Warren Ellis's Blog, page 256

How Did It Get To Be Monday Again?

Aaag, Mondays. Always a nightmare day. Need to finish a script, but it's unlikely to happen because, aaag, Mondays. I'm going to be buried in admin and bits of things, like polishing off a pitch, Project R, going out in tandem with a production company, and peering at notes on Project S, a non-comics serial project with a friend that may or (likely) may not go anywhere. Sometimes, a lot of this job can involve throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. Also, I desperately need to...

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(photo by Ellen Rogers)

Big Comics

Druillet. Warped my mind at a sensitive age. Bought a copy of the LONE SLOANE/DELIRIUS Anglophone volume from 1973 out of a cheapie bin in the early 80s. Formative influence. Druillet, Talbot, Moore, Campbell, Moorcock, Burroughs, Kerouac, Dick. Eight core sites in my creative genome. (A few more, at random: Lessing, Dax, The The, Kneale, Potter, the Kennedy Martins.)

Big Comics were good.

Links for 2010-04-25

Spotify: David Stutz – Lolet :: Music From The Wor..
SPOTIFY-ONLY LINK: stream of "IOLET – Music From The World Of Anathem." Inspired by the ANATHEM novel, obv. Gregorian/Tuvan fusion. If you have mp3s, email me at warrenellis@gmail.com!
(tags:music )Fringe Biology Recordings
"Synthetic Biology is a soundtrack to a synthetic biology film in outer space. This album travels through sci-fi jazz, avant rock, electronic soundscapes, ambient textures, and nightmare industrial collages. Synthetic...

(unsorted bits, 25apr10)

Brian Eno, via Geeta Dyal, via Jones:

If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted – they have these wonderful things in their head but you're not one of them, you're just a normal sort of person, you could never do anything like that – then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of like, where you say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much and start from unpromising beginnings. And I'm an unpromising beginning, and I...

Station Ident: Yes, Still Alive

This is warren ellis dot com, having a quiet weekend because there is much brainwork to be done.

Here is a nice photograph by Simon Crubellier.

More later.

Links for 2010-04-24

Unenumerated: A very brief history of the space program (pt. i)
"President Dwight Eisenhower wanted the Soviet Union to set a legal precedent that flying satellites over foreign territory without permission was fine. Traditionally land ownership and sovereign territory had been deemed to rise to infinity… Sovereign permission is generally required for airplanes, including (or especially) for the spy planes the U.S. military was already flying over the Soviet Union. As crucial as these flights...

Vincent Fournier

Big Space:

Dave Eggers:I don't want to wake up and look at a screen...

Dave Eggers:

I don't want to wake up and look at a screen. I feel like as a society, we try to put everything on that same goddamn screen, and pretty soon we're going to be eating on the screen or, like, making love through the screen. It's just sort of like: 'Why does everything have to be on the screen?'

Some beardy druid from the oral tradition, a few thousand years back:

I don't want to wake up and look at paper. I feel like as a society, we try to put everything on that same (Brythonic...

Night Music: Spells

Twinsistermoon's "Spells," off the album THE SNOWBRINGER CULT that they were lovely enough to send to me the other day (Twinsistermoon and Isengrind are aspects of the wondrous Natural Snow Buildings).

G'night.