Welcome to Neurons Like Brandy. This started out on an older website and has migrated due to the host's demise.
Neurons Like Brandy is a Zombie story, it is the second part of a planned trilogy. Don't worry you don't have to have read the first book, which isn't yet available online, to get into this. Think of it as the middle part of John Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy or Kevin Smith's first three films. The stories aren't really related but they are linked, sometimes by characters, sometimes just by themes.
This is something I have been trying to do for about 8 years and was restarted as a tribute to one of my heroes, to get that background I would recommend you start with the forewords.
If this is your first time here you should click on the left hand side and go from there as the oldest posts are supposed to appear in that order.
If you are revisiting, or are here because of the previous site then go beneath the break for links for all posted chapters and articles.
Chapters
Pt. 1 - Chapter 1 known as '...'This where it all starts.
Suitable soundtrack:
Pilote - Up or Down
Pt. 2 - Chapter 1: Present
Introduction to the world as it has become.
Suitable soundtrack:
Slint - Carol
Tricky - Piano
Pt. 3 - Chapter 1: Jo
Jo's take on the end of the World.
Suitable soundtrack:
Hole - Malibu
Queen Adreena - Hide From Time
PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and The Hustlers whore
Pt. 4 - Chapter 2: Present
Dan watches the rise and fall of nothing much at all.
Suitable soundtrack:
Chris Clark - Pleen 1930s
The Propagumbhis - The Kyoto Farce and the Parasitic
Pt. 5 - Chapter 1: The Henry Kissinger Show
Henry Kissinger, the apocalypse's favourite DJ talks a whole load of old nonsense.
Suitable soundtrack:
Venetian Snares - Befriend a Child Killer
Pt. 6.1 - Chapter 2A: Phillip
Phillip recounts his take on the apocalypse, off-licenses and Jim Beam.
Suitable soundtrack:
Machinehead - Exhale the Vile
Sepultura - Chaos BC
Meltbanana - Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold
Pt. 6.2 - Chapter 2B: Phillip
Phillip recounts his take on the apocalypse in the second part of his chapter.
Suitable soundtrack:
Mastodon - Shadows that move
Deftones - Knife Party
Pt. 7 - Chapter 3: Present
The group celebrate a year after the end of the world.
Suitable soundtrack:
Cypress Hill - Puercos
Elliott Smith - Rose Parade
Martina Topley Bird - Lying
DJ Muggs - Faded
Pt. 8 - Chapter 2: The DJ Henry Kissinger show
Another rambling from the DJ.
Suitable soundtrack:
u-Ziq - Grape Nuts Beats (Pt.1)
Pt. 9 - Chapter 3: Caryn
Caryn is waiting for Phillip to show up as the world falls apart around her.
Suitable soundtrack:
Everclear - The White men in the black suits
System of a Down - Aerials
L7 - One more thing
KoRn - Wake Up
Pt. 10 - Chapter 4: Present
The chapter returns back to the present after Caryn's reveal. It turns into the second day of the celebrations.
Suitable soundtrack:
Cranes - Far Away
Buck 65 - Out of Focus
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Modern Romance
Pt 11 - Chapter 3: The DJ Henry Kissinger show
HK in the coffee
Suitable soundtrack:
The Shizit - Dear Government
Pt. 12 - Chapter 4: Jocelyn
Jocelyn's take on the events unfolding in the household as the world starts to unravel.
Suitable soundtrack:
Bjork - Joga
Pantera - This Love
Pt. 13 - Chapter 5: Present
The story returns to the present and the story of the survivors from the car.
Suitable soundtrack:
Pitchshifter - (We're Behaving like) Insects
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Pt. 14 - Chapter 5: Orfax
The household druggy spins a yarn.
Suitable soundtrack:
Lemon Jelly - His Majesty King Raam
Pt. 15 - Chapter 6: Present
Dan stumbles through another day and gets to know more about Lane.
Suitable soundtrack:
Blur - No Distance left to Run
RJD2 - Smoke and Mirrors
The Breeders - Do you love me now?
Pt. 16 - Chapter 6: Melissa/Duck
Duck gets her turn to tell her story in this chapter.
Suitable soundtrack:
The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
The Divine Comedy - Gin Soaked Boy
Prince Paul - Not tryin' to hear it
Pt. 17 - Chapter 7: Present
Burying the recently deceased
Suitable soundtrack:
Mogwai - Cody
Aerogramme - No really, everything is fine
Pt 18 - Chapter 7: Oli
Oli talks about George and how they got to the house
Suitable soundtrack:
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
Dillinger Escape Plan - Come to Daddy
Pt 19 - Chapter 8: Present
Dan continues his slow descent, painfully and inexorably.
Suitable soundtrack:
V.A.S.T. - Lady of Dreams
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I track 02
Pt 20 - Chapter 4: The Henry Kissinger show
Kissinger explains more about the state of affairs.
Suitable Soundtrack
Polysics - Wild One
Cassetteboy and DJ Rubbish -
Sublime - Badfish
Weezer - Jamie
Pt 23 - Chapter 10: Present
Bodies are buried. Dan can't keep his mouth shut in spite of himself.
Suitable Soundtrack
Jewel - Who will Save your soul
Madredeus - Os Senhores da Guerra
Pt 24 - Chapter 9: Jay
Jay talks about love.
Suitable Soundtrack
The Verve - Lucky Man
Otis Redding - Mr. Pitiful
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Pt 25 - Chapter 11: Present
Dan gets into conflict in the household and possibly finds a solution.
Suitable Soundtrack
Butthole Surfers - Kuntz
Pulp - TV Movie
Dinosaur Jnr - Feel the Pain
Pt 26 - Chapter 10: Joshua
Joshua's story starts on a train.
Suitable Soundtrack
Mum - Please Sing My Spring Reverb (Isan Catena remix)
Low - Murderer
Lamb - Zero
Pt 27 - Chapter 5: DJ Henry Kissinger
What do you with a drunken sailor?
Suitable Soundtrack
Mad Capsule Markets - Pulse
Jega - Geometry
Pt 28 - Chapter 12: Present
Joshua and Dan drive towards Seaford.
Suitable Soundtrack
Against Me - Even at our worst we're still better than most
Tegan and Sara - Where does the good go?
The Dead Kenedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Pt 29 - Chapter 11: Dan
Ever wondered why someone ends up a complete mess?
Suitable Soundtrack
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Tura Satana - Venus Diablo
John Lee Hooker - Hittin' the Bottle Again
Audioweb - Bankrobber
Pt 30 - Chapter 2: ?
The final chapter.
Suitable Soundtrack
Portishead - Wandering Star
Author's Notes
And the more self-indulgent (is that possible when I am writing blog posts about a novel?), in-jokey stuff will go here:We will bury our Heroes
The origins of why I decided to finish this novel.
Let there be light
Just some backstory on some of the Neurons Like Brandy influences
The Bechdel test, the missing chapter and Nufonia
I talk about spoiler stuff if you haven't read Pt 1-3.
Joshua Shot first
Has spoilers, mainly for parts 4 and 5. Explains the origins of the DJ's name and why it is that Joshua no longer shoots the rifle.
Location, Location: Denny and Rosencrantz are dead
After wandering around Brighton I got some old shots of some the settings for Chapter 6 as well as talking about Denny and my obsession with Tom Stoppard, Seven Samurai, Die Hard and other random stuff.
Michael was a poet
A little something about a man a called Alister.
The Dopest Ghost in Town
Not sure how people are going to take this, but this is meant as a exploration of the person who Isaac is based on.
You might have had to be there (Coming soon)
A piece about the ending and its significance. Spoilers for the end of the book, obviously.
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