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October 20, 2010
It appears that Kevin Thurman is writing a book entitled ...
It appears that Kevin Thurman is writing a book entitled Voyage In Noise: Warren Ellis and the demise of Western Civilization. The Facebook page says:
We are progressing into a future of ubiquitous noise made up of poor choices and an overload of information and entertainment. Ellis's work reflects this change and the need to progress intellectually.
I suspect this is a sign of my old age. Apparently it's out April 2011.
VERTIGO: RESURRECTED Featuring "Shoot"
VERTIGO: RESURRECTED is out today in North America, tomorrow in the UK. This collection contains, among other supposedly obscure bits from the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, the story "Shoot", which I wrote and Phil Jiminez drew (superbly) and which never saw print because it was about schoolyard shootings in the States and Columbine happened a couple of weeks before publication.
Being an episode of longrunning supernatural series JOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZER, it's a horror story. At the time — and since then, as "Shoot" leaked out to become something of an internet samizdat text — people didn't necessarily get that. Some people think it's a sociopolitical tract. Some people think it's making a single statement intended as uninflected truth. It's a horror story. It's intended to chill and disturb. It was, I was told, a little too chilly and disturbing for the time. I disagreed, and still do.
It's very old work to me now, and I don't intend to look at it for fear of wincing at all the bad writing. I mean, god, it was written in 1999. But you may find it interesting.
(My actual published HELLBLAZER work was collected into two volumes: HELLBLAZER: HAUNTED and HELLBLAZER: SETTING SUN.)
UbuWeb is back up after being hacked. UbuWeb is a vital ...
UbuWeb is back up after being hacked. UbuWeb is a vital cultural resource, and I'm delighted to see it return intact.
October 19, 2010
Premiere
So I finally saw RED tonight, in the company of my daughter, at the European premiere in London.
As I've said before, RED-the-book is a short story, and unfilmable as a direct translation. But the rough structure, intent and themes are still there, and I saw little bits of the book scattered around in it. Most importantly, it's a hugely entertaining movie. Lili laughed her way through it and so did the audience — who also reacted nicely at the little shocks and the bursts of violence. Robert isn't a very showy director, but it's clearly his most cleverly shot film yet. Also there's a bit where someone gets exploded into two distinct pieces. I always appreciate that kind of attention to detail.
The organisers were brilliant, it was really nice to see Mr Willis and Helen Mirren again (who, onstage before the film, couldn't resist stamping it as a Southend-On-Sea production), and, generally, it was a fine night that I think rounded off Lili's fifteenth birthday very well. Complete with a glass or two of champagne at the afterparty.
And now, I have some emails from my agent in my inbox about the Next Things. And tomorrow? I honestly think I might take the afternoon off.
October 18, 2010
Links for 2010-10-18
REALMS OF FANTASY magazine dies (again).
(tags:magazines sf )
NASA Ames? Worden reveals DARPA-funded ?Hundred Year Starship? program
"NASA Ames Director Simon ?Pete? Worden revealed Saturday that NASA Ames has ?just started a project with DARPA called the Hundred Year Starship,? with $1 million funding from DARPA and $100K from NASA. ?The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds,? he explained. ?Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.? (Worden was in fact fired by President George W. Bush, he also revealed.)"
(tags:space )
Moombahton, Boombahchero and 21st-century genre meltdown – The Arts Desk – Arts Reviews, Features and News
"Some days I feel like I've woken up on the other side of some wormhole in the spacetime continuum, and the world is a subtly but definitely different place to yesterday. So it was last week when I got a slightly drunken email from a music producer in Rotterdam, with some remixes of his work, saying ?There was this dude called DJ Orion and this dude was working in his lab on his freak creation. Mixing Moombahton with Footwork and Guarachero at 140 bpm. He named it: Boombahchero.?" Joe Muggs ftw
(tags:music writing )
FREAKANGELS Vol 5: The Cover
Out in the early part of next year. Paul just finished the cover.
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