Those links in the Indymedia post provide more than enough material.

Looking forward to the third installment. There’s already enough frenzy chatter. No doubt, once the Dail resumes it’ll be even crazier.

Oh and thanks for pointing out in the other zombie bit that DmcW picked up on my tweet.

It’s funny that you mention K-Punk because I’m stealing his term for the next and hopefully final part of the ‘wallets full of blood’ trilogy. It’s to be called ‘The Grey Vampires’. I’m going to make it from the 15th sept onwards just so I can get a good horror buzz off of the return of the dail and nama on the radio. Hopefully I can release it as things come to a head and they start eating each others brains in the dail.

It’s going to be a flash forward flash back structure - a survivor of the end of the republic narrates to a child the backstory to how fingers and brains picked up their infection in the first place. Think ansbacher man and meat factories in the 1980’s crossed with ”the road by cormac mccarthy. I’m looking forward to the role of the ‘boss’. I’ve even been rehearsing! See last 15 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTipFjfqC80

oh and Conor - i’ll give ya a few fistfulls of dead money if you write the full article as sketched above up! No-one ever talks to me about the zombie films. In fact my new co-workers and students in dundalk have been looking at me funny ever since I passed the links around.

Nor is it the case that British culture is bereft of representations of working class life, even if, as the Socialist Worker piece complains, those representations are seldom anything other than hackneyed. (The problem might actually be the reverse: that the middle class control media representation without themselves being subject to even a distorting representation; they remain for the most part an offscreen voice, like the Big (Br)other producers, heard but not seen, who orchestrate a working class freak show from behind the scenes.)

and also talk about that in the context of Walter Benn Michael’s piece in the most recent London Review of Books, which I think has lots of relevance for Ireland, although doesn’t say anything about zombies, per se.

That’s why I said, to be continued…hopefully. Maybe there’s a couple of posts in it.

have been wondering about the zombie proliferation ever since i saw - wallets of blood, aaronrips mash up about the property crash.
http://vimeo.com/3269259
Even better is the zombie banker blues - http://vimeo.com/4292136.
Irish social commentary through zombie films probably is the way to go.

Ciaran