Warren Ellis's Blog, page 357

By the band Dark Mean, from their EP entitled FRANKENCOTTAGE. I've been there, and I approve of the sentiment. You've been there too, I'm pretty sure.

Good night, internet.

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More media-engineering brilliance from the mad scientists of Schulze & Webb:

Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It's an experimental prototype we've designed and built for the BBC over the last few months.

Obviously less useful for my Foreign Johnny readers, unles

At bleedingcool.com:

Aha. Can you hear that? It's the Villain's soundtrack. That awful whistling sound. A sound that comes from before recorded time itself. It is the sound, gentle reader, of Stan Lee's ocarina…

1. bump, 2. wonderland, 3. the swan whisperer

Apparently inspired by my ROTOR idea, TAG is now live:

TAG is a project where every week, a theme is chosen, and every day, one of our artists creates something based around that theme, using a variety of mediums from prose to audio to video to images and so forth.

And it's actually rather good:

This is Warren Ellis dot com.

The shortest and most accessible piece of Philip Jeck I have immediately to hand in mp3 form. As I've said before, I didn't really "get" Philip Jeck until I saw him perform live, but you're very probably much less stupid than I am. Philip Jeck makes fine night music. Although it's probably not wise to listen to a great deal of his work in the dark in a Finnish hotel room in the middle of the night while exhausted and slightly drunk.

This is "Wipe," from his album "7."

Good night internet.

Downlo

Currently occurring in the depths of my internet knocking-shop:

* Post your Dr. Sketchy's Artwork - The boss herself, Molly Crabapple, comperes a thread where Dr Sketchy's visitors and customers show off their work. Join in.

* REMAKE/REMODEL: International Patents, Inc. - the weekly space where I call out some ancient character from the public domain and have artists reinvent it for the 21st Century.

* The LongBox Digital Comics thread - this one's going on and on. Will Longbox be the iTunes for c

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From: Warren Ellis
To: Bad Signal mailing list
Subject: [Bad Signal:] Steam
Date: June 27, 2009 - 7:17 pm EST

Back in my hotel room to write this talk, and I put
Glastonbury up on the tv while I write. Springsteen's
on. Not a huge fan of the man, though I admire
his industry. The man puts in a day's work on stage.
And he's sweating, working hard. Got his foot up
on an amp as he sings. It's just him, right now, the
stage is blacked out, and there's one spot behind
him. And he's hot, and it's cold night out t