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Sexy Apocalypse

On Zo's Style Dispatch for today:

(Be advised that Zo currently thinks she's Batman and is also dreaming of me reading to her naked. If you see her approaching you, dart her in the neck or something.)

Station Ident: Clay Bodies

This is warren ellis dot com. Good morning.

And this is "Clay Bodies" by Zola Jesus.

Night Music: Merveilleuse

"I Want Your Love."

Good night, internet.

Count Cockula

Sarah Deaton just made me look at this AND NOW YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT TOO GOD DAMN YOU.

…And The Hazy Sea

It's that time of the day where one needs a sound like this. I've only heard the one album by Cymbals Eat Guitars, and I'm hoping for a second one where they've swept out the nervousness and slight insecurity and just focus on blowing off the backs of people's heads. "…And The Hazy Sea" is from WHY THERE ARE MOUNTAINS by Cymbals Hate Guitars. It's a little bit like the Arcade Fire got sent to Hell and discovered the place is run by Frank Black.

DO ANYTHING: 022

Approaching the end of the first volume, now:

From up here, maybe we can see what we've been talking about this whole time. A world that, from up here, looks like Jack Kirby's Ego The Living Planet, but instead of its face being a wizened old man, it does of course strongly resemble the robot head of Jack Kirby.

Our parachute opens, billowing, capturing the air of comics and slowly bringing us back to this strange earth. From up here, we get the overview, and descend and decelerate into the...

Mal Jones

Mal has a new poster up at INPRNT:

Excuse Me While I Break My Own Back From Laughing

"In case you've not been following the local press, the town of Southend-on-Sea is bidding to become the UK's Capital of Culture 2013."

Today On Whitechapel (27oct09)

Today on my internet spiderhole:

* The Starry Wisdom Of Warren 27oct09 - jabbering about message boards, tribes, making things, shagging

* Looking for new industrial/electro recommendations

* The London MCM Expo Aftermath Thread - last day for ruminations and memories in re: last weekend's comics event

* Musicians, Bands, Singers, Noisemakers - plug/talk thread

* Food & Cooking Oct 09 - learn how to poison your friends and relatives

* Halloween Costumes — Bat-Bloomers, in the name of god

Station Ident: I'm Goin Dahn Ver Pub

(sound of trumpets)

(out into the freezing bloody cold)

This is Warren Ellis dot com. I'm a writer. Good morning.

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