Brain dead also known as Dead or alive.

Zombies are as a whole non political but I don’t think you would see many of the living dead supporting Howard or Bush.

The Zombies who support them are REALLY SCARY PEOPLE!!!!!!

There were 2 cities in the world that embraced the film Rocky Horror Picture Show before it became a cult film one was New York the other was Brisbane with midnight screenings running for several years.

As for the Zombie walk it is interesting to see people who would normally be a minority and marginalized in our society taking over the streets and being the center of attention. I find it a wonderful and empowering sight.

I also love the watching the reactions from the living as the undead shuffle past

Many thanks to max the organizer and all who turn out and make it such a peaceful fun day.

Yeah, I once tried watching Dead Alive a long time ago, and it was so fucking disturbing I didn’t last more than the first twenty or so minutes. Maybe some time I’ll try again. I’ve heard people say it’s incredible. I also have at least one friend who has a cast-iron stomach for that sort of movie gore, who said even *he* couldn’t bear to watch. On the more intellectual side, there’s the proto-zombie flick “Carnival of Souls,” which is much more of a think-piece, but very moody and disturbing, and a big influence on Romero…

Oh, then that’s a horse of a different color! That means they were Dan O’Bannon zombies, not George Romero zombies. The taxonomy is altogether different; O’Bannon zombies can speak, and more importantly, they can RUN. Zack Snyder zombies on the other hand can run, but they can’t talk.

Zombie multiculturalism! Ain’t life grand!

There’s also a flickr pool especially for Sunday’s zombiewalk http://www.flickr.com/groups/380743@N22/pool/

I have to admit I’ve not thought of zombies as particularly scary monsters until Sunday’s walk. The photo at the top of this article is from just before the march shambled off from Roma St. The photographers were on the amphitheatre stage, and the zombies were pressing against it, arms raised, demanding ‘BRAINS’!

There was quite a surge going on, and what with the photogs jostling for position, I actually got a sense of what it might be like to be over-run by a Zombie horde. Quite un-nerving.

I just got an email back from the organiser saying there were something like 480-500 zombies (not counting spectators).

Is this political? Zombies have always seemed political to me, ever since I saw this:

Adam, I don’t think it’s political for most participants as such, apart from being affirming of a non-mainstream lifestyle. It seems to be mainly a fun thing to do.

But I think bloke with a $20 note on his forehead is getting his ideas from the same place as you. http://www.flickr.com/photos/djackmanson/441913682/in/set-72157600040213689

They ascribe their success to treating genre conventions with respect while ensuring the humour arises naturally out of the inherent absurdities behind the genres. Not a bad way to treat life generally. I’m sure Jesus would have got it.

“He is risen! And you’re going down!”
“The man they couldn’t kill is back! But this time you get to eat him.”
“When Heaven is full, prophets will walk the earth.”
“I worship dead people. Why don’t you?”
“Death is only the beginning!”
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Golgotha!”

All together now, “White lines, running through my mind…”

Brisvegas has the greatest historic claim to embrace and celebrate the quality of being a zombie!

Well it’s true the city’s inhabitants have had decades and decades of practice in just going through the motions.

it says “one of the first Zombie walks�, not the first.

I didn’t say that Toronto’s was the first. Rather, I cited the earliest claimed date for a zombie walk.

If Brisbane, or any other city, can verify a claim to an earlier date, then those uppity Torontans would be put in their place.

Strictly speaking, zombies do very little else but walk and consume human flesh. Thus, a zombie walk counts as a notable event if and only if at least one of the purported zombies isn’t actually a zombie.

Are there any earlier recorded instances of persons masquerading as the perambulatory undead?

Last year’s was organised by a high school kid called Max Cowen who’d seen the Toronto Zombie Walk and thought the idea would fly down here. He said at the time that it was the first Zombie Walk in Australia.

Whether it was or not, the walk was wonderful anyway – squealing terrorised folk in the Queen Street Mall, zombie clans and families, blood stains on 7-11 windows, gutteral moaning echoing through the streets – so much was so great.

I love Brisbane.