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Said The Spider To The Fly
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2008.10.27 08.52
Writer's Block: The Undead
You'd have to first look at all the different ideas of what a zombie is before you could answer this question.
A Fulci zombie is a result of voodoo, they are being controlled by a master, so you can't say they suffer because they have absolutely no thought or control.
A sci-fi zombie, like 28 Days Later or Resident Evil is controlled by a virus. I don't think the 28 Days zombies suffer, they are all full of rage and that, but with Resident Evil it's certainly questionable. Games or movies there is an implication that the zombies have an iota of human left in them at times. Maybe not the regular run of the mill zombies, but take Lisa from the Gamecube re-hash of the first RE game; she screams for her mothe when you drop her down the hole, implying she has memory of a previous life and the testing she was subjected to. And in the film Nemesis even sheds a tear (for fuck's sake Paul Anderson). I hazard a guess some of the RE creations suffer a tad.
Romero zombies are the most complex and I don't think there can be a definite answer. The obvious film to look at when considering this question is Day of the Dead. Poor Bob! He remembers classical music! He salutes in memory of his old life as an officer, he remembers how to use a razor. On the flipside scientific experimentation reveals that zombies do not feast on flesh in order to feed, they don't have any human needs at all, it seems the sole purpose of their biting is just to spread a virus.
Can we compare a memory of human feelings to actual human feelings such as suffering? I'm not entirely sure. A memory s not the same as an understanding. Bob does appear to feel some emotion but this is never confirmed and could merely be Romero playing with our habit of humanising creatures that simply aren't human. It is implied that over time zombies could become domesticated to a degree but I wouldn't turn your back on one for a second, those crafty buggers.
There was a kind of evolution of zombies over Romero's films (right up until the turnaround that was Diary of the Dead - yes Romero, these kids and their YouTube, tsh) where we saw them get progressively more intelligent, culminating in Land of the Dead, where we non-zombies became more destructive and corrupt than the living dead themselves, as they worked in teams, using tools, to eat even more of us than before.
In summation, I do not think zombies suffer. I reckon PETA would be all 'reh reh reh' about it if it ever happened though, because they're twats.
Good news mind! DEAD SET starts on E4 tonight! It'd better not suck, I've got myself excited about it.
Mood:  bored
Music: Morning TV.
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2007.05.10 08.56
Cough splutter cough
Roy and I have been passing back and forth these cold germs for the whole time we've been going out. Today's symptoms are sore tthroat, swollen glands, headache and slight loss of hearing. Fan-fucking-tastic.
It's worth it though, every last bit of suckiness.
I've removed myself from college for the rest of the week. Too phlegmy and apathetic.
I watched the best hick horror movie since Cabin Fever yesterday. i say since Cabin Fever because it's in that veign of horror, not serious, drunk party kids and over the top[ southerners. Go watch - 2001 Maniacs, it's fabulous! I got it on loan from LoveFilm and watched it in the day then after we'd been for my mum's birthday dinner I watched it again with Roy to show him the fabulousness, he totally agreed. PLUS - Eli Roth was one of the main producers and appears, total awesome cameo appearance, as the one and only Grim from cabin fever throwing armadillos at car windows trying to hitch a ride with his dog - DR. MAMBO!!!!! I forgot how much I love Cabin Fever and I'm definitely gonna watch it whilst I'm lying in bed feeling icky later.
Roy and I took off at my mum's birthday party a couple of times, it was at the Hollywood Bowl so we played some House of the Dead 4 and got our photos done in a booth (I love the photos, they look real cheeky and make us look like really hot people, which of course we definitely are).
Oh and I kicked his ass at air hockey - booyah! And we beat that electric shock machine thing, it made me shriek a lot and it hurt my hand, but the fucker didn't give us our printouts :( we were gonna put it in our cute little memory box.
We're spending the weekend in Cardiff at my mum's house cause she's away, just gotta feed the cats. It's Eurovision tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!!!!!!
We're gonna play our Eurovision drinking game: pick our country and take a shot every time they get points. The specifics have not yet been worked out but we know for sure it won't be a fun game if one of us chooses the UK.
That's it, really. I'm sickeningly in love and I need a Lemsip.
Mwah.
Mood:  loved
Music: This Intro to hip hop CD some guy on the cult made me
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2007.01.08 18.07
Oooohhh wellll
I'm not gonna go on about this because it'll only make me miserable but completely out of the blue on Saturday - I got dumped. Thing is, it was so sudden, out of character and weird that I haven't actually been that bad about it. For the first time ever I can honestly, truly declare that I didn't do anything to deserve this.
On Friday night his parents came over, he came back in crying and wouldn't look at me or speak to me or sleep in the same bed as me. On Saturday I was like you should go over there for the next two days before you go back to Bath and he said he didn't want to do that, went, came back in an hour and just started packing his stuff, then chucked me.
Go figure.
So that's the end of that, he says he still wants to be friends but I really don't. I only want to hang out with people I trust.
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Dan's just been like, wicked. Thing is I don't want him to think that every time I'm single I'm going to be friends with him and everytime I'm not I'll ignore him. But he contacts me way more when I haven't got anyone and I have more time - aaargh! I'm gonna seem like a bitch!! Next time I go out with anyone I'll be in uni. I've decided on Greenwich as my first choice and Gloucester as my second, cause those are pretty wicked universities and they got back to me quickly and positively.
This guy from college was just trying to smooth talk me on MSN and then asked me if I wanted to go bowling and then said it was a charity thing for the college! So I've got myself in a hole now, how can I back out of it now? No chance, screw it I'll go, I'm a good bowler (I wrote 'blower' then, how embarrassing) and anything for a night out and all that. He's boring me now. I just wanna go to Tesco and get a magazine!!
Ok, I AM going to go to Tesco.
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