Warren Ellis's Blog, page 20

Big fan of Rachel Evans.  Not sure if this one is music or a field recording of a time-machine Mission Control warming up for a launch.

Oust by Motion Sickness of Time Travel

If you haven’t been looking at the Scarfolk website religiously, then, frankly, there’s nothing I can do but post things from there until you start behaving yourself.

This was a re-read, but it counts as booklist. Watching COSMOPOLIS again somehow sent me back to ZERO HISTORY, and I’ll probably re-read the entire trilogy that the book concludes.  Hubertus Bigend may, somehow, end up as William’s most enduring character, just because this simply drawn figure surrounds so much of 21C Western culture. 

Ben Hammersley and others would joke about “Bigend-Draperism,” summoning MAD MEN’s Don Draper.  I’ve been thinking this month about Bigend-Packerism, from COSMOPOLIS’ uber-banker Eric Packer. Bigend is fascinating for many reasons, not the least of which is that he’s a predatory neophile.  His cultural awareness must be total, as total as Packer’s financial vision, because he eats the new to live.

It all gives me furiously to think.

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Juddernaut  
27 minutes and 32 seconds

 

 

If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.

Direct mp3 link.  Or press Play on the player.  iTunes link.

@warrenellis / [email protected] / t-shirt? mug?

Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it. 

#SPEKTRMODULE 

1. logotone

2.  “side 1” (excerpt) -  Brad Miller   (album:  Steel Rails Under Thundering Skys)

3.  “Side A” -  Ocular Gymnastics   (album:  Vol.1)     

4.  “Core Memory” – Floating Gardens   (album:  Generalife)

5.  “Ondergronds Geduld “ -   HARE AKEDOD   (album:   005)

6.  “Wipe” -  Philip Jeck   (album:  7 )

7.  “Mae Taeng” -  Jana Winderen    (album:  Surface Runoff)

8.  “Beyond the Black Field” -  GREYGHOST    (album:  Memoirs of Dementia)

9.  “Onset – Beyond Clouds” -  Dolphins Into The Future   (album:   …On Sea-Faring Isloation)

10.  “Faust: Soldier’s Chorus: Deposons Les Armes” -  Excelsior Piccolo 12 Air Cylinder Music Box    (album:  Mechanical Opera)

11.  logotone

 

PREVIOUSLY: 1 – Fire Axes In Space | 2 – The Lane | 3 – Comfort And Joy | 4 – Long Count | 5 – Underfoot | 6 – The Chamber | 7 – Spark Gap | 8 – Death Is No Obstacle | 9 – Misty Eyed | 10 – Dirt Launchpad | 11 – Dreams Of The Woodland Cult | 12 – Dispatch Render Ghosts | 13 – Hull Oxide | 14 – Galactocentric | 15 – Celestial Navigation | 16 – The Rain Hive | 17 – Revisitation | 18 – Leaving | 19 – Jetstream Awake

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Thrillbent, the digital comics portal from Mark Waid and John Rogers, has come up with something interesting.  They’ve made all their comics serials embeddable via iframe.  Just click on the “Embed” link under each of their comics, and it pops up a small page with the code.  Resize the page, and the code will respond, so that the comic’s width becomes exactly what you require.  Below is the first episode of John Rogers & Todd Harris’ ARCANUM, at 640px.

Iframe won’t work in Tumblr, due to Tumblr’s failure to foresee the usefulness of such a thing, which is both a great shame and, I am given to understand, being worked on.  But it should work in most other places.

Whether this functionality is late or early depends on your views about blogs.  And, obviously, I’ve been barely present here for a few weeks, myself.  But it would seem to me, for a still-nascent operation like Thrillbent, that anything that may make it easier to get eyeballs on the work is a good thing.  And if this leads to at the very least some subviral form of syndication for people’s favourite Thrillbent comics, then all the better.

On FREAKANGELS, we had an “RSS Window", a piece of embed code that automagically loaded up the first panel of each week’s new comic with a link to the full episode, inside a Flash widget.  Thrillbent’s thing is much better.  I wish we’d had it then.

Iron Bird Meditation by NAOMI CHOMSKY

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Jetstream Awake 
35 minutes and 24 seconds

 

 

If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.

I wanted to go weekly for a while, and then I got hit by the worst allergy attack in years.  Sorry.  Basic tracklisting today, too, no stamina for the usual links.  All apologies to the artists.

Direct mp3 link.  Or press Play on the player.  iTunes link.

@warrenellis / [email protected] / t-shirt? mug?

Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.  I believe I may well attempt a weekly frequency for a little while.

#SPEKTRMODULE 

1. logotone

2.  “Come On Baby” – Silver Ray (part)  (album: New Love)

3.  “Salute” – Julia Kent   (album: Character)

4.  “When Hypnos Began To Sing” – Lunatik Sound System   (album:  Cold Season)

5.  “Pacing” -  Julianna Barwick     (EP: Pacing)

6.  “Breath Harmony” -  Vava Kitora    (album: Prithivi Mandragoire)

7.  “Blue Eyes On The Blvd” -  U.S. Girls    (album: My Estrogeneration (compilation))

8.  “Come On Baby” – Silver Ray (part)

9.  logotone

PREVIOUSLY: 1 – Fire Axes In Space | 2 – The Lane | 3 – Comfort And Joy | 4 – Long Count| 5 – Underfoot | 6 – The Chamber | 7 – Spark Gap | 8 – Death Is No Obstacle | 9 – Misty Eyed | 10 – Dirt Launchpad | 11 – Dreams Of The Woodland Cult | 12 – Dispatch Render Ghosts | 13 – Hull Oxide | 14 – Galactocentric | 15 – Celestial Navigation | 16 – The Rain Hive | 17 – Revisitation | 18 – Leaving