By Eric S Brown
There’s a new zombie pod cast out there making waves in the world of zombie fans.
It’s called Library of the Living Dead. It’s a pod cast full of gore, the walking dead,
and dark humor that will tear your sides open from laughing. Library of the Living
Dead also features zombie fiction, debates on zombie science, zombie themed
music, and much more every time it airs. Though a young show, it’s already had 30
episodes or more air and a new one is out every week. All the shows are also
available as downloads so even if you miss a show when it airs, there is nothing to
stop one from catching up on what has gone before. The pod cast is ran by the
infamous Dr. Pus who kindly agreed to take some time out and chat with us to share
all the gore filled details of how the show began and where it’s headed.
Eric Brown: What got you into horror and more specifically zombies?
Dr. Pus: When I was in 6th grade I stay at a friends house and we stayed up late
and caught "Chiller Theater", WIIC, Channel 11 from Pittsburgh. With your host
"Chilly Billy Cardille". It was a double feature of "Last Man On Earth" and "Night Of
The Living Dead". Needless to say I didn't sleep a wink that night and had
nightmares for months afterwards. I instantly became a horror fan and specifically a
zombie fan. Even though "Last Man On Earth", a wonderful adaptation of Richard
Matheson's most excellant "I Am Legend" is really a vampire movie, but it was the
inpetis for for George A. Romero's "Night of the Livng Dead". If these movies could
scare me like that, I just had to watch every zombie movie I could find. I especially
like the low to no budget independent zombie movies. I own over 300 zombie movies
on VHS and DVD.
EC: What's the most difficult part of doing the show?
Dr. Pus: There really is no difficult part in doing the show. My voice does get a little
raspy from all the reading, but more than a few Coronas help the ole vocal cords.
EC: What do you enjoy most about the show?
Dr. Pus: My favorite parts are the "Putrified Poetry" segment, the "Zombie Songs"
and reading my zombie novel "Beginning of the Dead". I also enjoy the hell out of
voice mails and reading e-mails about the show in the "Zombie Mailbag" segment. I
love my fans.
EC: Are you happy with how the show has taken off and what are your
future plans for it?
Dr. Pus: I'm completely blown away on how the show has taken off. Completely
blown away. "Library of the Living Dead" is now getting over 800 downloads a week.
THAT freaks me out. Futue plans included some webcam videos and doing real
"Old Time Radio" presentations with a real cast and lots of sound bites.
EC: How did you get into doing the zombified songs featured on the show?
Dr. Pus: I've been a muscian since I was in the 7th grade. We had a three piece,
with me on bass, and all we covered were Grand Funk songs. Quite popular at
parties, but we just didn't expand in to other genres or even other group covers. I
continued playing bass and then picked up guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums,
vocals, wellll, just about everything. In High School and College, when the "real
punk" explosion hit, I picked back up the bass and played in numberous punk
groups in the shittiest bars in Morgantown, WV. It was the grandest of times. After
Dental School I gave up music for a while until I got married to my lovely wife Tam.
She heard some of my old original songs and told me I should pick up that habit
again. I did. Writing original songs I formed a group called "Renfield". A very tight 3
pieces who could play anything. We stuck to the Alice Cooper/Ozzy/Black Sabbath
genre but were best known for our original songs. It seemed I had a knack for
knocking out lyrics, poetry and short stories and still have over 30 note books full of
them. The band sadly broke up when we were at the height of our abilities. I gave
up music again. Once I got online years ago, with a piece of shit 486, I was hooked.
I joined a horror forum called "Living Dead" and became not only a moderator, but
it's biggest poster. The board folded due to infighting and I needed to find a new
horror forum to satiate my need. I found it at "The Reel Horror" forum. I became a
member, then a moderator, then a super moderator and am presently and
administrator at the site. A few years ago the owners of the site decided to start a
Podcast. I was hooked immediately. I started doing "Dr. Pus' Manic Minute Movie
Mutilation", where I would review a movie, adding funny bits and songs, where I
talked as fast as I could trying to get it done in a minute or less. During this time I
stole my youngest daughter's Casio keyboard, started screwing around with the
prerecorded songs on it and zombie lyrics popped into my head. Thus was born the
zombified songs. The producer at "The Reel Horror Podcast", Erisa, told me I had
enough talent, as well as fans of "Manic Minute" to do my own Podcast. Since I was
such a huge zombie novel/comic/graphic novel ready it was only natural to make
THAT the theme for the podcast. "Library of the Living Dead" was then unborn. I
used the Casio for many of the first episodes to record zombiefied songs. The lyrics
did, and still do, just pop into my head. When the muse hits I have a hard time
typing fast enough on Word Processor to get them down. Then a friend of mine Joe,
who is responsible for some really funny as shit intros for "Library of the Living
Dead" suggested using Napster and it's Karaoke songs to add lyrics too. That is
how I got into doing zombiefied xongs on "Library of the Living Dead". I'm still loving
it.
EC: Which are better fast zombies or slow zombies?
Dr. Pus: I most certainly prefer the slow shamblers. Since "Night of the Living
Dead" made me a zombie fan those are the ones that float my boat. It's just
incredibly horrorfying that there would be thousand of the shamblers all wanting to
eat my flesh. They're just overwhelming. Though I must admit, the 2004 remake of
"Dawn of the Dead" was cool as hell with it fast zombies. Different can be soooo
good sometime. And this one was.
EC: Who are your fav. zombie authors?
Dr. Pus: My favorite zomie authors are Dr. Kim Paffenroth of "Dying To Live", DL
Snell of "Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines", David Wellington of the "Monster"
series, Travis Adkins of "Twilight of the Dead", Bowine Ibarra of "Down the Road"
and "Down the Road: Apocalypse End", Max Brooks "World War Z", but my favorite
author of all is a guy the name of Eric S. Brown. (Sound of butt kissing here.) But
really Eric, I absolutely love you stories.
EC: What are your fav. zombie films?
Dr. Pus:
"Night of the Living Dead" ('68)
"Dawn of the Dead" (74)
"Day of the Dead"
"Video Dead"
"Shatter Dead"
"Meat Market" 1 & 2
"Binge and Purge"
"The Dead Next Door"
"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
"Zombi" - Fulci
"Night of the Comet"
And sooooooo many more.
Thank you, Dr. Pus. Anyone interested in checking out the show may find it
by visiting http://dr-pus.podomatic.com/ Trust me, if you’re a zombie fan, it’
s worth your time.
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