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The 4am: 20 – Making Bells Out Of Bones

The 4am is a selection composed entirely of music sent to me by artists. If you want your music (I'll also take field recordings, noise and spoken-word) to be played on The 4am, email your 128kbps-plus mp3 files directly to warrenellis@gmail.com. Include your website address, please. The 4am is of no set length and is released on no set schedule. If you like the 4am, please tell people.

The podcast feed for The 4am is: http://warrenellis.com/?feed=podcast

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20: Making...

Links for 2010-06-03

Pontone Spectral Cassettes, Vol. 4
"Pontone presents the fourth volume of distorted and divine trawl through hypnogogic / glo-fi nu-distorted tropics from haunted cassettes."
(tags:music )Is this the final curtain for classical records? – Telegraph
"The classical market share has now sunk from nearly 11 per cent in 1990 to 3.2%. According to figures drawn from the major retailers, the sector has seen sales in the last twelve-month period drop by a staggering 17.6 per cent, with full- and...

My Intrepid Readers

I can't use this as a station ident image, for reasons that will become clear when you read the related post, but this is an example of the sort of mail I'm getting today.

Hi Warren

Here's a photo of an apple I used as a ball gag.
If you use it and wanna pimp me out, my website is http://daisydanger.com/ so very not safe for work ;)
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http://daisydanger.com/(NSFW)
twitter: @daisydanger

Chip Zdarsky Is Wrong, Part 474092

"BP's new adorable mascot. Available in many sizes!"

FREAKANGELS Volume 4 Out Today In North America

And out in the UK on Friday. Please buy one. Daddy needs a new host body.

Station Idents: A Call For Images

As regular readers know, I tend to start the day's broadcasting by posting a "station ident," which is a photo or other image and the words "this is warren ellis dot com."

I have decided that I need to draw on a wider pool of images for a while. Perhaps you'd like to provide me one.

Something arty, something filthy, something strange, something funny: don't care, so long as it's original to you. Snapshot or illustration, Photoshop or fansign; don't care, so long as it has the following words...

WIRED UK: Column 15

In which my future self reports back from the year 2050. Note: someone's changed a lot of the paragraph breaks, but it still makes some sense. Well, as much sense as it ever does.

Many things are different here in the future — and not all for the better. Not that I recall huge amounts about what it was like in your time. Long term memory's not all it was for various reasons, including old age. But here in my Icelandic volcano base with my third wife, Vagina Monologue, everything is quite...

Station Ident: Birthday Unicorn

That's right. Lenora got a unicorn for her birthday. Are you even a bit surprised?

This is warren ellis dot com. Our friends get birthday unicorns.

Links for 2010-06-02

Last Of The Midnight Screamers: A Pitch by Lee Barnett Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors
"LoMS has a strange history ? it was originally an idea of mine that I pitched to Marvel in the long ago (2004!) days of EPIC when they were going to do creator owned material. As you?ll recall, that fell apart and although LoMS never happened, there were some books that were solicited and sold as four issue minis? but were then cancelled. At the time, the first issue of LoMS was scripted and I had...

Twitter: A Sponge For Mental Pus

For a while, I had a capture of my twitter feed running here. It ended up doing something weird to my API calls, stopping me from running my desktop client, so I killed it. Which is probably just as well, as I talk a lot of shit on Twitter. It's basically mental slurry, the wet lumpy bits from a day spent at the keyboard vented off into a trap so the buildup doesn't blow some crucial valve in my head. Look at these, from the last month or so:

* "It shows us how profoundly haunted we are by...