Warren Ellis's Blog, page 195
October 25, 2010
I cannot for the life of me get their website (or podcast...
I cannot for the life of me get their website (or podcast) to play nicely for me lately, but this should work: new label Broken20 (whose podcast is fucking excellent, actually) have made their first release, and it looks to me like prime stuff.
The Village Orchestra presents an hour-long (and fully improvised) live album recording from The Hive Collective's 'Memories Are Brighter Than Our Digital Debris' showcase, part of the Future Everything event in Manchester. Law took Hive's title and ran with it, composing a meditation themed around the unstable, fragile nature of memory and recording. Occult, meandering and willfully fractious…
Extensive previews at the link.
FAQ: Not At MCM Expo This Weekend
People keep asking, so: no, I'm not at the London MCM Expo this coming weekend. I'm still getting over this hideous flu bug, and the last thing I want to do to my immune system right now is expose it to thousands of coughing people. Conversely, the last thing they need is for me to be coughing Komodo Dragon Flu bits all over them. So I'm giving it a miss. Sad to be missing the drinking, especially sad to be missing my regular quiet evening dinner with Emma, Pud and Anna, which, funnily enough, is what I look forward to most at Expo.
Raise a pint of whisky for me on Saturday night, Brit-comics.
(image by Christopher Glenn)
(image by Christopher Glenn)
October 23, 2010
October 22, 2010
Just got email telling me that the brilliant novelist Ste...
Just got email telling me that the brilliant novelist Steve Aylett is doing a gig on Oct 29 2010 at Roxy Arts House, Edinburgh, wherein he will read, speak and probably worry the crap out of people. This will also be your chance to buy the insane mashup CATERER comic. I would also recommend the marvellous and mad LINT.
Nema Reve
I'm listening to the first track right now. It starts like an outtake from "Fur Immer" (I've been listening to NEU! all afternoon, which made for a weird moment when I had to check if I was streaming audio or still in iTunes). And then it stops. And then they sort of go through a time-travel portal and put their other foot directly into 90s postrock while still strumming the motorik. At which point, yes, it's total comfort food for old rockist tendencies, but by the time they start digging power chords out of their guitars with rusty screwdrivers, I'm off with the fairies. Thirsting Quench and the Captains of Industry, we salute you.
Just heard from Bob Wayne at DC Comics, who's discovered ...
Just heard from Bob Wayne at DC Comics, who's discovered that the RED graphic novel IS now available from Diamond UK. The stoppage was apparently at the Titan Books end (Titan are DC's licensee for UK book trade sales).
Me In The Guardian About RED And Retired Operatives
I got asked to write a thing for the Guardian film section about "the allure of the retired operative" in films. And they've put it online.
There is great emotional and dramatic power in the concept of the Hero Rising Again. Look at the recent Rambo film, variously titled Rambo and John Rambo. When we first meet Sylvester Stallone in that film, he frankly looks like a skinned heifer that someone left out in the rain for six weeks. He's not Rambo. He's "John", and he's old, monosyllabic to the point of catatonia, defeated. Things have to get horrendous before he becomes Rambo again – much like the Bourne Persona asserting itself when Matt Damon is attacked by cops in The Bourne Identity – and the audience takes perverse joy in the retired man taking on that aspect of the demented Special Forces black-ops killer "asset" we know of old…
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