Okay, so Zombies, Unite! has earned the #1 spot in Garage Band’s “Reviewer’s Picks Awards” for both Male and Female Vocals. It’s also in the top 25 in originality, best movie soundtrack, and… I can’t remember the other one.

Not to mention that Sacrifice for Love (also known to some of you as “The Intro”) has made it to the second round of reviewing and will be Track of the Day on the 2nd of October.

So basically, what I’m saying is, we pretty much rock ass. Nothing new there.

I’m wicked busy these days, but I just thought I’d post that we got covered by the Austinist. Check it out here.

It’s now less than a week until opening night. I just thought I’d be the bearer of good news.

“Where’s your heart at? You a real Christian?” The guy is standing directly in front of me. I can’t smell his breath–we’re not that close–but I can get a real good look at his teeth, which are pretty ragged.

“What did Jesus do when he was here? Huh? You tell me that?” He snatches the flyers advertising the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse from my hand. “You think he stood out on the corner and handed out FLYERS!? WHAT DID JESUS DO?”

At this point, I’m uncertain whether it’s a good idea for me to tell the guy that I’m just pretending to be a Christian. I was hoping the fact that we had Robert made up like zombie and lassoed with a piece of twine would convey the idea, but apparently not.

The guy continues, completely unfazed.

“When Jesus was here, he didn’t hand out flyers. He fed the poor. He gave them homes, and he washed their feet, and he took care of people. You know who Jesus came here for? He came here for the SINNERS! The righteous have their place in heaven. It was the sinners that Jesus came for, you know that?”

He turns to Harrison. “And you, where’s your heart at? You guys are just a bunch of fakers, you know that?”

At this point, we started to try to let him know that we were, in fact, fakers. “We really are fakers,” Letti said, “we’re just pretending.” Harrison said something along those lines.

“You guys are fake Christians, you know that? You’re not following the word of God, and you’re going to burn in Hell for this!”

At this point, I’m seized with an extremely elemental fear. Maybe he’s right, some part of my deeply concealed consciousness says. Am I going to burn in Hell for this? Oh, no! I began searching my memory for all the bad things I’d done in my life, like the time when I wouldn’t let my sister look at the lego house I’d built, or the time when I smacked my other sister in the face when she tried to wake me up in the morning…

…and then, the guy says: “Wait a minute, let me see those flyers.” I guess he must have finally noticed that Letti was holding a rope that was tied around Robert’s zombified middle. He read them for a minute, and said:

“Hold on. Are you guys for real?”

“No,” we said. “We’re just actors, trying to promote our zombie rock opera.”

“Oh. Well, shit, I’m sorry. I thought you were real Christians!”

“No, we’re not.”

“So tell me more about this opera.”

This from a website I found while surfing for “Zombie Armageddon”…

True, Zombie!Alice would probably be less conventionally good-looking than NotUndead!Alice, but then standards of beauty and the media portrayal thereof would doubtless come round and before you know it, greeny-blue skin, missing digits, and having purplish-red ichor dribblying down your chin would be the new black.

From a discussion on what to do when the Zombie Armageddon arrives.

I’m interested to hear from people who participated in the zombie walk this last time… what were the highlights / lowlights?

I know mine, beginning with the highlights, were:

1) The show. That rocked. Post-walk I wasn’t sure how ACL fans would react to the music, but they seemed to love it. And the band… oh, you guys did great. I can’t express enough appreciation to everyone who played with us last night… damn.

2) The horde of zombies surrounding the ACL info volunteer and asking: “Brains? Braaaains?”

3) “Zombies Number 1!”

4) “Give me a B! R! N! What’s that spell?”

5) The fish and chips that Aaron bought me after the show. Thanks Aaron!

Lowlights:

1) Fake blood stuck in a beard for over 5 hours. My face has never felt so disgusting in my life.

2) The large number of people who were far too busy getting from point A to point B to think anything of a horde of zombies approaching them.

Overall, it was definitely a positive experience. Thoughts?

So tonight, we’ll be playing Flipnotics on Barton Springs Road, in the parking lot. This will be after we’ve just done a Zombie Walk. So we’ll be made up like zombies. Just in time for the rain that has been forecasted today…

Wow! So a lot of people have been telling me today that they heard us on the radio. It wasn’t until tonight, though, just a few minutes ago, that I listened to our blurb-ette, featured during Morning Edition on KUT. They played “The Aliens Plot the Destruction of Humankind” without discussing anything about the Zombie Opera. When I said “We could try robotic lasers that fly” it must have made a few public radio listeners wonder what the song was about, things being taken so out of context.

Anyways, you can listen to the blurb here.

David Sedaris reads his story “Nuit of the Living Dead” on NPR’s Selected Shorts

http://staroftexasradio.com/items/show/5528

A few photos from Saturday night’s Zombie Rock Orchestra show at the Misprint Magazine party.

And if you missed the show last Saturday, you can catch us this Saturday.  Zombie Rocking will happen after the zombies walk on ACL Fest, out in front of Flipnotics at around 9:30.  Brave the ACL crowds, or be part of them, but come hang out for a bit for some great zombie tunes.