Time was I fancied myself a vampire. It was when I worked the overnight hours at WNBC. The lack of sunlight, the oddity of New York City in the 80’s, coupled with those wonderful Ann Rice novels - all worked to seduce me into the fantasy of eternal existence. Even though vampires have become big business on the screen, I have moved on from the undead to the reanimated dead. Zombies are happening! Why do we love our classic books being rewritten with Zombie participation? The 2009 novel Pride & Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith infuses the Jane Austen story with a zombie epidemic. War of the Worlds, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard of Oz, Dracula, Robin Hood and Alice in Wonderland, have been redone with zombie content. There are the halloween zombie walks, of course, with the appropriate costumes. I might just go as a Zomb-Bee Gee this year. We have the month to decide! And we have music to get us in the mood while we do.
Zombified is the new CD from the Chapel Hill, North Carolina outfit Southern Culture On The Skids. The album was originally released in Australia as an eight song EP back in 1998, the Zombified Extended Release has five more tunes, and is now a full LP. SCOTS asks, “Have you got your Emergency Zombie Preparedness Kit ready and standing by??” Of course that might just include picking up on the limited run of blood red vinyl LPs. You can shop for it all at the Skidmart. Though this song is not on the new album, just to get you in the spirit of the season, so to speak, we dug up this rare early Southern Culture On The Skids video, “Roadside Wreck.”
-Jessie Scott