Night Shade Books out of San Francisco
♦Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
♦War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies
♦Seattle Geekly favorite Night Zero
♦Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics
♦Marvel Zombies, by Walking Dead writer Robert Kirkman
♦ZOMBIES!!! By Twilight Creations. Zombies!!! 8 : Jailbreak should be out now!
♦Zombie Fluxx, from Looney Labs
♦Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2
♦Kirby Krackle – Zombie Apocalypse performed live at Emerald City Comic Con
♦Jonathan Coulton‘s song Re: Your Brains
♦Lost Zombies is a social network whose goal is to document the zombie apocalypse and create the world’s first community generated zombie documentary.
♦How to survive the zombie Apocalypse in Seattle
Zombie Events
♦May 15 – 17, 2009 – Zompire – Portland, Oregon
♦May 16, 2009 Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside Portland, OR Zombie Prom. Theme “Enchantment under the Dead Sea”
♦July 3, 2009 Zombie Flash mob Friday in Fremont to coincide with the Fremont Outdoor Movies showing of Shaun of the Dead and Jet City Improv doing a Twisted Flicks version of White Zombie
♦Revenant Film Fest 2009. Late September date at MOHAI. Accepting entries now.
♦September 18 – 20, 2009 SIFF Theater, Seattle WA – Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival (M.I.F.F.F.)
Geek News
♦May 2, 2009 Your Local Comic Shop – FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
♦X-Men Origins: Wolverine starting tonight! Log into our forums and share your review! Remember to stay through the end of the credits for one of two Easter egg endings.
♦Catan coming to the Nintendo DS
♦Robert Rodriguez keeping busy. Making a movie for his Grindhouse spoof trailer ‘Machete’, remaking Predator and also working on Nerveracker – Some follow-up news on the Predator remake is up on our forums
♦World of Warcraft and the “Martin Fury scandal”. Local WoW player Karatechop, Guildmaster of The Marvel Family on the Vek’nilash server, created a world-wide scandal when he used an item accidentally mailed to one of his guild members by a developer. Coverage of the scandal at WoW Insider part 1, 2 and an interview with Karatechop
Events
♦May 8 – 9, 2009 Grand Illusion Cinema Seattle – Deep Red International Film Fest
♦May 2, 2009 Chapel Performance Space 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N Seattle, WA – Nickel & Brass Septet plays from their new CD Four Color Heroes
♦April 29 – May 3, 2009 Key Arena Seattle, WA Walking with Dinosaurs. Use the code “mydino” when ordering tickets to get $10 off the tickets!
♦May 3, 2009 3pm Capitol Hill branch of the Seattle Public Library – SteamCon monthly organizational meeting
♦April 26, May 3 & May 10, 2009 7pm The Historic University Theater 5510 University Way NE Seattle – Puppet TV: An improvised puppet show for grown-ups with video elements.The opiate of the masses is now the PCP of puppetry!
♦May 9, 2009 2 – 6pm Games Workshop Carkeek Plaza 10031 Holman Rd Northwest Suite B Seattle – The Return of the Lucky 13s. A HUGE Apocalypse battle for Warhammer 40k kicks off a six month campaign centered around giant battles, devastating bombardments, secret agendas, and of course, cool prizes! Bring up to 5000 points of 40k, and not only will you get to destroy your enemies across the table, you’ll be able to call in orbital strikes on the tables of other Seattle-area stores!
Contests
There is still time to enter our Norwescon Swag Bag Giveaway and our SakuraCon Swag Bag Giveaway!
Music for this week’s episode was Zombies by Cosmos Harvesters and music from FETIDUS by James Durham
Next Week’s Show: Tabletop card games, like Munchkin, Gloom, and we’ll review the Magic: The Gathering Duel Decks!
5 Responses to “Show Notes – Episode #12 “Zombies””
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Haha! I totally got the Dead Kennedys reference. I was seeing a band once and the singer was saying that the guitar player’s “guitar broke”. And I yelled “Play Rawhide!”. They didn’t get it.
That is funny! Did they offer to play the theme from the Dina Shore show?
Oh I will SO school you on Scene It! We should schedule a game sometime!
Oh…it’s ON! My Gamertag is “Shankay”. Now I have to play it more than 2 times…
Matt,
If you ever *want* a DS, you know someone who can get you into the company store.
-L