Warren Ellis's Blog, page 257

Shapes

My brain wanders a lot. (Project Blacklight didn't get funding and returns to the Maybe One Day box, which obviously freed up a square inch of space somewhere in the frontal lobe, and brain custard flowed into the gap.) I wrote a thing on Whitechapel today that had been occupying my mind yesterday, after I tripped over some old JEFF HAWKE strips. Which reminded me of Travis Charest's SPACEGIRL. And I got to thinking about what kinds of strip survived evacuation from newspapers, and...

Links for 2010-04-23

Embracing the digital book ? Craig Mod

(tags:books )

Mayumi Haryoto

Via SNOW: "Horosu."

whitechapel 23apr10

* Notes From Warren 23apr10 – (newspaper strips and what the web didn't take)

* The DO ANYTHING Book Thread – (please please buy it)

* T-shirts Of The Week: Mid-April Post-US-Tax Resurrection Blowout – (ends on Sunday)

* WEBCOMICS WEEK (April 19-25 2010) – (incredible new list of fine webcomics for your attention)

* Solipsistic Pop 2 Launch – (28 April in London)

* UK General Election 2010 – Voting for Change? – (I dread to think what lurks in this thread)

M.I.A. Born Free

Pitchfork describe this new piece by M.I.A. as "a punk rock rebel anthem." Which kind of tells you a lot about Pitchfork, and less about what is actually a bit of mutated acid rock. With probably the best opening of any record I've heard so far this year. The rest of it doesn't live up to the opening so much, but that weird Sixties acid throb carries you through.

M.I.A. – Born FreebyTheProphetBlog

Revue K.7.

"Magazine & compilation about the renewed use of the cassette on the 21st Century." Details, including links to free pdf and audio download, right here at Alice Rabbit.

Sturmast

Last.fm describe Sturmast as: "Hungarian martial industrial/neofolk/military folk band. Sturmast plays a unique kind of folk influenced martial industrial music. Far from being an instrumental one-man computer band putting some classical loops and battle sounds together, Sturmast is a collective fronted by Varga Gabor. Here real musicians play real instruments, thus introducing the good old band-feeling to the martial industrial scene. The music contains powerful, eruptive live drums (toms...

NOTE: if you approach people, especially women, on spurio...

NOTE: if you approach people, especially women, on spurious work-related matters in the hope of getting a personal meeting with them, and claim to be "a close friend" of mine in an attempt to seal the deal — those people are going to check with me first. And then I'll end up with your email address.

FREAKANGELS 0094

It's Friday, it's gone noon, it's FREAKANGELS time.

Links for 2010-04-22

Aladdin Sane Called. He Wants His Lightning Bolt Back: On Lady Gaga – Mark Dery – Doom Patrol: Annals of Our Age – True/Slant
Mary Dery works Lady GaGa over with a bit of two-by-four, basically
(tags:writing music theory )