Warren Ellis's Blog, page 276

notebook 22mar10

Delia Derbyshire:

And, yes, I DID already know who Delia Derbyshire was. Sometimes when I post things on here, people have a habit of thinking it's the first time I've heard of whatever I've posted. Whereas, sometimes, I've been reminded of something, or need to gather material for consideration, and want to collect it all in one place.

Fairly sure I'm going to be writing something involving Derbyshire and her work in the near future.

Links for 2010-03-20

Obsidian Wings: When the Power Runs Out, We'll Just Hide
"This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric. More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops ? dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled. The parks...

The Bulletproof Coffin

New serial by Brit-comic veterans/spectres David Hine and Shaky Kane. This makes me happy in my bits, so it does. It starts in June.

Preview material.

And a Flickr slideshow.

ULTIMATE COMICS IRON MAN: ARMOR WARS Released As Hardback

Hard to tell when. Some places say it was last Wednesday, others say it's next month. But presumably, sometime around now, the quickie miniseries I did for Marvel with artist Steve Kurth will be released as a HC. I would expect a paperback to appear sometime before the IRON MAN 2 movie.

I quite liked bits of this book. There's a few pieces of business in there that are very NEXTWAVEy.

I really do lose track of the collections, sometimes. I'll be catching up with those over the next few days.

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Prog Rock Britannia

I do love a good BBC music documentary. PROG ROCK BRITANNIA was repeated on BBC last week, and it's still on iPlayer. Also, lo and behold, someone slung it on YouTube last time it was on. The first bit is below, click through to get at the other parts.

Links for 2010-03-20

FOXNews.com – Evidence Found Rotting in Closed Ill. Police HQ

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The Master Voudou Drummers

Spent most of last night listening to recordings of these people (again – I seem to come back to it every year or so) – and look, there's YouTube stuff too:

Station Ident: Be Vigilant

Commando X

Commando X teaches us about weapons and death on YouTube. He is an educator. It says so on YouTube.

His videos are peculiarly fascinating. And I like how he thanks the viewer. The first instinct is to laugh a bit. But some of this stuff is actually interesting.

I would be okay with Commando X teaching at my daughter's school. For "remove sentry" read "kill boy."

Hyperstasis/Atemporality

Simon Reynolds:

What I get off even the most inventive and energised nuum-not-nuum stuff is a sense of these potent musical intellects struggling to find exit routes to a beyond, to terra incognita. Hence the peculiar quality of hyperactive evasiveness to things like Untold: the music shuttles back and forth within a kind of grid-space of influences and sources, never settling into genre-icity, yet remaining a long way short of being limitless (there are areas that are off limits to it).

The...