At last, I succumb to The Interview Meme:

[wednes]

These are the Q & A as aksed (not a typo, I'm just that hip) by derekfz

1) You seem to be a fan of all things zombie. What is your fascination with or attraction to zombieness?

That is a good question. Romero's zombie movies scared the hell out of me at oh, about age 10. Before then, I was reeling from shark related terror thanks to the first 2 Jaws films. As a kid, I didn't yet recognize the obvious superiority of one over the other. Anyway...I had a series of nightmares about zombies. When I really pondered how horrifying it would be to humanity if the dead did rise, the fear became more and more cosuming. Later, Dawn of the Dead showed me that being terribly sad and emotional over a persons death leaves one extreemely vulnerable to zombie attack. It was at this point that I started making zombie maps with hospitals and police stations marked (to avoid) and things like that...I call that my "preparedness phase". But since, I have moved into a low key state of constant readiness. Human's who have lost all capacity for reason are very frightening to me; which I think is an extension of having an abusive parent who was also mentally ill. Plus zombie stories are most often apocalypse stories, which gives them both an awesome scope and a sense of finality.

2) As a high school student, were you part of any of the readily identifiable and pre-existing "cliques" among people of your age group?

I was pretty bookish, awkward, chubby and nerdy in high school. I had a crush on a guy who later turned out to be gay (but still hot I bet) and spent a lot of time in the presense of egomaniacs. At one point, I convinced some kids who were hassling me that Charles Manson was my real father and that I was a ward of the court. With my name being Wednesday, it wasn't entirely unreasonable.

3) How much do you loooooooooove meeeeeeeeee?

As much as any woman could love a man.

4) Name your five mostest favoritest Talking Heads songs.

Artists Only is my all time fave. The rest, in no particular order are:

Psycho Killer
Sugar on my Tongue
Naive Melody (this must be the place)
Moon Rocks
Everybody Hates Ned Flanders

5) Is being so cool all the time really hard?

No, I daresay that it is not. My coolness comes from my not giving a shit whether or not anyone thinks I'm cool, so it requires very little effort on my part.

Now I'm supposed to ask anyone if they want to be interviewed. But I'm not going to. I'm not really shy about asking questions of people, so I do it whenever the mood strikes me. And right now, the mood to eat some lowfat lemon custard-style yogurt is what's striking me. Ouch! yes, master....

In worse news, my good buddy and smoking partner psychswitch is sick. And now I'm afraid he's made ME sick, since I'm feeling queasy mere hours after hearing that he seems to have whatever illness his ladyfriend has had for almost a week. Damn...I sure don't want to get sick. To the Vitamins!

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[itches]

To the west of Sydney (the city I live in), out in the middle of no-where, at the end of a small cannon that is difficult to find, rests an old mining dam.

Once the dead start rising, that’s where I’m going.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Good plan. But beware of boxing yoruself in...plus you know, you might want to start stocking it with supplies now. But don't tell anyone as you wont' want to get swamped with people coming to you for help. It'll be like the one guy in the neighborhood with a bomb shelter in the 50's.

[itches]

If they manage to find their way to the damn, and come in enough numbers that they can over run my big-anti-zombie-wall then I never was going to get a chance in running.

And not telling anyone about it isn't a good idea in the long run. You need to tell a few select people about it, and start your own mini-civilisation out there. People with skills that will be useful, and are calm enough under pressure to not screw everyone. I've also taken a vow to kill the sarcastic guy as soon as I meet him.

The way I figure it, a zombie apocalypse survival plan needs to have 3 stages.

1) Determining that this is in-fact the apocalypse, those are zombies, and making it to the shelter alive.

2) Setting up operations, making sure the base of defensible and determining the state of the world. Included in this section is finding out everything you can about the zombies, what kills them, what causes them, if they have any weaknesses. Training the survivors with you to work as an efficient combat team. At some point a zombie capture mission is going to have to be launched, grabbing a zombie and bringing it back to base so various tests can be conducted on it. This will help tremendously in gaining the knowledge needed to survive and potentially defeat the zombies, and as such the potential reward outweighs the risk. It is worthy of note however, that this plan only goes forward once it has been made sure that they don't have a hive mind.

3) Stage three is the big one, where you finally determine if you have a chance to save humanity, or if the only sane option is to drink the 'magic kool-aid'. The plans for section three largely depend on the situation. Has an effective means of countering immediate zombie threats been found? Are there options for future crops and livestock? How much knowledge can and has been saved from the widespread destruction? Are there children around for the future? People of breeding age for future generations? If the zombies spread by contamination, is there a patient zero? Can you find it?

It's overly vague, but it needs to be. Once the shit hits the fan, the best plans are going to be the ones that are the most easily adaptable.


-itches, a.k.a parinoid guy who shouldn't have seen that zombie movie.

[derekfz.livejournal.com]

highly tremendoy answers, wednes. truly, doth rule.

if the mood strikes you at some point (and i'm not requesting that it strike, merely asking you that if and when it does, etc..), i would be honored to be interviewed by you.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

You are a man after my own heart...though hopefully not for lunch.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Okay. Let me think up some gooooood inquiries.

[derekfz.livejournal.com]

"goooood.. goooood.."

[lostsatellite.livejournal.com]

oooh...I'd say "Psycho Killer" and "Sugar on My Tongue" are also among my favorite Talking Heads songs...though I admit that I haven't listened to them incredibly extensively...

and of course you would throw in the Simpsons tie-in...very clever of you!...

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I like "Making Flippy Floppy," and "Girlfriend is Better"...actually, now that I think about it, Making Flippy Floppy WITH a Girlfriend, is Better!