Pre-production is at hand! I’ve started to buy things for this crazy project, and I start to think about a lot of the trickier aspects I’ll be faced with.

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, I’ve been talking about the new video camera I got. Now I have no excuse not to make some sort of a movie. Not only that, but I’ve challenged myself to do the whole thing entirely on my own: I will write the script, star in every role, direct, shoot, light, edit, etc . . .

Sounds easy.

I’m vlogging about it on Youtube, and the introductory clip was just posted today. Have a look . . . buy the ticket . . . take the ride.

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This one’s coming out a day late this week.

Please help out James Melzer!

I talk about Robert R. Best’s newest book Ashton Memorial, the second in his zombie trilogy. I review a zombie music video for the song “Lose Control” by keep you honest, the newly-released movie Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009), and The Walking Dead (1936).

Cool stuff:

• Thanks to Ertrov: The Walking Dead TV show trailer bootlegged from Comicon
• The 2010 International Cheetham’s Zombies Photo-Cookie Model Search | Zombie Cookies | Cheetham’s Zombies | Winnipeg Free Press article
• Thanks to McPierce: International relations theorist explains how to handle zombies

Original Music: a cover of “Big Rock Candy Mountain”

Other music: The Burt Bacharak Fight Club

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The time has come! The stars are aligned! The winners for the Eric S. Brown and David Dunwoody Zombie Flash Fiction Contest are announced, and all three are read on the podcast. I am honored to welcome guest readers James Durham and James Melzer! Thank you to everyone who entered their zombie flash fiction. Background music during the readings is from Zombie Influx from Buzzworks.

This week, I review Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009). I also review the more obscure Karloff zombie movie The Ghoul (1933) — and so does Misfitboy. Brian in Colorado talks about his trip to a Renaissance Festival in this week’s review of beers.

My original song is another one of the songs I’ve written about Zombi 2. It’s from the perspective of the doctor’s wife, titled “What Am I Gonna Do Now.”

Other things I talk about . . .

• The Walking Dead TV show news from Ain’t It Cool News
• The Walking Dead contest, motion comic, and set visit with Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead Comicon poster (thanks to Ertrov)
• “Another worker plunges to his death at iPhone manufacturer Foxconn”
• “Woman thought she had powers: murder trial”
• “Man claims to see ‘demons,’ strangles cat and beats up girlfriend”

Other music: Prison | Haggis Rising

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Welcome to this week’s circus of suffering!

I review a whole bunch of stuff. Danzig’s new album Deth Red Sabaoth; The Last Zombie comic written by Brian Keene; The Crazies (2010); and Revolt of the Zombies (1936). Angrypuppy also sent in his review of Revolt.

The Review of Beers is a battle of the titans, by Brian in Colorado. Thanks for the article about the carload of zombies from Brian . . . from elsewhere, and the news about Dead Rising 2 from Zombie Command.

I perform a cover of the obscure Beck song “Satan Gave Me a Taco.”

Other music: The Oranges Band | Fecal Coproboys

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We received 58 entries for the Eric S. Brown and David Dunwoody Zombie Flash Fiction Contest! Thanks to everyone who entered. Our judges are evaluating the entries as we speak.

I review the movie Vampire, just released in the UK by Stax Entertainment. Also, I go way back to the very beginnings of zombie cinema and talk about White Zombie(1932). Brian in Colorado gives us this week’s Review of Beers, and my original music is a cover of a White Zombie song. Voicemails of Death also abound.

Articles I talk about:

• “Two arrests at Liverpool airport after attempt to smuggle corpse onto flight”
• “London court jails man for killing wife with remote control”
• “Chinese woman has corrective surgery 15 years after horrific car accident twisted her legs the wrong way round”

Other music: Bare Wires

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The time for submitting your entry for the Eric S. Brown and David Dunwoody Zombie Flash Fiction Contest is very short — the 4th of July! Uncle Sam wants YOU to submit a story!

On the show, I get to talk about the newest release by awesome horror band DieMonsterDie — Fall To Your Knees. Thanks to Mike at Cadaver Lab for turning me onto these guys! Go to DieMonsterDie’s official web site, where you can learn more about them, buy their albums, watch sweet videos, and more. You’ll hear the songs “How Many People Do I Have To Kill, Before You Know I Love You” and “A Priest and a Zombie Rent a Fishing Boat as Friends” during the show.

We hear from Ertrov’s friend Mitch, Spooky Bill, and CarnageCake.

I watched two movies this week, and give them both a review: Doghouse (2009) and Offspring(2009).

My original music this week continues in the story of Mr. Bass’s Planetoid — “N.O.W.”

The articles I talk about:

• Songwriters: Send us your original song on the tragedy in the Gulf (thanks to Misfitboy)
• Salmon-Flavored Vodka
• Motive sought in death of 5-year-old girl killed in Shelton
• Good Samaritan saves woman with severed legs

Some guy named Root Rot appears on the latest Dark Hours podcast.

New horror site: the Corpse Collective.

Check out Eric S. Brown’s Bigfoot War.

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This week, I get to talk to the director of Bikini Girls on Ice, Geoff Klein. I reviewed the movie a couple weeks back — visit its web site.

I got a Voicemail of Death from Evil Nate, and Brian in Colorado sent in this week’s “Review of Beers.”

Articles I talk about . . .

• “Husband, Sister Dug Up From Graves”
• “Killer ate victim ‘to steal soul'”
• “State Backing Films Says Cannibal is Deal-Breaker”
• “Jeremy London Survives Bizarre Kidnapping Incident”

I review the movie Diary of a Bad Lad, which is arriving in the UK on DVD on June 28, 2010. Check the film out at its official web site.

Go listen to The 13 Skulls podcast, where the host TJ talks about the unexplained. Definitely worth subscribing to!

Original Music: From my old podcast (Podcast M). “Short Long Long Short Long Wait”

Other Music: The Black Bug | The Italian Zombie Movie | Spose (thanks to Misfitboy)

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This week I’m joined by Crash and Russy from the horror rock band Boy Eats Gurl. You can listen to them and find out more about them on their web site, on their MySpace page, and on their Facebook page.

Don’t forget to send your 500-word zombie flash fiction in for the contest by July 4.

I’ll tell you all about my adventures in going to see Phish this past weekend in Ohio. You’ll hear a lot of Voicemails of Death from a lot of wonderful people. I review the movies Army of Darkness (1993) and the upcoming DVD release of Resurrecting the Streetwalker (2009). I talk about a few news articles that caught my attention, as well as bringing you brand new original music.

• “Cannibal sliced off parts of grandmother and ate them.. while she was still alive”
• “NC Man Claims Close Encounter With Blond Bigfoot”
• “The Pentagon’s Newest Project: Zombies”

Other Music on the Show: Boy Eats Gurl | Phish

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Of all the bands I’ve gone out to see throughout my life — starting with the Pittsburgh stop of They Might Be Giants’ Apollo 18 tour when I was 15 — Phish is the most wonderful, consistent group I’ve seen. Even if you just listen to any of their readily-available live recordings, you’ll hear that they strive to stretch the bounds of their music and deliver new experiences to their audience. And to rock.

Last night was a fantastic Phish show. The highlights for me were “Sample in a Jar,” “Mike’s Song” segued into “Weekapaug Groove,” “Character Zero,” and “The Squirming Coil” as their encore/closer. I always get chills when Page pounds out the last bars of that one.

I took all these pictures on my Blackberry Storm, so the quality sucks on some of them.

The crowd was thick, hot, and impatient. Bottlenecks going in, and worse bottlenecks trying to get out afterward.

The weatherman called for scattered thunderstorms, but it never rained until well after the show. While I’m glad that we didn’t get dumped on while Phish played, I was actually praying for the rains to come and alleviate the humidity. I was coated in sweat the whole time.

Phish has the best light show. Period. Chris Kuroda is a brilliant lighting designer, and is as much a part of the band as any of the four playing on stage.

Balloon Guy. This hippie kept running through the crowd with ornate balloon animals, and seemed to really like running around the area we were standing in.