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November 5, 2009
The Savoy Interviews
Wonderful. The first of three interviews, this one with Michael Butterworth, about the glorious and fraught history of what remains Britain's most ambitious and most hated alternative publishing company, Savoy Books. I'm even delighted by the page scans that decorate the piece. I'm quoted in there somewhere, talking about the time they sent the co-publisher to prison…
Links for 2009-11-05
"Hilson Moran has developed a masterplanning system called SuBET (Sustainable Built Environment Tool), which provides a design framework. It brings together everyone involved in a project, from the client and the quantity surveyor to the architect and environmental consultant, to consider 71 environmental, economic and socio-cultural indicators."
(tags:architecture eco culture )Cousin: Japanese captured Amelia Earhart | NevadaAppeal.com
"?The...
Napalm Is Better Than Gunpowder, Guy
Been in the work mines all week, and today isn't looking any better. Catching up is becoming a full time job in itself.
So it's been confirmed that Helen Mirren — a good old Southend girl, don't you know — has joined the cast of the film adaptation of me'n'Cully's graphic novel RED. So the top of the cast is now Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren. Which is a little surreal. They've also set a release date, which I think is 2 November 2010. So we're a year away from seeing it. ...
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Wakey wakey.
Back to something like normal broadcasting today. But first, something to eat, and then to the pub.
(Image: Agent Redhead as shot by Beth Anderson)
November 4, 2009
SHIVERING SANDS
Today I release SHIVERING SANDS, a book containing a selection of essays, articles, columns, rambles and jabberings that were written in various places on the internet over the last seven years or so. I publish it, with trusty mechanic Ariana Osborne, as the International Electrophonic Unit through the print-on-demand house Lulu. Regular readers will know that I've been talking about POD for months, and I thought it was time to try it out. This work has not been collected in one place...
November 3, 2009
Aaaaaand Out
Too much to do, so I'm bailing out of warrenellis.com for the night. Tomorrow, we go live with SHIVERING SANDS.
I am being played off tonight by NEU! and the phenomenal "Fur Immer." Been dragging out, dusting off and re-playing all my Krautrock since watching a pretty good documentary on those days by the BBC. I shouldn't call it Krautrock, mind you, they didn't like that term…
G'night.
Pyramids With Nadja
Spent the evening listening to this. Nadja, a well-known drone metal outfit from Toronto, and Pyramids, a postrocky noise band from Denton once described as like "someone disemboweling a Radiohead record." PYRAMIDS WITH NADJA is an immense collaborations, four long soundscapes that also bring in members of several other bands, including Khanate and The Cocteau Twins.
Fused together, they make a sound that approaches, particularly in the later tracks, a sort of...
Links for 2009-11-02
"Chewang Norphel, 76, has "built" 12 new glaciers already and is racing to create five more before he dies. By then he hopes he will have trained enough new "icemen" to continue his work and save the world's "third icecap" from being transformed into rivers."
(tags:eco )'Demon worshipper' kills four | The Australian
"the killer was said to be a demon worshipper who believed in a black Jesus and worshipped on mountaintops...
On Whitechapel Today (3nov09)
At my internet hovel today:
* The Starry Wisdom Of Warren 3nov09 - my daily notes on what I'm up to, and what (or if) I'm thinking about.
* REMAKE/REMODEL: Kardak The Mystic - this week's challenge for artists, all are welcome to play
* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Nov 2009)
* Netlabels - a rolling list of the ones we like. If you're running a netlabel, feel free to stop in.
* Comics Shipping This Week (Nov 4) - the list
* NaNoWriMo 2009 - a support thread for the people participating...
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