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The Most Lovely Zombie

Imagine living in a world where most of your loved ones are dead, the normal social/economic/government system has collapsed, you can't trust anyone, and no-where is safe. This apocalyptic idea is what I fear most, and particularly why I fear zombies. Yes, I know this sounds ridiculous and crazy. Yes, I know zombies aren't real. I even know the reality of a zombie attack would be more similar to Shaun of the Dead than Dawn of the Dead, but I am a huge chicken. I watch horror films in a state of extreme anxiety and regret most of the time. Even while I enjoy Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's hilarity in Shaun of the Dead, I still get scared and anxious watching it. See, told you, I'm a chicken.

The idea of zombies (or new-age-viral-"zombies") is just the most freaky-scary. With a chainsaw massacre-ist, at least it's just contained to a small town in Texas. Sure, Scream and Halloween and Friday the 13th scare me, because I'm so easily scared, but I can still sleep and not have nightmares after watching them because the likelihood of an insane/psycho-killer targeting me is wildly unlikely. With vampires I at least could live out a fulfilling vampire-life post-transition, if I wasn't quickly killed from loss of blood. With werewolves I would be tortured but human most of the time, and could potentially guard others against myself.

The idea of zombies though is that you turn into something utterly lifeless, unintelligent, and emotionless if you aren't dismembered to death, and spend your life mindlessly slaughtering humans or starving to death without the self-awareness or intelligence to commit suicide. For the oh so many reasons a zombie-apocalypse is my worst nightmare when it comes to horror-flicks, and when it comes to my wild imagination in real-life, there is at least one reason I found to overlook my usually prejudgment of anything involving the word "zombie" - Dead Man's Bones. A sweet, sweet new band that I am offically in love with.

I reluctantly (for the various reasons listed above) listened to the track "My Body's a Zombie for You" a few days ago (their album was released October 6th). I figured it would be creepy and remind me of zombies, which I don't like. Guess what: it is creepy and it does remind me of zombies, BUT I totally love it. I have been listening to it continually for days and gave it the coveted honor of my profile song on myspace. Not only is this song hauntingly beautiful and causes you to think about levels of self-sacrifice for others (my post about my mom was written while jamming to this song), all of their other songs are equally beautiful. So for the first zombie-themed thing to ever not scare the shit out of me in some respect, I give Dead Man's Bones (indie movie star, Ryan Gosling's, band) The Most Lovely Zombie nod of approval.